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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

TechCrunch LA

Imagine Impact , the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley-style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a development deal with Netflix and is looking for submissions. we were excited to extend our partnership to Imagine Impact on this new endeavor.

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Los Angeles-based Ficto launches its Quibi competitor — with Niantic as a content partner

TechCrunch LA

Consumers now have their first chance to sample the wares of a short-form streaming service — and it’s not Quibi. Shows on the platform at launch include a gameplay-focused series built around the augmented reality game, Ingress , developed by Niantic , the game studio behind the massive AR hit Pokemon Go.

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Armed With $500K In Funding Withlocals Is Set to Launch Local Travel Experiences in Asia

Tech Zulu Event

Beginning this fall, the beta launch will give groups the advantage of sampling the first experiences with the service and will lay the groundwork to grow the platform. Marijn Maas explained that the idea for the platform developed into its current form during his honeymoon in the Maldives and Sri Lanka.

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5 Steps To Strategy Tuning Through Machine Learning

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

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Interview with Andy Steuer, Punchcard

socalTECH

At the time, they were shipping out CD ROMs with 300 albums, album artwork, and three song samples each. While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. After IAC, I started my own company, MerchEngines, which was a search marketing platform for local businesses.

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Meet the 25 Startups Competing at SXSW Startup Night 2018

Tech.Co

This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. Love Intently (Austin, TX).

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

Tech Zulu Event

Steve speaks about needing quantifiable data, but short of sending focused sample teams on a large scale, these are the data challenges he’s faced with. Jen is currently Head of Product and oversees the Engineering team at Big Frame where she defined, managed and launched Big Frame’s web platform.

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