Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!) and Petri was co-founder and head of creative at Remedy Entertainment that launched the hit PC games Max Payne and Alan Wake. They also had much experience before that.

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Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2019

It is an old warning in the entertainment industry. Your failure to do this early in the life of the company may come back to haunt you when others refer to you as just another street currier. Sometimes you win when others define your story. Sometimes you reduce your market to increase your positioning. How do you define yourself?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 19, 2012

LA City Council Member Eric Garcetti will give the opening keynote for the inaugural Silicon Beach Fest , a celebration of digital innovators in startups and entertainment happening June 21 – 23. The moniker Silicon Beach refers to the technology scene in Los Angeles concentrated around the areas of Santa Monica and Venice.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. For instance, Guy refers to an entrepreneur’s venture as their “cause.” I was not disapointed.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment, which is developing 3D avatar technology, said today that it has opened up its proprietary 3-D facial modeling system to third parties. The firm said the program will include application programming interfaces (APIs), code samples, method, and reference libraries.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Among those involved in TheBlu are Andy Jones (Avatar), Joichi Ito (MIT Media Lab), Scott Yara (EMC/Greenplum), Yair Landau (MK Capital, formerly of Sony Pictures Entertainment), among others. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media. As a studio, we are building entertainment titles that capture that spirit.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

He enacted a program to proactively offer payment holidays to customers in obviously “hit” industries like travel & entertainment. If your company can help with job search, or resume writing or providing references or calling other companies to tell them you did redundancies?—?you you should do all that you can. you should do it.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

Some refer to it as “brain drain.” With unrivaled weather, a host of high-profile universities and unlimited array of daytime and nightlife entertainment, Los Angeles seems like a dreamland for young tech professionals and the companies hoping to employ their talents. And for good reason. DVDs are dying and streaming is on the rise.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2012

It is an old warning in the entertainment industry. Your failure to do this early in the life of the company may come back to haunt you when others refer to you as just another street currier. I have a friend in the music business who worked hard to gain introductions to, and become mentored by, several known names in the business.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2013

In addition, both comedians and entrepreneurs must engage and entertain their demanding audiences. Comedians often deploy the bookend technique, in which they reference their opening joke at the conclusion of their show. As such, there is much entrepreneurs can learn from their comic brethren.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 12, 2013

They are often referred to as “Best Browse or “Amazon’s Showroom.” Pose a question, such as: “How do I setup a home entertainment center?” While they’ve not done a great job to keep our trust in the past, much of this was out of their control. Unbox a receiver and explain the inputs.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

What he was referring to is how Hollywood only focuses on producing “broad spectacles” that usually cost at least $80 million. Read more about Movies & Entertainment here on Tech.co. Film-Making Technology Is Crushing Hollywood. It isn’t just a localized transformation either. It is becoming a global movement.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Other than Barack Obama, YouTube, and Twitter, all of the accounts are owned by entertainers, which has caused some media pundits to wonder if some of these celebrities (or their surrogates) performed unnatural acts to boost the appearance of their Twitter influence.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry. Ability to source information easily to help build a thesis around companies / industries / competition.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I find that a lot of people are referring people to me, hearing when someone is moving to LA, to talk to Z. We're building a community of artists and culture aronud the LA river, and tapped a pioneering entertainment studio and 40-plus local artists, to create a multi-sensory experience inspired by the river, it's past, present, and future.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

The term Immersive technology refers to technologies that bridge the gap between the physical and digital world. Phil Lelyveld – Program Manager at USC’s Entertainment Technology Center. Matthew Forrest – COO, Social Animal. Wendy Heimann-Nunes – Partner, Zuber & Taillieu, LLP. Ed Lantz – CEO, Vortex Immersion Media.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining. As a treat to Angelinos, this coming weekend October 13th and 14th, Reiss is flying to Los Angeles from Copenhagen, Denmark and will be conducting two limited seating seminars in Culver City.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. We actually approached him for a referral, and when he saw the work we were setting out to do, he referred himself.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The Summit will examine verticals such as transportation, hospitality, entertainment, city services, healthcare, among others, and discuss potential IoT applications. The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the interconnection of non-traditional computing devices communicating with each other via the Internet.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

We're now taking the same solutions around the globe, and finding companies in the sports, entertainment, manufacturing, large automotive companies, and the Fortune 500 acquiring and using Chrome River. All of those are equally important to our large customers, to keep them satisfied and reference-able.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2013

The show refers to the salespeople as "consultants," which reinforces each store's problem solving approach to selling. The Say Yes team reduces the risk of an emotional meltdown by maintaining a lighthearted atmosphere and ensuring that the buying process is entertaining.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2016

To see all our our programs, go to [link] To see programs currently applications, go to [link] Also, refer me great startups to chat with. Supporting all 20+ Techstars Accelerator programs worldwide on finding and recruiting the best startups. More investors to be announced soon. Want to Sponsor?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We had been initially signing up small customers, which would lead and refer us to much larger opportunities. My first was in a different space, in the entertainment and video space. Having that support is a huge, important thing to unlock lots of growth in our customer base. Healthcare looks a lot like an overlapping Venn diagram.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We are all coming from a background in entertainment. We came from an entertainment background and not a typical tech startup background. We have been meeting with a lot of entertainment companies and people and the experience has been great. How hard was it to convince the entertainment business to work with you?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! Your cousin specializes in entertainment law – that’s different. the link is here. Here’s a hack for you.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

We are not just focused on Start-Ups nor do we refer to ourselves as a co-working space. We are creating a community and look to serve as a catalyst for our members to further their positive impact in the world and reinforce their social entrepreneurial missions. What we offer is much more curated, thoughtful and mission driven.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

He proceeded to tell me several interesting and entertaining stories about Steve (all flattering), dating back to the early-1980’s. I shall refer to the photographer as “Mac” for the remainder of this article. The photographer (who asked that I not identify him, but was happy for me to share his story) indicated that he knew Steve.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It was obviously a joke and a reference to the supposed Bin 38 meeting. It basically boils down to: educate, entertain, have a dialog, don’t be boring and don’t sit on large panels (doh!). I think most entrepreneurs don’t realize this. Price creep hurts investors. And finally, one non VC topic.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

MW: It’s a geeky reference to a type of sequel statement where you’re doing a “left join”. There’s aggregation, so like in the entertainment industry, audience measurement is huge. We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. Tell us how you got the name?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

For those unfamiliar, augmented reality (AR) refers to the use of graphical or informational overlays onto the real world to provide a mixed reality experience. Silicon Valley was abuzz this week (though isn’t it always?). More specifically, with a current ‘buzz’ industry: Augmented Reality. Science fiction stuff right?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! It was built in pilot with BMW, HP and one huge, beloved entertainment company here in LA that I guess was a bit gun shy to include their name in our announcement. End of story. Or Likes – LIKES!

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

We get referring site traffic. Such lists are great fun, but what are some Ranker lists that you think provide the greatest utility, beyond the pure entertainment factor? We have a lot of entertaining content… but that tends to be the stuff that takes off at the earlier stages. We get traffic from three sources.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2010

Greg Siegel: I had most recently been representing actors as an entertainment agent at Endeavor Agency, but I had started out in the Internet world way back in the nascent days of the Internet. How has that transition from entertainment to the Internet gone for you? How did you connect with Applied Minds and start the firm?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Motion capture is used in facial expression as well,” May dictates, “you always have to reanimate, but it is a great reference point.”. For facial capture, a series of points is drawn on a face of an actor that drives the skin to capture actor’s expressions (once again, our Planet of the Apes and Lord of the Rings example).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Those guidelines include creative information, such as what shades and colors to use and colors to avoid, creative references, and similar, which we prepackage to create a brand profile. That allows us to understand their creative guidelines and needs. That reflects heavily in our hiring.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2014

Once inside, Belkin’s Wemo systems control everything from lighting to entertainment, and weMonitor watches over everything’s power consumption. They refer to the concept of “customer ownership” and provide examples. You arrive to the front door and interact with your camera-mobile synced Skybell doorbell.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

I like to refer to that as the ultimate brand fan page, or to take the example from the apparel industry, where I come from, a virtual look book for a brand. We showed it to other brands, and colleagues in music, sports, and entertainment, and finally brought it to the MAGIC apparel trade show.

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