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Stacking Up The Online Film Submission Sites

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Last night, Amazon.com jumped into the movie business, with its own, online film submission site, Amazon Studios , backed by the help of a number of notable USC Film School advisors. Summary: Amazon.com's own entry into the online movie contest business, Amazon Studios said it will award $2.7 What's your opinion on these sites?

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The Story Behind ScoreBig's Live Entertainment Tickets, with Adam Kanner

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Every consumer out there who goes to live sports, music, and other events is used to the drill: pay lots of money to a ticketing site, pay lots of extra fees, or have to hassle with a shady ticket broker, or pay extra to get a seat to the event you want to get to. Explain where ScoreBig fits into the event ticketing market?

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Variety.com Puts Up Pay Wall

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Los Angeles-based entertainment trade publication Variety has decided to put the firm's content behind a pay wall, telling its readers today that it will start restricting access to its articles to print and digital subscribers, starting Thursday. The publication said the move is part of a revamp of its subscription structure.

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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Clark’s responses. We get referring site traffic. Clark Benson is the Founder and CEO of Ranker.com.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. TWIVC Summary – Richard de Silva. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content.

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Viral Marketing Costs Real Money These Days

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Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Develop viral content.

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TechZulu Recaps: The Annual Startup Forecast

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For a full breakdown of each of our speakers’ backgrounds, visit our event info site ! Summary of Topics. Until then, we’ll be focused on gimmicky applications and entertainment. Bitcoin and the closure of nefarious exchange site, Silk Road. Get yourself up to speed by reading through JATI, Inc.’s

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