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This Hollywood Star Proves Entrepreneurs Should Be Clueless

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This was certainly the case with Hollywood star turned inventor, Hedy Lamarr. Lamarr abandoned a successful European film career to become a Hollywood star. Unsatisfied with the intellectual limitations of Hollywood, Ms. The post This Hollywood Star Proves Entrepreneurs Should Be Clueless appeared first on John Greathouse.

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How ZEFR Is Helping Hollywood And Brands Understand YouTube

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We had gone out to all of the Hollywood studios, and licensed clip content, short segments of filmed. We have already licensed this out to great partners like SNL, and we have a great relationship with NASCAR, which helps them managed their owned media on YouTube. Tell us a little bit more about where ZEFR''s main focus is nowadays?

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Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Entertainment

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Saturday, February 25, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Entertainment. Southern California is still the home of Hollywood -- the symbolic name for the motion picture industry, but that industry has changed dramatically in recent years. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/technology-startups-go-to-the-movies-tickets-31210790314?

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Entrepreneurs Love Celebrity Investors While VCs (Usually) Hate Them

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Entrepreneurs typically embrace celebrity investments, while most sophisticated investors prefer to avoid famous entertainment or sports personalities on the cap table. Steer clear of high-overhead investors, whether they be Hollywood celebrities, high-profile tech investors or total nobodies. What’s the cause of this incongruence?

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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

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I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past two years and bending the ears of any entrepreneur who will humor me to hear what I think the solution needs to look like. I’d love to know people to “follow&# on websites to help expand my tastes the way that Twitter expands my news sources. No, seriously.

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You Can’t Teach People To Be Entrepreneurs, But Entrepreneurs Can Be Taught

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Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. out of 5 in both Helpfulness and Clarity.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

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I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. Most Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs I know are more like Al Gore. It is election season. He has a message he wanted to get across and he did so in a folksy manner.