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Next 10 Ventures is launching an incubator for YouTube personalities

TechCrunch LA

Los Angeles-based Next 10 Ventures , a $50 million fund focused on the creator economy, is launching an incubator program to support YouTubers. ” Applications to the incubator opened today and close November 17, 2018. The only requirement is that they focus on educational video content targeting children and young adults. “The

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. The startup has already secured a seed investment from Maveron and CRV, TechCrunch has learned, and will receive another $150,000 in exchange for 7% equity upon entering YC next year. focused fund.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. How did you do that? Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

socalTECH

There's been a huge push to engage local businesses, to get them involve din social media, but video has yet to catch up. Sam Rogoway: Before we launched Near Networks, I had started a small private equity group called Brave New Ventures, which is a very early stage investor in media oriented companies.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Wildfire Interactive. I first heard about the company from Dave McClure and have tracked it on the sidelines a bit since then. Obviously they see big things in Wildfire.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Bootstrapping Marketing Strategy, social media marketing, web applications. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization cosmetics, social media, women in tech. . jim spencer, media convergence group. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app.

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