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MAY 24, 2011

Momary was at the Ventura County Star and LA Times; Narcisse had been at Paramount Pictures and the LA Times. Scripps Company, which provided initial funding for the company in November of last year. Ebyline was co-founded by former newspaper execs Bill Momary and Allen Narcisse. Ebyline is backed by the E.W. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Your credibility is paramount, so don’t jeopardize it with hype and too much passion. I highly recommend that you screen your business plan and your executive presentation carefully for variations on any of these themes, and remove them. Your future depends on it. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/03/2016.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Our interview today is with Greg Martin , co-founder of LiquidStock (www.liquidstock.com), an investment fund which offers up a way for employees of private companies to exercise their stock options before an IPO or acquisition. Greg Martin: I raised a fund called LiquidStock, with three partners. Tell us what you're up to now?

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. in a Series AA funding round. The Movieclips site allows users to search for scenes from major movies, and embed them on Facebook, MySpace, and other web site. The firm said its advisory board includes author Clayton M. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based startup Worlize (www.worlize.com) announced it had received a seed round of funding, and launched a firm to focus on social gaming and chat. Brian McKelvey: For the last ten years, I've worked in software engineering, ranging from building social viral games for Paramount, Lionsgate, and GSN.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. MOviepilot is starting to bring its movie recommendations and discovery site to the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. This year, the VR on the Lot conference featured VR and VFX companies and Hollywood filmmakers on the Paramount Lot. It's amazing how much LA tech has grown since we first started Silicon Beach Fest five years ago.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

Steve Poizner, who sold two of his startups to Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) and served as California Insurance Commissioner a decade ago, has signed a collaboration agreement with a venture fund that Maris founded in suburban San Diego. Maris raised $160 million last month for the inaugural fund of Section 32, a new venture firm he founded.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Review quality is paramount since Advisors are doing this to build relationships. Any funding yet? Self funded, looking to start networking events (in the MeetAdvisors spirit with Advisors wearing “A” and their expertise on the shirts). In some cases, there may also be an interview. What is your business model?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

A quick glance at Crowdfunder provides a peek into an impressively large portfolio of funded startups and small businesses; to the tune of ~8,800 companies, 45,000 investors, and over $66M in deal flow across Startups, Social Enterprise, and Small Business. To date, we’ve done 11 of these in and outside the US. ” The JOBS Act.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I now observes the fund raising process as a profession. This is the fund raising perspective from both sides of the table. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. Executive Summary.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

There''s tons of activity, and lots of companies getting funded. There have been a lot of new angel investors coming out of the woodwork, and lots of companies getting pretty good funding and valuation. We invest globally, with 20 percent of our funds outside the U.S., That''s paramount to a great exit. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. What I truly feel is absolutely paramount to any successful entertainment project, is the content itself.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Last week, Irvine-based Inspired Instruments (www.yourockguitar.com) announced a round of funding, saying that it has developed an electronic guitar which combines the game controller functionality for popular videogames like Rock Band and Guitar Hero with actual musical functionality. So how do you get over that challenge?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2011

Thus, as is true with any startup, survival is paramount. These funds often sustain a player and allow them to remain in the game when they would otherwise go bankrupt. Remind your children that if they quit before the game is over, they are assured they will not win.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

This morning, Los Angeles-based Mogreet (www.mogreet.com) announced it had raised a Series B funding round for the firm's mobile greeting services. We caught up with James to hear more about the company, how he managed to get funding even in this economy, and his view on the mobile market. So tell us about this new funding round?

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MARCH 29, 2012

For a number of high profile brands, it's by using the software and services of Los Angeles-based PromoJam (www.promojam.com), which just announced a round of funding to accelerate it efforts last week from Golden Seeds and the Band of Angels. What plans do you have for that new funding? Now, we're getting into brands.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

I went to UCLA, and majored in English, and then worked in Hollywood for ten years, for companies such as CAA, Paramount, and Judd Apatow. How's the company funded? Did you bootstrap this or get some funding? We had some small friends and family funding. Anne Walls: Our backgrounds are different, and complementary.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

Annotation and providing context are paramount. We had users, and even when people wanted to give us money – they wouldn’t even have known how to fund us. Apple Business Culture Entertainment Entrepreneurship Funding Mobile Startups ilan zechory mahbod rap genius tom lehman' ” Empowering Artists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Running a new business starts with building a solid and credible business plan, working the investor funding process, and building an organization from nothing, with minimal resources. For example, if your rich uncle is providing all the initial funding, but has no active business role, it might be smart to offer him a 20% slice of the pie.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Running a new business starts with building a solid and credible business plan, working the investor funding process, and building an organization from nothing, with minimal resources. For example, if your rich uncle is providing all the initial funding, but has no active business role, it might be smart to offer him a 20% slice of the pie.

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