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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

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This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles. “That worldwide reach is very important,” Grignon said.

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

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To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. How did this start? Deborah Ramo: The group of us who started the company are all very interested in solving problems.

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Nine Startup Tips From Walt Disney

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Pressure Helps You Break Through Your Breakdowns. "Mickey "Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner."

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Chris Hollod On Investing With Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Ron Burkle

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Hollod is now joined up with Burkle and recording artist D.A. How did you end up here in Los Angeles doing investments? Chris Hollod: Growing up in Atlanta, I was completely oblivious to California and more specifically LA. I immediately started to bombard various LA professionals with LinkedIn messages.

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The Talent Tourniquet | Making Los Angeles Startup Friendly

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Take, for example, the recent City Council vote to end ride-sharing services and effectively shut down an entire sector of emerging tech startups – putting both their app developers and their enterprising users stranded in no man’s land. A YouTube video is three minutes, whereas the typical Hollywood blockbuster runs 120 minutes.

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Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising

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When you run a startup you’re always on borrowed time. It’s why so few can really start a business from scratch. As the end date nears and the cash-out date becomes more predictable the pressure mounts and every decisions becomes more consequential.

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How DinnerDate.com Takes Online Dating Offline, with Andrew Connell

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Andrew Connell is the CEO of DinnerDate.com , a startup which has been in beta in San Diego for the last few months, and is just now expanding out to new markets. We spoke with Andrew about the startup and what it's all about. We wanted to use the Internet to make things easy and help create initial connections.

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