Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. “Yeah, but there is a shortage of supply.

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MARCH 3, 2012

I had been looking around at several deals in late 2008 as the markets were tanking. I got a call from a VC friend of mine who said, “we’re looking at this deal but can’t write the full check. I decided to write a $2+ million check along with my co-investor who offered $750k. I think you should look at it.”

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This moment is not to be spoiled by such mundane warnings from advisors or consultants to plan carefully, research the market and competition, and execute the plan with tenacity and enthusiasm. Write your own Hollywood script. Do you ignore the warnings of experts?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

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. This does not mean you shouldn’t solve big, complex problems or write complex code. And it was oft repeated and gave Salesforce a huge marketing advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. And of course you have Hollywood.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

This moment is not to be spoiled by such mundane warnings from advisors or consultants to plan carefully, research the market and competition, and execute the plan with tenacity and enthusiasm. Email readers, continue here.]

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, And of course we had, TheMan. Now begins the 6-month journey. with the clips.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I kind of think LA is just LA and doesn’t need some clever marketing term. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. That’s OK with me.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

People also user our data for general market trending or academic research. What's the story behind the site and how you got into tracking Hollywood numbers? Tags: movie office numbers opusdata hollywood content entrepreneur interview nash bruce. Bruce Nash: One of the things we get asked a lot for, is access to the raw data.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. We really believe in the market. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. I want to see more companies doing innovative things with media down in Southern California, which should just own that market.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

It came about, because we saw a gap in the market around entertainment news written for the 18-34 consumer segment. There are trade publications such as Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline at one end, and gossip celebrity news at the other end. We're going after a large and fast growing market. Everyone knows this.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009. We're taking it seriously.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. You can do this by really understanding your target market and creating them a PDF outlining the solution you will be creating for them. Below are some take away tips… and the video of the of the panel.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I had my own list on my iPhone, writing down what I wanted to watch, and where those shows are. That gave us the ability to build the app and market it, and have it out there. Joey Lane: What we tell them, is this is a really unique time in the market. How did you come up with the idea for the company?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

This San Francisco startup has amassed an impressive portfolio of innovative products that have the potential to disrupt content distribution in Hollywood and everywhere else. Kaiser joined forces with Bruce Schwartz (Founder and CTO) to write an entirely new code language they called Interactive Television Markup Language (ITVML).

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The idea for Stage 32 came when Botto was attending yearly film festivals like the American Film Market (AFM) and observed a palpable frustration among many attendees that their opportunities for connection, collaboration and breakout success were so disjointed and infrequent. Maker Studios, Fullscreen, Awesomeness TV, etc.)

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Lots of these guys come on the show, already have a niche market, but need some help to step it up to the next level. Anyone can write a check, but not everyone can provide intellectual capital. And, that help is not always capital. As an investor, there is financial capital and intellectual capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). He defines this as new products that are dramatically cheaper, lower quality, lower margin but larger markets. Incumbents can’t react.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. " 34; To which I say "we don't think we can time markets."

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The second phase was the emergence of influencer marketing, or connecting those influencers to brands to leverage their audiences … Now that influencer marketing has become an established part of the marketing playbook, we are in phase three: tools to help influencers further monetize their influence, like Cameo, and then manage their lives.”.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

As I write this article, Crash Course stands at 83% of its pledge goal, with nearly 10,800 fans funding the show''s production costs for its upcoming season. Green disclosed that his Crash Course web series received over $70k of pledges ($30k in the form of monthly, recurring grants) within the first 7-days the site was launched. Border Run.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

We did a lot of investigative research — cold calling executives in Hollywood through networks at Harvard and networks through Johns Hopkins, the school where my brother graduated from. All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market. I was just working on the company.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours. We expect to be a huge growth market.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

A Writer Is Someone Who Writes. A writer is someone who writes, not someone who goes about telling their friends that they are “a writer”. Hubris might be an entertaining trait for an entrepreneur in a Hollywood movie. Hint: He was an entrepreneur. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Erin Korogosky – Beckon , Performance management for marketing companies. As a vendor for game-changing plasma lighting, they’ve grown themselves a fantastic business servicing the Hollywood/entertainment industry in Los Angeles with their innovative lineup of clearer, cleaner, and cooler stage and spot lighting.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA. Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review. . • Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

First reported by Deadline Hollywood , Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to play Holmes. And in New York, these folks are writing a musical about Martin Shkreli—specifically, the hilarious rumor that Bill Murray might steal back the Wu-Tang Clan album Shkreli bought for $2 million.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

McFedries, brud ‘s founder and chief executive, confirmed that the Miquela account had been hacked in a text exchange with me, writing, “some redditor idiots hacked the page we think.” ” That was a lie.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. and Excite in particular as well as all of the Internet companies with grandiose stock market valuations.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Even if you’re super successful there will at times be dissent on issues like: Firing founding employees, increasing the size of the option pool, putting in place provisions about selling on secondary markets, agreeing controversial “bet the company&# strategic biz dev deals and the like. Not enough skin in the game.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

"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." Industry pundits generally spend their time writing about what they see in the rear view mirror.

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