TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

Traditional venture capitalists may have made it rain on expensive Hollywood studios that were promising virtual reality would be the future of entertainment and social networking (given coronavirus fears, it may yet be), but Talespin and others like it are focused on much more mundane goals.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

When we step back, and look at the landscape of the business and say--how can we produce content as efficiently as possible, at the least cost--you have to have a very effective production model we can use across the country to produce all of that content. That's the first time it's ever been done in high school sports.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

Matthias Galica: My last role was as a product manager for another local startup, Woome.com, an online dating site. Online dating is all about acquisition, and maximizing the ROI for people coming in, and figuring out how that corresponds to their lifetime value. Now that you have some funding, what's next? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Secondly, it's a changing environment for studios, as they are looking for ways to maximize their assets. It seems most venture investors have been very shy about investing in Hollywood content related ventures. When we talked to Shasta Venturse, they asked us a few questions, and the first one was--what do you think about the product?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Will Hsu, Chief Product Officer for AT&T Interactive Jordan Rohan, Managing Director of Equity Research, Internet and Digital Media, Thomas Weisel Partners. Gannon Hall, COO, Kyte 1:45pm: Mobile Sports, Entertainment and Hollywood: How is the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry leveraging the power of mobile?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

But the reality is that most “conventional wisdom&# is a bit like Hollywood films. The world isn’t “all good&# or “all bad&# as it is in Hollywood films. Apple has great products and occasionally bad motives driven by profit maximization. I’d rather have smaller readership and better ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I call this collecting logos because it seems that having fancy brands to brag about trumps the logic of maximizing the value of your investor. I have these 3 ‘problem children’ that are having some difficulties (founder quit, product has no uptake, Facebook just copied them) but at least I have meaningful stakes.

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