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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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As I argued in this widely read piece, Hollywood content producers who don’t understand and develop technology prowess for the online & mobile media will fail to succeed in the future. I meet way too many Hollywood producers who tell me, “I just signed X, Y, Z talent and we’re putting a bunch of videos on YouTube.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. As of this writing nearly 50,000 versions have been created and uploaded and watched by some 200,000,000 people. Study the video game industry.

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How Focus@Will Uses Music To Help You Concentrate Better

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Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. He was a well known Hollywood music supervisor in a prior life. Explain what Focus@will is all about? It's quite simple really, it helps you concentrate better on tasks.

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Biotech Roundup: ASCO, BIO, Drug Setbacks, Incubators & More

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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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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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Most of my MBA classes were a waste (since I had studied economics as an undergrad) but one totally changed my thinking. I will write about some of these topics soon. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers.

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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There are trade publications such as Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline at one end, and gossip celebrity news at the other end. We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

. - 500 Hats , July 30, 2010 Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup – Part 1 - Ash Maurya , February 16, 2010 How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups (..)

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