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Bing Focuses On Entertainment With New Features

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Microsoft's search engine, Bing , is enhancing its searches for an area of interest to lots of Southern California firms--entertainment and media content. The search engine said one of the biggest investments is in entertainment, particularly navigating and finding what you are looking for from content on the web.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets. MSN & AOL.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. I’m not providing actual financial information or predicting a number or a date but I will tell you that the revenue growth to date has been astounding.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

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No matter how smart or knowledgable Gore was he couldn’t get a break in the media. Even the VC who invested in your deal struggles to properly position why you’re going to be huge when they’re calling big tech companies or other VCs on your behalf. how informed will they be about our product / service?

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LA Startup Report 2013 | A Rising Forecast

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Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Compared to Silicon Valley, LA only has only about one-tenth of VC investments. With Yahoo!,

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Public and Open Debate is the Highest Form of Democracy (and Blogging)

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I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. It’s not only the “consumer&# of this information who learns, the “producer&# also does. Think Hulu is done by the studios for all good reasons?

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. How does social media on Facebook & Twitter change things?

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