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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives. But we do have great technology developers. You don’t.

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How You Know You’ve Got the Right Startup Model?

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If you’ve watched any industry in the last 20 years where technology has begun to transform how the industry works the results are always predictable driven by what Clay Christensen appropriately called “ The Innovator’s Dilemma ” (one of the most influential books that changed my thinking about markets).

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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. The best “MCNs” are in fact building strong technology businesses with rapid growth and strong, defensible assets. Content goes global (of Maker Studios 4.4

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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

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He had the idea that as a comedian and performer making videos, someone needed to create technology to add personalization and discovery around how we laugh, exactly as you get those things now for music and other forms of content. The first app we're applying this technology to is Mock The Vote, a one-stop destination around the election.

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

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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. The more people that see your brand as the innovator the more “earned media” the company gets and the product becomes synonymous with the category. Forget the valuation?—?I Not really.

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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. But they’re under the gun to crank out story after story so they don’t have the time or energy to understand why your behavioral targeting technology is mathematically better than your 5 competitors. Call on me. I know the answer.”

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TVSync’s Open API Uses Video and Audio Recognition Across All Four Screens

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TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down.