socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The idea of entrepreneurship as a path and of technology as a change catalyst is taking root in cities and ecosystems all over the world. Previously, Cody established and launched the Disney Accelerator, powered by Techstars.

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MAY 19, 2013

I knew change was inevitable, but I had no idea how stressful and exhausting maintaining my internal reality distortion field had been until they gave me permission to turn it off.” It is what he set out to build and he had huge initial success in landing big clients like Disney, Zynga, Gilt and TopSpin. It’s your baby.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

These innovative products ranged from digital comic books to sports data analysis. In the end, 3 startups were awarded prize money for their spectacular business ideas. The afternoon began with a fireside chat with Albert Cheng, the Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer of Digital Media at Disney/ABC Television Group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2019

They summarize twenty years of breakthrough research initiatives and innovation strategy they have led with many of the most dynamic global organizations large and small, including Unilever, Walt Disney, and Intel. True innovators tip stakeholders into adopting and even co-owning the orbit-shifting idea. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2015

They summarize twenty years of breakthrough research initiatives and innovation strategy they have led with many of the most dynamic global organizations large and small, including Unilever, Walt Disney, Intel, and Savola. True innovators tip stakeholders into adopting and even co-owning the orbit-shifting idea. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

From a marketing marketing perspective, that allows filmmakers to quickly and easily promote their films through social media and build a fan base, and incentivize fans to support their films by offering access to exclusive content, livestream video chats, and production updates, as an example. Why is this important to filmmakers?

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. The idea of waiting, asking, and waiting for answers is gone. That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. However, Oprah felt she had failed to deliver a quality product. I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. Success – Envision It. “I

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Dell. In today’s digital market, emerging entertainers cannot rely on business professionals to position, market and distribute their “products.” Make no mistake, successful entertainers are entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

They summarize twenty years of breakthrough research initiatives and innovation strategy they have led with many of the most dynamic global organizations large and small, including Unilever, Walt Disney, and Intel. True innovators tip stakeholders into adopting and even co-owning the orbit-shifting idea. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Prior to running OrganicStartup, Sangster was responsible for strategic planning and corporate development at the Walt Disney Internet Group. Alex is a member of the New Venture Group at Idealab, headed by Allen Morgan.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. So we went for it. And Jamie hers. And Adam his.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Twitter, LinkedIn, Salesforce not to mention Disney, Warner, GM, P&G. Products that ship late and place entire companies under serious stress. I also love it when I see really big ideas that seem a little bit too outrageous but where the entrepreneur seems just crazy enough to possibly pull it off. Co-founder discontent.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

When we started discussing the idea behind the company, Guitar Hero and Rock Band were the talk of the town. I was producing video games for Disney, and he had a long stint producing toys and consumer electronic devices in China. What triggered your decision that this was the time to revive the idea?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. You want to get yourself to a position where you can do what you want to do&# (Chamillionaire).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Facebook, Google, Zynga, (can we count Disney Interactive?), I sat down with Andrew Peek of Rocketr, a social idea platform, regarding his move through the scene. After leaving Jet Cooper, Peek decided to take his passion for product and do his own thing, starting Rocketr. Next thing I know, my ticket is booked.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. His firm works to infuse projects with the management, social and production assistance needed to break away from the pack. Van Jepson, CEO/Founder, GroupPrice.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

There initial release would be a product called “Best Fiends,” which is now one of the most successful mobile games. We found tremendous value in this idea of a two-city startup with some business leadership / management in one city (LA) and much of the development in another (Helsinki). It felt pretty, pretty good.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield: Burstly is the blanket company for three products. Most of our clients are top publishers, such as EA, Disney Mobile, Rovio, and Backflip. Our latest product is FlightPath, which is a mobile analytics solution. We showed that at WWDC, after literally creating a basic working product in one day.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers. Being early got me my first $1 billion exit (Maker to Disney).

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. My big clients were Disney, Nestle, Toyota, all the big Southern California companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

BigCo calls you to review your product and decides they want to use you. I make exceptions for companies with proper venture capital funds that are mostly autonomous like Comcast, Disney (Steamboat) and Intel Capital – all of which are great funds. Let’s say you give a warrant to a channel partner to sell your product.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

As you mention, this is the third (or fourth, if you could the former Walt Disney Accelerator) Techstars accelerator in LA � why the decision to run another one here? Finally, the last thing, is what is the idea and product you are trying to build. Cody Simms: Obviously, I live here in LA, and I have been since 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Having re-read it, I believe his real premise instead is, “Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea for startups that one wonders why things were ever done that way.&#. On this assertion, for the reasons that Paul articulates in his post, I’m aligned. When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

We had over 30 pitches and classic SUW team voting that followed, resulting in the final 12 most popular ideas. The first talk kicked off with Rob Maigret (Founder of Digisynd , acquired by Disney) followed up by Dan Gould (Founder of Namesake , Chill.com , Ad.ly Team formation and recruiting was underway! Rob Maigret. Scott Sangster.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Facebook, Google, Zynga, (can we count Disney Interactive?), I sat down with Andrew Peek of Rocketr, a social idea platform, regarding his move through the scene. Still with Jet Cooper, Peek decided to take his passion for product and do his own thing, starting Rocketr. Next thing I know, my ticket is booked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2015

While effective collaboration is easier said than done, it’s the backbone for any startup that wants to get their product off the ground. As Ken Goldstein, former Vice President & Managing Director of Disney Online, said : “Products start with people… which means products start with collaboration.”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Our best known and first product was the KidZui browser, which we started as a paid service, went freemium, and went entirely free in October of 2010. What's the idea behind Zui Studios? Why original content, and how much did you look at production costs for content? I think it is, and obviously it will continue to get better.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

There’s just something about being able to to connect to a startup that is at the same stage as you are, to come up with ideas and solutions together.” Harnessing more energy from our grid by emphasizing efficiency, not increased factory and power production. It sits above curriculum, investor connections, etc.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. What is the idea behind Moviepilot? We started about four or five years ago.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2009

I spent almost 20 years at Chiat/Day advertising, and ran major brands such as Apple, Nissan, and Disney, and did new business development. We can up with the initial idea of a standardized, effectiveness and scoring system--just like a FICO score for credit, or the SAT for college admittance, or the Robert Parker score for wine.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. We offer an intensive three-month program and provide up to $18,000 of seed capital, extensive mentorship and a shared work environment to help entrepreneurs go from idea to product to fundable business. Community Sponsors.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2011

Let’s dive into the interview and find out what sparked the idea for iGottaGuide and get a few helpful tips from a fellow entrepreneur. That experience was the first of many on my travels that sold me on the idea: the best way to travel is to connect with someone who knows the city inside and out. Walt Disney. Henry Ford.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Co-Host & Venue Sponsor.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

We help them distribute their product, and put it on the shelf, anywhere a customer might buy--whether that's with a tour operator, travel agency, or a travel website. Or, maybe they're spending three nights in Orlando and taking the kids to Disney World. All of those need to play into the electronic transaction world.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. We offer an intensive three-month program and provide up to $18,000 of seed capital, extensive mentorship and a shared work environment to help entrepreneurs go from idea to product to fundable business. Community Sponsors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

20 months ago we sold Maker Studios to Disney for $500 million in cash plus a large earn out. I figured I owed it to both Disney and to Maker not to state views that could be construed as their views during a period where I was still involved. When we were acquired by Disney we had a product & engineering team of 55 people.

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