socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

The Alliance for Southern California Innovation's board includes Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs, CAA's Michael Yanover, Sherry Lansing of Paramount Pictures, Thomas Gewecke of Warner Bros., Bill Maris recently opened up Section 32 as a new, $150M investment fund in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California San Diego Riverside Santa Barbara 100

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

Worlize's founding team includes CEO Brian McKelvey, who has served at Paramount, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate and Live Nation, and CFO Greg Diller, who has previously been at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), The Hollywood Reporter, and Cannon Pictures. The firm said it expects to launch into public beta in the fall. READ MORE>>.

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Paramount Funding Hollywood Venture Capital 160

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2020

Our interview today is with Greg Martin , co-founder of LiquidStock (www.liquidstock.com), an investment fund which offers up a way for employees of private companies to exercise their stock options before an IPO or acquisition. We would like a minimum of $5M to $10M minimum invested in any one company.

Startup 113

Startup Paramount Invest Capital 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2021

Fortunately KPMG had made investments in technology to make the transition to remote work as successful as possible. We have been able to pull certain levers to maintain some consistency and a level of connection with our employees, but we are continuing to invest heavily in this area to position our employees to have long term success.

Southern California 113

Southern California Technical Review Paramount News 113

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Ensuring Accuracy: How to Test Results Upon deploying AI-driven search tools, validating their accuracy is paramount. It gives stakeholders an opportunity to assess the benefits and challenges before making additional investment on iterative improvements. A PoC is a pragmatic step to evaluate the feasibility and results.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Tool Knowledge Base 346

Southern California Edison Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

When it comes to handling government data, secure network design is paramount. Since companies have to worry less about threats from other networks or users outside of their organization, this frees up resources to invest in addressing other security risks. . Government Agencies. Switched Ethernet.

Design 90

Design Networking Organization Paramount 90

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Understanding culture is paramount, but measuring results is even better. Revenue performance needs to be applied to each individual program, and also rolled up to show the overall performance per dollar invested. Return on investment for demand generation. Lead-stage content performance.

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Metrics Marketing Demand Paramount 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

Understanding culture is paramount, but measuring results is even better. Revenue performance needs to be applied to each individual program, and also rolled up to show the overall performance per dollar invested. Return on investment for demand generation. Lead-stage content performance.

Metrics 57

Metrics Demand Marketing Paramount 57

Southern California Edison Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

When it comes to handling government data, secure network design is paramount. Since companies have to worry less about threats from other networks or users outside of their organization, this frees up resources to invest in addressing other security risks. . Government Agencies. Switched Ethernet.

Design 52

Design Networking Organization Paramount 52

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Back in January, at the annual TechZulu Startup Forecast , our panel of industry leaders and investors spent a healthy dose of time discussing the ongoing JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) and the investing sphere at large. This all, circling around 2008, a shy year for startup investments. Fundraising Frustrations.

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Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. You have a unique position, being both in the investment banking as well as being an early stage investor.

Southern California 124

Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

At any rate, here is my own list of red flags, from my years of experience advising and investing in aspiring entrepreneurs, which cause me to lose interest and start looking for a way out the door: Omit the facts on key management team experience and skills. The average valuation for Angel investments is about $2.5

Funding 98

Funding Startup Innocal Entrepreneur 98

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). Seriously, this happens.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 286

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 28, 2009

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Mobile 100

Mobile Break.com UCLA GRP Partners 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Adam Fridman, MSF from DePaul, 4 years investment banking and 10 years in business development consulting and start ups. Review quality is paramount since Advisors are doing this to build relationships. What does it do literally? Entrepreneurs ask Advice, when granted, they leave a review for the Advisor. What inspired them?

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Paramount 89

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Defining your unique self-fulfillment needs is paramount to living a content and rewarding life. . It is well worth the 11-minutes you must invest to watch it. How To Get Someone To Hate What They Do For Fun. The following is an apocryphal tale which illustrates the detrimental consequences of turning play into work.

Startup 217

Startup Satisfaction Paramount Help 217

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

We're excited to have them involved, because they've typically invested in companies around our stage in the media space, so they bring some unique set of relationships and domain expertise. They're a new fund, and we're one of their first investments. We've also got Black Diamon, a local SoCAl fund, which is also leading the round.

Mogreet 133

Mogreet Paramount Entertainment Mobile 133

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

We quickly branched out of music, working with television companies like NBC Universal, and working with film studios like Paramount and Warner Bros. Our criteria for investment, was getting a team of resources and smart people, which is what we found with Golden Seeds and the Band of Angels. Now, we're getting into brands.

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Social Media Startup Platform Media 217

InfoChachkie

APRIL 7, 2010

It allows them to avoid the opportunity costs of entering into an agreement that does not yield adequate revenue or cost savings to justify the time and resource investment. If one party does not make a meaningful investment in the relationship, there is a risk that they will not apply the resources necessary to optimize the outcome.

Resource 154

Resource Paramount Press Entrepreneur 154

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 8, 2015

” Abumrad and his executive producer Ellen Horne spoke about their creative process and their experience with this new form of audio-reality-location storytelling at the Austin Paramount Theatre. This prompted the city to go high tech and invest in 31 giant moonlight towers made of most advanced materials at the time, carbon arc light.

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Guide Paramount High Tech Entertainment 40

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

It's something that is really neat which we invested in, which we've never seen anywhere else. I went to UCLA, and majored in English, and then worked in Hollywood for ten years, for companies such as CAA, Paramount, and Judd Apatow. If someone has a contest form in PDF on a web site, we can fill that out and track that submission.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Partners make investment decisions. ” In VC terms that means the key questions you need to answer are, is this investor: Geographically focused and have they invested in my geography before? Already invested in one of my key competitors? Do they have money to invest? Meet in person. They’re buying you.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

This spotlight session will highlight recent mobile campaigns from Infiniti, Paramount Pictures, Lexus, Intel, U.S. Four leading Brand Marketers will share how they’re shifting their corporations to invest more significantly in mobile based on building their own wins. Presenter: Jeff Montgomery, CRO, Placecast.

Mobile 40

Mobile Media Case Study Advertising 40