socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

According to the WSJ , the spending will go towards making Facebook a destination site for people looking for television shows on its "Watch" video tab.

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Content Netflix Hollywood Report 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. You have Genius on iTunes, NetFlix''s recommended movies, Facebook or Twitter. It''s a very fractured process.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As you can see in the LA landscape, there are already a tremendous number of YouTube channels, sites like FunnyOrDie, and CollegeHumor. Even the best sites don't have people watching lots of video, with the exception of long form content sites like Hulu and the Netflixes of the world. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We are the ‘Netflix’ of Africa – with iROKOtv we stream Nollywood (Nigerian Hollywood) movies online, so they are accessible to anyone with an Internet line, anywhere in the world. They saw our passion for content, the Diaspora’s thirst for Nollywood movies, the site traffic and our plans to grow the company and we went from there.

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Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

It’s Amazon, Virgin America, Netflix, Tesla, DropBox, iPhone, Uber, Lyft or any one of the other great brands that exist because they do things significantly better than what came before. He would pick up stuff from your apartment and bring it to storage for you and he could save money by having that facility be off site.

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire Startup 380

socalTECH

JULY 17, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu is planning to add another, premium tier to its services, which would allow users to completely skip out on advertising. per month, allowing users to get an ad-free viewing experience--to help it better compete with Netflix. and $14.00

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Canoo has beta cars on site at its Los Angeles headquarters where prospective partners and customers can test out the vehicles, which were made by an undisclosed contract manufacturer based in Michigan. The idea, the company says, is to bring convenience and afforability of a Netflix movie service to the auto industry.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? MOviepilot is starting to bring its movie recommendations and discovery site to the U.S., and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. We're going out there, and harnessing that.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2010

The firm similarly ran the numbers for Netflix, finding that watching a single, hour-and a half movie would consume the entirety of the 200MB plan; as well as for ABC's iPad app, which would consume that 200Mb with only a half-hour streaming show.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. We provide full service, digital distribution and video-on-demand to iTunes, NetFlix, Hulu, Comcast, cable VOD, Time Warner, Cox, Dish Network, and AT&T.

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). These are both either “remnant” or free ad types.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

Alongside the series sourced from Ficto’s online “ Million for Million campaign “, which will reward $1 million to the first producer of an episode that reaches 1 million unique views on the site. He points to the success of Netflix’s hit “You”, which the streaming service picked up from Lifetime.

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Services Report Netflix Content 167

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

YouTube didn’t kill television, it just became Netflix… T hings can move in two different directions at the same time. Our appetite for fresh content and this stuff is kind of limitless,” says Rojas. “And I don’t see it as zero sum. Toonstar lets you bring cartoon characters to life thanks to facial recognition.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube and other content streaming sites have all but obliterated the independent DVD rental business of yesterday. Yes, Netflix has a huge arm in the rental business and Redbox is pretty popular, but you’ll find the titles are probably pretty limited if you like the good indie stuff.

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Web Netflix Social Media Product 65

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

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Startup Pricing Netflix Customer 117

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Everything from Skyfall in a packed auditorium on opening night to It’s a Wonderful Life on Netflix to Ponyo in an art house on a small screen. You can sometimes get movie ticket deals from daily deal sites. Loves to follow financial market, huge Boston celtics fan. Grew up in Seoul and is bilingual and bicultural.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). billion for the site in 2006. According to predictions and what I see on the many sites I have visited, there are still positives and negatives to consider: YouTube is already gigantic, so the interest is there.

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Hulu Social Network Blogging Netflix 84

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, Revolution LLC (Steve Case).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We've seen the proliferation of streaming through Netflix, Amazon, and others, and as people get into the streaming features business, that income can help make up the income being lost in DVD sales. Then, we got written up by Time Magazine as one of the Top 50 sites of 2010. There was just some good hype around us.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

This traveling player can allow direct digital rentals from any blog, Facebook page, Twitter profile or other online site. Their baked in marketing technology helps producers determine the best distribution system by matching genres with online viewers demographics across 4,000 affiliate sites.

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Platform Netflix Hulu Content 69

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

Startup 106

Startup Netflix Customer Custom 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2021

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Netflix IBM 117

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

These range from extended warranties, to home delivery and setup, to on-site technical support. Hence the popularity and wealth of new services like Citi Bike, Lyft, and NetFlix. Every innovative product startup can spawn many services startups to provide utility beyond the basic entitlements. Product sharing services.

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Services Startup Outsource Technical Support 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2015

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones.

Startup 102

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Netflix 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2014

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Netflix IBM 94

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other online distributors bring viewers to their portal to watch movies and TV shows. Yekra Theater does not send viewers to a specific site to their movies, it keeps them in the same place and prevents any distractions and confusions from the viewers. Yekra Theater does things a little differently.

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Screening Content Entertainment Netflix 76

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

Startup 56

Startup Netflix Customer Custom 56

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones.

Ideas 58

Ideas Entrepreneur Netflix IBM 58

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It’s amazing how many proposals I see that are “me too” with only slight or abstract differentiation from other social media sites, ride sharing, or collaboration tools. Examples of being first include Netflix for movies and TV and Redfin for real estate. Being first is always important.

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Netflix Social Media Competition Customer 54

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

They would search through Craigslist and other jobs sites for a film crew and the process of finding people manually was quite cumbersome. RR: Yeah, I am really proud of how the site is looking. We have been meeting with film professionals and going over the site. NG: Product design. This was our biggest selling point.

Content 81

Content Entertainment Startup Los Angeles 81

Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

For example, if it costs $1,000 on Google paid search to get 500 people to visit your site and five of those people purchase an item, your CAC is $200 ($1,000/5). For example: a) What percent of your site visitors bounce before taking any action? The key here is to break down each step of the conversion funnel. Viral Co-Efficient.

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

For example, if it costs $1,000 on Google paid search to get 500 people to visit your site and five of those people purchase an item, your CAC is $200 ($1,000/5). For example: a) What percent of your site visitors bounce before taking any action? The key here is to break down each step of the conversion funnel. Viral Co-Efficient.

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu scored a major win this weekend, and has inked a deal with television network Epix , after Netflix said it would not renew and existing deal with Epix for its content. Epix--known for its Hollywood movie lineup--is a joint venture of MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Paramount.

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Netflix Hulu Paramount Hollywood 100

Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2021

As the world slowlyachieves successful Covid vaccine rollouts, tech giants Netflix, Google, and Facebook are now seeking to keep their employees safe by imposing strict vaccine mandates within their US workplaces. In Netflix's case , it isn't just enforcing this rule in its offices. Why Are Tech Companies Implementing Such Rules?

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Netflix Google Hollywood Demand 183

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

He has founded a new social networking site called AnyBeat to take on this issue. But you might like to start interviewing for jobs or posting on job sites without using your actual name. I could also see some sites wanting to argue the opposite – we’ll only let you chat if you agree to say who you are.

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Social Network Startup Blogging Venture Capital 329