Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. In the business world, your ability to raise money is often paramount to your success. Book smarts represent your current depth of understanding of technology and business concepts.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the startup headed by former Userplane CEO Michael Jones, said today that it has acquired Better Inc, the SEO and pay-per-click marketing software firm headed by Ben Padnos. s technology uses technology to help set up, manage, optimize, and report on pay-per-click campaigns for small and medium businesses.

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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? That's the story we got from Tobi Bauckhage , the co-founder and CEO of Moviepilot (www.moviepilot.com), a German firm which is setting up shop in Los Angeles.

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The idea of video on demand has been around since as early as 1990 when GTE partnered up with AT&T to create the first VOD system. Fast Forward to the present day and look how far VOD has been driven by a vast number of separate technological wonders. Film-Making Technology Is Crushing Hollywood. For example, Warner Bros.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2021

Fortunately KPMG had made investments in technology to make the transition to remote work as successful as possible. I was aware of this dynamic before, but the value of these connections became paramount in the weeks and months immediately following the shutdown.

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Southern California Technical Review Paramount News 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Modern communication tools, including WebEx, Skype and video conferencing are a good start, but virtual teams remain a productivity nightmare for many companies. Team leaders and startup founders must be visibly and mentally present to be perceived as trustworthy and part of the team. Conflict resolution procedures are well-defined.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

After listening to hundreds of startup pitches, and reading even more business plans, most new venture investors develop their own favorite list of “red flags” that signal the beginning of the end of their interest. Terms “paradigm shift” or “disruptive technology” used more than once. Sleeping giants do wake up.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

I knew that having friends and allies on the playground that would back up “the new kid” was of paramount importance. The same phenomenon is true for startups. As noted in Corporate Venturing , startups should pursue allies who have a vested interest in their success. This last category proved to be especially lucrative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2016

Many people will argue that total customer satisfaction is paramount, but I’m a pragmatist who believes that treating everyone the same really means treating all of them poorly. Use interactive social media and targeted marketing to go after the customers that you want and need. Playing favorites is good business and good customer service.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2013

The Los Angeles company--which is backed by $15M from Insight Venture Partners--has come up with a way to utilize the web and its deep depth of creative talent to produce many viral videos and commercials for its clients. How did the company start? So, we started throwing out ideas on how we could sidestep that.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

On Tuesday, Breg announced it will be getting an assist on the software side from Redox , a healthtech startup based in Madison, WI. Managing medical device inventory is paramount at healthcare organizations that help patients come back from injuries, many of which do not keep their entire stock of orthotic and prosthetic products on site.

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Startup Paramount Organization Software 40

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One trend in the Southern California high tech startup market has been an increasing number of startups--and executives--who have been looking to combine their interests in business with their enthusiasm for giving back through nonprofits and causes. We launched that section with Paramount, with the movie ad as the lead sponsor.

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Causecast Startup Content Education 222

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. What usually happens, is there's a barrage of poorly targeted ads leading up to opening weekend, and it drives downhill from there.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

My partner and I, Cliff Elion, have a patent pending neck technology, which enables the guitar to be made at a very accessible price point, and also have probably more functionality and connectivity than any device in history. When we started discussing the idea behind the company, Guitar Hero and Rock Band were the talk of the town.

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Orange County Startup Slides Paramount 244

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Brian has over a decade developing and deploying cutting-edge technology within the entertainment industry. McKelvey has led, designed and deployed gaming and web technologies for a multitude of leading companies including Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, TNT, GSN and Live Nation.

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Blogging Paramount Social Network Entertainment 84

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? 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.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2009

We sat down and spoke with Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried , co-founders of the firm, about what the firm is up to now, their view on how to mesh entertainment and the Internet, and how to go beyond creating a viral hit. On the social side, we build technology to create communities, and social network-style websites.

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Hollywood Content Paramount Entertainment 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

As I watched my kids' eyeballs move over, as well as looked at the research data and advertising data which saw TV's share shrinking, I started looking into new media. I saw that kids seem to get bored by kids sites by age ten or eleven, and then they start moving onto sites that shouldn't be online and really aren't appropriate for children.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. How did you two start the company? We were written up by several tech publiications, including TechCrunch and Mashable, and suddenly every single label was calling us, that day. Matt MacNaughton: We're using it to focus on our technology.

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Social Media Startup Platform Media 217

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Should media companies offer their content on an ad-supported basis or get users to pay up front? Today major brands in entertainment, automotive, travel, technology, and CPGs are embracing mobile, especially mobile rich media, to engage and interact with consumers. But does every brand need an app?

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Mobile Media Case Study Advertising 40

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Anne Walls and John Singleton are co-founders of WordHustler (www.wordhustler.com), a local Hollywood startup looking to help writers connect with publishers. We caught up with both Anne and John to learn more about the company. Our submission technology is what powers Scripped.com, who you interviewed earlier.

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