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Market Like Its 1999 In 2015 – 9 Marketing Strategies That Worked Back Then & Still Work Now

YoungUpstarts

Once upon a time marketers would print up 100 or more flyers and post them on grocery store bulletin boards, power poles, deliver them door-to-door, or distribute them from the cash register. When it came to ROI in 1999, the bigger, brighter, and more noticeable your yellow pages’ ad was, the better. Paid Media Placements.

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Transforming Film To Digital – A Big Business Opportunity

YoungUpstarts

They were used to distribute and view movies in cinemas for the next 100 years until digital film technology came along. In 1999, a company known as Texas Instruments produced a DLP Cinema projector. A huge number of films which were made before 1999 were analog in nature. Today, almost all of them use digital technology.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true that it’s cheaper to start companies now and cheaper to get distribution. I’m spending a lot of time looking at video production & distribution because I believe this will form a larger basis of the future Internet and I believe that Hollywood & television will face large, disruptive forces.

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. You need to work through a team of underwriters, who administer the public issuance and distribution of securities from a corporation. The market is moving back up, but slowly. Is your spotlight bright enough to start a new wave?

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In Spite of Avatar, The Movie Business is Dead

Growthink Blog

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? What do these new realities mean for the content creators of new media and for traditional studios, filmmakers, producers, and distributors? Nothing is more important to U.S.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies.

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