article thumbnail

Transforming Film To Digital – A Big Business Opportunity

YoungUpstarts

In 1999, a company known as Texas Instruments produced a DLP Cinema projector. The DLP Cinema projector was used to display major movies in New York and Los Angeles. A huge number of films which were made before 1999 were analog in nature. It was the original analog to digital film converter.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. 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.&#. Photo credit: D.

Finance 286
article thumbnail

What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! At dinner parties I was wrong for several years but I stuck to my guns.

Florida 299
article thumbnail

The REAL Story Behind Growthink

Growthink Blog

It was a sunny day in August 1999 (I remember that because I was living in Santa Monica, CA at the time and every day was sunny). back to August 1999. And with the internet in its infancy there was no social media marketing I could do, nor job board-type sites that I could post on. It was August 1999. What," I reply.

article thumbnail

Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. I’d start by trying to follow them on social media to get to know them a bit, and then reach out with a relevant intro request through LinkedIn.

Austin 110
article thumbnail

This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. Mobile gifting service. Users can send digital Giiv card with store credit (via SMS, for now) that is redeemable at retailer.

Founder 214