Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

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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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I’ve spent a lot of my career thinking about digital and online video (with investments in companies like Maker Studios) so for that reason amongst many, I was excited to open the Upfront Summit a few weeks ago by interviewing Meg Whitman about Quibi and the digital media space.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

They were used to distribute and view movies in cinemas for the next 100 years until digital film technology came along. The DLP Cinema projector was used to display major movies in New York and Los Angeles. After that, the digital film can be preserved in modern storage media for later viewing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. Every politician in the country knows this as well as every consumer brand, every retailer, every restaurant and every media company. So Why MiTú?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

You will not fundamentally change consumers media consumption habits. Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. You don’t want another Walmart to dominate your distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2014

Anyone who knows me well knows that I have a few brands & media properties that I truly love and for which I have huge loyalty. Technology is disrupting all types of media and talk radio will be no exception. And of course there are virulent debates about whether publicly funded media should exist at all. Virgin America.

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APRIL 21, 2013

This morning I was reading my social media and came across an article that Christine Tsai had posted on Facebook. Tran moved to Los Angeles and started his business in Chinatown with a need he personally had. I wonder how agressive they are with digital distribution. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

.” You have an “Elvis Presley like moment” where you realize the next generation is already consuming different media than our tastes might appreciate. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. That is YouTube today. I think most arguments miss the mark.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. with the clips.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc. All of this was broadcast across our social media networks to increase reach and attract more visitors. 7- Major appointment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. We streamline strategy development using a Reality-Based approach, then execute cross-media programs including websites, brochures, ads, booths. It has been fun to get to know her again.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

We create a great reading experience for the web, as well as a print edition, which gets delivered with select Sunday editions of the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Sacramento Bee. DMcG: Most of the really good magazine-style features we read are published by East Coast media companies. Texas Sunday ?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

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.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

by Neal Schaffer, author of “ Maximize Your Social: A One-Stop Guide to Building a Social Media Strategy for Marketing and Business Success “ If you’ve been in today’s job market for more than five minutes, you know that it’s a complex, competitive, even cutthroat environment that’s difficult to navigate.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Previously he worked in the offices of Scott Rudin in New York and Summit Entertainment in Los Angeles. At Sundance it became the talk of the town and quickly sold its distribution rights for $4.5 Social media extraordinaire and Hollywood favorite Ashton Kutcher, is now an angel investor. You will fail.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

The Los Angeles-based market research firm estimates that growth rate to hit nearly12 percent annually over the next five years. A cluster of media and marketing companies, including Turner Broadcasting System Inc. A cluster of media and marketing companies, including Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

When none came to light, he followed a lead to Los Angeles and by Wednesday he was signing a contract with a lab there that usually does anti-doping testing. But a colleague turned him on to a lead in Los Angeles. Because if you can do a lot of tests in the lab but you can't actually distribute it, there's not much point.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You see, Segura is the founder of a Los Angeles-based company called Giant Media, and TNW sat down with him to get his thoughts on his entrepreneurial experience. Giant Media is a video platform that distributes long-form content for brands.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

The carefully curated pictures depicted on social media were not anywhere close to what MY real life looked like. There are thousands of incredible bartenders, servers and wait staff in Los Angeles who want to pick up extra work. I build social media platforms, help procure contracts, assist with infrastructure and more.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

NEW media has become the home of innovation and imagination. Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

At the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, Eric will join serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis (LAUNCH Media) for a Q&A session with attendees. Sign up to host a livestream meetup or join one that our friends at General Assembly is hosting at their 11 campuses around the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Singapore, and London.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

And it's an important point because you know, everyone, not everyone, but, but most companies have someone who's their marketer and they have someone who's their social media manager, community management is none of those. And obviously social media has oh, geographic constraints. John Cantarella (12:37): It's a really important point.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

If you are a retailer looking to discover new products to sell or improve your merchandising and vendor management efficiency, or if you are brand looking to increase sales and distribution or improve your sales, order management, and inventory process, check out www.sorced.com. Media Training. Los Angeles, CA.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Potential partnerships with media and telecom giants make it attractive enough though, and hopefully there will be cross polination between the Israeli startups and the great tech cluster in London. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. UK Startups can receive an *almost free* ticket by registering on this page.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

A panel of hand-picked judges, comprised of technology industry experts, venture capitalists, and high-profile media, will select the product or service most likely to succeed in the marketplace. Finalists addressing issues such as storage, distribution, packaging, waste, and more, will compete for up to $50,000 in prizes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Read more: MediaWeek.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Smaller companies like Warby Parker are taking on branded incumbents in eyewear by re-inventing and collapsing distribution and manufacturing channels. yes, outside of media, LA is really a blue collar town). Hundreds of billions of dollars later, Amazon is one of the most valuable companies in the world.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Techstars Healthcare, in partnership with Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles). Virgin Media Accelerator (London).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. What does that mean?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, AOL and the like.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. This is where the digital media puck is going. “Over the Top&# video distribution – Apple TV comes out in November and is priced at $99.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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