Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

This investment started with Dana Settle (Greycroft) and I each putting in $750,000 into a young company doing less than $1 million in sales and has blossomed into one of the fastest growing companies in Los Angeles if not the entire country.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. We would look to Color’s patents, which may include one for a file format that they were working on to record HD video. As to why they’d want Color Labs?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen. If you can engage massive online audiences they will come en masse to bigger budget theatrical releases. The results?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. We put together this really short, music video (less than 2 minutes)that gives you a great aerial view of the LA Tech ecosystem (plus a great aerial shot of Upfront Ventures HQ if you are interested) all shot with our portfolio company DroneBase.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It aims to one day expand into a media company; this objective appears more probable as GoPro’s sales continue to increase at a steady rate. Netflix: An Ever-Growing Video Streaming Presence. Its 23 percent revenue growth in 2015 reflects a steady following of video streaming subscribers of an estimated 3 million.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

There were exceptions from time to time — if a WSJ story was shared on social media, nonsubscribers could often read it — but the paywall has stood solidly, and it has helped the publication accumulate nearly 3 million combined paid subscribers for its print and online content. Old Media Models Are Melting Down. A lot of eyeballs.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? TaskRabbit is available in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. Feature Story freelance money management online platform Pabla Ayala pFunk Media'

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. On JFDI (play on Just Do It) - Chamillionaire talked a lot about social media.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

While the nuts and bolts of their business may still live on their primary website, content like blogs, video, photos, and other social media are almost always hosted somewhere else. A company’s online presence is often spread across several different platforms. What is the business value for a brand to invest in new domains?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Since the 90s, Toronto-based entrepreneur Eldon Mascoll has been making his mark in the media industry, working in areas that include television production, film, marketing and advertising. Games On Wheels is the largest mobile video game truck business in the country. Don’t be afraid to fail. If you haven’t failed you’re not trying.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Websites like Udemy, YouTube, and LinkedIn Learning are chock full of short video tutorials to help keep your ingenuity sharp and ready. We are successfully dominating the core markets within the Dubai Real Estate arena and our recent growth into New York, Los Angeles, and Miami is proving to be extremely successful.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. They are negative-as-hell free riders with no personal ideas for how to make things better.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The classroom activities are recorded and the video is appended with comments from a remote coach.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

It moved people to tears, was widely Tweeted and several people asked me to share this video. He told the story of the young artist, Ramiro Gomez who was born in San Bernardino, near Los Angeles. From Los Angeles. She was recently graduated from Cal State, Los Angeles and works at USC. Invisibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. And so it is with video. Quibi = “quick bites”).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). In the DVD world they could always limit you because you could only have a certain number of videos outstanding and any time.

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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 is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 How about Internet Video? Annual U.S.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in. Enterprise.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

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. He first worked hard to get him to be an advisor to the company.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Based on a question I posted in LinkedIn, Serena Ehrlich posted How to Use Social Media to Find Prospects. and provides the following list of suggestions for ways to use social media to build a reputation and to reach prospects. Or Sell a House. They still will need ways to get this out to an audience. Thanks for the thoughts Serena.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. If you want to build a strong online video business it almost certainly must make YouTube an important part of the strategy. So Why MiTú?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Beauty brands relay on social media strategy as much as traditional PR! Also, I had the opportunity to present my “Organic Reach is Dead: Learn to Pay to Play Like a Pro” Masterclass to a standing room only (or sold out) crowd on the main stage at the Social Media Week Los Angeles conference.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

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. Plus, as I live in Los Angeles it is where some of the smartest talent thinking about this space resides.

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David Teten

MAY 8, 2014

It was very worthwhile, a chance to connect primarily with other investors (mostly public markets/private equity), and a range of other people (media, tech, academics, etc.) I definitely recommend attending if you have the chance. You can read a summary on Currency of Ideas , and I’ve attached the video below.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For the past three years I have been pounding the table as loud as I can about the future opportunities in digital video. You will not fundamentally change consumers media consumption habits. You need to produce content for YouTube these days because that’s the lion share of online video consumption. hours of TV per day.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It was late 2006 and I was serving old media as a national editor at an entertainment industry trade publication, plus freelancing for an alt-weekly and writing a book. We’re a small but growing media company with a distinct niche. Thanks to Vicky Llerena, Social Vibes Media ! #13- Thanks to Mary Black, Aging Youthful ! #3-

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2015

While creating quality content has its own set of best practices, the currently dominant shape of popular content is in videos. However, for younger generations, short videos fit into a schedule determined by short periods in between classes or brief study breaks. Social Media Relevance.

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Customer Technical Review Los Angeles Social Media 28

SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Rooster Teeth, which started 11 years ago in Burnie Burns’ spare bedroom in Austin, just got acquired by Fullscreen, a global youth media company based in Los Angeles. Rooster Teeth created the long running video series on the Internet Red Vs. Blue.

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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. We’re excited to welcome the CEO Michael Agustin to Los Angeles. They also have my favorite company intro video ever.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. I believe you can attract people to relocate to Los Angeles but it’s likely that they’ll come from locations other than Northern California.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Bazaarvoice came out of stealth mode roaring, though, and Sam Decker, our founding CMO, did a great job blogging on the launch and my long-time friend, Emily Brady at Brady PR, did a great job garnering the media attention that we had been waiting until the right time for?—?when when we had strength. but don’t watch this with your kids! ).

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 7, 2013

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Last year, when the Game Developers Conference Online announced it was moving to Los Angeles, Jennifer Bullard, chair of the Austin chapter of the International Game Developers Association, immediately launched into planning a new conference that would remain in Austin.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based incubator Science is at it again, having launched a brand new company called TopFloor designed to change the way we shop online. ” TopFloor is a video-driven platform where anyone can engage with on their social network. Think of it like a rebooted version of QVC for the social web.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 19, 2012

Last year, Monroy was just another nine-year-old kid from East Los Angeles trying to figure out what to do with his summer, when one day he went to his dad's auto parts store. He thought about a way to market the arcade and put together a flash mob meet-up at the auto parts store, along with a short 10-minute documentary video.

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