Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. These are all creative processes. Strange, I know. So I thought I would.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. We are the media.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

For years, tech publications run by local digital media startups have worked hard behind the scenes in placing African startups at the faces of global investors, shaping the narrative of African tech and its build-up to an inflection point last year. The Big Cabal Media team.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

You can expect to see families invest in toys, to keep their children occupied, as well as board games, projects and puzzles that can be done as a family in the evening and on weekends. Hasbro , which currently has five of the 10 top-selling board games on Amazon, has major potential here. Streaming Media. What am I missing?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They are a national practice but “it would be hard to see a local media success that Revolution isn’t part of&#. Today’s interview was with Tige ( interesting to follow on Twitter ), who has been involved with funded and/or sitting on the boards of Revolution Money, Living Social, Flexcar (now ZipCar) and UberMedia.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Register Boardable , an online board management and meetings platform , secured another $2.6 million to fund product innovation and accelerate its growth in the markets that need board management tools the most. The online board management portal announced that it closed $2.6 Username or Email Address. Remember Me.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

And with the three C’s driving many of today’s startups, with the Infrastructure & Web Services largely built and with founders raising smaller pools of capital and wanting to live where they want to live I believe it will continue to push innovation nationally. Investing becomes easier when you already need to be there.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

Today I want to talk briefly about why I believe Snapchat is an important media company. I’ve heard the new media doubters before as nobody thought Google, Facebook or Twitter would ever make money. From the business perspective you need to understand a few things about media and video in particular.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. However, there are many other ways you can work and earn money within the industry — as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence or as an entrepreneur in residence. David Teten. Contributor.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In recent weeks, several major media organizations, including Verizon (Huffington Post, Yahoo, AOL), Buzzfeed and Gannett, the owners of more than 120 local media organizations across the country, announced thousands of newsroom layoffs in an attempt to reduce costs. It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. The result is that we’ve had a lot of innovation coming from LA and other regions outside Silicon Valley in terms of making money on the Internet. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

We recently released the video sharing app Ferris and announced that Upfront Ventures led the funding in the company in our seed round of $2 million and I personally joined the board. We’ve tested tons of design concepts here and expect much innovation on this front in the future. That is Ferris.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

He hasn't founded or built either a successful, let alone innovative company, and he hasn't raised $ to invest in those entrepreneurs. So how can a relatively junior VC hope to add any value to an investment and on a board--and is it enough value that you should have one on your board? Any success as an entrepreneur?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Simply – we believe it’s hypocritical to sit with tech startups every day and talk about the need to innovate while ourselves making no major changes. Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). First task for Kyle?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

” I’m all for more entrepreneurship, but I think it’s a slippery slope to tie together funding an increased number of companies with a better innovation landscape or even a better economic. ” Fred Wilson seconded that opinion , citing that “We need more entrepreneurship, not less.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. David Cohen deserves much credit for building TechStars into an internationally recognized brand name for innovation. You can help local entrepreneurs get their first deal done and the innovation ought to benefit you.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. Misconception #4: The media never covers startups here. Misconception #5: NYC is only good for media startups. Most new entrepreneurs don’t even know where to look for talent or how to attract it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I wasn’t on board with their suggestion but had another idea with my long-time friend and collaborator, Dana Satterwhite. Social media can be scary. Although the project has received around 200k organic views on social media, it is being suppressed on Facebook because there are political figures in the piece.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. Smaller businesses may be attracted to blogs, social media posts, and email marketing. If teamwork and innovation are crucial, make that explicit and include it in every job description and related job posting.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

MessageGears intends to use the investment to accelerate the innovation of its technology platform, with an emphasis on bolstering its mobile channel capabilities, expanding its global presence, and opportunistically exploring acquisitions that align with its vision for the future.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The company wants to make online ads both cheaper and more effective thanks to recent innovations in artificial intelligence and computer vision. You often have to go back to the drawing board to iterate and create more ads. Omneky uses AI to generate social media ads by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. It isn’t new stuff.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While finance and media are typically concentrated in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, a city of three million in the state of Bahia, is considered one of Brazil’s cultural capitals. Bahia could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2023

This will not only make businesses more inclusive and innovative but also create a more just and equitable society overall. Finally, we need more women on boards and in leadership. We need to embrace and celebrate different leadership styles, perspectives, and approaches.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 3, 2010

The other day, I noticed that someone who works in digital media who was following me on Twitter was checking in to the McBurney YMCA on Foursquare. It’s all part of a culture of, for lack of a better word, intimacy, that happens in the innovation and startup world.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Make it easy When it comes to making an ask of a cultural leader–whether it is asking to make an introduction to someone in their network or sharing news about a new product launch on their social media channels–make it as easy as possible for them to do it!

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Register The Ministry of Science and ICT changed the name of K-ICT Born2Global Center, a public institution under the Association for the Advancement of Information and Communications (KAIT), to ‘Global Digital Innovation Network (hereinafter GDIN)’, and held the “GDIN Opening Ceremony” at Pangyo Startup Campus on September 7.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

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. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

There is so much in the media about “The Internet of Things” that it has lost meaning and for many for some strange reason it became a short-hand for wearables. Innovators Dilemma and Deflationary Economics and how they drive startups. How I Invest ?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

link] Their vision was “if Disney were going to build a media company today they wouldn’t start by creating films, they would build compelling characters in a mobile game and then create media products and physical goods in support of the game. I imagined what it would feel like if we worked in this location. Congrats, Kevin.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Investors: TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s investment vehicle; Court Coursey joining board), CompuCredit Holdings, with existing investors Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Omidyar Network, QED Investors, Volition Capital. Other deals. 2.2mm in Series A.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 25, 2024

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) continues its mission of catalyzing innovation and fostering growth in the technology sector with its recent investments in eight dynamic companies. This innovative approach is set to make significant contributions to cancer research and treatment.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

First place of $5,500 went to TDAY Sports , founded by Justin Leusner (Centre County): A social media marketing company targeting Gen-Z sports fans, TDAY Sports creates captivating content to fill the gap in sports media focused on younger generations. Out of the eight entrepreneurial teams, two were awarded prize money!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. The more people that see your brand as the innovator the more “earned media” the company gets and the product becomes synonymous with the category.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

For the last two years, I’ve been pretty vocal about politics on social media , in my weekly tech community newsletter and on this blog. A co-op board is going to judge me at my next apartment. Plus—the values of today’s innovators are getting more and more progressive everyday. Limited partners judge my investment acumen.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 16, 2017

It’s no surprise, then, that hacker attacks are on the rise and we’re up to our eyeballs with media stories on hackers looting and pillaging organizations around the world like modern-day pirates. You need to be innovative and creative to come up with security awareness training that educates, engages and enthuses. That’s right!

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Other participants included EDBI, Xora Innovation, and undisclosed investors. Automera, co-founded by Michael Lazarou, Loong Wang, and Taiyang Zhang, is an early-stage biotechnology firm developing innovative therapeutic approaches centered around autophagy-based targeted protein degradation.

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