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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

Both Sides of the Table

But here’s what Silicon Valley doesn’t get about Hollywood. And what Hollywood does’t get about Silicon Valley? ” Guess what, Hollywood. And I’m also funding a new breed of entrepreneurs bringing tool sets to this new Hollywood ecosystem that has developed. As humans we like story telling.

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Sports stars, franchises and Hollywood agencies are betting $38 million on an esports revolution

TechCrunch LA

What started with an esports team is now quickly becoming an esports empire, backed by some of the biggest names in sports and money managers for entertainment family dynasties and Hollywood power brokers.

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A Surprising Entrepreneurial Journey To The Pinnacle Of Hollywood

InfoChachkie

With no industry connections or family ties, talent agent John Ferriter applied basic entrepreneurial principles to reach the pinnacle of Hollywood''s elite. You can watch John describe his surprising Hollywood journey in the following 20-minute excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. I need to figure out business.''".

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

socalTECH

Hollywood's an old industry, used to doing business in traditional ways. One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Where's the service now?

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West Hollywood Vacation Rental Outfit Raises $5 Million

L.A. Business Journal

AvantStay, a West Hollywood-based hospitality firm that provides short-term vacation rentals to groups, announced Dec. 19 it received $5 million in a round led by Menlo park investment firm Bullpen Capital.

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles.

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Fintech Launches Crypto Bank Account for Hispanics

L.A. Business Journal

A West Hollywood-based fintech announced the launch of a banking program Dec. 20 aimed at building Hispanic wealth through stakes in the crypto sector.