More artists are ditching the record labels in favor going on their own. What are the keys to grass-roots growth, and what’s driving the artists away? Chamillionaire and James Cruz share their secret sauce. Moderator: Quincy Jones III, CEO, QD3 Entertainment Chamillionaire, Grammy Award winning, platinum recording artist Sha Money XL, Founder and CEO, The Money Management Group DJ Pooh, record producer,rapper, screenwriter,and film director, UVNTV.com James Cruz, President, SRC Marketing Chaka Zulu, CEO, Disturbing Tha Peace Records Kevin Black, WB Ted Chung, President, Snoopadelic Films & Music, Chairman, Cashmere Rona Mercado, VP Marketing & Strategy, Cashmere
Enough is enough, says Paul Deninger. VCs must either plan for it or accept the consequences if and when the time comes to go public. Jefferies' Paul Deninger minces no words: "I'm sick and tired of hearing about Sarbanes-Oxley." He continues by asserting that the VC industry refuses to invest in the accounting systems needed to support Sarbox until companies are ready to go public, which is the reason it costs so much. If a private company waits six to eight years, building itself into $30 or $40 million in revenue operations in a couple of countries, Sarbox compliance will be expensive, to say the least. However, since 2000, only about 10% of companies exit by IPO. With 90% of VC-funded companies exiting via M&A, most VCs see investing in Sarbox in anticipation of an IPO as just wasted venture dollars.
$200-400 billion. Thatâs what it would cost the US economy to go carbon neutral, according to a panel of greentech investment experts last week at the GoingGreen event in San Francisco. Panelists: * Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jeffries & Co * Bob McCooey, SVP Global Capitol Markets, NASDAQ * Josh Margolis, CEO, Cantor CO2e * John Gimigliano, Partner, Energy & Sustainability Practice, KPMG * Elise Zoli, Partner, Goodwin Procter For more: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/29317
In an exclusive interview, Googleâs YouTube monetization guru Shishir Mehrotra reveals how the search giant is planning to monetize its hot property: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/32102
Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark capital gave a Keynote address at the OnHollywood conference on April 29, 2009. Bill issued an incisive overview the key trends, barriers, affecting the development of online video.
In an interview yesterday with Michael Moritz (Forbesâ 2x Midas List winner), California controller John Chiang hinted that venture capital could see even less money than might be hoped from Calprs and Calstrs, two of the biggest Limited Partners sugar daddies that VCs go to for funds. Moritz asked Chiang, who sits on the ___ of the firms, how the funds were doing. Chiang, it what appeared to be a bit of on-stage negotiating intimated that many âalternative investmentsâ were not âhigh quality,â and that the standard 2-and-20 management fees typically doled out to fund managers would have to be re-evaluated. In other words, if VCs, who as an investment block have performed poorly in the last decade, want a piece of Californiaâs shrinking public funds, theyâre going to have to take a serious paycut.
How did RockYou become the second-most popular creator of Facebook Apps? CEO Lance Tokuda says it started with the ambition to build an app that the most popular girl in middle school would use. Want virality? Keep it simple. Frank Quattrone, back from legal troubles and in great form, challenges the panel's startups to consider whether the big portals will watch, learn and run away with the profits in the end...
Behemoth foundations like Google.org, Kauffman and Skoll are pouring money into money-making organizations. Sometimes an NGO just can't get the job done, according to Google.org's Linda Segre. Her foundation recently moved a project in Tanzania into private, for-profit hands because they were better positioned in the community than the NGO Google had funded to provide the desired services. And Google's not alone. Kauffman's Lesa Mitchell notes that recent shifts in VC funding to later-stage companies has spurred philanthropic funding of early-stage startups, particularly in life sciences, where R&D has traditionally been reserved for universities and governments. Adam Smith would be proud.
Is battery technology ramping up to become the future automotive fuel of choice, or is there another solution? Read more: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/29658 You've all seen them. Smug hybrid drivers whizzing by you in the carpool lane, passing up the gas pump, and smiling pityingly at you as you fill up your not-that-fuel-inefficient sub-compact. Is battery technology really the wave of the future for the automobile industry? Or are we just victims of clever marketing and shiny, eco-green paint jobs. KPCB's Ray Lane is optimistic, saying that the industry is seeing great power and energy density in today's fuel batteries. The strides made in battery technology, he says, will produce some real, valid options for current vehicle powertrains in the next two years. Steve Westly wonders if battery technology isn't entering a Moore's Law type of technology ramp-up. Will batteries become exponentially less-expensive, lighter, longer-lasting, and better performing? Undoubtedly, ...
The debate over data ownership is just beginning. Media companies must get control of their data before they lose it to the very companies that helped them collect it. http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/31354
Charles Scott, Director Software & Services, says Intel is pushing the computer industry into ever greener pastures through cross-corporation initiatives and new manufacturing processes.
Silicon Alley Insider's Henry Blodget asks top media entrepreneurs the tough question at OnMedia NYC. The response was optimistic -- entrepreneurs say the eyeball exodus from TV will keep dollars flowing online.
In advance of the 2008 AlwaysOn GoingGreen Conference, we surveyed leaders in the green tech community on some of the critical issues facing the greentech sector and the environment. Here's what several of them, including chiefs from Morgan Stanley, DFJ, Vantage Point, IBM, Goodwin Procter and others, had to say. For a breakdown of the survey results go to http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/29160
Stanford University -- the school that spawned Yahoo and Google -- has a perhaps surprising attitude toward students seeking to found a business.
Venrock's David Siminoff discusses the trade-offs for big-brand advertisers in the cutthroat world of new media. http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/30600
Madison Avenue taps the value of online innovations, disrupts the industry, and learns to make money.
Tim Draper, the father of viral marketing, imitated Howard Beale's "Mad as Hell" outburst at OnMedia NYC, and declared new-media victory over Old Media monopolies. Tim is investing in many of the young companies that are disrupting the media industry.
Giant Realm today announced a $2 million investment from Softbank Capital, bringing their Series A Total to $5.5 million. Softank joins existing investors Comcast Interactive Capital, Edison Venture Fund and William Morris Agency. Giant Realm targets men "from puberty to marriage." Its communities are focused on video games, movies, TV and music, and the viewership is growing rapidly.
Steve Jurvetson's Trend #1: Demographics are destiny, creating opportunity. Every 11 seconds, a baby boomer turns 60. Rather than regarding the burgeoning ranks of “retirees” as an economic sink of subsidies, I see an enormous market and an untapped opportunity in the aging demographic. By 2025, the American demographic, overall, will look like Florida does today. There is a wonderful economic asymmetry between those who have money and those who have time, between those who need an answer and those with information. The boomer market creates opportunities in secondary education and retraining, telecommuting technologies for rich communication over the Internet, web services to segment and abstract workflow processes, and technology to help us all retain our mental acuity and neural plasticity as we age. Lifelong learning is not just about enlightenment; it’s an economic imperative.
Contrary to reports of Big Media's demise, the networks retain unique market advantages. They alone have the capital to produce hits like Lost and CSI, and they have the best ad sales people in the world. Execs from Disney-ABC, Paramount, Yahoo! and Move Networks explain their strategies for survival in the YouTube era. Editor: Matt Bowman Reporters: Julian Jennings-White, Jessica Chung Producer: On-Point Productions http://alwayson.goingon.com
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