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Advice from Warren Rustand: Put Your Head Down and Walk Into the Storm

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Yap is a thriving serial entrepreneur whose businesses include Citrus Studios , Luxe Link , and the Orange & Bergamot. Rustand has run more than a dozen companies during this career, most recently Providence Service Corp., Another third will have tough decisions in about 90 days, when cash starts to run out.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. This narrative has been confirmed to me by several senior studio executives. Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Maker Studios, the largest producer of online short-form videos (content) recently sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Welcome to the future. What Does a City Need to Compete?

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A 30-year Sales Superstar Shares Two Tricks to Succeeding

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Kalika Yap , an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Los Angeles, is founder and CEO of both Orange & Bergamot , a creative agency for female founders, and Citrus Studios , a branding and design agency. She’s also an author and the host of EO Wonder podcast. Jack Daly has been selling all his life.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” That always stuck with me. It’s what I strive to.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A Many people are visual thinkers.

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How I Went from Startup Founder to Leader of a Growing Business

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Written for EO by Floyd DePalma, CEO of UX agency DePalma Studios. When I started DePalma Studios, my mission was to design and build applications that people love to use. I hired a creative director to lead our UX design department and an experienced engagement manager to lead our engineering department.