Sramana Mitra: If I were an app developer, and I wanted to mash up some Dark Knight content and use Dark Knight characters to build an app or game, today, I have to go through a proper licensing process, correct? David Aronchick: Yes. There are variety of things you would need to do. The unfortunate
Sramana: Once you realized your business was not making a revolutionary change, what were your first reactions and steps? Aaron Skonnard: The most immediate was a feeling that I did not want to continue doing what I was doing. I did not want to spend the rest of my life doing something I had lost
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 140th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, August 30, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to
Sramana Mitra: In which direction do you think the business is going to go? Is it going to be that movie executives would want to chop up their content and distribute through your website or YouTube for marketing purposes? Or do you think this is going to be the kind of monetization opportunity you were
Sramana: Let’s trace the journey of your company. When did you start your first company? Aaron Skonnard: Coming out of school I worked as a programmer for three years at larger companies. I worked at Microsoft, 3M, and Intel. I worked for those companies as a developer before I found a smaller company in Utah
We started today’s roundtable with a reminder that the TradeKing-1M/1M pitch fest is on as we speak, and the application deadline is September 28. The finals are scheduled for October 4 and October 11. The contest is focused on financial technology entrepreneurs, and TradeKing, an online brokerage, will be awarding 12 1M/1M scholarships, picked from
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