Film and Technology

Definitions and some basic principles for approaching investors for your next film.

The business of filmmaking: faith-based films

The Miami International Film Festival has some great prizes for creators, and is of particular interest to Latino filmmakers.

Make your first film for an amount of money you can raise yourself.

A new software designed to help filmmakers better communicate their productions is called Production Next

ABFF is dedicated to nurturing black film talent

Asghar Farhadi's latest masterpiece

New York Producer, Jamin O'Brien, talks about financing $5 - $8 Million Films

Interview with Bruce Paddington, Director of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, documentary filmmaker and film professor.

Reviews of some of the films at the 2013 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival including: Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution; Redemption Songs; I am a Director and more.

Interview with Luke Paddington, Senior Producer, CiscoTV and documentary filmmaker.

A film festival in Oakland surveys digital storytelling by young men and boys of color.

An outsider's perspective on San Francisco's Arab Film Festival, including three film reviews

Crowdfunding has become an extremely popular online fundraising tool, but the way to make it really work involves some very oldfashioned fundraising techniques.

Testing your Minimum Viable Feature without breaking the back.

The Airbnb photography case study from the book, "Lean Analytics," show how to use the concept of Minimum Viable Product to test a hypothesis or an entrepreneurial hunch.

Entrepreneurs thrive on having winning hunches. But without solid data, those big ideas will just turn into big flops.

One of the main uses of the Genius Bar from Apple's perspective is market research. How can your company conduct similar research?

The first two stages of The Lean Startup - Stickiness and Virality.

Products that push too much change on to customers risk losing them to simpler software that helps them get their jobs done more easily and efficiently.

Many businesses spend considerable amounts of time and energy measuring metrics that are not going to contribute towards company success.

Technology companies now have the capacity to amass huge quantities of data from their customers, but what is the purpose of all this information?

By making small sales to many customers and then making careful analysis of their application usage, businesses can better predict customers' needs.

By asking customers what they want and how they use software, businesses run the risk of missing some of the ACTUAL data that software analytics can show of what they really want and their real application usage.

Nalpeiron Software Analytics gives away one of two free books to its potential customers in order to create a better-educated consumer.

How cloud computing has ended the need for businesses to make major upfront capital investments in IT and how that affects technology service companies.

Defining what constitutes a good metric for your business.

Using data to create change: for those working inside a company as opposed to running it.

Defining the Consumption Gap

Making products and features more available to more customers.

Customer Retention = Customer Success = Customer Retention Plan

Like many start ups that develop their own software, Media Shout also created their own security code. Once the company began to scale, however, they quickly realized it was time to bring in the professionals.

For the 2nd year running, Bay Area digital marketing company makes the Inc. 500/5000 list.

A single mom opens a new surfer clothing business in San Francisco.