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Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur by Stuart Skorman |Book Brief

In "Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur," Stuart Skorman recounts the ups and downs of his high-stakes career. Skorman launched the online video store Reel.com in 1997 and sold it three years later for $100 million — but his online learning site Hungryminds.com bombed. More recently he made a come back...

Tags: Entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, online learning, online video, career, video, game

Videos 2007-10-24

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When you've an itch for business

EVER thought of starting your own business? Or being a `serial entrepreneur', doing all kinds of jobs? Though the idea of running one's own business may seem exciting, there are many potential pitfalls to watch out for. And the idea of losing one's hard-earned capital is not exactly pleasant. ...

Articles 2007-04-01

Revenge of the movie buff.(Reel.com Inc. plans new business)

By Stuart Skorman, retailer/author In the '80s, my video rental chain, Empire Video , had the highest-volume stores in the country because we focused on picky, hard-to-please movie buffs. Later, this movie-buff niche strategy would be the secret to my success...

Articles 2007-02-26

Deals go down at Digital Hollywood

Shortly after 4,000 people showed up for last week's Digital Hollywood conference, deals started popping up. On the second day of the conference at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Los Angeles-based DailyReel.com cut a content deal with Seattle's Blue Dot social networking site. They displayed the deal...

Articles 2006-10-30

Echopass Announces Appointment of Bruce Pollock to Board of Directors; Experienced Financial Executive Joins Board

SAN FRANCISCO -- Echopass, the leading service provider of on demand contact center solutions, today announced that Bruce Pollock, President, Financial Executive SolutionsTM, has been elected to the Echopass Board of Directors. Pollock joins the current Board of Directors including Vincent Deschamps, Echopass CEO/Chairman; Ronald Kase, General Partner, NEA; John...

Articles 2005-03-22

Jordan, Jeff 1959–

Jeff Jordan 1959– Senior vice president, eBay Inc. Nationality: American. Born: 1959. Education: Amherst College, BA; Stanford University, MBA, 1987. Family: Married Karen maiden name unknown; children: two. Career: Boston Consulting Group, 1987–1990, consultant; Walt Disney Company, 1990–1998, various positions, senior vice president and chief financial officer, The...

Articles 2005-01-01

What's new is old in San Bruno

PEOPLE keep asking me where to find copies of old movies and I keep telling them to try the Web -- at ebay.com, amazon.com, facets.com or reel.com -- or call Nothing's New in San Bruno. I tell them to call Nothing's New -- An Emporium of...

Articles 2004-04-19

Question Of Conscience, Revisited

Goldman, Julia The Jewish Week 09-05-2003 Like his `Mephisto,' director Istvan Szabo's new film highlights the moraldilemma of artists living under authoritarian regimes.An Internet search for Istvan Szabo's films on the Reel.com Web databasebrings up the Hungarian director's Academy Award-winning "Mephisto" and theother installments in his 1980s trilogy about characters...

Articles 2003-09-05

Bellamax Names Julie Wainwright President and CEO

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 4, 2003 Bellamax, Inc., the leading online photo enhancement service (www.bellamax.com), today announced that Julie Wainwright has joined the company as President and Chief Executive Officer. Best known for her former roles as CEO of pioneering electronic merchants Pets.com...

Articles 2003-08-04

Elephant Pharmacy Aims to Satisfy Frustrated Consumers With a New Approach to Service and Selection; Founders Vow to Revolutionize Pharmacy Shopping With Flagship Store

Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers BERKELEY, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 14, 2002 Elephant Pharmacy, a groundbreaking retail concept that features a full-service herbal pharmacy along side a world-class prescription pharmacy under one roof, will open its doors in Berkeley later this month. The store also includes...

Articles 2002-11-14

Wilsonville, Ore.-Based Hollywood Entertainment Turns Finances Around.

By Boaz Herzog, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 30--Like a gang of underground monsters surfacing in a bad horror flick, Hollywood Entertainment's troubles two years ago threatened to destroy the nation's second-largest video rental chain. ...

Articles 2002-06-30

Hollywood Entertainment, 800.com enter into on-line partnership - Brief Article

PORTLAND, ORE. - 800.com Inc., a specialty retailer of electronics, movies and music, has entered into a strategic relationship with Hollywood Entertainment Corp., the second largest video superstore chain, which operates Reel.com. Through this partnership, Reel.com customers wishing to purchase movies, music or electronics will be linked to 800.com's Web...

Articles 2001-10-22

Reel pulls in 800.com.(Brief Article)

Reel.com, the online arm of Hollywood Entertainment, has partnered with 800.com for product fulfillment. 800.com will sell Hollywood's inventory of movies and music, and customers can buy consumer electronics via an 800.com link on Reel.com. Hollywood will receive commission on all these sales. The deal is...

Articles 2001-10-08

800.com Enters Into Strategic Partnership With Hollywood Entertainment Corporation; 800.com To Sell Movies, Music and Electronics Via Hollywood Entertainment's Web Site, Reel.com

Business/High Tech Editors PORTLAND, Ore.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 2, 2001 800.com, Inc., a leading specialty retailer of electronics, movies and music, today announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Hollywood Entertainment Corporation, the nation's second largest video superstore chain with 1,800 stores in 47 states...

Articles 2001-10-02

New debt plan spurs hooray for Hollywood.(Brief Article)

Hollywood Entertainment, battered for the better part of a year, had reason to cheer last week. The company reached an agreement with its banks to reschedule payments on $255.5 million in outstanding debt, and its stock price shot up 24%. The new...

Articles 2001-06-11

Hollywood Entertainment Corp - defers loan debt - Brief Article

Hollywood Entertainment Corp. and its primary lenders agreed to defer for one month a $37.5 million debt payment originally due May 5. The second largest video rental chain in the nation is also negotiating a new credit facility that would reschedule future debt payments. The company has struggled financially since...

Articles 2001-06-04

Amphion Records, Inc. begins to appoint staff, sign artist deals and label deals!

M2 PRESSWIRE-5 April 2001-Amphion Records: Amphion Records, Inc. begins to appoint staff, sign artist deals and label deals! C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04042001 Amphion Records is a record company that is distributed by the largest independent distribution and fulfillment company...

Articles 2001-04-05

Oscar Predix - 2001 Academy Awards - Brief Article

Thanks to this year's Oscar Predix team: John Anderson of Newsday, David Ansen of Newsweek, Manohla Dargis of The L.A. Weekly and Harper's Bazaar, Dave Kehr of Citysearch.com, Todd McCarthy of Variety, Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer, Richard Schickel of Time, Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly, Anne Thompson...

Articles 2001-03-01

e-Reeling in the year.(Brief Article)

T was the year for dot.com shakeouts, and e-commerce sires did not escape the fallout, with consolidations, credit problems, stock drops and outright closures littering cyberspace with corpses--or their ghosts, anyway. One manifestation of the chaos was the fate of Reel.com, the...

Articles 2001-01-01

BigStar's future dims amid cash, stock woes; On-line video seller seeks investor or buyer; turmoil in top ranks.(Brief Article)

When archrival Reel.com laid off its staff in June, BigStar Entertainment Inc. CEO David Friedensohn couldn't help but gloat. ``It always helps when a competitor blows up,'' he said at the time. Now it appears that on-line video seller BigStar is set to provide...

Articles 2000-10-02