When Nations Bank, now a unit of Bank of America bac, bought San Francisco-based Montgomery Securities last year, it thought that it was buying a powerful technology-oriented brokerage chock full of well known industry analysts and investment bankers.
"iContainers is a good example of disruption in a known industry that has not yet been digitalized and where the internet will be very helpful," said Anne-Valerie Bach, Partner at the fund.
Two recent examples: James Whittaker – a known industry disruptor and incredible speaker joins us from Bing where he has been leading the development team making Bing knowledge available programmatically – many people may know him from his viral blog post on why he left Google for Microsoft.
Why did it extend the reach of such a bigoted, off-base article written by a known industry mouthpiece?
I tried to figure out how this happened concretely and picked two examples from the TheStreet.com, a well known industry watcher and participant.
By documenting celebrities, well known industry leaders and niche audiences who interact with independent films on social media, filmmakers can now provide social proof that may in turn persuade investors to increase funding on subsequent projects.
