Strategic Partnerships & Business Development Tactics
May 1
Strategic Partnerships & Business Development Tactics
Join us as Stuart Halperin, founder of Hollywood Online (now Hollywood.com), discusses tactics for business development and stratetic partnership creation when building your early stage startup company.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
12:00 -1:30 PM
**Lunch Provided!**
Featuring
Stuart Halperin - President & Strategic Consultant, Halperin Marketing & Digital Innovation
An entrepreneur, marketing executive, and Internet/online pioneer, Stuart has an array of experience in the entertainment and digital media industries. Career highlights include co-founding the leading entertainment Web site Hollywood.com (originally Hollywood Online) and building the MovieTickets.com brand as its first head of marketing and exhibitor relations. In addition to his consulting work with HMDI, Stuart is an in-demand interim chief marketing officer and advises start-ups.
Stuart launched Hollywood Online (now Hollywood.com) with a partner in 1993, using limited seed financing, and operated the business from cash flow for the first two years. The company initiated and promoted the widespread use of interactive multimedia online as a marketing tool for entertainment companies; please see photos of online "chats" with James Cameron, Sydney Pollack, Herbie Hancock and Stephen J. Cannell. Hollywood Online won a CLIO Award for its "Forrest Gump" interactive marketing campaign. Stuart played a critical role in building Hollywood.com, one of the first Internet entertainment portals.
One of Stuart’s recent entrepreneurial ventures was Ultimate Movie Site, a one-stop destination for movie fans. Prior to this, Stuart was the head of marketing at ClickStar (an innovative entertainment download service) and MovieTickets.com. Stuart began his career working in marketing roles for Universal Pictures and New Line Cinema, and was a newswriter for CNN. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BFA from the NYU Film School. Stuart lives in Southern California with his wife and son.
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1453 3rd Street Promenade, Suite 300
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Parking
4th Street/Broadway ramp or in the Santa Monica Place Mall
We hope to see you there!
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