Michael Kaplan

1 appearance on the record.

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Prediction Held up
Kaplan: Digital asset management market will reach $7.5B by 2024
“Right now that 20 15 dam market was around 1.4 billion. It's expected to grow up to about seven and a half billion by 2024.”
Michael Kaplan Mar 15, 2017 ▶ 7:59 EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kaplan: US organizations hold 100M+ hours of analog media worth $20B+
“Between corporations and associations and government agencies, there is now over one hundred million hours of archived analog media. And by conservative estimates, that quantity of media has been valued at over twenty billion dollars.”
Michael Kaplan Mar 15, 2017 ▶ 4:24 EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan
Opinion
Kaplan: Traditional DAM software pushes all annotation burden onto clients
“And here's the problem with the DAM software, is that that puts all of the effort, all of the heavy lifting falls on the shoulders of the client.”
Michael Kaplan Mar 15, 2017 ▶ 11:13 EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Kaplan: Taivaco indexes visual actions to enable Google-like video search
“We'll actually make it look like, almost like you're using Google. You'll be able to type in key search words like man walking dog. It will take you exactly to that point in the video.”
Michael Kaplan Mar 15, 2017 ▶ 12:33 EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan
Disclosure
Kaplan: Taivaco has generated under $10K in revenue to date
“We've done under 10 grand right now in revenue.”
Michael Kaplan Mar 15, 2017 ▶ 6:49 EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan
Disclosure
Michael Kaplan personally self-funded Taivaco with around $20,000
“I put in around 20 K of my own.”
Michael Kaplan Mar 15, 2017 ▶ 7:20 EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan
Disclosure
Kaplan: Taivaco raised under $50K from its first investor
“And then we just closed on our first, it's a very small amount. It's under 50 K with our first investor.”
Michael Kaplan Mar 15, 2017 ▶ 7:24 EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan
Disclosure
Taivaco plans to raise a $2 million funding round mid-2017
“But really long-term plan is to do another round probably mid 17 for around two million.”
Michael Kaplan Mar 15, 2017 ▶ 7:41 EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan
Prediction Held up
Kaplan: Digital asset management market will reach $7.5B by 2024
“Right now that 20 15 dam market was around 1.4 billion. It's expected to grow up to about seven and a half billion by 2024.”
Michael Kaplan Mar 15, 2017 ▶ 7:59 EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan
Disclosure
Taivaco outsources most media digitization at near-zero net margin
“We'll do it at a very minimal cost. Some of it we do in house. Most of it we work with outside vendors. So it's a very minimal net for us.”
Michael Kaplan Mar 15, 2017 ▶ 11:01 EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K Raised, CEO Michael Kaplan

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EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 599: Taivaco Helps Brands FInd Old Offline Content to Digitize and Annotate With $50K R Mar 15, 2017 11m
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