[HN Gopher] Disney Invites Applications for 2022 Disney Accelera...
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Disney Invites Applications for 2022 Disney Accelerator Program
Author : frostmatthew
Score : 26 points
Date : 2022-04-22 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| programmarchy wrote:
| One company this worked out really well for was Sphero. Their
| robot toy had been on the market a couple years, and they joined
| the accelerator right before the new Star Wars movie came out
| with the BB-8, which was a match made in heaven. So if your
| product could benefit from licensing deals, then the Disney
| accelerator could be helpful for making those connections.
| alkjlk3rglg wrote:
| madrox wrote:
| As someone with some knowledge of the accelerator, I'd describe
| it as a preferred partner program. I'd only recommend it to
| series B or beyond. The kinds of mentorship you'll get won't be
| very relevant to a startup. You won't learn about building
| companies and you won't gain much of a professional network to
| raise or sell to, but you'll get meetings with any part of Disney
| you want to pitch to for a partnership. For the right company
| that can be huge, like Sphero building BB-8. I'm unfamiliar with
| their terms.
| protomyth wrote:
| I still cannot help but think they have a deep mistrust of
| software given their digital efforts other than Pixar. Letting EA
| do it versus continuing Lucas Arts doesn't seem to be isolated.
| madrox wrote:
| Disney has struggled to make software part of its DNA, but
| they've made great strides. As legacy companies go, they've
| done it better and faster than most.
|
| Gaming is a whole other thing. After Disney Infinity, they
| embarked on a policy of licensing IP instead of publishing or
| developing games. Games are a hits-driven business, and Disney
| Interactive wasn't profitable. Licensing and partnership is
| more consistent revenue.
| joemazerino wrote:
| Turn on dead comments if you want a good chuckle.
|
| I wasn't aware Epic games was a part of Disney's accelerator
| program. How does it compare to YCom?
| madrox wrote:
| They're very different. YC is for companies in the idea or pre-
| PMF stage and want help building a business. This is more for
| established companies that are looking for creative partnership
| opportunities. Epic was hardly a young company when they did
| it, and the outcome was mostly to sell UE to Disney in exchange
| for equity.
| DiabloD3 wrote:
| Man, the dead comments here are wild.
|
| Are there people who believe Disney is somehow pro-LGBT? They're
| a corporation: they're anti-LGBT and pro-money; the only time
| they seem to be pro-LGBT is when they think there is a monetary
| advantage to seem that way.
|
| The _only_ reason Disney is against the Florida "Don't Say Gay"
| bill is because this might cost them a fraction of a percent of
| their revenue. Note: they cut anything that can be misconstrued
| as gay-friendly content entirely for anti-LGBT foreign markets,
| such as China.
|
| Disney does _not_ care about you, or anyone else. They care about
| money. They are an entertainment company, and the largest one in
| the world, and they want to turn your money into their money as
| efficiently and quickly as possible; no matter if you are LGBT or
| not, your money is still green.
|
| They are not, however, pedophiles, nor do they support some sort
| of pedophile agenda. Anyone who claims to believe that doth
| protest too much.
| bfz wrote:
| > Are there people who believe Disney is somehow pro-LGBT?
| They're a corporation: they're anti-LGBT and pro-money; the
| only time they seem to be pro-LGBT is when they think there is
| a monetary advantage to seem that way.
|
| Worth watching the attached video:
| https://nypost.com/2022/03/30/disney-producer-cops-to-adding...
|
| Sure it's a corporation, but it's also made out of people.
| monocasa wrote:
| That article is making Raveneau out to be some exec, but
| really she's not an executive producer like they claim, and
| is basically just a director of four episodes of a direct to
| streaming series that hasn't even finished it's first season
| yet.
|
| A series that Disney also goes out of it's way not to play in
| markets that aren't already LGBT friendly.
| cloutchaser wrote:
| outside1234 wrote:
| Turn off Fox News dude. Just insane that people come here with
| comments like that.
| smallmouth wrote:
| I think his comment was completely rational; likely accurate
| even. What I do think is that it was insane that he posted it
| here.
| JaimeThompson wrote:
| The bill bans the discussions of sexuality, correct? If
| accurate, which I believe it is, then a teacher changed
| their name because they got married, say a man taking his
| wife's/husband's last name or a woman taking her
| husband's/wife's last name then telling their students
| something about their sexuality in the vast majority of
| cases would it not?
| literallyWTF wrote:
| Literally parroting /pol/ talking points that guy was
| alkjlk3rglg wrote:
| SQueeeeeL wrote:
| I'm assuming the original comment was about Disney having
| extremely liberal content?
| krapp wrote:
| No, it was implying that Disney's pro LGBT stance and
| opposition to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill was tantamount
| to support for pedophilia. This is part of the Republican
| Party's general strategy to gain support for anti-LGBT
| legislation by fabricating a moral panic about pedophile
| "groomers" with the Democratic Party and LGBT community, in
| particular where support for trans rights is concerned.
|
| https://www.salon.com/2022/04/11/the-goal-of-the-gops-
| qanon-...
|
| https://www.insider.com/grooming-pedophile-disney-
| baseless-b...
| version_five wrote:
| > This is part of the Republican Party's general strategy
| ...
|
| Why is it ok for the left to promote conspiracy theories
| about Republicans? You and the Qanon guy in the thread,
| there are throwing out baseless stuff that if it were
| from your opponents you would dismiss as conspiracy.
| Personally, I don't agree with (or really even understand
| the basis for) the "grooming" stuff I've seen on far
| right outlets, I think that's garbage. But I certainly
| don't believe there is some Republican conspiracy going
| on, it's just some low brow media outlets, and no doubt
| politicians, trying to get attention. It's not party
| doctrine, and its not some conspiracy
| krapp wrote:
| > it's just some low brow media outlets, and no doubt
| politicians, trying to get attention. It's not party
| doctrine, and its not some conspiracy
|
| No, it really isn't. The Republican Party has been
| captured by the far right and this sort of thing has
| become party doctrine. If you're not willing to trust the
| sources I've posted, you can find plenty of others, with
| plenty of corroborating quotes from Republicans. Or feel
| free to present evidence to the contrary.
| monocasa wrote:
| I'm not sure how you can separate politicians and party
| doctrine.
|
| Particularly when the press secretary for the governor
| who signed this bill is calling everyone who opposes the
| bill a grooomer: https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/stat
| us/14998907196910510...
| SQueeeeeL wrote:
| Oh, that would do it. Yeah, you can tell anyone who's
| into insulting Disney definitely gets their opinions from
| news media, it's pretty obvious they've become this weeks
| punching bag.
| ThunderSizzle wrote:
| Well, that's because talking about sex without parents
| consent to young kids in a secretive manner is grooming
| until 5 seconds ago.
| ineedasername wrote:
| I'm not sure why you are focusing on sex itself. It is
| not mentioned at all in the text of HB 1557.
|
| There is a difference between gender identity, sexual
| orientation, and actual sex acts. You seem to be
| referring to sex acts. I have yet to see an example of
| Florida school content for K-3 that actually discusses
| sex acts, much less in a way that could ever be
| interpreted as grooming.
|
| Does this bill prohibit using a book or story in a second
| grade class if it features a child with two fathers? It's
| unclear. If it does, wouldn't it also prohibit stories
| with a mother & father? They would equally broach the
| subject of sexual & gender identity.
| kadoban wrote:
| It's also about integrating the Qanon idiocy into the
| Republican agenda.
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