“If I’m setting a company and have a question about a set piece or traffic (where an actor moves), I can have the answer in one tap instead of having to flip through page after page. It saves me time, energy, and it also just speeds up the rehearsal process.” – Rusty Mowery, Associate Choreographer of Kinky Boots.

“This lets me pull up the music and video I need for any moment in the show with just a tap or keyword.” – Christopher Gattelli, Tony Award-winning Choreographer of Newsies.

“It’s imaginative and empowers creative thinking – it’s the future.” – Stephen Daldry, Olivier and Tony Award-winning Director.

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*Pictured: Choreographer Rusty Mowery using ProductionPro on “Kinky Boots” on Broadway.

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Guess who’s joining the club?

ProductionPro is absolutely thrilled to announce our spot in this year’s Disney Accelerator! We are excited to be in such good company – this type of unprecedented access to the creativity and imagination of Disney will be instrumental in inspiring us to strengthen and further accelerate our business. More on the Accelerator:

The Disney Accelerator is designed to connect these Disney portfolio companies with the creativity, imagination, and expertise of The Walt Disney Company, providing them unprecedented access to Disney’s leadership team, mentorship, and support. The 2017 Disney Accelerator is helping shape the future at the intersection of entertainment and technology with some of today’s most innovative entrepreneurs who are creating new entertainment formats, developing new technologies and reimagining digital monetization and personalization.

“The Disney Accelerator has provided The Walt Disney Company incredible opportunities to connect with and be inspired by many talented entrepreneurs from all over the world,” said Michael Abrams, Senior Vice President, Innovation, The Walt Disney Company. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.”

Here’s what press are saying about the 2017 Disney Accelerator:

Disney Invests in 11 Tech and Media Companies for 2017 Accelerator Program – Variety

Samba TV, Brit + Co Among Disney Accelerator’s New Startup Class – The Hollywood Reporter

Disney Puts A New Spin on Its Accelerator – TechCrunch

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Have you ever watched a movie or television show, only to notice that a character’s hair looks slightly different or some background knickknacks seem to have been moved, despite no passage of time?

Worrying about those tiny details is a time-consuming process in Hollywood and one that has remained surprisingly old school, using yellow pads and big binders to keep track of a shoot. That is, until now.

ProductionPro, which was recently used on the second season of Netflix’s “The Crown,” along with Broadway shows including “Kinky Boots” and “Miss Saigon,” is an app that rolls up all of those old school processes into a simple iPad app.

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And it’s opportunity.

The best insights I’ve read or received or heard repeated regarding the creative process, boils down to this:

Some part of your idea is bound to fail…

…And that can be a fantastic thing.

When we fail, we’re given an opportunity. We’re called upon to make a move. Our chosen response typically falls into one of two categories: Pivot or pull the plug.

How do we know when a project is worth a pivot? How do we assess when it’s wisest to pull the plug? I generally find answers to these questions by returning to the purpose at the heart of the project. That’s the through line. Can I still envision this thing? Can I envision what it would be for people and/or for me? If our answer is yes, and the idea still seems good, then we’ve gotta do as Ira Glass says, and fight our way through. Why? Because that means it’s worth another shot. It’s worth, in Samuel Beckett’s words, a better fail.

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I say: HIIT it.

High-intensity interval training. In order to hack our 10,000 hours, we need to pack our minutes with dense, effective, measurable results tailored to our goals.

That explains why we’ve spent the past thirteen weeks shuttling from coast to coast. ProductionPro was selected for an elite spot in Jason Calacanis’s LAUNCH Incubator, which kicked our butt in the best way. Every week, we pitched (three-minutes max!) to a group of world-class investors and then fielded questions for four minutes. “Intense” barely begins to describe the experience of having 4 to 6 investor meetings in one seven-minute session. The hours spent at the Incubator were among the highest quality of my life. Early on, I learned that I was a solid presenter but that my ability to field questions from an audience of investors needed serious strength training. The problem wasn’t that I didn’t have answers; the problem was that my answers were couched in terms of show biz rather than tech biz. These weeks at the Incubator challenged our entire team to experiment, iterate, and recalibrate on overdrive.

Jason’s passion for startups and founders is relentless. He watched ProductionPro pitch a dozen times and knew our story backwards and forwards. The man is an idea machine. So many ideas streamed out of him in so little time. He’s unbelievably fast and smart and agile, and there is no question that an hour with him is worth ten (thousand) more in the bank.

Twelve weeks at the Incubator is a sprint in the ultra-marathon that is launching a tech startup. That’s where community comes in. Because of the Incubator, ProductionPro is now part of an elite and growing group who share advice, horror stories, updates, and investor flow. In a sense, we pool our 10,000 hours and become jedis so we can make quicker, better decisions at every turn. We keep extending our funds, jam-packing our minutes, and gritting our way forward because, hey—we’re out to change the world.

– Alex, Founder & CEO of ProductionPro

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Find out more about why Founder Alex Libby started ProductionPro, and why we made the move from Midtown Manhattan to DUMBO, Brooklyn.

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