SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I’m currently working with several startups, helping them launch new web businesses. Likely any successful web entrepreneur has more ideas than time. What are you working on now?

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. See more insights from the Southern California high tech community in our continued series this whole week! What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. They include: Sponsors. Technology.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. They include: Sponsors. Technology.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 16, 2018

Google Cloud’s new region in Los Angeles is now online, the company announced today. When it first announced this new region, Google positioned it as the ideal region for the entertainment industry. AWS doesn’t currently have a presence in the area, though, unlike Google, AWS does offer a region in Northern California.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. They include: Sponsors. Technology.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Angel Launch produces events connecting entrepeneurs and investors in Los Angeles and San Francisco area. Friday, December 21, 2012 -- AngelLaunch Holiday Party. link] (more)

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

Are you a content creator for the web? Los Angeles-based Epoxy (www.epoxy.tv) launched yesterday to help content creators do just that. I then went back to Stanford for business school, and ended up coming down here to Southern California to run a design studio for an Ideo competitor, Continuum.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. NowLive is trying to do just that, leveraging both technology and the entertainment world to build its business. We also are dong the Twilight premiere from LA.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Interesting in reaching Southern California's high tech industry? Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Email us at info@socaltech.com. Technology.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. I moved to Southern California in 1992, when Microsoft transferred me to here.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The firm's technology--which creates a 3D, virtual avatar from digital photos--was originally developed at the University of Southern California for the CIA, and was spun out into a venture funded company targeting the consumer market. That was an interest in the ecosystem level.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

I'd also been a television producer on many sports and entertainment shows, including NBC and Fox Sports. I recently opened up a company, Champion Media, providing entertainment branding, marketing, and public relations for Gen Y brands. So, we do share resources, but we operate as two different companies and staffs.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. Kieve Huffman: My background, and that of my business partner is digital entertainment and digital media.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? That's the story we got from Tobi Bauckhage , the co-founder and CEO of Moviepilot (www.moviepilot.com), a German firm which is setting up shop in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. Mike Jones is an Internet executive, investor and advisor located in Los Angeles. Event Details.

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JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Representing Southern California industries ranging from movies, TV, web, music, social media, video games, and more, Digital LA’s reach includes more than 40,000 people. Atom Factory is a pioneer in the artist management field.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. The firm is based in Los Angeles and Seattle. About one quarter of all of the searches on Google are for entertainment related content, and studios are not playing into that at all.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

In addition to acting, Denise, a member of the Florida and New York bars, does pro bono mediation in California. Gagnier [ [link] ] are forward-thinking Los Angeles-based intellectual property attorneys and online journalists. She has specialized in entertainment and Internet law since 1998. Radio, and at Fashion Camp LA , Gov.20

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

One of the fastest growing startups in Southern California in recent years was Hautelook, which went from just an ideas to a huge, $270M acquisition by Nordstrom only X years later. I've been engaged in about thirty startups, anywhere from in incubators, being an angel investor, to leading the charge. That's not going away.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This is stuff I tell people verbally at least twice / month so I’m glad to finally get it into written format. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. LA should be LA.”

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I asked the panelists ( David Travers , Brian Norgard , Fouad ElNaggar , & Demian Sellfors ) about the specific challenges that we face down here in Los Angeles as opposed to Silicon Valley. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Time will tell.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. We worked with an enterprise web analytics application that was very, very expensive and very, very complicated. Tell us how you got the name?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

This morning, Los Angeles-based Mogreet (www.mogreet.com) announced it had raised a Series B funding round for the firm's mobile greeting services. You can go to Mogreet.com or go to our wireless web site, at wap.mogreet.com , or use your cell phone on any number of carriers, such as AT&T, Verizon, etc. But, there are two things.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel. Adrenaline Fueled Angel. Stewart Roberts , President of Orange County of Tech Coast Angels. Be sure to tune in at 5:30pm PT. Mark Suster , GRP Partners.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. For those who ever said there is no startup community in Los Angeles I most certainly beg to differ. VC/Angel Panel. Adrenaline Fueled Angel. Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka. Mark Suster , GRP Partners.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. the entertainment industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

It’d been a big year in tech, and the different supporting parts of team TZ – so what better way to kick off the festivities with an inaugural train-bound journey, courtesy of the good people at Amtrak. Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Hustle hard, ride in comfort.

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