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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. My views are pretty well known. I hate Silicon Whatever. LA should be LA.”

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

socalTECH

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. There was a recent study which showed that adding a video makes it 53 times more likely that you'll have a Google first page search result.

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Interview with Peter Csathy, CREATV Media

SoCal Tech Calendar

Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation. You've worked on both sides, in both entertainment and traditional media, and technology. VR is now also a real, big, commercial business.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1 Loosing talent is a HUGE problem and the reason why Google will give big bonuses and cash to keep their teams in tact.

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

Tech Zulu Event

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Jared Golden – Pear, connecting local community groups to their sponsors. Ricky Johnson – PledgeCents , improving K-12 through community learning.

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Interview with Zach James and Rich Raddon, MOVIECLIPS.COM

socalTECH

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube. I ran the Los Angeles Film Festival for a decade.

Startup 190
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Biotech Roundup: ASCO, BIO, Drug Setbacks, Incubators & More

Xconomy

. —If Jim Greenwood railing like King Lear in the storm isn’t entertaining enough, two notorious biotech characters have once again inspired the imagination of creative types. First reported by Deadline Hollywood , Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to play Holmes.