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MAY 14, 2019

Scanlon was most recently at Gartner, and also has served at Recourse Technologies, Vormetric and BigFix, along with IBM and Verizon. Quinnen was most recently Chief Technology Officer at LumenVox, and also served at Litel Instruments and Qubit Technology. Curtail is led by CEO Frank Huerta. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Los Angeles-based Laudville , a startup developing an online platform to help users share entertainment like movies, books, TV, and music with friends, has added Gene Chuang to its board of advisors, according to the firm. Chuang is currently Chief Technology Officer at Oversee.net,and also has served at such companies as Yahoo!

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JUNE 18, 2014

Los Angeles-based viral video entertainment network Jukin Media is continuing to build out its executive team, saying today that it has named Jerry Boonstra as its new Chief Technology Officer, and Theresa Tran as its new Head of Product. jukin media viral video youtube content hollywood videos executive frequency cnet'

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JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. The site aggregates content but doesn't own it or try to copy it.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investors Greycroft Partners and Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo have put their backing behind a new startup that helps podcasters fund their shows via their listeners. According to Glow Technologies , it has raised $2.3M Glow is based in Seattle. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Can artificial intelligence help Hollywood unlock more creativity from storytellers? Los Angeles-based RivetAI hopes it can, saying Thursday that it has launched to apply artificial intelligence technology to help assist storytellers in planning and producing content.

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APRIL 21, 2015

The company''s Chief Technology Officer is Dave Meyer (Free Credit Report, eNeighborhoods), and its Chief Product Officer is Jeanne Anderson (DogVacay). Campus Steps is aimed at high school students, helping them to choose college. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2014

We have a team of people and technology which scours the Internet, and looks for videos we like and think would be a perfect fit for our Youtube channels. We then acquire those videos directly from content owners. We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Global Fitness Media recently launched GoodFoodNearYou , an online site which helps consumers find healthy food choices at restaurants, and is in the midst of developing Fitplanet , focused on fitness and healthy living. Tags: fitness content global goodfoodnearyou internet executive media. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , which operates an in-home, computer and electronics help service, said Friday that it has signed a multi-year contract to host a radio show on KNX 1070. The firm said the show, Tech News, will feature expert advice and content about PCs, Macs, mobile devices, the Internet, and more. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2011

We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. Get get help (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ).

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. What special data, content, APIs, etc. Content access controls? Tracking URLs?

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MAY 17, 2011

So, I promised I would create this post to help point them in the right direction. It brings together events and content for Los Angeles. Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in. I will do my best to keep this up to date.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based Perfect Market, which is developing technology to help publishers monetize their archive content, said Monday that it has acquired technology from Mediariver, which can be used to match content and advertising to any web page. MediaRiver CTO Dr. Jay Budzik will become CTO at Perfect Market.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. What special data, content, APIs, etc. Content access controls? Tracking URLs?

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MAY 17, 2011

So, I promised I would create this post to help point them in the right direction. It brings together events and content for Los Angeles. Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in. I will do my best to keep this up to date.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. I joined about a year ago--a bunch of us did--and looked at where Sidebar was as it was gearing up for a full consumer launch of its personalized content portal. What is Sidebar all about?

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. We focused almost entirely last year on content. What is Tradesparq?

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MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network.

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JULY 1, 2010

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. But I knew that to be a good decision maker I needed first hand knowledge rather than just a summary from my CTO. But as a CEO you can’t rely solely on this information.

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? They all depend on EdgeCast to deliver content to their customers, anywhere they are, on any device. We've grown really fast.

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APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

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MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!,

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MARCH 27, 2015

Our CTO was the Senior Web Engineer at Yahoo Music, and helped launch many of its international platforms, and helped rebuild the original Yahoo Music and Messenger radio players. Our VP of Technology was at Boom Music, which Launch.com acquired and later became part of Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful.

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JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit.

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MAY 25, 2012

Scott Ferreira: MySocialCloud helps user manage their online life, through three tools. One, is the discovery of awesome content, two is a place to store and publicize that awesome content, and three is being able to save your usernames and passwords to literally any site on the web, and automatically log you into those sites.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

In a way it seems the model has been bring in professional management to help a company through a growth spurt while technical founders focus on becoming an industry leader in terms of innovation and then when the less experienced technical founder is ready they step back in the role. But we have to acknowledge that the industry has changed.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Cliff's feedback: Your idea of "Visible Networking" can help people take the "glad to meet you" networking to the next level -- "glad to know you" relationships. What are the objectives / goals: Learning Getting to know each other Helping each other with issues we face Referring business, people, etc.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. Icon Media Direct described how it helped TrueCar use TV ads plus digital to reach mainstream audiences and increase revenue. It's amazing how much LA tech has grown since we first started Silicon Beach Fest five years ago.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Our software sorts video content relative to its importance to you, based on your social graph and social impact.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The company was founded by Bong Koh, a former EIR at Prism VentureWorks and venture capitalist at Advanced Technology Ventures; he also co-founded ibeatyou. Obviously, Prism is a great example.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. A technology that will surely revolutionize how viewers interact with content and television in the very near future.

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MARCH 24, 2015

At this point most people know you can learn just about anything online, but MentorMob founders Vince Leung and Kris Chinosorn found weeding through free online instruction to find quality content cumbersome and tedious. Each Guide contains a series of playlists that cover beginner to advanced topical knowledge.

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JULY 7, 2010

Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Blackline / Therese Tucker - Tucker was CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and knows her customers--finance folks at enterprise firms--well. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Spindle founders led by Pat Kinsel as CEO, Alex Lambert as CTO and Simon Yun VP of Engineering say they are focused on enabling people discover interesting, relevant social content when and where it can help them the most. Make Social Content More Discoverable. He says, “Your feed menu will update automatically.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego. The Growth Accelerator Fund competition is for organizations that help startups grow, become commercially viable, and have an economic impact.

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