socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. Now, we're investing in our own team, firm, and platform so we can further support those founders.

Riot Games 133

Riot Games Southern California Startup Santa Monica 133

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). and Petri was co-founder and head of creative at Remedy Entertainment that launched the hit PC games Max Payne and Alan Wake.

Funding 373

Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 373

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

Tech.Co

MAY 21, 2016

About a year ago we introduced you to VNTANA , an Los Angeles, CA-based startup that wanted to leverage hologram technology to help celebrities and brands use holograms to entertain and engage their followers and fans. Aside from the social media integration, the systems also collect data. User-generated content has become so powerful.

Social Media 84

Social Media Email Media Entertainment 84

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. Scott Grimes: Ultimately, we are a text messaging platform build on top of Twilio. What we do, is we take them from social media into a one-to-one relationship, via text, directly to their phone.

Content 124

Content Social Media Startup Artificial Inteligence 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media. Journalist.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. In a mobile world, what's a unique way to reach out to your friends and others?

Social Network 246

Social Network Mobile Media Examples 246

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara.

Newsletter 233

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. One of our teachers was teaching new media and it was really inspiring. TechZulu: So where did WESAWIT originate from?

Social Media 94

Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. Social Media has been traditionally seen as branding medium, but that seems to be shifting this year.

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007.

Custom 226

Custom Customer Entrepreneur Advertising 226

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

So here are the top 8 tips from 2 successful brands on what we can do to create engaging content and market our brands using YouTube as our platform. That as a business it is impossible to build your brand without an adwords strategy or partnering into a YouTubers existing audience or an having a robust email list.

Dollar Shave Club 106

Dollar Shave Club Tips Marketing Sales 106

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

On your birthday, something special happens on social media: you receive hundreds of likes and well wishes from friends, family, high school classmates and people you haven’t talked to for years on Facebook. It reinforces the company’s culture of being a platform for giving and celebration,” said Hagger.

Startup 126

Startup Venice Social Network Tool 126

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. There are multiple platforms used to get the job done.

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Eric Frankel: StarGreetz is a digital media content company, that allows brands to stand out in a very cluttered marketplace. Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon. It can literally deliver thousands and thousands of messages, tens of thousands per minute, to every form of platform.

Entertainment 159

Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007.

Custom 133

Custom Customer Entrepreneur Advertising 133

InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

For instance, a senior executive from a major media agency, who did not attend the show, was prompted by a bearded-booth-babe tweet to contact the company’s VP of Sales. A barometer of whether your guerilla marketing properly communicates your corporate messaging is how it is covered by the media. Don’t Try Too Hard. Share and Enjoy.

Marketing 209

Marketing Conference RSS Angel 209

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Unlike working with an agency, which involves lots of emails and phone calls, they just come to our website, sign up, and submit some information on their brand, how they want us to create content, as well as some brand guidelines. We put all of that into our system, and distribute it among our network through our logistics platform.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

The best form of this right now is email, and even then, that's through a one-size-fits-all email. While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. After IAC, I started my own company, MerchEngines, which was a search marketing platform for local businesses.

Southern California 245

Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. Keynote: Jordan Rohan, Managing Director of Equity Research, Internet and Digital Media, Thomas Weisel Partners 9:30am: Keynote Panel: The State of Mobile: The Economics Of Critical Mass? Krishna Subramanian, Co-Founder, Mobclix.

Mobile 40

Mobile Media Case Study Advertising 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. In plain English, they’ve redesigned the site so that it is more interactive from a social media perspective and not just for viewers but for their content producers and advertising partners.

Web 65

Web Netflix Social Media Product 65

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Marc Mitchell: I grew up here in Los Angeles, and I have always been involved in media and entertainment, After Los Angeles, I went to Stanford during the first tech boom. We did that through email, and eventually mobile. What platforms are you on? It's because so many games use that platform.

Mobile 100

Mobile Culver City Startup Examples 100

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. There is a really genuine and real opportunity in the intersection of media and entertainment technology here in Los Angeles, and people are focused here on that for a legitimate reason.

Invest 159

Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

He is a marketing professional with over 8 years of extensive online and social media marketing experience. We focus on developing strong distribution channels through social media, search, blog outreach and email programs to accelerate the discovery, sharing and engagement with Funny Or Die content.

Sites 61

Sites Marketing Social Media Social Network 61

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD., The Sponsors.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. mt) Media Temple, Inc. To inspire and facilitate personal and cultural growth.

Tsavo 76

Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

You’ll want to have what’s called a ‘ soft launch ‘ and a ‘ hard launch ‘ What this means is, in a soft launch tell specific people, (your friends and family), you’ll be launching a campaign for this amazing project — email your close network the date when the campaign will be going live. Add Photos/Video.

Startup 109

Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. For all those who want to talk about the fragmentation of media and the models for journalism is in trouble; it’s actually not. Digital media?

Journal 90

Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. .

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. We believe there are awesome entrepreneurs everywhere, not just in the places constantly covered by the media. Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78