socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. we're proud to be part of one of the world's most vibrant innovation ecosystems with some of the fastest growing companies and most creative entrepreneurs.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. Tell me a bit about your background.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Big crowd of entrepreneurs, professors, students, and established professionals. All in a room at the University of Southern California Silicon Beach Event on September 18th, 2013. I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. Filled with innovation.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. It was a portal, and partnered with ISPs so that those ISPs could generate ad revenue, and create stick entertainment for customers. So how did you end up back in Southern California?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so. Entrepreneurs in LA spend a lot of time commuting up to the Valley. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. By multiple ways, I mean free content, subscription content, and enterprise content, content that is packaged in video channels, and VOD viewing and so forth. Thats what uCast is all about.

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Tech.Co

JULY 18, 2016

Whether it be renowned athletes looking to enjoy some sun in the off-season or movies stars basking in the glory of stardom in between takes, the number of recognizable faces in this southern California city can be too much for some fans to bear. studio and platform for badass female entertainment, its creators and fans.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. It's called Flyte Bike and it was created by an entrepreneur that works out of HUB101 with me named Robin Palmer. Today's contribution is from Alon Goren , the co-founder of Crowd Invest Summit and 805 Startups.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2012

Sam Altman: PartyEarth is a global media and entertainment company. Sam Altman: I was not born and bred in Southern California. It was from a group of angel investors, and the funding is really to both support the continued build out of our content platform, but also to really expand our digital platform.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. I also grew up in Southern California, where I also went to business school.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. I also grew up in Southern California, where I also went to business school.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM).

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. We also did a company in Northern California, Weoutta, which is a consumer app for making future plans, which is built on top of a pretty robust data platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Tons of great conversations about new startups, hardware, and the entrepreneurs building them. So consider this something of a recap, photo essay, and a personal thank you to all the great people who worked alongside us at SXSW this year. Founders, Entrepreneurs, and Celebrities, Oh My! Hustle hard, ride in comfort.

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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. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Peter Csathy: I'm an entrepreneur, a builder of companies. You've worked on both sides, in both entertainment and traditional media, and technology. Twitter started as a mini blogging platform, but now it also wants to become more of a media company. How did you decide to start the firm?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. Rather, we will provide a platform for them to get interim office space and sophisticated legal services, and to ultimately grow their ideas from business concept to funded startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

CapLinked lets entrepreneurs focus on what they do best, while making sure their investors always stay in the loop. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. The Startups. The Sponsors.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Brad Brooks: The biggest news from TigerText this year is that we're evolving from what was a pure secure messaging product to a comprehensive clinical communications platform.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Over the last year or so we''ve created Watsup, the easiest way to figure out what is happening around you, at any time. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. Because of that, you get to meet slots of people in the community, because there's such a prolific number of entrepreneurs.

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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. We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. The firm is based in Los Angeles and Seattle.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

We're excited to have them involved, because they've typically invested in companies around our stage in the media space, so they bring some unique set of relationships and domain expertise. We've also got Black Diamon, a local SoCAl fund, which is also leading the round. To use Mogreet as a video distribution platform is a no-brainer.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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