socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. The firm's products are an example of what applying technology, and smartphones and tablets, can do for music education.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A specific example of a platform failure in this space, Neighborrow , enabled sharing of relatively low-value items (like power tools, bikes, and kitchenware), where the money saved was often offset by the inconvenience of pickup and delivery. Don’t expect to rely totally on social media, word of mouth, or a personal web site.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, etc. Part of the reason is that when I look at the CTOs, we see that the industries (games, entertainment, aerospace, retail, etc.), or focused on industry or type of company.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. You can go to your particular interests, pick your favorite brands and entertainers, and favorite them. How did the company start? We all have likes and interests.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2011

Those brands included the Green Bay Packers, World Wresting Entertainment, and so on. Those brands created reward portals around Internet search, so, for example, you might go to the New York Giants site, search through their branded portal, and you would earn points, which they could redeem for swag from the team.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

We've had event companies, and clubs, and web businesses, all vertically focused on either passions or really exciting subjects like knowledge management, sales, field force automation, and home office computing, small business, bedtime reading. On the fun side, we have different show in the entertainment world. That is amazing.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

For example, Warner Bros. This freedom comes from the option to simply wait until we can find a new box office movie streamed somewhere on the web or available for download from pirate sites. Read more about Movies & Entertainment here on Tech.co. Hollywood studios are jumping on the trend of the VOD market.

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Hollywood Demand Marketing Netflix 93

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. Elearning is an example.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

TechZulu is proud to team up with Digital LA and accelerators Amplify, StartEngine, Launchpad, local companies BetterWorks, PromoJam, start-ups and co-working spaces, all working together to create the first-ever Silicon Beach Fest to celebrate startups, tech, and entertainment! Content : Web / viral videos TBA. CoWorks : TBA.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

You can literally see through the eyes of your fans by tracking engagement through analytics and helps create fan interact by creating a contest for example. MR: We always had a web presence. Whatever you see on the app, you can see on the web. The web isn’t dead and the mobile app is still growing.

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Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. It's now a one-stop shop for surfer's entertainment, plus a utility portal. First off, tell us about your network of sites?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. Perhaps one of the reasons it took 20 years for the commercial web to monetize images is because matching images with content is a very difficult. Take the Oscars for example, users will be searching for information on the Oscars before and after the main event.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 13, 2011

Early adoption is being championed by a lot of the people that have been the earliest users of ShareSquare – specifically the music & entertainment verticals, for a number of reasons. For example, you might walk down the street and scan a QR code off a Coca-Cola poster, play a little game, and win a free coke.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. For example? Web analytics, pretty clear. He continues with an example where they’d spent a lot of effort on implementing tracking on every portion of a product. Machinima’s example?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ An example of a great serialist was Charles Dickens in which Oliver Twist & Nicholas Nickleby and others were written and distributed serially. It’s entertainment. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. Think creatively.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2009

We sat down and spoke with Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried , co-founders of the firm, about what the firm is up to now, their view on how to mesh entertainment and the Internet, and how to go beyond creating a viral hit. Miles Beckett: Our company EQAL is a social entertainment company, which means two things.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

In 2007, we tried to launch it for the iPhone web, and the platform still couldn't handle it. It had originally been a web-based, flash game, so we created a fascimile in 2010 with a list of loyal users. In the entire history of that entertainment system, there were only 785 cartridges released for the US and the Americas.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. This is my third company. You also have a background as a scientist at JPL? It's actually based on Amazon's cloud.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. It's a great example of a made-in-LA thing. It's the idea of bringing a modern web experience to this. Those feel like you're running 2.0.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

For example, let’s say someone has always wanted to be a rockstar, but they are a dentist. Make your campaign live on that date, (for example, Sunday May 9th). Here’s an example; 11. For example, ‘for every contribution I will give X to XYZ organization’. Add Photos/Video. Can be video or photo or both.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

The network produces its own videos in-house, featuring a notable network of expert yogis, chefs, trainers and fitness instructors, and also curates a selection of the best videos from around the Web. Grokker category managers also actively curate a selection of the best videos on each topic available from other Web sources.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2013

We have negotiated pricing for preventative, restorative, emergency, and even cosmetic dentistry, and it''s easy to use through either our web or mobile service. You often hear complaints that Los Angeles companies are too much about e-commerce and entertainment. What''s also very important about what we''re doing, is it''s not that.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 2, 2010

less than a minute ago via web Funny Or Die funnyordie. . Expanding their production service offerings to advertising clients, Funny or Die is building branded entertainment campaigns. The redesign also gives advertisers a larger presence on the homepage and more in-video opportunities across the site. What do you think?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

When you go on Reddit for videos on your iPad for example, there is not a great way to do it besides the website. Looking towards at the end of this year or early next year for our first outside seed round and plan out to build an Android and web version and do marketing and sales. Thank you Arthur for your time.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As a footnote, the Innovate Pasadena logo is IP--there''s some symbolism around IP, intellectual property, and internet protocol, because we''re more science oriented than the Westside, which is more entertainment content and consumer oriented. For example, JPL and Idealab have literally spun out around 300 companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell. Founded in 2007.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

For example, some people have special destination experience, perhaps Peace Corps that they can parlay into a meaningful and unique travel experience. Over the years, as our reputation grew, we got more repeat business and corresponding word of mouth (then) everything changed, especially with the web. .

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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. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. Details coming soon!)

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2008

A quick example is a retail experience, where you might pick up a box at the store, and go up in front of a "magic mirror" where you can see yourself holding the box--but also see a 3D object popping up out of that box in real time. The second one is in the entertainment market. How did the company come about?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

This first video they did became viral and the CMO, Jeffrey Harmon , paved the way to create an entertaining brand web series called Diary of a Dirty Tongue. Examples; lines in the script like “It’s like Santa for your vagina”, a dancing bear and a ranting bad breath doctor. They all have a script with thoughtful lines.

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Dollar Shave Club Customer Custom Marketing 101

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. The first rule of choosing a brand for anything is to figure out the image you want to project.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a dose of adventure, and make it work to your advantage. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

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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

MAY 21, 2009

Vicon became the largest motion capture hardware and software company and our primary markets there were entertainment, computer games, film, and also life sciences and engineering. Some might only want children, for example. For example, you can customize your breast, and someone like Disney doesn't want that.

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Tool Platform Venture Capital Startup 113

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

For example, the most popular people born in Texas, the most popular people who are Geminis, the most popular people for each profession--like the most popular comedian or most popular country singer. I love the web and love Internet marketing. It''s much easier to monetize, than it is to drive traffic on the web and start a web site.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Jerome Chang: We have quite a variety of residents here, ranging from a lawyer, to real estate investors, to technology startups, to people in the entertainment industry, such as production firms, script writers, and filmmakers. We have Sometrics, which is kind of a search technology for Web 2.0, They came here, and it worked.

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