Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. tech community and to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing us in the coming years. . See you there!

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen.

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Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 373

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

Our interview this morning is with Alex Nocifera of Los Angeles-based Field Day. If they are trying to acquire audiences and attention, for example, on the Westwide of Los Angeles or West Village, New York, we go after very acute areas and try to drive more grass root efforts, but doing it in a programmatic fashion.

Marketing 113

Marketing Los Angeles Zag Startup 113

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Los Angeles-based deal site Slickdeals (www.slickdeals.com), an online deal site, has nine million, highly loyal users and a daily updated list of great, user-generated, deal listings. Those might be on household items like laundry detergent, or it might be gadgets like tablets or a large screen television. READ MORE>>.

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Content Yahoo Los Angeles Sites 212

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Venture and angel investing has long been considered a man''s world--with domination of the industry, executives, financiers, and others by men, with only a few exceptions. The Pipeline Fellowship--founded by Natalia Oberti Noguera--says it has been running angel investing bootcamps for women, looking to active more female angel investors.

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Angel Invest Mentor Technical Review 276

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We Many of us had experiences of asking entrepreneurs, “Why are none of our candidates women?” Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion. Well, did you ask them to???”

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Venture Capital Coach Ideas Startup 284

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

“The Disney Accelerator has provided The Walt Disney Company incredible opportunities to connect with and be inspired by many talented entrepreneurs from all over the world,” said Michael Abrams, Senior Vice President, Innovation, The Walt Disney Company. Read more about startups in the Los Angeles area at TechCo.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2016

Our interview with a startup entrepreneur this morning is with Avantika Shahi , the founder and CEO of Haus (www.grademyhaus.com), a new Los Angeles startup hoping to create a new way for people to search for homes. The early stage, self funded startup recently launched its beta in Los Angeles.

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Startup Sites Los Angeles Platform 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Enter Joymode (www.joymode.com), a new, Los Angeles startup, led by serial entrepreneur Joe Fernandez , which is entirely focused on enabling those wonderful, memory creating experiences�without having to own any of that stuff. Have you though beyond Los Angeles and how you scale this further? It's critical.

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Startup Press Los Angeles Entrepreneur 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

Los Angeles is the only place in the US with a collegiate hackathon, an event where programmers spend hours together programming and building, of that scale and the LA Hacks team from UCLA made sure it was awesome. It is now up to Los Angeles to continue to encourage technology and innovation. LA Hacks has set the bar.

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UCLA Los Angeles Snapchat USC 108

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!” You don’t get it.

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Venture Capital Examples Screening Help 256

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

We started offering this in Los Angeles, and have since expanded to Orange County and San Diego. If you just bought a big screen television from Best Buy, it's like you're not going to be buying a new home soon. Where is the company now in terms of the service? Jack Ryan: We've now been doing this for three years.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Woodland Hills Orange County Startup 113

Tech.Co

AUGUST 22, 2016

From tech and hardware, to entrepreneurs improving the accessibility of health information, each month dozens of new startups try to breakout and create an impact in their industry. myLAB Box From Los Angeles California. myLAB Box was born to put decades of marketing expertise to work transforming preventative STD screenings.”

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Social Media Los Angeles Startup Screening 70

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

One of the most common questions I hear from first-time entrepreneurs is, “How do I meet angels?” Think about it – who knows angels the best? Todd Gitlin is one of the best executive recruiters the technology & startup market in Los Angeles. It feels much better to be a giver than a receiver.

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Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

YouTuber Caspar Lee, the co-founder of a startup called Influencer, attends the UK Gala Screening of “Wonder Park” in London, England (Photo by David M. While angel investors like Rebecca Minkoff might be savvy to the business proposition of influencers, many investors have remained skeptical. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage).

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). We are in Los Angeles and San Diego, and I go between the two cities. We've noticed many international entrepreneurs locating here recently, like yourself. What happened there?

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Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

One new, Los Angeles startup-- Laudville (www.laudville.com)--recently launched its service to try to tackle that huge task, of bringing your content together. When we first alpha tested this, we just had watchable entertainment, movies and TV, many of them popping up in second screen apps. Is it a challenge to cover so much?

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Troy represents what I believe the best magic of Los Angeles is – the merging together of creative talent with technical talent and he brings the lessons learned from these two fields into investments nationally. ” Lady Gaga played 4-5 clubs a night in Los Angeles and New York when she was a relatively undiscovered talent.

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Mentor Venture Capital Marketing Product 150

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based HipSwap is trying to break the mold of online marketplaces, with its highly visual, mobile and online marketplace for fashion and other items. There's a screen that we throw a product at you, an image of that product, which lets you "hip it" -- similar to a favorite or like -- or "skip it". READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Los Angeles Web Southern California 157

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. I and my business partner moved to Los Angeles, less than two years ago. It's always in your face, and always on screen.

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Oracle Sales Startup Screening 145

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content.

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Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

Campbell was new to Los Angeles, freshly inspired from a TED conference, and after attending a smattering of Barcamps and Westside Meetups he was ready to produce his own event that was a mixture of all. In 2006, Douglas Campbell started Mindshare LA out of the downtown art colony The Brewery.

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Santa Monica BarCamp Startup UCLA 92

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

TechZulu recently sat down with east coast transplant Olenka Polak to talk about startup life in Los Angeles. OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen.

Startup 91

Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. The Entrepreneur Association is the largest student association at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. If you’d like to present, APPLY HERE. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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UCLA Southern California Santa Monica Pricing 104

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Los Angeles-based Gumiyo (www.gumiyo.com) has been developing mobile websites for SMBs and publishers for a number of years, and recently started to offer up self-service tools to make it easy for those customers to create cross-device mobile websites. They are worried about now getting that data on the screen.

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Mobile Marketing Customer Custom 219

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you happen to be in Los Angeles during the coming weekend and not be able to make it BlogWorld Startup Weekend will be happening over at Coloft and to register click here. Also, the new iPad rumored for release in first quarter of 2011 to sport a 7-inch screen and a micro or mini USB port. TZ Highlight.

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Technical Review News Tips Screening 65

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In Spring of 2012, a former colleague at Goldman Sachs suggested she connect with David Zhu, an entrepreneur with an eccentric but compelling background (professional poker player, dropped out of MIT). ” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. We started small, but wanted more innovation. All inclusive.

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Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 106

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder).

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Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. Once that a product has made that initial screen, we look further, to make sure it's also cost effective and easy to live with. Jody Sherman: I've been an entrepreneur since I got out of the military.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

The daughter of a Chinese immigrant, Wang grew up on the streets of Los Angeles selling slippers and lighters with her mom. Not quite satisfied with the lack of human connection in life behind a computer screen, Wang worked her way into Dealmoon leadership after a fateful meeting with her future business partners at a soccer match.

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Technical Review Social Media Startup Screening 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

One way is through Insteegram (www.insteegram.com) , a service recently launched by Los Angeles-based Rnddr Labs, which allows users to buy their own Instagram images printed onto a high quality T-shirt. Edward Park: My background is screen printing and production. What's your background and how did you get into this?

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Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data. Or maybe a goldmine. He is looking to find more.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

The founders, who are part of the Los Angeles StartEngine accelerator, talked to us about what they're doing. You need to be able to make landing pages that work on every single type of layout, every screen and tablet size, and so on, and we think we've done a great job with that. What exactly is PageWoo?

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Mobile Startup Advertising Sites 249

InfoChachkie

JUNE 10, 2013

I''ve got to move to Los Angeles, because that''s where I''ll be able to make it.''". Meridian is proof that the skills Joe honed as a YouTuber translate aptly to the big screen. And you have your screening, and you know afterwards everyone comes down. I kept trying and trying and trying, working in Boston.

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Startup Screening Ideas RSS 168