socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Hollywood-based Geni , which operates an online site for networking with family and tracking family trees, released a new feature Wednesday that allows its users to filter out cousins on the site. According to Geni, it has a new "hide" filter which will help users find cousins using the site that they haven't met yet.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

West Hollywood-based Geni said this week that the firm has improved the firm's site, which allows users to create family trees and network with family members. The service said that the new capability will help its users see how many matches there are, whether or not those are connected or not connected to a users. Geni's Web 2.0

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socalTECH

APRIL 9, 2009

West Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed, online family tree and networking site, said today that it has added a number of new features to its site, including the ability to search for similar profiles on the site, and improved access to popular features.

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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. Sara Bordo: My co-founder, Brad Sexton and I, both come from the Hollywood studio world. Everything on a page on our site is not only about engagement but transactions.

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2011

Google's online video sharing site YouTube , said today that it has inked a deal to add around 3,000 movie titles for rent through the site, as it looks to broaden its offerings from the amateur, web-based videos its is known for towards more traditional, professional content. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The bottom line is that Los Angeles Tech is trying to help find and navigate that content. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2012

Moviepilot's web site helps studios engage with the early fan base for movies, well before the theatrical release of those films. As part of the funding, Moviepilot is setting up an office in Los Angeles, and has moved its CEO, Tobi Bauckhage, to LA.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? MOviepilot is starting to bring its movie recommendations and discovery site to the U.S., We really help them understand what their audience is all about.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

One of them is online music events site Loudvine (www.loudvine.com), which was co-founded by Vic Caretti , who gave us the scoop on what the site is all about. I had requests from friends to put them on an email, or give them a calendar reminder when a band was playing, and one thing led to another, and I started the site.

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Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. But, by the time you go to all of those sites, you have dozens of tabs open. It''s a very fractured process.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

A gorgeous day to talk tech while enjoying some of Hollywood’s premiere theme park attractions. HTC BlinkFeed aggregates your content from a variety of media sources, serving up fresh content all in one place, without the need to jump between multiple applications and web sites. Why haven’t we seen more of this??

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. It is no wonder web content players with large audiences are all inking deals with them now.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. It's also a great way to build out your own YouTube channel, which we also help them do. Sam Rogoway.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( We are always looking for ways to help improve the experience here at TechZulu. Discover - Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. Are you interested? We can get your name out there.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. This is “Adsense for Twitter.”

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0 is a web in which data is linked to allow for more meaningful, actionable insight to be extracted. Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

This year, it being our third year in a row conducting on site interviews and live streaming, we definitely had to ensure this year’s lineup was up to snuff with the great ongoings of SXSW. Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Here are some sites from the trade show floor!

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2009

We're now waiting to help people learn that they can now do this, and use it to tell a better story. After I left Sprout, I worked with a dozen venture capital firms to help them grow their startups and figure out what to do with technology. I was introduced to Image Metrics a year before I joined, and was helping them along.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The startup--created by Robert Earl (Founder and CEO of Planet Hollywood), Grant Hosford (formerly of eHarmony), and Connell (formerly of Nokia)--is using the Internet to arrange group dates at local restaurants, to connect people in person and offline. We wanted to use the Internet to make things easy and help create initial connections.

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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. Is Assignmint national or a global web-system? Standardizing the paperwork is our goal to help free up everybody to work on what matters.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? Fascinating story.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Anne Walls and John Singleton are co-founders of WordHustler (www.wordhustler.com), a local Hollywood startup looking to help writers connect with publishers. Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click.

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Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. We're going out there, and harnessing that.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Once WalMart has helped you establish your brand, it will then be possible to sell premium products via other channels, such as boutique shops or even directly to consumers. This WalMart-to-specialty-store distribution strategy allows physical goods manufacturers to generate a healthy blended margin. However, to move beyond the average 16.5%

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We're able to help throw some gasoline on the fire, plus also help people even at the earliest stages of a business. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products. That's one area investors can usually help. That's part one.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? We have our own site, IBNSports.com, and we also work with partners schools to create a presence on the network. What is IBN Sports? The other obvious piece for us is distribution with television.

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Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses.

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Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006. You helped define video on the web with iFilm. We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency. What is Frequency?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

For those who haven't tried your service, tell us the story behind the site and how you started it? Why and how do people use your site? You can go to Mogreet.com or go to our wireless web site, at wap.mogreet.com , or use your cell phone on any number of carriers, such as AT&T, Verizon, etc.

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Mogreet Paramount Entertainment Mobile 133

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. We really want to help those artists earn a living. Personally, life is short, and I want to work with people who want my help, rather than the other way around.

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Media Yahoo Startup Tool 100

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44