TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? Another unabashed proponent of fan fiction is N.K.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. As the co-founder of the Underground Comedy College, for the past 3 years he teaches classes in stand-up, improv and sketch comedy writing to aspiring creative performers.

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JUNE 27, 2013

It''s good news for us, but it''s also good news for Los Angeles technology. As you probably know, two thirds of our investments go into Los Angeles. Unlike other funds, we don''t have multiple offices across the country, we''re just here in Los Angeles. Having a major fund in town makes a major difference.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company has already launched a beta version of its streaming service, Ficto , and yesterday announced a host of new shows that will appear on the app later this year. Michael Scott is simultaneously writing a pilot for linear television. Feist novels have sold over 20 million copies.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 13, 2018

Over a series of Instagram stories from the weekend, Banks (whose account should be taken with an entire salt shaker — more on that later) reported from the belly of the beast (which in this case is one of Elon Musk’s Los Angeles homes). Azealia Banks exposing Elon Musk for tweeting while on Acid.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Are you tired of booking that "luxury room" on your favorite vacation rental site, and finding it''s really a dump? What''s hovelstay.com, and how is it different than all the other vacation rental sites out there? Michael Womack: We are creating a site that has the adventurous and budget traveler in mind.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. But, it turns out, there are not any automotive sites specifically geared towards women.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

With its latest product release, Los Angeles-based PromoJam is gambling on the first, and made managing and running social promotions much more like inhabiting a social network than running enterprise software. PromoJam debuted its brand new, self-service version of its social promotions tool today, PromoJam 2.0,

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. That was the genesis of the site. From that, we''re able to give each famous person a popularity ranking on our site. You often hear the advice: do one thing, and do it well.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based EQAL, the online production firm behind lonelygirl15, said today that the firm has teamed up with CBS for an online site tied into a new, 13-episode series called Harper's Island. According to CBS and EQAL, they will launch Harper's Globe , an online site which will be complementary to the television storyline.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area. It sounds like an interesting story behind how it started--tell us how the site came about? That's what makes our site unique. So you've tapped bloggers for experts on the site?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

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. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. We are trying to keep it competitive.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based FreedomSpeaks.com an online web site focused on political social networking, said Tuesday that it has launched a new application programming interface (API) targeted at helping developers tap into information about publicly elected officials. READ MORE>>

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AUGUST 10, 2011

The last time we spent much time chatting with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage , they were at Los Angeles telephony software firm Fonality , busy getting their employees set up in a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) "fight club". When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. But the web site visitors are accurate. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing. I keep my blogs separate from by company web site.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. What's your background?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. That is the way to attract writers.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g.,

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APRIL 8, 2014

Gerard Casale: We''ve been agnostic to the kinds of deals we''ve been making over the last five or six years we''ve been angel investors. We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. Why start an investment firm in Los Angeles? Why not Los Angeles? Why not Silicon Beach?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

That's the idea behind Focus@Will (www.focusatwill.com), a new Los Angeles music startup headed by Will Henshall. Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. Explain what Focus@will is all about? It's free to use.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? If we had both still be in Los Angeles, we'd been too busy to start a company, and wouldn't have need to start a company.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com). Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. It's nice chatting with you again about your company--you're here in Los Angeles, aren't you? The traditional way to handle that is to write code. The technology has just exploded.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. When I was moving to Los Angeles from Paris, I was sorting through my stuff, and I made three bags of things. Where did the idea come from?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Not just URLs that the developer created, but snippets of their source code that show how they write (comments, formatting, etc). ? Even if you can’t read the code, if it looks organized, and you see a mix of English words (comments) around code that looks like it has structure, then you can get an idea of how they organize things.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Johnson's latest effort is Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), a web site which takes the concepts behind VirtualTourist.com beyond travel, and into lots of other subjects. Lunch.com is based in Los Angeles. There are other review sites, which inundate you with user generate content from people you don't know.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. Jody Sherman: We are a site for eco-conscious, health minded parents. How long has the site been around? In February of this year, we bought EcoMom, a community and content site.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last week, Savings.com , the online coupon site based in Los Angeles, made a big move into the world of grocery store coupons, from its existing business providing coupon codes and deals for the online world. Another factor, was the large number of people searching our site for grocery coupons, something we didn''t have.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We've been in discussions with news organizations to use the platform, including with large organizations and journalism sites.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Los Angeles-based Super Hi-Fi (www.superhifi.com) has created what co-founder and CEO Zach Zalon says is an artificial intelligence driven service which brings a sense of personalization and connection to those services, to help them retain and attract customers. We ended up building a lot of digital music platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. 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.

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