socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

All of these startups are applying technology (software development and algorithms) to some aspect of music and the music business. Chromatik has developed web and iPad applications which let musicians upload, record, annotate, and share their sheet music; record a performance; give feedback to other musicians; and much more.

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Southern California Startup Sherman Oaks Venice 254

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Secondly, it's critical that we see the future of entertainment as being on the web, versus at the movie theater.

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Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. Deploying software in the cloud?

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

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. There are some very cool new features being released all the time as part of the software that powers this system. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community.

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Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Venice-based Zefr (www.zefr.com) got its start in the content world--licensing movie clips and posting them online--but soon, figured out there was a whole different opportunity in developing software tools to understand exactly what was happening on YouTube. That''s what we call our rights ID or rights management software stack.

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Hollywood Help Media Content 159

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

However, I saw that the people building traditional products were still not familiar with the social web. For example, some of my biggest competitors--such as Flintstones vitamins--have been around for 40 years, have virtually no web presence, and a PageRank of 2. We live in Venice, and our back house is sort of our operations center.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

A lot of money went into software, mostly because of some big, expansion-stage deals.”. billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. Some other highlights pulled from the second-quarter MoneyTree Report: —As usual, the software sector raised the most venture capital of any industry during the quarter, getting $8.7

Marina Del Rey 40

Marina Del Rey Invest Venture Capital San Diego 40

Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2017

The $17 initial offering price valued the company at about $24 billion , a number that has since risen with the Venice, CA, company’s share price shooting above. Snap (NYSE: SNAP ) priced its IPO shares at $17, higher than the $14 to $16 range it estimated in an SEC filing last month. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Social Media Venice Pricing Media 40

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing. or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond.

Technology 40

Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital Venice 40

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. is giving our readers early access to download and play with the FREE version of this amazing software. Coincident.TV

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

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. But now, we have been gaining a larger audience thanks to our online web presence. I mean, Venice Beach is starting to be called “Silicon Beach”.

Social Media 94

Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The next generation of social networking and communications companies are very interesting, people are thinking about taking identity and their social graph everywhere on the web with you, which I think will lead to a bunch of interesting companies. We're working with a company in Venice Beach which is trying to solve that problem.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The Spiridellis brothers have been at the right place at the right time several times over in the building of JibJab, now located in Venice blocks away from the ocean. They decided the best business approach would be to develop rich characters with a strong web presence that they could build an audience around.

Screening 88

Screening eBook Content Ideas 88

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. For those that aren’t aware of the broader technology shifts of cloud computing, the trend is described in a post I did about changes in the software industry. In Massachusetts companies (and VCs) have migrated from out by Waltham to Back Bay (Boston) or Cambridge.

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The Spiridellis brothers have been at the right place at the right time several times over in the building of JibJab, now located in Venice blocks away from the ocean. They decided the best business approach would be to develop rich characters with a strong web presence that they could build an audience around.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 65