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Scripted.com, Backed By LA Investors, Finds $9M More

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The company--led by UCLA Anderson grad Sunil Rajaraman--had originally raised funding from such local LA investors as Jody Mulkey (Shopzilla), Paige Craig, Keith Richman, and actor/director/writer Edward Burns. The company was founded by UCLA Andreson and USC Film School grads who had met as undergrads at Claremont McKenna.

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Local Angels Back Scripted.com

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Scripted.com also operates Scripped.com, an online marketplace for script writers, and was founded by UCLA and USC graduates in Los Angeles, and later moved to San Francisco. Scripted.com, which is led by Sunil Rajaraman, also counts Break Media's Keith Richman as an advisor, along with actor/writer/director Edward Burns.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. The way I think about branding anything is simple: Define the Attributes You Want to Project. downtown LA]. Also East of the 405?

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

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We were looking at it, and saw that if we could take all these off-the-shelf sensors, and put it all together, and write some code, and make a user interface, it''s basically done. Unfortunately, UCLA''s money dried up due to legal issues. After two years, Alfred Mann decided to give money to USC for the effort instead.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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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. I went to UCLA Business School, and just graduated this past June. Zak went to the Peter Stark Program at the USC Film School, which is a very prestigious program.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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If u see an article or write a blog post, email us or leave a comment below with a link to your story and we’ll add it in. Congrats to That’s Suspicious Behavior (USC), the female-led team which won the grand prize in the student pitch fest with ten teams competing from USC, UCLA and Yale via 5-min presentations at CoWorks.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 Stuff you may not know about LA? What Do We See From the Road Ahead? The infrastructure phase of the Internet is over.