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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Wasn’t Jonah worried aboutplatform risks?”

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company? We make websites, and we make banners, primarily for the entertainment industry and Hollywood. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Within hours, fans confronted the authors in the Discord server with their concerns about the project. An emerging tech dystopia.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

InfoChachkie

Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. What’s So Cool About Coull? In 2007, Microsoft loudly proclaimed the creation of clickable video ads. Such embedded video ads are not new.

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Interview with Paige Craig, Betterworks

socalTECH

What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition. It forces you to think very deeply about the problem they are solving.

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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

socalTECH

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. What is Sidebar all about? When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

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Interview with Peter Hoskins, ManiaTV

socalTECH

The convergence of the Internet and the entertainment business has made Los Angeles a hotbed of activity in the online entertainment industry, attracting companies from all over the country interested in connecting Hollywood with the Internet. Peter Hoskins: In 2007, we took a fantastic soundstage at Pico and Fairfax.