socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

has figured out one way -- which is to run a startup accelerator, Warner Media Camp (www.mediacamp.com)--which pulls a class of startups into the company for an intense, twelve week program every year, and helps those companies tap into the resources of the studio. For those not familiar with s Warner Media Camp, what is it all about?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2012

Thursday, May 10, 2012 -- Building (and Fixing) Your Reputation Online. Social media has given a public voice to anybody who wants to talk about your company - both good and bad. See [link] (more)

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

LoveIt is a site for individuals and groups to discover, collect, organize and share images they love in public or private collections. We started building LoveIt at the beginning of 2012. The post Collect, Organize, and Share on LoveIt | Interview with Ron LaPierre Co-Founder & CEO appeared first on TechZulu.

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Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! 2nd place went to MarkedUp that helps mobile developers collect and organize visual feedback from their beta testers and users ( markedup.mobi ). Coffee is for closers!” making this their first SWLA.

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The organizers of SXSW really care about their community and I think a lot of people do the best they can do to make the whole conference come together smoothly. When: March 11th 9am (During South by Southwest 2012). That’s a great question. No, I don’t think they are too strict. Where: AppSumo headquarters in Austin.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. You can’t change media consumption patterns easily. Ynon Kreiz is a force of nature in the media and tech sectors. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. hours of TV / day.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 1, 2019

Detergent attacks during gallery openings, anti-gentrification graffiti and harassment via social media have put owners on edge. Research shows that homelessness in LA has risen by a staggering 75% since 2012, with elderly people and single-parent households most affected. They’ve picketed businesses like Weird Wave Coffee.

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Boyle Heights Los Angeles Design Training 237

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Every politician in the country knows this as well as every consumer brand, every retailer, every restaurant and every media company. And as my Media Redef feed this past week reminded me Hispanics over-index for watching movies and they share their movie experiences 26% more than non-Hispanics.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Asher Delug: Airpush is a mobile ad network, similar to an Admob or Millenial Media. I do think the key in bootstrapping is that it helps you organically, in that you make decisions you wouldn''t have made otherwise, out of need. We organically invested in Bangalore and India, and that''s the reason we are profitable.

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Startup Mobile Advertising Organization 196

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” The pain was that somebody senior in the organization had read about the importance of Facebook for business and had begun asking loud questions about why the organization didn’t have a strong Facebook presence.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Santa Monica startup airline Surf Air has been spreading its wings in recent months and spreading the word about its initiatives at Silicon Beach events such as Social Media Week LA and Techweek LA. Surf Air CEO and Co-Founder Wade Eyerly spoke about his startup’s progress and goals on panels at Social Media Week LA and Tech Week LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Pierce is an advisor to Casual Connect, GamesBeat, and Digital Media Wire, an active angel investor and member of BitAngels and an active supporter of non-profit and advocacy organizations and is a member of Clinton Global Initiative. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This morning, we have Kevin Winston of Digital LA (www.digitalla.net), the organization which is LA's largest digital networking group and which is behind the Silicon Beach Fest, the first and largest tech, startup and entertainment conference in LA. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted.

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Marina Del Rey Dollar Shave Club Beverly Hills Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2012

Which brings to topic this exciting trend taking off of people using technology and social media to help support others in return. As 2012 gets underway, The House of Marley, a collection of premium quality, earth friendly personal audio products, is making way for new designs and products to enjoy the music that moves you.

Social Media 68

Social Media Product Design Organization 68

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. Even online, the type of people who may respond to social media requests may bear very little relationship to the intended market. I’m already working with a couple of organizations along these lines.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012. We started our services in August of 2012. That was on purpose, because neither of us had actually come from the food industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. Even online, the type of people who may respond to social media requests may bear very little relationship to the intended market. I’m already working with a couple of organizations along these lines.

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Funding Equity Entrepreneur Sample 106

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

By the end of 2012, Rob had done a really great job of identifying the opportunity, and being a visionary on how social, local, and mobile would change how consumers engaged with brands. How did you get involved with MomentFeed? Robert Blatt: I know you interviewed Rob Reed awhile ago.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). 2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

We were eventually acquired by a large competitorin 2012. I worked at Barnes and Noble through three releases of the Nook, and then I moved over to a smaller company, Buddy Media, where I ran all of the analytics products. You need to be a good partner across that organization. That was three days before I entered grad school.

Southern California 244

Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

The loss in productivity involved in transitioning a struggling employee out an organization, coupled with the time required to conduct a subsequent job search, can cripple a small company’s ability to achieve its strategic objectives. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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SaaS Tool Startup Screening 209

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

It's software-as-a-service based, and we have organizations worldwide, from very small companies, to 100 employees and up, to Fortune 500 companies, across a wide variety of industries. Large enterprise organization had really adopted Concur for their expense management, typically with a few others plus Chrome River.

Software 100

Software Report Startup IBM 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

We will learn best practices for how to organize non-CRUD operations allowing for creating maintainable APIs that embrace the spirit of Web API and not just the semantics allowing for maximizing the ROI of the technology. Despite what you read in the media HTML5 web applications can be extremely powerful and engaging.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

Prior to working at Greycroft, Vishal worked for Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, where he advised clients in media, healthcare, tech and utilities. Event hosted at Dethrone Basecamp which is a community based fitness studio created in 2012 by Zappos founder Nick Swinmurn. YouTube, Microsoft and SyFy.

Startup 40

Startup Artificial Inteligence Venture Capital Santa Monica 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. However, more than 40 percent of the organizations said that they wouldn’t run a Groupon offer again.”.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22, 2012. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Event Details.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. was founded in February 2012 by a team of passionate music fans.

Startup 107

Startup Product Sites Tool 107

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

Like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre use rap lyrics, Seth and I use social media instead. In 2012, my company plundered and it was horrific…bygones. Over the next couple of years the then tiny ABBO would grow to the 6,200+ member organization it is today and Seth David’s brand would grow demonstrably as well.

Content 100

Content Blogging Burbank Course 100

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The whole point of delegating investment decisions to a GP is to empower them to organize their firm to win deals and get stuff done. You allow us to get off the ad-laden media churn conveyor belt and spend quality time on amazing ideas, people, and companies. Burn the management fee in a fireplace if it makes the deals happen.

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. We believe there are awesome entrepreneurs everywhere, not just in the places constantly covered by the media. Jake Wood serves as President of Team Rubicon , the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. With over 9 million photo questions posted since October 2012, their users spend 170 minutes a month on the service. Founded by L.A.’s

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

He established a reputation as a decisive leader and change agent, growth driver and builder of world-class organizations. Venture Partners and was recently recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Most Promising Companies and by Billboard as one of the 10 Best Start-ups of 2012. ScoreBig.com , headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif.,

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Ticketmaster Entertainment Pricing Class 65

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

For only $5 a month, subscribers can access brand new Nollywood movies (made in 2012), streamed in HD. As he saw the company grow so quickly, albeit organically, he felt it was the right time to get on board full time and take the all-encompassing role of COO. This is something totally new for Nollywood. Is he comfortable in his role?

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Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

The Digital Detox Retreat September 13-16, 2012. Four days off the grid – with no clocks, technology or media – a chance to getaway from the fast paced world and truly recharge. As technologists living online in real time all the time, it is easy to lose perspective on life. How did The Digital Detox get started?

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Pricing Coach Email Startup 86