Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The following online platforms are making it easy to give personal, memorable presents from anywhere in the world. They each contain a collection of activities and trips, the cheapest box set, which costs £59 ($72 USD), offers 180 activities and the most expensive, at £199 ($244 USD), has over 340 activities. SendItLater.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

He’s here on stage with Snoop Dogg and they had just dialed in Shaq to record a live video for his platform. Along with his co-founder Nsilo Reddick they have been active users in their app and have embodied what is truly unique about Convoz. It was just announced today on TechCrunch. eat your heart out. Next up for Cham?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2011

Pasadena-based PostUp , the Internet advertising firm spawned out of Idealab, said Friday afternoon that it has acquired UberTwitter , developer of a Twitter client that runs on the BlackBerry Platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, the firm said it has changed its named to Ubermedia.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.” Brit + Co is a digital media company that inspires, educates and entertains real women with a creative spirit.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The platform’s database is made up of hundreds of once in a lifetime activities that people can buy their partners, friends, family and loved ones. Tinggly is the place where you can actually buy everything from Red-Bull type extreme activities, to super exclusive, fancy experiences as well,” Ceikus says. . >Now

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Brad Brooks: The biggest news from TigerText this year is that we're evolving from what was a pure secure messaging product to a comprehensive clinical communications platform. I think voice-activated devices have huge potential for healthcare and the ability to have a very positive impact on hospitals and health systems.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. I think we will see the rise of a newer and larger mobile-focused media companies and the continued evolution in traditional television entertainment. He is Los Angeles's most active angel investor with more than $2.5B

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

Darren Marble: At the core, we are a virtual film studio, that empowers filmmakers to actively build, engage, and monetize their online audience. The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen. The second thing, is instead of being just a platform, we also have content partners pre-integrated.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2020

And as physical events and the entertainment industry that depends on them shuts down, virtual things have come to epitomize the popular culture of the pandemic. “ We’re converting your physical activity into a virtual currency that you can spend in stores to buy new brands,” Mulins said.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities are focused in the areas of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, games, gambling, ad tech and payments. Mr. Csathy’s career spans Internet, music, motion pictures/video, live entertainment, and technology. He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

They want a means of representing themselves that is animated, and changeable, and actively communicates in places like MySpace, Facebook, and other social networks. We see a future, where we have two generations of people who are spending the bulk of their non-working time, and a lot of their working time, in a digital environment.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

Andrew Stalbow: We''re building mobile games, that are designed to be developed into bigger entertainment properties. Audiences have moved very quickly to mobile, and I think that mobile is a brilliant platform on which to build a next generation brand. Where do you see Seriously fitting into the mobile games industry?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. You can go to your particular interests, pick your favorite brands and entertainers, and favorite them. How did the company start? We all have likes and interests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. Configure every decision step into real-time software.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Beginning this fall, the beta launch will give groups the advantage of sampling the first experiences with the service and will lay the groundwork to grow the platform. Marijn Maas explained that the idea for the platform developed into its current form during his honeymoon in the Maldives and Sri Lanka.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2016

The idea is that we want to simplify complex topics, in a way that is fun, engaging, and entertaining. That grew into these napkins, and into a platform, where we have the opportunity to teach individuals, including using videos, a glossary of finance terms, and other assets. For many people, that's the same way.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. Josh Yguado - President SGN.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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. Creators now have a platform to launch their business.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. Scott Grimes: Ultimately, we are a text messaging platform build on top of Twilio. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

It's already a great technology center for lots of different areas, but when compared with Silicon Valley, the activity level needs to go way up in order for Southern California to be on par with Silicon Valley. There are many gaps to fill, and ways we can make a difference by encouraging more entrepreneurial activity in Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

million monthly active users who are creating more than 32 million text messages per day! Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. We just happen to have significantly more users than most of the group texting platforms you typically read about. To put things into perspective, the company has 7.7 People like free.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We caught up with Krisztina, who has been active in Southern California's startup community for a number of years, to learn more about the firm and its investment style. Having been active now in Los Angeles, is there anything Los Angeles hasn't taken advantage of but should? What kinds of areas does the fund make investments in?

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. The unique part of this company is their Internet-of-Savings® platform that helps users multiply savings for big ticket items and create a shared experience. The Mentor Method (Washington, D.C.). TeacherTalent (Austin, TX).

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

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. Founded in 2007, GumGum has become the largest in-image ad platform. A similar phenomenon is now occuring within the video ad ecosystem.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

If a fan know they can get their entire brand fix there, rather than having to jump across multiple profiles, multiple social media platform, and networks, that's very compelling. I was an active investors in the apparel company, and had to step back into the company in a reorg scenario, to get it back on track. It was the same issue.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. We are all coming from a background in entertainment. We are power users and we are constantly trying to redefine platforms we are frustrated with. That is how Todd and I met, from all the talk of using platforms that frustrates us.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. He's gone through this a couple of times now, so we have a robust platform which can predict the content users will like, and do so in an elegant and efficient manner. By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

It's a full range of activities. Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation. You've worked on both sides, in both entertainment and traditional media, and technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Alumni activities. Jordan joined us a couple of years ago from Fox Filmed Entertainment where he worked in corporate strategy and he previously had worked for GCA Savvian in investment banking. And we’ve begun relaunching our “platform services” for entrepreneurs. Portfolio company support & analysis.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2013

To immerse themselves in the culture where their potential customers are actively involved = YouTube. Nick Tran, Social Media Director for Taco Bell said, “The new entertainment for teens is YouTube. The conference is primarily targeted to people with a passion for the YouTube platform. That’s over 800% growth in just 4 years.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

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. Founded in 2007, GumGum has become the largest in-image ad platform. <Break here> Skimlinks For The Video Age. .

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Tech.Co

MARCH 13, 2018

Between the art installations, film, entertainment, innovation, and Elon Musk, who crashed the HBO “Westworld” panel to talk about the future of space travel, it would be hard not to leave Austin inspired. The spirit of optimism is alive and well at SXSW 2018. The pitch is just one minute and not a lot of time to say everything.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

One technique has been creating real life, loyalty and rewards to users for their activity. Marc Mitchell: I grew up here in Los Angeles, and I have always been involved in media and entertainment, After Los Angeles, I went to Stanford during the first tech boom. What platforms are you on?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2015

Utilizing technological innovations spun out of the renowned MIT Media Labs and visual artistry by GMUNK , TrueCar is melding the company’s data analysis and visualization abilities with new, entertainment technology. This platform takes our web-based technology from the computer screen to the concert experience, as L.E.D.

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