TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Entertainment has changed. Developments like live streaming, social media and more have made the stars of today more relatable and more easily reachable than those of yesteryear. A new startup is seizing on an opportunity to help up-and-coming online entertainers take a leaf out of that book and grow their relationships with fans.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Both companies were spending big bucks to advertise yet the offer left me cold and I must not be alone in this as both companies have slumping sales. These two ads showed how disconnected from their customers these once industry leaders have become. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software.

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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. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. Who are your core customers? Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

As creators, developers, and hackers, we love a good challenge and even more so with time restrictions. We here at TechZulu put our heads together with the people at Talenthouse to bring you an exciting weekend of hacking, music, food, art, and Hollywood quality entertainment. Custom ad deals and partnerships. It’s our fuel.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. NowLive is trying to do just that, leveraging both technology and the entertainment world to build its business. Who are your customers? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

Nick Higgins: Adconion was founded six years ago as an advertising network. To build out our technology and ad serving platform, we made the investment and acquisition around a video ad server, with a strategic investment in Redlever for branded entertainment, and the acquisition of Joost's assets. Why the expansion here?

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. It provides consumer rewards, and on the merchant side, it allows them to identify local customers and reacquire them by pushing them offers and incentives to come back. What is Punchcard?

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Your Software Development Partner. Advertisers. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. They include: Sponsors.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Your Software Development Partner. Advertisers. customer relationship marketing programs designed to preserve your core revenue.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Your Software Development Partner. Advertisers. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Startups Made Simple.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Your Software Development Partner. Advertisers. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Startups Made Simple.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The theme for Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is startups and Hollywood, featuring leaders from movie studios, music labels, agencies, and startups in entertainment – how Hollywood studios are investing and working with startups, and how Silicon Beach startups are making entertainment businesses. Same with CreatorUp.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Your Software Development Partner. Advertisers. customer relationship marketing programs designed to preserve your core revenue. Southern California's high tech news and companies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

If you're a mobile app developer, who do you keep your users engaged and returning to use your app every day? Culver City-based Lootsie (www.lootsie.com) has createe a product which ties together those loyalty reward programs with the advertising and marketing efforts of brands, to help both those mobile developers and marketers.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. Josh Yguado - President SGN.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. The rest of our team comes out of the film, television, streaming media, and startup world, mostly in the interactive entertainment world. Where are you in terms of launch? READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2009

During this high-level event, Top Brand Marketers, Agency Executives, Publishers, and App Developers will come together to discuss and explore how brands can harness the power of the billion dollar app boom. Nowhere else can you find the top app experts converging with the biggest names in advertising and marketing.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? Then we started advertising and getting media attention. Also, advertising in print media just doesn''t have the ROI that it once did. Whether our presence is print advertising or we are featured in a story, print just doesn''t sell like it used to.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

They can choose to go to a dinner that is advertised, and if they've previously expressed interest in a person, we let them know if that person is going. It's born out of trying to address the problems that have developed in the modern dating industry over time. It was a mixture of mobile and device-centric and Internet development.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We also talk about creating things specifically for the web, how to distribute on the web, and how to build a revenue stream aside from advertising revenue. The amateur is probably our target customer, but a professional also looking to transition to digital would also be pretty interested in what we are doing.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

For our interview today, we have an interview with Gabe Grifoni , CEO and founder of Rufus Labs (www.getrufus.com), which has has developed an Android-based, wearable device which is aimed at use in the enterprise, warehouses, and factories. When we talk to customers, we hear about these pain points.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Attending discussions at SMWLA week is a great opportunity to learn and mingle with some of the world’s top content creators, strategists and all around top-tier digital influencers in Los Angeles, the mecca of entertainment. They have broken events down by two hubs: Social Tech , and Entertainment. HOW CAN I ATTEND? 2:30-3:30pm.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. Any competition in LA?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

But not just novel anymore, when the film Minority Report came out in 2002, these concepts were admittedly a bit scary, eye scanning spider robots, humans being plugged into computer systems, advertisements bombarding you simply by walking into a mall. Phil Lelyveld – Program Manager at USC’s Entertainment Technology Center.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

StatMuse is developing an artificial intelligence platform to help sports fans explore data using simple, natural language. Advertiser Optimization. Decisive is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that uses real time data to enable advertisers to optimize mobile ad creative and targeting based on user engagement.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? This is my third company.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. How did you get into this - looks like you came from the entertainment world? Sherry Gunther: Honestly, content is content.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2011

It's like New York, which because of all the advertising folks who have spun out of the companies and agencies there where the economy tanked, and have started creating innovative companies. That's a byproduct of the entertainment industry. Are you saying that developing that technology doesn't matter as much now?

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Advertisers upload their 30 second ads and each time a user watches the ad, they receive $.50. This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. Targeted mobile advertising.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Scott will share data and results from both ChaCha and other industry sources that will highlight the compelling opportunity that brand advertisers now have in the mobile arena. 9:00am: Keynote Presentation: Mobile Advertising: The Hype, The Hope, and The Financial Reality. Presenter: Scott A. But does every brand need an app?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Social mobile web. Startup pivot.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

We sat down with Roland Trimmel, the head of operations for Re-Compose, (the developers of Liquid Notes) to talk music, technology, and business. So there is a good balance in there but where the team or where the product finds its customers at the end of the day, EDM of all styles - that’s basically how you can sum it up.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. Gagnier has customized Gagnier Margossian LLP’s technology practice to broadly serve the needs of “startups.” Lisa received an A.B.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

Our development team put the extra work into customizing the functionality in a way that allowed users to see more that just listings within the United States, which is common elsewhere. Marketing & Advertising. Entertainment, Media, Arts & Professional Athletes. Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals. Construction.

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