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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. We also are dong the Twilight premiere from LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. GumGum is led by founder and Los Angeles native wunderkind, Ophir Tanz. Photos…the final frontier. from Carnegie Mellon University. He decided to pivot.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. He put together a model for attracting an audience.

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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. 90 of the top 200 brands have advertised with ManiaTV through our history.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? The latest to enter the scene is Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine (www.startengine.com), which was created by Howard Marks and Paul Kessler. We need the resources here in Los Angeles, and not force those companies to go elsewhere.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. The objects we are focused on are out-of-home advertising. Who uses your service, and why?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

When it's all about trading, swapping, lucky finds, and more--explains Dan Murillo , who is CEO and Founder of Little Black Bag (www.littleblackbag.com), an online e-commerce community based in Los Angeles. Dan Murillo: Little Black Back is what we call an entertainment shopping company. Fascinating idea for a company.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

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. We work with a lot of brands who have tried advertising on mobile, but wanted a better solution than what's out there now.

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JULY 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based SnapCuts (www.snapcuts.com) does just that, allow users to tap into a wide collection of clips, which can be re-mixed, combined with text, and sent to your friends. Allison Dollar: An example would be studios, which have a franchise of feature films. They can then share that across a social network.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. For example, if more people search for socaltech each month, and more users are liking your site, that''s an easy way for Google to see that a site has value.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. 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.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Total Immersion recently moved its headquarters here to the Los Angeles area, and we caught up with Bruno to learn more about the firm, its technology, and why it moved here to LA. The second one is in the entertainment market. in the Bay Area, but decided recently to move into the Los Angeles area. What do you do?

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based StarGreetz (www.stargreetz.com) debuted its celebrity-powered, personalized message service to the public, allowing both brands and artists to send highly personalized messages to their fans. You've been in more traditional entertainment firms--as an executive in a big studio--why jump to a startup?

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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 They wanted to lead our round, so we relocated to Los Angeles. in a seed funding round.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

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MAY 4, 2016

Speaking of insurance, we have also partnered with NEEIS�New Empire Entertainment Insurance Services�and Lloyds of London, to provide $100,000 in third party property damage insurance, so that both parties can have peace of mind if things go awry. Brian Tan: We make our money on advertising. How do you make money in all of this?

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AUGUST 10, 2011

The last time we spent much time chatting with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage , they were at Los Angeles telephony software firm Fonality , busy getting their employees set up in a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) "fight club". Can you maybe give a concrete example of that? That's everything in the direct noun space.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. So I went online and saw that the forums were outdated--for example, you'd see the last post was in 2001, who would be coming back to that? What is BakeSpace?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

This morning, Los Angeles-based Mogreet (www.mogreet.com) announced it had raised a Series B funding round for the firm's mobile greeting services. So a lot of the other things that are impacting some other companies, particularly those with the 100 percent advertising related business models, aren't really impacting Mogreet.

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MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. and also to local advertisements. Details coming soon!)

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Tell us about your connection to Los Angeles. The Los Angeles music scene is very important for us because of connections. All of our team consists of not only composers but also for example, Karl Moestl does the creative marketing and the artist relations for us. Thanks for joining us Roland.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements. Grant Delgatty – URB-E , the world’s smallest foldable electric vehicle.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

MW: At my previous company, I was running big online advertising campaigns and delivering – in this case – leads to clients. There’s aggregation, so like in the entertainment industry, audience measurement is huge. A really good example is a product that is sold offline, where the marketing is done online.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. It will involve 3d (see Nintendo’s moves , for example). Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. You can get through first 1.20

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

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. He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

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