socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. Back in the early days of LA venture capital, I was first an associate of a fund, and then partner of a fund, Entertainment Media Venture Partners. Robert Flynn: Yes.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. <JG <JG change the link in first sentence to the infoChachkie post> As noted in YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers.

Customer 133

Customer Custom Entrepreneur Advertising 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 107

Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. The fund is organized into sectors and each VC forms forward looking themes within sub sectors. Highland has been around for 22 years currently investing the 8 th fund which is $400 million.

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Peter Marx: The Mayor''s office has oversight, along with the city council, for thirty seven different departments, ranging across all kinds of different services. For example, if you look at transportation and the new ride sharing service, there''s a continuous interaction with traffic management, intersections, parking spaces.

Los Angeles 203

Los Angeles Technology Startup Examples 203

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. How is the company funded? We did a successful trial in 2008.

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

As a young African entrepreneur with little funding, you may want to meet new people on social networks that may help in the growth and development of your new internet start-up. LAGbook and Facebook offer totally different social services. We also raised fund for CPC advertising, which doubled sign-ups.

Social Network 100

Social Network Networking Advertising Startup 100

socalTECH

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. How big of a fund is this? where he is Chairman.

Southern California 100

Southern California Media Venture Capital Invest 100

socalTECH

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. How big of a fund is this? where he is Chairman.

Capital 100

Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2011

Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. That's a byproduct of the entertainment industry.

Riot Games 199

Riot Games Technology Los Angeles Entrepreneur 199

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Njoku in April this year closed an $8m funding investment round from Tiger Global and another $2m from a Swedish firm, Kinnevik and still he says more is yet to come. We also have a music streaming service, iROKING , which has been dubbed by some as the ‘Spotify’ of Africa. Tell us about funding rounds you have had? Why Africa?

Netflix 82

Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Manatt Digital Media is a professional digital media service for businesses. We have been based in LA for around 45 years and we have deep roots in entertainment and media. On the legal side, my practice in North California and we have an advertising and media group in New York City. HG: I would say nationally.

Los Angeles 84

Los Angeles Media Invest Startup 84

socalTECH

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. We caught up with James to hear more about the company, how he managed to get funding even in this economy, and his view on the mobile market.

Mogreet 133

Mogreet Paramount Entertainment Mobile 133

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

It was a portal, and partnered with ISPs so that those ISPs could generate ad revenue, and create stick entertainment for customers. I headed up product development to build out their portal services. There were also opportunities for me down here, as I was running the venture fund.

Southern California 245

Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 67

Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

socalTECH

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. How is the firm funded? Elizabeth Amini: We're privately funded by the founders. This is my third company.

Study 252

Study Startup Design Tips 252

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids'' soccer game. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 99

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Where's the service now? What's your background? from Moonshots.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 95

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

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 funding yet? Any competition in LA?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. Rather, we will provide a platform for them to get interim office space and sophisticated legal services, and to ultimately grow their ideas from business concept to funded startup.

Sherman Oaks 44

Sherman Oaks Riot Games Tips Redpoint 44

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

Signaling an overall shift away from costly hardware in favor of affordable cloud-based voice and text messaging services for the commercial and non-profit sectors, CallFire announced that it has surpassed 50,000 users. We are excited to welcome a leader of Ron Burr’s caliber to the CallFire executive team,” Ravishanker said.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 90

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 90

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. We caught up with co-founder Clark Landry to chat about his new startup, which he co-founded with Michael Ritter.

Media 153

Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Speakers listed: Brock Pierce – Digital currency pioneer investing in Bitcoin, games, and online gambling businesses; Clearstone Global Gaming Fund. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. Until then, we’ll be focused on gimmicky applications and entertainment.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. and also to local advertisements. (Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.) Details coming soon!)

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

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.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

She described going into what was known to be a boring industry of digital displays and coming up with a solution to disrupt the space altogether by allowing the display to have two-way communication and a direct-to-market business model rather than the advertising sponsorship model of getting their displays out to various locations.

Conference 88

Conference Technical Review Education Startup 88

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. MW: At my previous company, I was running big online advertising campaigns and delivering – in this case – leads to clients.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Groups returned Sunday morning to be greeted by a full service breakfast provided by local Marmalade Cafe , who’s original location is located only blocks away. Also we would like to thank our global sponsors: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Ven Corps, Twilio, Vertical Response, oDesk, Elance and OpenTok.

Los Angeles 73

Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . You work in (or run) a services company. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . With the advent of geolocation and fantastic payment services such as Square, the future of freelanc. Bootstrapping a Lean Startup. Ash Maurya, WiredReach.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors. Mark Suster , GRP Partners.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. You folks are just that awesome that we try and hook our readers up whenever we can so you are Welcome!

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors. Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. The Startups.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market research and legislative advocacy. . Advertise and get noticed with us! is funded by: Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40