socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. The firm's CEO and co-founder, Jennifer Sargent , has an interesting background, most recently serving as an executive at Variety/Reed Business Information.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

I love the web and love Internet marketing. Although the web offers amazing chances for organic growth, you have to do something amazing. We realized that the way the web was heading, was that if you don''t do something amazing, someone will do it better. What''s your background and how did you decide to start the site?

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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.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. If you think about it, that's pretty interesting--not long ago, that information wasn't available.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

However, one area has mostly been ignored, which is vertically focus, business-to-business information. 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. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Entertainment." margins offered by YouTube, MCNs must drive fans to purchase merchandise, experience videos on wholly owned (non-YouTube) sites and directly negotiate sponsorships with advertisers, rather than solely relying on YouTube''s ad network. Never heard of VidCon? Think "Consumer Electronics Show meets E! Fighting Nerds.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. 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. Advertising is approaching $50 billion dollars online, whereas licensing is maybe $1 billion on a good day,” said Tanz. “It

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

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. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games.

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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. In addition to the video, we also deliver everything around that video, including metadata, all the user information, all the subscriptions and monetization, and data that happens around video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

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. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games.

Marketing 99

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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? In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations.

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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. We did a successful trial in 2008. Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

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. More information is located on their “attend” page. Thursday: Advertising and Marketing.

Social Media 92

Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

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. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games.

Marketing 95

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My resume includes things like videogames, online worlds, online web, from everything as an engineer to a producer to technical director, to CTO. If you think about 311, it''s the line that people call to get information about everything, from reporting potholes to checking their electricity bill. What do you say to them? READ MORE>>.

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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. Targeted mobile advertising. After choosing one of their affordable monthly service fee plans, users simply interact with their advertisers. These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The production and marketing of the film (made from a script written by Aaron Sorkin based on the book "Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich) itself breaks new legal ground in the area of life rights, the First Amendment and Facebook's decision not to accept advertising for the film. Christina holds a B.A. and citizen engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

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. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games.

Marketing 90

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 90

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Then we started advertising and getting media attention. Over the years, as our reputation grew, we got more repeat business and corresponding word of mouth (then) everything changed, especially with the web. . Also, advertising in print media just doesn''t have the ROI that it once did.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

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. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Time will tell.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy. First off, talk about SendLove.to and what is it all about?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Developers can take the program information and integrate it into the app they are creating to offer interactive features. There is a true renaissance happening in entertainment today, where the distribution channels of television and cable are being disrupted and transformed quickly into new models.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. Paul Grahm.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0 is a web in which data is linked to allow for more meaningful, actionable insight to be extracted. Advertise and get noticed with us! Contact us for more information.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

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. The Geodelic network introduces discovery, replacing the need to search for information. Alex Quilici.

Twiistup 40

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. That concept of connecting information together was something that was really important to me and I wanted to communicate in the name.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

Guide 69

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. It’s not just that we’re connected to the Internet at higher speeds and for longer; we’re actually always tethered to the web. And the future?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. A website or blog without appealing or entertaining content for your market segment is not enchanting. Provide all this information in an About page. Craft an “About” page.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. the entertainment industry. WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. than in other parts of the city.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” He is currently CEO of ThisWeekIn.com , a web television network he co-founded with Jason Calacanis and comedian/actor Kevin Pollak.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I would see this many times of the next decade where I learned that nearly every part of the web that involved monetization was immediately gamed and arms races emerged between platforms to combat abuse and people looking for a quick buck. In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially.

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