Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But audience size and consumption is massive and growing plus; Study Innovator’s Dilemma ( my cheat sheet here ). No matter how much it bothers you, people do like to entertain themselves with a “lean back” experience. And we like to be entertained. I’m looking for a new breed of entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

we're proud to be part of one of the world's most vibrant innovation ecosystems with some of the fastest growing companies and most creative entrepreneurs. I studied East Asian religions in college and was intrigued to hear that a Buddhist monk was delivering meditation and mindfulness via a mobile app.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. The winners, Techno Unibot Freaks, with In a Flash received a prize courtesy of EA entertainment.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Eighteen months ago, when MAKE IT IN LA's launch from Mayor's Garcetti's office was featured in a White House press release, we announced an audacious goal of reaching 1,000 entrepreneurs with our programming by the end of this year. Check out the entertaining video here.) (Check out the entertaining video here.)

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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. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). What is TAU Ventures?

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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. Matthias Galica: The first two verticals which correspond to our use case are in music and entertainment.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Join us as we kick off the holiday season in grand style and bestow the Digital Family Outstanding Achievement Honor on Scott Painter, Founder of CarsDirect and Entrepreneur. Please join us at digiday:APPS on December 10th, in Los Angeles. Tell a friend, and purchase your ticket at www.digitalfamilyinc.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

But entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the B2B space for more lucrative opportunities. If your B2B contacts check-in regularly at certain types of locations (entertainment venues, stores, etc.) Branded entertainment. Coopetition,” or strategic cooperation with a competitor is another angle. Incentives or rewards.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. Studies show, if you don't, people will turn to piracy. I ran the Los Angeles Film Festival for a decade.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

For today's youth, it's often hard to figure out what they want to do in life--according to Deborah Ramo , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Amavitae (www.amavitae.com). Deborah Ramo: It's interesting, but my background is actually in the entertainment world. Companies spend $133 billion a year in the U.S.

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MARCH 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based Render Media (www.rndr.com), which is creating a publisher geared at the social world, social channels, and sharing. The reason why, was one of our angel investors was a big news and political junky, and he was also the biggest angel in Opposing Views. What's the right strategy for reaching your audience?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Here are just a few: Nolan Bushnell , a seasoned entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. His set of studies include examining the conscious control of single neurons in humans, the ability to affect altered states of consciousness as dreams or sleep, and the ability of humans to regulate high-level emotions. 12pm: BODY. Interview).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Brett Markinson: The best place to start, is I'm a serial entrepreneur. I went to school at Babson, back East, and majored in finance and entrepreneurial studies. As an entrepreneur, I'm drawn to disruptive dynamics and business opportunities, and to the sea change enabled by technology driven disruption. That's not going away.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 10, 2013

Joe''s intelligent, creative and entertaining videos satisfy the young YouTube viewer''s comedy fix while crossing over to a more mature and sophisticated audience. In college) I was studying to be a doctor. I''ve got to move to Los Angeles, because that''s where I''ll be able to make it.''". and I realized that.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 10, 2013

Joe''s intelligent, creative and entertaining videos satisfy the young YouTube viewer''s comedy fix while crossing over to a more mature and sophisticated audience. In college) I was studying to be a doctor. I''ve got to move to Los Angeles, because that''s where I''ll be able to make it.''". and I realized that.

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