socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. Tell us about this new program you have running in Los Angeles?

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Ever since sound was first introduced into movies, the entertainment business has never really faced a huge change. However, the online presence has shifted the entertainment landscape drastically and is threatening to change the business for better or for worse. We narrowed it down to key-metrics.

Content 81

Content Entertainment Startup Los Angeles 81

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Hollywood Platform Competition 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. There is no such thing as a super angel, only “micro VCs&# - Ron Conway said what I had been preparing to say, “there’s no such thing as a super angel.&# Either you’re an angel or you manage professional funds. Answer: Not much.

Venture Capital 308

Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). We're basically putting those two pieces together.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

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. A lot of what we've been looking at are the metrics. What's the idea behind Maple Media?

Media 153

Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

SoCal CTO

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. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

socalTECH

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. Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film.

Startup 190

Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

While we entertain startup strategies such as being lean or agile, it’s impossible to ignore that, for example, LA has a culture of entertainment , Nashville that of music , New York, a culture of finance and fashion , and Silicon Valley, indeed, a culture of disruptive innovation. Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Jared Golden – Pear, connecting local community groups to their sponsors. Ricky Johnson – PledgeCents , improving K-12 through community learning.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

There’s aggregation, so like in the entertainment industry, audience measurement is huge. That portion we call data aggregation where you are looking at one metric across a lot of different data sources. With big data and all these big craze big data has come out there.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Earlier this week we had the opportunity to sit in at The General Assembly, Los Angeles for a fully stacked panel on a Day in the Life of a Product Manager (PM). Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads? Playing devil’s advocate: Ignore the users. ABOUT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87