SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Kurt Daradics ( Facebook , @KurtyD , FriendFeed , MySpace , LinkedIn , Delicious ) (pronounced dare-a-dix) is a great guy to know. We have regular monthly meetings in Westlake Village, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, & Newport Beach. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

to launch this week, Los Angeles-based MeUndies.com said today that it is launching a line of high-end, comfortable underwear for men and women. The new startup, like many other e-commerce startups emerging across Los Angeles, has combined a subscription service with a high-end, apparel brand. The company is backed by Science, Inc.,

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 18, 2011

Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States. They also have a growing tech culture in Los Angeles and its adjacent cites like Santa Monica, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills as companies like Demand Media, MySpace and more recently Hulu, Mahalo, Callfire, DocStoc and BetterWorks have staked claim to the area.

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MARCH 2, 2010

The firm is venture and angel backed, and was co-founded by Wil Schroter, who is involved with a number of other startups here, including Affordit. But, there was no good for Hollywood to find them. Let's talk a little bit about the intersection of technology and Hollywood. It actually has been working very well.

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APRIL 5, 2018

Los Angeles-based mobile game maker Jam City said this morning that it has signed a lineup of original actors from the Harry Potter films, to provide the voiceovers for its upcoming game, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Additionally, we will see the tides shift in storytelling within mobile games, with a focus on creators out of Los Angeles. Before launching Jam City, Josh was Vice President at Fox Entertainment, where he worked at the intersection of Hollywood and technology. He lives in Los Angeles with his family. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Speaking on a panel on Venture Capital in Hollywood at AlwaysOn's OnHollywood conference yesterday, de Silva said he's now seeing repeat entrepeneurs coming out of Southern California who are just as good, if not savvier about real businesses, as Silicon Valley. Tags: venture capital southern california angeles alwayson onhollywood.

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JULY 7, 2015

Los Angeles-based WhipClip , the mobile television clip sharing app developer led by serial entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has raised $40M in a Series C funding round. Rosenblatt has been behind many of LA's biggest technology startups, including both MySpace and Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Tags: hollywood content entertainment microsoft bing.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In November, Michael Jones, the former CEO of MySpace, announced his plans for Science Inc. www.science-inc.com), a new technology studio aimed at building new businesses in Los Angeles. You're in the position to see a lot of startups in Los Angeles, and to pick out the best for Science. Are there enough startups to go around?

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

One of the stealthiest Los Angeles startups to emerge in the last few months has been Namesake (www.namesake.com), headed by Brian Norgard and co-founded by Dan Gould. Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. We will never be Silicon Valley in the way that Toronto will never be Hollywood. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business).

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). That said, Photobucket was a “crack filler&# that exited for $250 million to MySpace. YouTube was a “crack filler&# that could have been created by then dominant MySpace but wasn’t. So t hey bought it for a cool $1.65

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MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. It wasn't through the Tech Coast Angels, although most of the investors are members of the Tech Coast Angels or CVAN, the Coachella Valley Angel Network. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). When Fox first hired its triumvirate of CEO’s to run MySpace after the founders’ departure, I argued the same. They dithered for years.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. We’re excited to welcome the CEO Michael Agustin to Los Angeles. Watch this space. with the clips.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Mobile Roadie's mobile app tools power mobile apps from Madonna, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Beatles LOVE, and the Los Angeles Kings--and the firm's investors include Ashton Kutcher, among others. and MySpace, Ashton Kutcher, Guy O'Seary, who is Madonna's manger, and Rodger Berman. Describe what Mobile Roadie does?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2011

There’s a good possibility there was a QR code on it offering you free tracks from the band’s MySpace page. Of course, as with most futuristic technologies, Hollywood does a great job of adding their touch and this AR experience is no different. These cakes will have a QR code placed on them to display a special message for Mom.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. Next → For one reason or another, people in this country tend to look down on LA.

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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. It's a great testament to the management team, that we've been able to gain traction among big strategic partners, such as carriers and the major Hollywood studios.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Los Angeles. My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles you have large industries in garment industry, defense, games (both physical like Mattel and virtual like Activision) and music.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2010

Sure, it was held at the modest (though historical) Wadsworth Theater, and, let's face it, the nominees and winners a little one-sided, but it was achieving its goal of elevating web shows to a new status in Hollywood. Nominees: Angel of Death Compulsions OzGirl The Bannen Way Valemont. Though edgy, it was entertaining.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

The trend, on the macro level with iTunes or whatnot, is we're still going to see tons of interesting products--like iTunes, Imeem, MySpace Music, and more to come. We have offices in San Francisco, and we are on video conferences five or six hours a day bridging the gap between the Bay Area technology and Los Angeles media.

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