Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

By now you probably know that Netflix is splitting its business into two parts: its digital streaming business (retains the name Netflix) and its DVD mailing business, which was its original business (to be called Qwikster). With nearly 25 million customers using Netflix it’s clear that everyone will have an opinion on this.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles. We open these doorways.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

For today's interview, we spoke with Joe Bayen , the CEO and founder of Los Angeles-based Grow Credit (www.growcredit.com), which runs a fintech startup which allows you to pay your subscriptions through a free Mastercard, as a way to boost your credit score. For those not familiar with Grow Credit, talk about what your service does?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

link] Why (and who) she thinks will pay for premium Quibi content In a world of Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and YouTube, why would a customer choose to pay the $4.99 To time-restrict content requires an entirely new platform, one that only Quibi can support to date. monthly subscription (or $8 ad free) for Quibi?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. ” Once again, TikTok apologized.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

The Los Angeles-based Grow Credit thinks so. it would have been a platform called LennyBike, which would have been a subscription service for customers to get access to a bicycle for $30 a month and those payments would then count toward building credit.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

market with the help of several Los Angeles-based investors. The company also plans to add a Netflix-style training platform, where “unlimited relevant training plans” will be available to paying users, as well as nutritional guidance to help people stay fit.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen have been landing in Los Angeles since the invention of the nickelodeon to create a studio that would dominate popular entertainment. We are incredibly excited about how the AmazeVR platform will enable innovative, quality content to be generated at unprecedented scale and speed.”.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Los Angeles-based startup Canoo has finally unveiled its first model, the eponymously named canoo. Canoo has beta cars on site at its Los Angeles headquarters where prospective partners and customers can test out the vehicles, which were made by an undisclosed contract manufacturer based in Michigan.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Yekra also allows creators to establish an exclusivity rights period and set up distribution to other platforms including Netflix and Hulu Plus. by angel investor Maurice Gallagher and UK’s Bray Capital. The post Yekra’s Digital Rights Distribution and AffiliateConnect Platform Raises $3M appeared first on TechZulu.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

Even as Quibi , the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo , reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion , rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeline of short form serials. “We’ve raised under $15 million,” says Esola of Fiction Riot’s financing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Producers, Brands, and Advertisers all share unique perspectives about where we are and where we need to go as new forms of content emerge across digital platforms.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2011

Irvine-based VIZIO , which makes HDTV products, said today that it has added Hulu Plus , the premium subscription service of Los Angeles-based Hulu, as well as BLOCKBUSTER On Demand, to its connected television line. Business details between the firm were not announced. Business details between the firm were not announced. to $19.99.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. Nguyen is founder and CMO of Fanhouse , a creator platform that just raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz. . What does that even mean?”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I started protyping an idea of how to do this, across all platforms. Matt Know: It's interesting, because the demographics are the same as Netflix, and it's pretty spread out between those demographics. Netflix is now in 190 countries. The middle piece is where we've seen the most conversions. We see the opportunity as massive.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

They’ve built products that have completely transformed industries, like the AT&T M2X Internet of Things platform. “If Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter have already proven that using API services they can stay ahead of their competition and deliver continuous value to their user base,” says David Kullmann, Partner at Citrusbyte.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? That's the story we got from Tobi Bauckhage , the co-founder and CEO of Moviepilot (www.moviepilot.com), a German firm which is setting up shop in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

One new, Los Angeles startup-- Laudville (www.laudville.com)--recently launched its service to try to tackle that huge task, of bringing your content together. You have Genius on iTunes, NetFlix''s recommended movies, Facebook or Twitter. That''s also one of the things I really love about Los Angeles. I love that.

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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). Here, we wanted to build a Netflix-like experience for this.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2018

That's what Los Angeles-based Eusoh (www.eusoh.com) is hoping to do. We caught up with Allen Kamrava , the CEO and founder the startup, to learn about how the company is building a consumer platform that allows assembled and self-selected groups to form for the purpose of sharing unexpected costs of life. It's truly broken.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data. We built a rock star team.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As one of the organizers, Jay Tucker explained, “The Silicon Beach movement is the future of the Los Angeles tech area – tech, mobility, digital content, entrepreneurship, etc. Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Hollywood and Silicon Valley converged over coffee at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in West Los Angeles for the Digital Hollywood conference to find out what studios and techies are all buzzing about. The conference brings about panelists from across the platforms in film, television, new media and tech.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

from Signia Venture Partners, South Park Commons, and angels. Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation. The company recently announced $3.2M in a seed funding round. What's Swoop all about? So, it's been a good time to catch them.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

The firm is based in Los Angeles and Seattle. We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. Hark is backed by Redpoint, and happens to be co-founded by Fouad. What's the story behind Hark?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2015

Since its inception in 2010, EAT Club has scaled its service in the Bay Area, delivering more than three million meals to allow thousands of companies like Netflix , Tesla and Cisco to find their workplace zen. The company redefining workplace lunch with personalized meals and snacks that are always on time, launches today in L.A.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Warby Parker produces modern eyewear at affordable prices, Apple produces elegant, premium technology products, Netflix offers an enormous library of binge-worthy, unique video. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

NG: Filmzu is a matchmaking platform for people to connect with each other and to also engage fans and other talents to be discovered and collaborate on various projects. Is it kind of like social media platform? Is Filmzu a national matchmaking platform or is it global as well? Los Angeles is going to be our home base.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Online text book rental service. Total raised: $129.0mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Netflix is a great example. When Facebook was opening up their platform, these guys thought that it was an interesting way to do user acquisition and preference acquisition of individuals and that they would be able find a way to monetize it in commerce-oriented verticals. . Monetizing content is going to be a moving target.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. Sequoia has a tremendous reputation, but it was also important to us to have a local (Los Angeles) VC as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud. In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings.

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