TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company has already launched a beta version of its streaming service, Ficto , and yesterday announced a host of new shows that will appear on the app later this year. He points to the success of Netflix’s hit “You”, which the streaming service picked up from Lifetime.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2010

The firm similarly ran the numbers for Netflix, finding that watching a single, hour-and a half movie would consume the entirety of the 200MB plan; as well as for ABC's iPad app, which would consume that 200Mb with only a half-hour streaming show.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. You have Genius on iTunes, NetFlix''s recommended movies, Facebook or Twitter. What is Laudville? I love that.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at YouTube didn’t kill television, it just became Netflix… T hings can move in two different directions at the same time. at least in terms of the amount of money it has raised). “And I don’t see it as zero sum.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. As you can see in the LA landscape, there are already a tremendous number of YouTube channels, sites like FunnyOrDie, and CollegeHumor. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

This traveling player can allow direct digital rentals from any blog, Facebook page, Twitter profile or other online site. Their baked in marketing technology helps producers determine the best distribution system by matching genres with online viewers demographics across 4,000 affiliate sites. The company has been funded for $3.1M

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. The firm is based in Los Angeles and Seattle. So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections.

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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. I ran the Los Angeles Film Festival for a decade. Photo: Rich Raddon on left, Zach James on right, courtesy MOVIECLIPS.com).

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. PERSON David Sacks PERSON|David Sacks.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other online distributors bring viewers to their portal to watch movies and TV shows. The small startup in Los Angeles created an online movie player to be embedded anywhere on the web. “We Yekra Theater joins the few online distributors by providing a different business model.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

They would search through Craigslist and other jobs sites for a film crew and the process of finding people manually was quite cumbersome. Los Angeles is going to be our home base. Also, mainly the entertainment focus side of Los Angeles is something you can’t dismiss. RR: Yeah, I am really proud of how the site is looking.

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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. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

It’s Amazon, Virgin America, Netflix, Tesla, DropBox, iPhone, Uber, Lyft or any one of the other great brands that exist because they do things significantly better than what came before. He would pick up stuff from your apartment and bring it to storage for you and he could save money by having that facility be off site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In my role as an angel investor in startups, almost every pitch I see highlights some real innovation in technology, business model, or market opportunity. It’s amazing how many proposals I see that are “me too” with only slight or abstract differentiation from other social media sites, ride sharing, or collaboration tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). These are both either “remnant” or free ad types.

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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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