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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. We are in phase three of the influencer economy,” Bain Capital Ventures senior principal Jamison Hill, who led the firm’s investment in the influencer shoutout marketplace Cameo , tells TechCrunch.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC.

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Interview with Peter Csathy, CREATV Media

SoCal Tech Calendar

We are an innovation, investment, and advisory firm. Does this include investments or an investment fund? Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1 In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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Interview with Zach James and Rich Raddon, MOVIECLIPS.COM

socalTECH

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? It seems most venture investors have been very shy about investing in Hollywood content related ventures.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

socalTECH

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. So, what I've been doing is connecting my experience with those reviews, and working businesses, with my experience in the entertainment industry.