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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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Interview with Youtuber Adorian Deck, On Making A Living On YouTube

socalTECH

It's a fascinating new world out there in entertainment and media, where YouTube stars are now as popular--or maybe, more popular--than traditional celebrities. I'm a glass half full kind of guy, and it's more of my personal blogging channel. I started to meet lots of people, and really got into this community around personal blogging.

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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. People say we’re crazy, but we know creators are legit businesses,” Karat writes on its website — the company didn’t respond to a request to chat about what they’re working on. Now, everyone wants to become an influencer.”.

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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. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. My views are pretty well known.

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Biotech Roundup: ASCO, BIO, Drug Setbacks, Incubators & More

Xconomy

. —If Jim Greenwood railing like King Lear in the storm isn’t entertaining enough, two notorious biotech characters have once again inspired the imagination of creative types. First reported by Deadline Hollywood , Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to play Holmes.

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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 When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him.

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

Tech Zulu Event

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. As a vendor for game-changing plasma lighting, they’ve grown themselves a fantastic business servicing the Hollywood/entertainment industry in Los Angeles with their innovative lineup of clearer, cleaner, and cooler stage and spot lighting.