SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 12, 2009

This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles. I really enjoy his blog and I can't wait to mix it up with him some more on the value of Hollywood money / connections.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Anne Walls and John Singleton are co-founders of WordHustler (www.wordhustler.com), a local Hollywood startup looking to help writers connect with publishers. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. What's the whole idea behind WordHustler?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

What's the story behind the site and how you got into tracking Hollywood numbers? Back in 1997, when I started thee site, there was no one really doing box office tracking or movie financial tracking on the web. Tags: movie office numbers opusdata hollywood content entrepreneur interview nash bruce. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

The deal calls for local and regional television broadcasters to integrate its SportsTop product into their web sites. Jacked provides sports information, including scores, statistics for players, chat, blogs, play-by-play, merchandise, and more via the web, synchronized real-time with broadcast sports games.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. Is this installed software, or web technology? Brandon Hance: It's all web-based technology, and software we've build in-house. Thanks, and good luck!

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based EQAL (www.eqal.com) launched into the online world in 2006 with the creation of the YouTube sensation "lonelygirl15," the fictional video blog of a teenage girl. In the case of lonelygirl, the meme of lonelygirl15 blog coverage was viral in nature. From your viewpoint, where do you see the industry going?

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Hollywood Content Paramount Entertainment 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. Deviant Art, led by Angelo Sotira, which is one of the largest online communities on the Internet [Hollywood]. My views are pretty well known. I hate Silicon Whatever. LA should be LA.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? Fascinating story.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. A few weeks ago I sat through two very contrasting presentations and wrote this blog post right afterward. We all know that many companies have tried to deliver targeted advertising on the web.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 4, 2010

broadwayallday : The Man Behind The 50 Cent Web Empire. 0: All Web Leads. Regator: Finding Quality Blogs So You Don't Have To. Tweetphoto: One Of The Fastest Growing Twitter Photo Sharing Sites On The Web. Twingly Channels: Cutting Out the Noise Of Online Search And The Real-Time Web. Get Your Props With Propadoo.

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Technical Review Social Media Twiistup Web 40

Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Financial terms were not disclosed in a statement issued Tuesday by GoFundMe.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Blair Harrison: Frequency was borne out of a frustration of mine, which is having to visit many different places to consume video, from a combination of social networks, to blogs, to apps. You helped define video on the web with iFilm. What's different now, and how has the world changed?

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. Past Startups Uncensored LA Tech Events.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I actually worked in the offline business world until Web 1.0. We also have a very popular blog on our site, where we only mention one band a day, and we have lots of bands, artists, and labels vying for that position. What's your background and how did you get into this? Vic Caretti: It's rather diverse.

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Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I am avoiding “frenzied&# deals for all of the reasons Roger Ehrenberg talks about in his excellent blog post. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App). I’m trying to pick themes that I think will map to macro trends over the next 5-10 years. I still love B2B application.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

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. Where do those videos get distribute? Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses. We started a year and a half ago by putting out a blog post, because I had people asking me for help on their business. First, we're geographically spread out, with silos far away--in Pasadena, the Valley, Hollywood, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. » More.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. The importance of people finding things through friends, and access through music blogs, discovery through music sites or Pandora and other ways is increasing.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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