socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

We go to the web, we go to feature phones, we go to smart phones, we go to land lines, iPads, Droids, and so on. You've been in more traditional entertainment firms--as an executive in a big studio--why jump to a startup? Did those prior entertainment relationships help to get those celebrities to work with you?

Entertainment 159

Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Social mobile web. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites. Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Social Media Week (SMW) helps organizations connect and share the latest social media findings through social, cultural and economic talks and workshops in major cities worldwide. They have broken events down by two hubs: Social Tech , and Entertainment. The Future of Gaming Entertainment and Beyond. ENTERTAINMENT HUB.

Social Media 92

Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. Elizabeth Amini: We make online games, which are fun and easy, and help memory, concentration, focus, and relaxation.

Study 252

Study Startup Design Tips 252

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. So carriers are a major customer of yours? Why is that important for your customers?

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. The target is that during the fall we'll launch the beginning of the class.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. This is the list I would start with.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. How did it help you? Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Sorenson is best known for having what is widely considered as the best in class video encoding and compression application, Sorenson Squeeze. Customers are also aware of video, not only from the entertainment side, but also from the commerce perspective. We understand you're hiring and expanding here in San Diego?

Media 100

Media San Diego Southern California Class 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

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.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. Web analytics, pretty clear. Jen Robinson has been building web and mobile tech for more than 10 years. Steve currently manages Fandango’s web and mobile commerce platforms. For example? Online usage data, easy.

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. The Sponsors. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. The Sponsors. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Tsavo 76

Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years.

Invest 295

Invest Carson Technical Review Education 295

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. the entertainment industry. WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. than in other parts of the city.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. If you look at any graduating class of Y Combinator they’re filled with application companies launching new, experimental services that change the way we work and live.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343