Techstars Music Names New Class Of Startups In LA
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The accelerator said its 2017 and 2018 classes have so far raised more than $40M in follow on investment, with a combined valuation of more than $300M. READ MORE>>.
Techstars Music Makes Call For New Los Angeles Class
socalTECH
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Techstars Music , the music startup accelerator in Los Angeles, says it is on a worldwide tour to find founders interested in participating in its new class, which starts on February 5h. According to Techstars , its applications close on October 15th, and that it will be making final selections around December 15th.
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Warner Media Camp Graduates Second Class
socalTECH
AUGUST 5, 2014
What do you get when you combine a technology investment demo day with a Hollywood-style story pitch session? warner media camp demo demoday content hollywood' It might look a little like Demo Day for Warner Media Camp , the startup incubator program being run out of Los Angeles by Turner/Warner Bros. READ MORE>>.
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A Surprising Entrepreneurial Journey To The Pinnacle Of Hollywood
InfoChachkie
MAY 13, 2013
With no industry connections or family ties, talent agent John Ferriter applied basic entrepreneurial principles to reach the pinnacle of Hollywood''s elite. You can watch John describe his surprising Hollywood journey in the following 20-minute excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. I need to figure out business.''".
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Earth Class Mail Lands In West LA
socalTECH
DECEMBER 1, 2008
Seattle-based startup Earth Class Mail has landed in Los Angeles, saying Monday that the firm has opened up shop on Santa Monica Boulevard for the firm's Internet mail service. According to Earth Class Mail, the new Los Angeles retail location will also provide onsite package pickup and shipping services.
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Backstage Capital Launches New Startup Accelerator In LA
socalTECH
MARCH 14, 2019
West Hollywood-based Backstage Capital , a venture capital investor which focuses on minorities--including women, People of Color, and LGBT founders, said recently that it has launched the Backstage Accelerator , a three month, startup accelerator which will provide in-person resources and support to its portfolio of companies.
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Yet Another LA Incubator Opens: Io/LA
socalTECH
APRIL 2, 2012
If the Los Angeles accelerator/incubator market is not yet crowded enough, Hollywood-based io/LA opened its doors over the weekend, looking to recruit a class of five to six companies in a three month mentorship program.
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Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood, LA Tech Summit, and Idea to Screen | Why You Need to Attend Any or All
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
Hard to believe another Digital LA Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is happening this week back-to-back with the new LA Tech Summit produced by Cornerstone. LA Tech Summit takes place the following day and takes a more comprehensive look at the entire tech eco-system in Los Angeles, not just Hollywood. See you there!
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Closing on $103M, MaC VC is changing the face of venture capital
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 25, 2021
Formed when M Ventures (a firm founded by former Washington DC mayor Adrian Fenty); the first Black talent agency partner in the history of Hollywood, Charles D. “We’re seeing these SpaceX and Tesla mafias spin out, entrepreneurs who have had best-in-class training at an Elon Musk company,” said Palank.
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Why Warner Bros. Is Tapping Into The World Of Technology Startups
socalTECH
AUGUST 12, 2014
If you''re a large, Hollywood studio, how do you tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community? This is our second class, and it culminates in this Demo Day we just had. warner bros media camp mediacamp technology startup content hollywood accelerator incubator interview' Warner Bros. READ MORE>>.
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159 Tastemade Acquired By ChefsFeed
socalTECH
DECEMBER 18, 2020
According to ChefsFeed, it will work together with Tastemade to expand more of the livestreamed classes, chef documentaries, recipes, and more. Santa Monica-based Tastemade , which produces a series of food and travel videos, as well as related content, said this week that it has acquired Chefsfeed. Tastemade is led by CEO Larry Fitzgibbon.
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113 Tastemade Acquires Chefsfeed
socalTECH
DECEMBER 18, 2020
According to ChefsFeed, it will work together with Tastemade to expand more of the livestreamed classes, chef documentaries, recipes, and more. Santa Monica-based Tastemade , which produces a series of food and travel videos, as well as related content, said this week that it has acquired Chefsfeed. Tastemade is led by CEO Larry Fitzgibbon.
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You Can’t Teach People To Be Entrepreneurs, But Entrepreneurs Can Be Taught
InfoChachkie
MARCH 2, 2015
I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. For instance, I assign an Ombudsman in all my classes in order to gather anonymous feedback. Thus, diligent students leave my classes with insights and tools they can directly apply to their jobs after graduation. Challenging.
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USC Adds New Accelerator “Viterbi Startup Garage” to Silicon Beach
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 26, 2013
The 12-week program is a technology accelerator that will provide $20k, work space, world-class mentorship, and hands-on product, marketing and legal support to those accepted. It is no coincidence that Hollywood is coming knocking and wants in on the action.
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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 28, 2012
“It’s great to get the tech and Hollywood communities together to celebrate digital innovation,” said Kevin Winston, creator of the Silicon Beach Fest, and Digital LA CEO/Founder. Hollywood Today: The Digital World of Silicon Tech Collides with the Flashy Stardom of Hollywood. Kindling’s: L.A.
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Techstars Music Adds Three Companies
socalTECH
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Techstars Music , one of the startup accelerator programs run by Techstars in Los Angeles, said this week that it has added three new companies to its effort, bringing its total class to nine. According to Techstars Music, it added Concord Music , RecoChoku , and Royalty Exchange to Techstars Music 2018.
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Why Meg Whitman is Betting on Quibi as“The Da Vinci Code of Content”
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.” There’s a long history in Los Angeles and Hollywood of technology enabling new ways to tell stories … We’ve created a really interesting technology platform that has inspired creators to do things in a completely different way. ”
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Solve, the startup creating an interactive “Law & Order” for social media, raises $20 million
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Games have attained a first class status as media but we’ve yet to see a crime mystery format game achieve the same success, and Solve is going to right that wrong.”. For now, Solve is content to be a studio producing ad-supported media for platforms like Apple, Snap, Facebook, iHeartMedia, and other distributors, according to Wright.
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Cinedigm Investment Deal Clears CFIUS Review
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
As part of the investment deal, Cinedigm said Bison Capital now owns a majority of its Class A common stock, and Bison Capital has added Mr. Peixin Xu and Mr. Peng Jin to the board of Cinedigm. Bison Capital is based in Hong Kong. READ MORE>>.
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Stage 32: An Education Hub For Entertainment Industry Creatives
Tech.Co
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Indeed, whether you’re a producer, screenwriter, director, actor, cinematographer, editor, art director or composer (or some combination of these) Stage 32 offers classes to meet your specific needs. Classes with a wide geographic appeal. Among those that have paid for a Stage 32 class, 91% say they’ll do it again in the future.
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CAA, William Morris Back Online Video Education Site
socalTECH
MARCH 11, 2013
Two, Hollywood heavyweights--the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and William Morris Endeavor (WME) --are backing an online site which provides live workshops from experts. As part of the funding Caterina Fake, the founder of Flickr, will join the company's board.
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Jam City Signs Slate Of Original Harry Potter Actors for Hogwarts Game
socalTECH
APRIL 5, 2018
Players in the game will experience the game as if they are a student entering the famed Harry Potter school, attending classes, learning magical skills, and going on their own quests. The game will be available on both iOS and Android.
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100 Naritiv Raises $3M For Snapchat Content
socalTECH
JANUARY 29, 2016
Naritiv was part of the 2014 Disney Accelerator class, and says it has been working with such brands as Freeform, Coca Cola, Fox, Marriott, Sphero, and Redken/L'OREAL on Snapchat campaigns. The funding was led by Third Wave Digital and Allen DeBevoise and also included Disney and Luminari Capital. READ MORE>>.
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100 SPACES' Shiraz Akmal On Making VR A Real Life Experience
socalTECH
JULY 18, 2018
We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format. Everyone came in to support our vision of bringing the next generation of location-based attractions to locations around the world. We're building attractions that are VR-enabled.
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180 GotCast Launches Casting For Mercedes-Benz
socalTECH
DECEMBER 16, 2010
Mercedes-Benz posted the campaign today, saying it is looking for four teams of "Twitter-savvy" auto enthusiasts, who will race from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Tampa to the Super Bowl in Dallas, to win a Mercedez Benz 2012 C-Class Coupe.
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Interview with Gary Beer, StarCast Auditions
socalTECH
MAY 10, 2012
Beer and his co-founder saw that promising, talented actors and actresses did not have a good way to truly break into the industry, and decided to combine the world of digital video with Hollywood to give some of that talent a chance to break into the industry through his new startup, StarCast Auditions (www.starcastauditions.com).
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Social Media Week Lands in Los Angeles Sept. 24-28
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
7083 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028. Social Media and Urban Development in Hollywood. 6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028. The New Hollywood. Here you can find local and online/local hybrid classes for topics like UX Design & Programming or Social Media Law among other classes.
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92 How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
As I argued in this widely read piece, Hollywood content producers who don’t understand and develop technology prowess for the online & mobile media will fail to succeed in the future. I meet way too many Hollywood producers who tell me, “I just signed X, Y, Z talent and we’re putting a bunch of videos on YouTube.
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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Most of my MBA classes were a waste (since I had studied economics as an undergrad) but one totally changed my thinking. It was an investment management class. We’ll re-compare notes then. Investors are conformists by nature.
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299 Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 29, 2013
Innovation comes from those who are often less well educated (study the history of Hollywood, founded by “uneducated” Jews) or foreign born founding members (Google, Sun, Intel, PayPal) let alone reversed scientists like Einstein. ” They told me I’d get a free pass because I was a Yank.
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Be Great Fest | Celebrating Los Angeles’ Startup Ecosystem
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 27, 2013
17, entrepreneurs, investors, civic leaders and other key players in the tech industry will gather at the historic Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. Meet the next generation of startup success stories at Be Great Fest in Los Angeles. That’s why we created Be Great Fest.”. With this push from Be Great Partners, L.A.
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Interview with Eric Frankel, StarGreetz
socalTECH
JUNE 15, 2011
We caught up with CEO Eric Frankel this week to talk about the firm, his decision to go from the comfortable world of Hollywood as President of Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution, to a startup, how the firm is using the cloud to power it service, as well as where the firm is going next.
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Digital Family Reunion | Make New Friends, But Keep The Old
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 13, 2012
Digital LA had just begun throwing monthly networking events, Rubicon Project was in its infancy, and the Roosevelt in Hollywood was the local hangout. generation” joined forces with Kurt Daradics from the new class of digital execs to launch DFR, and it continues to be the multigenerational event in LA tech.
Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. 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]. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space.
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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun
InfoChachkie
APRIL 6, 2015
The Hollywood version, sadly fell short of his documentary, in my mind, but many people enjoyed it, even if it was a little distorted. In a class by himself. Greathouse: Prior to entering the skateboard industry, your background didn’t involve a lot of marketing, yet Skate One has proven to be world-class marketer.
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100 Microsoft Announces New Tablet In Los Angeles | The Surface
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 18, 2012
Today at an event in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled Surface: PCs built to be the ultimate stage for Windows. Suggested retail pricing will be announced closer to availability and is expected to be competitive with a comparable ARM tablet or Intel Ultrabook-class PC. Wait no more! Configurable: 64 GB, 128 GB.
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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies
Tech Zulu Event
MAY 20, 2014
We did a lot of investigative research — cold calling executives in Hollywood through networks at Harvard and networks through Johns Hopkins, the school where my brother graduated from. Skip classes. Has this sort of idea been around and was it not executed because of some sort of a technical issue? You have deliverables.
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91 Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2010
It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. MOVIECLIPS allows fans to find, watch and share more than 12,000 movie clips from the libraries of the major Hollywood studios. , Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. And of course we had, TheMan. Now begins the 6-month journey.
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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
You imagined him as the kid in your class at school at the front of the room raising his hand at every question and saying, “Oooh, me. ” “Hollywood is run by dinosaurs and we understand the future of media.” Before that he was a US senator. Call on me. I know the answer.” ” None of these are true.
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370 Develop.la | L.A.’s Own Hacker News and Why Now?
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 2, 2012
He recently produced the Silicon Beach Fest along with Kevin Winston of Digital LA , and his mobile ad optimization and re-engagement company PageWoo came out of the 1st graduating class for the new Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine (developed by serial entrepreneur of Activision fame, Howard Marks). So is tech.
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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. In the end the skeptics get convinced because they see others reap the benefits.”.
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Investor Insights and Highlights | An Unscientific Process as Dating
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 19, 2013
I would highly recommend checking with your attorney because the investing class I attended at Cross Campus from Daniel Friedland, a partner specializing in emerging companies at Orrick, Harrington and Sutcliffe, LLP, recommended this advice. The common thought among investors was to take a lower valuation as possible, 3.5
mitu Backs Effort To Increase Diversity In Digital Media
socalTECH
JULY 12, 2017
Los Angeles-based Mitu , the venture-backed online content developer focused on media and entertainment from a Latino perspective, says it is backing an effort by the Bixel Exchange, part of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce's Center for Innovation & Technology, Mayor Garcetti and Annenberg Foundation, to drive diversity in the digital media (..)
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