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Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. I was kind of naive about it, and it ended up being my wife--who is a world class designer--those two guys, and myself.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Venice-based Snap announced the third class of its Yellow startup accelerator class on Wednesday, naming ten companies to participate in its annual 14-week program in Los Angeles.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Shopify , which develops software for merchants to set up e-commerce, mobile, social media sites, online marketplaces, bricks-and-mortar stores, and more, is setting up a space for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, the company said this morning.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

The company said Scott has invested in such companies as Inside, Tesla, CrowdFunder, Tiltify, Lottery.com, Earth Class Mail, Principle Power, Signum Biosciences, Greener World Media, Sierra Nevada Solar, and Cool Earth Solar. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 25, 2011

The firm said the new social media capabilities allows trainers to share classes and promote training on those social networking and media services. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2017

According to Zynga, it has provided a "substantial gift" to USC's School of Cinematic ARts' Interactive Media & Games Division, to support diversity, inclusive game production, and the creation of "innovative social mobile gameplay."

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MAY 23, 2016

Applications are open for the accelerator's first class until June 1st. The accelerator says the long list of LA backers for its efforts is no mistake: a spokesperson says that LA is the king of content creation and the accelerator will thrive with LA-based VR and AR companies. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 7, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat has been sued in a class action lawsuit , over what the lawsuit says are obscene news stories published via Snapchat Discover. The lawsuit alleges "willful and intentional violations" of the Communications Decency Act by Snapchat in linking to media partners such as Buzzfeed, Vice, and MTV. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Today's interview is with Peter Csathy, President and CEO of Sorenson Media (www.sorensonmedia.com), which recently relocated its executive offices to San Diego. What is Sorenson Media about? Peter Csathy: Sorenson Media has been around for several years. It's really aggressive growth. We are drop-dead, ease of use.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY , the online booking site for fitness classes and spas, has linked up with athletic app and social network developer Strava , the two said on Monday. According to the two, the integration means Strava athletes can discover new classes through friends' activities feeds.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

has figured out one way -- which is to run a startup accelerator, Warner Media Camp (www.mediacamp.com)--which pulls a class of startups into the company for an intense, twelve week program every year, and helps those companies tap into the resources of the studio. For those not familiar with s Warner Media Camp, what is it all about?

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Social Reality said its Class A common stock will begin trading as SRAX. According to the company, its real time bidding management platform is aimed at brands and publishers, and lets brands launch, distribute, track and optimize social and digital media and consumer engagement campaigns. Social Reality is led by Christopher Miglino.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Santa Monica-based GotCast , the online casting site headed by Alec Shankman, said today that it has launched a new social media campaign with Mercedes-Benz. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Deadline in the casting is December 23rd. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

The Disney Accelerator has rolled out the newest class of startup from its startup accelerator this week, showing off 11 new companies from the 2017 Disney Accelerator program on Wednesday in Burbank. digital media focused on inspiring women); Epic Games (creators of the Unreal Engine); Hoodline (local news and content discovery); Kahoot!

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Snapchat launched its new tool on Tuesday, saying that its new feature is a collaboration with "world-class leaders in media" to put the "narrative first"--tapping into the knowledge of professional editors and artists. snapchat news information social media socialmedia discovery publisher publishing' Launch video embed below.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Snapchat launched its new tool on Tuesday, saying that its new feature is a collaboration with "world-class leaders in media" to put the "narrative first"--tapping into the knowledge of professional editors and artists. publishing publisher discovery socialmedia media social information news snapchat' Launch video embed below.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

Earlier this week, the Disney Accelerator held the demo day for its second class. We caught up with Michael Abrams , Senior Vice President, Innovation at The Walt Disney Company , to talk more about this year's class of companies and the program. What was the most interesting thing about this year's accelerator class for you?

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APRIL 6, 2015

MakerSquare , which operates coding camps and classes to help students get software jobs, is setting up a new location in Los Angeles, according to the Hack Reactor collective. The two said that MakerSquare will launch its first class on June 29th. San Francisco-based Hack Reactor acquired MakerSquare in January.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Los Angeles-based Circle Street , the developer of a mobile advertising service to help retailers drive local store traffic, has been acquired by media and advertising firm Valassis , according to the company''s venture backer, Crosscut Ventures. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

TouchFrame is one of the nine companies which launched themselves at MuckerLab's big Demo Day yesterday, the second class of startups to launch out of the accelerator. So far, the accelerator says it has had a 100 percent funding rate on its companies, based on its prior year's class. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2013

Adding one more startup incubator/accelerator to the long list in Los Angeles, Bixel Exchange launched Thursday, to offer up mentoring and classes to local startups. The center will focus on adtech, mobile, digital and social media, gaming and clean tech. The new center was created by the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.

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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. What's the idea behind Topspin Media? We're starting at the middle class of artists, who have a meaningful business, and will work from there.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Start Engine, started by Activision co-founder Howard Marks and investor Paul Kessler, said today that it is looking to provide mentorship, funding, and other resources to startups in the area, starting with a first class in January.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. You can have the best idea in the world with the fanciest board members and advisors but you need a world class management team to execute, iterate and ultimately navigate troubled waters.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

chapter of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Alliance (METal) and the voice of KenRadio's World Technology Roundup on CBS Radio, Rutkowski has recruited a roster of mentors to coach entrepreneurs who enroll in the institute's programs in LA. The structure is weekly classes, but with office hours and additional access to your mentors.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. Voice tech is rapidly becoming an end to end interface, not just a way to make a shopping list or check the weather.

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DECEMBER 27, 2017

Here in LA we ran three programs this year - Techstars Music, the Cedars Sinai Accelerator powered by Techstars, and the inaugural class of Techstars LA, which invests across all verticals. Those three LA programs alone invested in a total of 38 companies this year. What was the biggest personal lesson you learned from 2017?

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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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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JANUARY 27, 2016

The company was part of the second class of the Disney Accelerator , and showed off its product in October at the accelerator's Demo Day. StatMuse was founded by Eli Dawson and Adam Elmore. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. That's actually borne fruit in our first class. We sat down with Paul to learn a bit more about the program at Amplfify.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

I'm looking forward to opening up new markets, including the expansion of family offices and other traditional investors to the amazing asset class that cryptocurrency has become. What are you looking forward to most in 2018? Aside from $50,000 bitcoin? READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2013

Arjan Schutte: Our fund has a big mission, to invest in financial technology for the emerging middle class. Lots of people think of Los Angeles as a media center, for obvious reasons--but, we knew before we came, there is also a lot of exciting, financial technology going on here. How did you end up in Los Angeles?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Los Angeles is an amazing place, and we have fashion, e-commerce, advertising, games, media, entertainment companies which I think make Los Angeles a phenomenal place. When is your first class? Howard Marks: Our first class starts in January, and we're already accepting applications.

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JULY 18, 2018

SPACES recently announced a deal with Skydance Media to bring Terminator Genisys to life as a VR journey, where consumers will get to experience an immersive VR attraction where they become part of the world of Terminator. We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format.

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MAY 7, 2010

The next major change that we see, is now that they're online, they're becoming more web based, and adding things like rich media. We provide rich media to the STM market. One is software, which is very much like software-as-a-service, where we deliver that software to publications and conferences, to enable rich media on their sites.

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