Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

Campbell quickly formed a thriving community he calls “Mindshaians” who flocked to attend his various salons, workshops, screenings, and cultural outings. “In There will be a DJ, drinks, designer cake, and a clothing swap contest with prizes. Advertising Culture Entertainment Events Gadgets Mindshare Mindshare LA Play Santa Monica'

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). First, to catch up our readers on JibJab, can you quickly talk about where the company is nowadays and the whole greeting card business?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

” while watching the screen and registering nothing. Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. I’m staring at my screen, and there they were.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The power of large screen real estate. Here’s my view: I support a “mobile first” strategy for many companies.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I quietly watched their success from the sidelines and kept spending time with and telling the CEO, Scott Lahman, that I wanted to invest in his next company.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

The “Consumer User Experience” system, is a robust “infotainment” system that seeks to seamlessly integrate entertainment and driving information, thereby reducing distractions and risks for drivers. This is true especially for touch-screen devices that require more visual communication to hit the right buttons.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The intuitive design makes finding, keeping, and removing all the channels the user focuses on very simple and clean. No clutter design and no complicated motions to scroll through the various channels and videos available. We really wanted to focus on the design of Pheebo. The bigger screen, the better.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). First, to catch up our readers on JibJab, can you quickly talk about where the company is nowadays and the whole greeting card business?

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Our products are designed for use by warehouse workers, retail staff, employees in manufacturing plants, by airlines, any place where people are moving boxes, picking and placing, shipping products, or getting things ready for pickup. After college, I didn't go into engineer, I went into the marketing and entertainment side.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2011

3D Movies, 3D Printing, 3D Televisions, 3DS, our entire screen world is turning 3D and now its time for your mobile screen to get in on the fun. inch 800 x 480-pixel screen that can displaying both 2D and 3D content. Does calling it the “4G” Thrill really mean its faster in the data speeds department?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO. You have the headphones in your ears and you listen to the whole track, the dialogue, surround special effects, and music tracks as you are watching the movie on the screen.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2015

Utilizing technological innovations spun out of the renowned MIT Media Labs and visual artistry by GMUNK , TrueCar is melding the company’s data analysis and visualization abilities with new, entertainment technology. This platform takes our web-based technology from the computer screen to the concert experience, as L.E.D.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The large gathering of top investors spilled out of the office into the surrounding sidewalk and swelled with buzz and speculation of what the 10 newly formed companies had to offer. Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data. Or maybe a goldmine. Founded by L.A.’s

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

There are two ways you can use the app -- you can either play your iPad like it is a real instrument, by strumming the touch screen. It's a diverse group, both entertainment and technology. Seventy percent of the people we met with invested in the company. It teaches people how to learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. Twiistup 6 featured 12 showoff companies as the opening act of a 2-day conference. We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

But the request this time was different: could we urgently help make realistic screen displays for a big Hollywood science fiction movie that was just about to start shooting? Well, in our company unusual issues eventually land in my inbox, and so it was with this one. We’ve got a list of alien landing sites; what’s the pattern?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Several teams disassembled themselves, joining other teams as well as one new company surfaced off in the corner with no one seeming to notice. Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking. Throughout the day, random shouts of Startup Weekend success!

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

A total of 113 speakers representing 82 companies were on the bill to deliver over 30 hours of talks across three tracks: Business, Technology, and Production & Design. Think a google maps digital overlay over a police helicopter chase video, with all visible street names and numbers on the screen. The winners of this one?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

It was built in pilot with BMW, HP and one huge, beloved entertainment company here in LA that I guess was a bit gun shy to include their name in our announcement. visualization tool for 2+ years so when they told me they were building a new sweet of tools designed for marketers I was all over it. Today awe.sm No brainer.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Lisa and her team create media projects designed to move the social progress agenda forward.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. It’s how we package our company story and drive our press coverage. Almost all business success relies on creativity.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. That said, Apple will remain a closed system designed to drive media consumption through a closed iTunes system and a take a toll for media distribution.

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