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Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools

TechCrunch LA

Traditional venture capitalists may have made it rain on expensive Hollywood studios that were promising virtual reality would be the future of entertainment and social networking (given coronavirus fears, it may yet be), but Talespin and others like it are focused on much more mundane goals.

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Interview with Scot Lawrie and John Rhodes, Coverfly

socalTECH

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

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Silicon Beach at USC 2013 | Entrepreneurial Inspiration

Tech Zulu Event

The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews. Startup Pitch Competition. I tried to treat it as a learning experience and refined my pitch for this competition.”.

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Nine Startup Tips From Walt Disney

InfoChachkie

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner." Money allowed Walt to do more of what he loved to do, which was create entertaining content.

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Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

InfoChachkie

But it's also about operations and customer relationships." Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. It devised made-to-order factories that allowed customers, for the first time on a large scale, to individually configure a personal computer.

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Creating the 21st-Century Fashion Brand, with Brett Markinson, Sole Society

socalTECH

I started in media technology, and built a number of companies, which I was able to build out and get the ball rolling, in digital, nonlinear editing and special effects technology in Hollywood. This is a new medium through which consumers validate brands, and where brands are in a position to have a direct relationship with the customer.

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

Tech Zulu Event

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs. Jared Golden – Pear, connecting local community groups to their sponsors. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics.