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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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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

socalTECH

We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. Is there a lot of competition for the rights to all of that content? Lee Essner: That''s one of the competitive edges we have. going to put it on their channel on Youtube, or maybe their website platform.

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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. Sellbot helps online sellers sell through multiple platforms. Bigelow stated, “AIM was a very similar contest.

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

Tech Zulu Event

Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). You dont have the same levels of fast turnover as a starting point, right?

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Hollywood has even made a movie about the founding of Facebook that glamorizes startup life instead of showing what it really is: a day in day out marathon of work with very little glamor. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.