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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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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

Both Sides of the Table

For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. As of this writing nearly 50,000 versions have been created and uploaded and watched by some 200,000,000 people. It’s entertainment.

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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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Interview with Steve Seigel, Hatched

socalTECH

There are a lot of other competition shows and reality show, which are much more predatory and cut-throat, and it's nice for our entrepreneurs to not only get a real investment, but get great feedback. Anyone can write a check, but not everyone can provide intellectual capital. And, that help is not always capital.

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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. Short-lived but an epic way to cap off our interview; Shaq showed his competitive side when he hilarious tried swatting away Chris’s game controller out of his hand. Big ups to the Twitch.TV guys for making it happen! To the Trade show Floor!

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

It should be the next generation content/ entertainment portal that leverages millions of user profiles to more accurately provide data to advertisers on what is appealing to specific demographics. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA. I want Facebook to legitimately have competition, so we all benefit as consumers.