SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 20, 2011

How can you stay ahead in an increasingly competitive marketplace? Over 300 of the most influential decision-makers in the games industry gather for the LA Games Conference to network, do deals, and share ideas about the future of console, PC, online and mobile games. What trends will be shaping the games industry?

Conference 124

Conference Press Hollywood Competition 124

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. Can you talk about those businesses? The nice thing about those two businesses, is they feed each other nicely. What is Jukin Media?

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From a societal perspective, I’d be more concerned about e-scooters leaving Los Angeles than Paris,” David Zipper, a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government, told TechCrunch. Boohoo to your complaints about scooters on sidewalks! Frustrated. So what if there are accidents?

Los Angeles 257

Los Angeles San Pedro Santa Monica Study 257

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

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.”.

USC 98

USC Cornerstone OnDemand Southern California Netflix 98

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

With newfound freedom to make independent decisions about finding a company name, where to locate the company, whether to lease an office or start from home, how to engage talent, even whether to provide free coffee to employees, the newly minted entrepreneur can only think of positive thoughts and great outcomes.

Press 149

Press Hollywood Writing Startup 149

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Greeene wrote the book while struggling to suceed as a Hollywood screenwriter, I wasn''t surprised. Mr. Greene''s book might be applicable to Hollywood''s super-competitive, mean-spirited culture. I''ll never tweet about clueless politicians or that killer burrito I am about to devour - just startup stuff.

Hollywood 227

Hollywood Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Customer 227

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. We started about four or five years ago. What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

Startup 164

Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Anne Walls and John Singleton are co-founders of WordHustler (www.wordhustler.com), a local Hollywood startup looking to help writers connect with publishers. We caught up with both Anne and John to learn more about the company. We are trying to keep it competitive. WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I have started thinking about what the future might look like and I’ve started imagining what I call, “MMOV” or massive multiplayer online video. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We caught up with Steve Seigel , the executive producer and one of the stars of the new startup pitch program Hatched (www.hatchedtv.com), to learn more about those areas, as well as how he ended up going from investment banking, to running a healthcare startup here in LA, to hosting a television pitch show.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Invest Competition 100

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

We spoke with Kristztina "Z" Holly --most recently, Vice Provost for Innovation at USC--about what Mayor Garcetti''s EIR program is all about, and her vision for how it might help shape the industry in Los Angeles. Krisztina "Z" Holly: It''s actually an initiative and program I''ve very excited about.

Los Angeles 216

Los Angeles Startup USC Angel 216

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

"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." You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just Start. "The

Tips 277

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Entertainment 277

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships." Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. You can read about the variable impact of the various forms of innovation in Fast Followers.

Tips 247

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Tell us a little bit about your background? 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. We sold that about a year and a half ago to Nordstrom, for approximately $270M dollars.

Southern California 200

Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). My favorite line from this panel: Feld, “If LA companies still have a chip on your shoulders about not being in Silicon Valley, I have one message for you – get over it!”

Twiistup 228

Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 18, 2012

There has been talk for the past week about Microsoft making a “Major” announcement here in Los Angeles. Today at an event in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled Surface: PCs built to be the ultimate stage for Windows. Wait no more! Both will be sold in the Microsoft Store locations in the U.S. Configurable: 64 GB, 128 GB.

Los Angeles 71

Los Angeles Angel Design Activity 71

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Last year at this time I spoke at VidCon and gave this presentation in which I said YouTube was “the Walmart of Online Video” but I also commented that I felt YouTube was vulnerable to competition because their rev share to MCNs wasn’t high enough to allow MCNs to build a profitable business inside of YouTube.

Invest 291

Invest Content Media Networking 291

InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

Powell: To experiment, I needed about 10 molds. I was, however, very competitive when I was young, and had played football in high school well enough to get scholarship offers from what would be called division 1 schools in today’s world. I grew to love many things about skating as I got into the industry I helped to create.

Mentor 100

Mentor Pacific Palisades Startup Class 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Veis specializes in making the impossible possible, predicting the future by creating it, and bringing about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Although Jason currently is employed at DreamWorks Animation, he has previously worked at Digital Domain, Luma Pictures, SW Digital, CIS Hollywood, Ring of Fire, and yu+co.

Technical Advisors 89

Technical Advisors Design Education Study 89

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. I think because we're a Hollywood town, people haven't taken it all that seriously.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

The following week, I joined AT&T Hackathon at iO/LA in Hollywood and again pitched the idea. I faced the same challenge not being able to form a team because most people joined the competition with friends that they had already planned on working with. As a journalist, I’m glad it happened to me so I can write about it.

Startup 100

Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Since Donald Trump’s infamous “Access Hollywood” tape was released on October 7, Leerink Partners analyst Geoffrey Porges wrote, biotech investors have lost $50 billion. The drug system went off the market in 2015, leaving Mylan’s EpiPen without competition and setting the stage for the furor over Mylan’s price hikes.

Pricing 40

Pricing Conference News Study 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

About two weeks in fact, and as we know, in the world of tech, that is , for all intents and purposes, eons. Tons of great conversations about new startups, hardware, and the entrepreneurs building them. What I loved most about them? I know what you’re thinking. That was ages ago! Big ups to the Twitch.TV

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

If the powers that be, can accept this, and move forward with breakneck speed, they have an incredibly huge opportunity to build something we will all be talking about again. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA. Think eHOW or About. I want Facebook to legitimately have competition, so we all benefit as consumers.

Development Team Review 76

Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. In this series, we talk to leading figures in those communities about what makes them tick. Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about what makes L.A.s

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Fun Fact: The idea behind DataCulture started in 2010 when Gurudatt and Karthik connected on Twitter and spent a few hours talking about how data could change the world. He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. Fun Fact: Moveha is a talented team that cares about student relocation issues.

Startup 40

Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

MAKE SURE to talk with your existing investors about how they feel about your burn rate, discuss with them early what the back-up plan may be and whether they think they’d be able to get support in the unlikely event that fund raising proves difficult. By the end the buyer forgets why they loved your presentation.

Funding 238

Funding Venture Capital Startup Course 238

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. How about them apples?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. Several times a week I offer conjecture and get instant feedback about how others feel.

Blogging 250

Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I call this collecting logos because it seems that having fancy brands to brag about trumps the logic of maximizing the value of your investor. But think about it logically. So as you go out to raise more money you can often find these VCs fighting amongst themselves about who gets to pick up the next round of investment.

Startup 312

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Help 312