TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. ”

Invest 237

Invest Startup Artificial Inteligence Class 237

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. They don''t have coupons that work on that given day, the layout and design looks really spammy, and it feels spammy. But, that actually extends into all content.

Internet Brands 257

Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

It was annoying as a user to get random snaps and felt spammy as a content creator. On Snapchat when you click on my “story” you see every post of mine sequentially for my entire past 24 hours. For a content creator this is BIG. There is no ephemeral stream in which my content is mixed with others. This is a big deal.

Social Media 240

Social Media Snapchat Media Blogging 240

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Epic Games. Savioke.

Artificial Inteligence 108

Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the past year, 42% of small businesses experienced a cyberattack. Using content delivery networks (CDNs) to share the traffic load across multiple servers . One of the most effective ways for a tech startup to reduce the risk of cyberattacks is to leverage a network designed for privacy and security. were phishing attacks.

Startup 96

Startup Email Networking Southern California 96

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

In particular, over the past year, the fintech has seen “massive momentum” in the country, with more than 18 million American consumers now using Klarna, he said. While the company was profitable for its first 14 years of life, it has not been profitable the last two, according to Siemiatkowski, and that’s been by design.

Los Angeles 266

Los Angeles Funding CIO Marketing 266

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In an era where Amazon has become so dominant in the retailing and delivery of physical and digital content are there strategies that can succeed? better than anybody we had spoke with and she had the marketing chops to know how to communicate this to her market once she designed & built her products.

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Content: It should be intuitive to most that LA is well-suited to take on the world of content meets tech as we’ve seen with Maker Studios, Fullscreen, AwesomenessTV and Big Frame.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

So, we've ended up doing that for the past 20 years. Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home. They are going to need to have unique, exclusive content between songs.

Startup 113

Startup Artificial Inteligence Content Platform 113

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

However, in just the past year or so the company has made a huge change on the way they create their earphones. Designed for professional grade mixing, mastering, and monitoring for musicians and audio professionals. As stated before they will leave a hole in your wallet but will fill your audiophile heart with content.

Startup 107

Startup Pricing Design Content 107

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We've been able to build a really meaningful business there over the past number of years. They live in our iPads, in our iPhones, in our computers, on television, and have the mission of making learning fun for kids, and makes life easier for parents, and is content they can feel good about giving to their kids.

Content 224

Content Startup Screening Education 224

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

So, we've ended up doing that for the past 20 years. Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home. They are going to need to have unique, exclusive content between songs.

Startup 100

Startup Content Platform Artificial Inteligence 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Attendees include startup CEOs, accelerators, VCs, investors, Hollywood movie and music studio execs, agencies, fashion, content creators, social media gurus, developers, designers, and more from LA, Silicon Valley, OC, San Diego, New York, and international.

Hollywood 81

Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The other is for the content to standalone, allowing a reader to effectively review the slides without the benefit of a speaker's insights. Slides Are Not Art - Compelling images are important, but ensure that your message is not overcome by design and production elements. 9 Steps To Better Slides. What's Your Story?

Slides 258

Slides Duarte Santa Barbara RSS 258

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Because the hundreds of millions that it takes to greenlight a theatrical film could never be absorbed by a startup and because they way we experience media & characters has evolved dramatically over the past 20 years to a point where the starting point for media is often digital, gaming or even graphic novel oriented.

Funding 373

Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 373

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I’ve sat on many boards over the past 2 decades and seen my share of high-functioning boards and low-functioning boards. We do lunch where everybody has a casual conversation followed by 6 hours of content and discussion. Every year I invited my largest investors to NYC to have an LPAC meeting (Limited Partner Advisory Committee?—?kind

Startup 269

Startup Venture Capital Layoffs Resource 269

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. VW also has a partnership with AV startup Aurora to integrate self-driving systems in custom-designed electric shuttles for VW’s new Moia brand.

San Fernando 217

San Fernando Los Angeles Commerce News 217

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We've been able to build a really meaningful business there over the past number of years. They live in our iPads, in our iPhones, in our computers, on television, and have the mission of making learning fun for kids, and makes life easier for parents, and is content they can feel good about giving to their kids.

Content 138

Content Startup Screening Education 138

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In his quest to better connect with new friends, Alex Capecelatro had a problem: none of the existing social networking sites were really designed to connect people with who you didn't know, and might share your hobbies and interests. You don't have to worry about exposing content to people who don't care about a topic.

UCLA 187

UCLA Culver City Startup Social Network 187

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. The first phase was just getting all the content online via YouTube. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. I’m now back & ready for action.

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Digital quite simply is not for repurposing content that exists in other channels. It’s about re-imagining content to create blockbuster experiences that cannot be attained through any other medium. Don’t repurpose, re-imagine. Want control?

Marketing 82

Marketing Demand Startup Customer 82

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Digital quite simply is not for repurposing content that exists in other channels. It’s about re-imagining content to create blockbuster experiences that cannot be attained through any other medium. Don’t repurpose, re-imagine. Want control?

Marketing 104

Marketing Demand Startup Customer 104

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform. I wish every blog used Disqus and I wish every website that syndicated content would create an integrated commenting thread the way that Business Insider does.

Blogging 301

Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. A technology that will surely revolutionize how viewers interact with content and television in the very near future.

Screening 109

Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. That certainly works well for some. Partner Leverage.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad have completely revolutionized how consumers interact with the online world in the past few years. Quinton Alsbury: The way the application is designed is fairly agnostic to any particular vertical or operation inside a company. How do customers use your product? READ MORE>>.

Mobile 170

Mobile Oracle Startup Content 170

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

The fundamental problem with banner ads is a condition called “banner blindness&# meaning that our eyes are really quickly trained to look at what is most relevant on the page – the content we want to see. The reality is that advertising has got to become more integrated with content in order to drive efficacy.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

It is important when the presenters come from a complex educational background that the content is curated in a digestable manner. For the past five years Mindshare LA has remained at its home base downtown, but due to high demand, it is finally making its way over to the Westside. The next Mindshare L.A. Tickets can purchased here.

Santa Monica 92

Santa Monica BarCamp Startup UCLA 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Digital quite simply is not for repurposing content that exists in other channels. It’s about re-imagining content to create blockbuster experiences that cannot be attained through any other medium. Don’t repurpose, re-imagine. Want control?

Customer 100

Customer Custom Marketing Demand 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Which restaurants in LA serve past 10.00pm (turns out not many on the Westside of LA, unfortunately). I think it’s a beautifully designed product that is also tremendously useful and focused. The larger real estate also makes content discovery different. But the killer feature for me is “open now.”

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

It’s great to create rich content but unless its easy to create the barriers of entry are high and the masses are not creating it. Webdoc aims to make it dead simple to allow those with/without technical knowledge to create rich engaging content that everyone can enjoy. Think Minority Report meets the web. Are you Funded?

Startup 97

Startup Web Content Media 97

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. In the past, Dinesh served as President of Skyy Consulting Inc. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Open to potential career pivoters and professionals of all levels, the panel consisted of the following panelists, whom entered their positions from backgrounds ranging from business to engineering to design. Jay Stakelon , VP Product Design, Fullscreen. He has over 10 years of experience designing and developing digital products.

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

Andy Wilson: Innovate Pasadena is a grassroots effort to engage a cross section of the innovation, design, and entrepreneurship community in this part of Los Angeles, here in Greater Pasadena. They put that together and launched it in the past few years. What is Innovate Pasadena? That''s very exciting to have in the ecosystem.

Pasadena 242

Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

One aspect of this past summer’s Silicon Beach Fest (SBF) I personally enjoyed, among everything else presented that weekend, was learning all about the new multi-channel networks available to showcase online content. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon. Same with CreatorUp.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Part of what we do differently, is we leverage original content and breaking news as a hook to get into the site, then quickly get into engaging applications, such as localized events, original videos, mobile apps, fantasy/reality TV leagues, and more. How have you managed the high cost of creating content? We've done two things.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173