socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. But, how do you figure out what actual content will resonate with online consumers? I figured out that there was this massive market for comedic content, but the market was extremely scattered.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2010

Los Angeles-based Alelo , the USC spinout which uses computer game technology to teach foreign languages, said this week that the firm has been awarded a contract from the Australian Defence Force (ADF). Alelo's games--which are based on a first person shooter platform--are being used by the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. Using visually appealing content, travelers can easily find what they like and drag and drop to their itinerary.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

They're using the ROC platform to have their events in all one place, and take their investing from 8 to 30 days, down from 90 days. Walter Grieves: We partnered with USC, UCLA, and Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Anderson, Annenberg Center, we have an internship program. We're just a neutral platform for the community.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. He’s worked as an English and Film teacher at the American School of Tangier, and has also assistant taught film production at USC. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. And our belief is that consumer applications — almost all of the things consumers DO on the Internet — that ride on this Internet infrastructure layer fall into just three buckets we call “the three c’s”: content, commerce and communications.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. There is a lot of searching and sorting just to find out, for example, what the USC Trojans or Tesla Motors might be doing. That''s where the company started from.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. What we've done, is we attract those writers to our site, and have a revenue model based on the content. It's basically a "wisdom-of-the-crowds" way to get content.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. In content creation we definitely have assets other markets don’t have.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

That includes things like how much time they can spend online, to approving content they are uploading, to viewing which buddies they are spending time with online. But, the platforms themselves exist, which makes the job quite a bit less risk in terms of the development process on the technology side. It's never about technology.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. We also did a company in Northern California, Weoutta, which is a consumer app for making future plans, which is built on top of a pretty robust data platform.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The universities are now more focused on the innovation economy, with schools like USC, UCLA, Caltech, the Claremont Colleges all bringing good people to LA. There's content, digital media, and enterprise, and obviously eSports is centered here, AR and VR should be centered here, though we're early on that so we'll see how that plays out.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. On Demand).

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams. They're the largest marketing platform in the music business, and we've signed on to be their exclusive ecommerce partner. What's your background, and how did you get into this? Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

What we've done, is we've taken technology originally developed at USC, a CIA funded project, and gained global commercial rights for the non-security sector. Phil Ressler: Big Stage's mission in life is to create a standard way to project yourself into the digital realm. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Everybody knows about the leaked memo of AOL’s Tim Armstrong saying he wants to up his content from 4% video to 70% video. That sets LA & NY up nicely for a number of emerging content creation industries. LA is producing content at scale.

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