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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Through the ADAPT program, new graduates and unemployed data workers are granted access to 125 hours of free data science and analytics learning courses, an Alteryx Designer license, a community of thousands of Alteryx users and 1:1 virtual support from Alteryx associates.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Demand Media hosted a welcoming opening party at the Vicerory, and Media Temple organized an amazing closing party at Cross Campus with aerialists, DJ, interactive displays - and people are still talking about the delicious food. He was named in a recent Forbes article as one of "12 Entrepreneurs That Are Changing LA Forever."

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

2020 was a crash course in leadership and we saw many great entrepreneurs step up and rise to the challenge. His current active investments include: Sovrn, Zyp Media, and QMerit. Anyone can ride the wave, but the true test of leadership is navigating the ship through troubled waters.

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JULY 1, 2014

Amplify was instrumental, because having a network down here in Los Angeles within the technology community, in addition to the media industry, was really the biggest value add in our early days. Bryce Clemmer: More or less, what we''re currently working on is looking at providing synchronized video and music to the major media platforms.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Asher Delug: Airpush is a mobile ad network, similar to an Admob or Millenial Media. We called 2011 and 2012 the years of shotgun media buying. We''re seeing, as of last year, and also starting this year, that media buyers are actually really growing up and getting more advanced, which is a big theme. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video. We're building very advanced analytical models which look at both direct and indirect effects, so that we are able to quantify how different media interacts with each other.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

I saw a disconnect with how advertisers buy and media sells, so I started my first startup, a media marketplace, seven years ago, and moved to New York. Then, about nine years ago, I transitioned into digital. That was my first time in buying and selling of digital advertising.

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MAY 21, 2014

It turns out, nowadays, creating the content is only a small part of your job description The most successful YouTubers, studios, brands and agencies today are intensely focused on using social media to engage with fans, get that content out there, and grow their audience. and why social is so important in today''s content world.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And of course Foundry Group is the original masters of this with perfectly organized ambassador trips to Boulder. It also has a built-in advantage in telling the world how awesome it’s doing – it’s the center of the media world. Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on. Local press matters.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

I saw a disconnect with how advertisers buy and media sells, so I started my first startup, a media marketplace, seven years ago, and moved to New York. Then, about nine years ago, I transitioned into digital. That was my first time in buying and selling of digital advertising.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Editor's note, TuesdayNights is running its Impact Conference in Santa Monica on Friday, where we are a Media Partner) Photo: Left, Melinda Moore and Right, Justine Lassoff. Melinda Moore: If you think about it, guys have golf courses, and you have things like the PayPal Mafia, and poker games. What is TuesdayNights?

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APRIL 23, 2013

The world of media is in the midst of a major transition, where radio and television are no longer the powers they used to be--and there''s a clear shift towards some unknown future online. Unfortunately for the rest of media, it''s also allowed us to be honest with our audience, which they are not doing much at all.

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JULY 18, 2013

Lots of people think of Los Angeles as a media center, for obvious reasons--but, we knew before we came, there is also a lot of exciting, financial technology going on here. There is, of course, a significant percentage from the Bay Area. The Los Angeles examples which you might know about, though not in our portfolio, is Green Dot.

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JUNE 10, 2015

We have aerospace, we have medical technology, and of course we have media communications. It's not just media, and not just fashion as you might think, although they are the big gorillas in the room. Lee Schneider: The reason is we have a lot of cultural diversity here. That ends up being a small piece of the puzzle.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio: RecycledBride and Tradesy are same of the same company, Recycled Media. It was a crash course. While I was doing that, I was learning about social media, about SEO, about gorilla marketing, and so on. Speaking of RecycledBride, how is this all related? RecycledBride really has become a popular site.

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MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. There is a really genuine and real opportunity in the intersection of media and entertainment technology here in Los Angeles, and people are focused here on that for a legitimate reason.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. What is Demand Media doing nowadays?

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Los Angeles is also home to media, the home of entertainment, the home of great content. Of course, the world is so much smaller now, with great communications products, which means that it's very easy to stay in the loop. That's been put to good work in the technology space. They've been pulling resources from all over Europe.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace. FatTail is solving the problem of buying and selling advertising, one I've seen as a challenge as long as I've been in the media business, which is twenty two years.

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MARCH 10, 2017

We had wanted to understand what we were doing before doing it everywhere, so we want to grow our sales and marketing efforts, and of course our client success organization. The third are we are working on, is while we have by far the best relationships with the networks I mention, we haven't focused on agencies.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

My background is I worked for consumer websites for two years, and digital agencies for two years, and I have a strong background in media. My mom really doesn't like presents, but I thought a great gift would be to plan out things we could do together over the course of a year. How did the whole idea for Unbucket come about?

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APRIL 21, 2017

What that means, in today's world, is even though everyone is totally connected, through Facbeook and thousands of other types of social media, everyone now feels alone and disconnected. Of course, it has to be the right value, and convenient, and all these other things. That's a big mistake. But that's an illusion.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The other thing is, a lot of the investors in Los Angeles over the last five or ten years had been really focused on media and e-commerce investments, but there hadn't been a lot of funds focused predominately on B2B or the enterprise software space. They've build a bedrock for future innovation. What kind of entrepreneur are you looking for?

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JANUARY 7, 2015

In particular, it''s a safe, well connected market, and it''s easy to get around for trading, and it''s also easy for us to reach via media. Of course, we have technology to help us with that, but we offer human intervention to make sure that transactions go smoothly. We operate our site differently, here and in other markets.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Clearly, globally, data is coming out of the explosion of cloud, mobile, social media, and healthcare areas. Of course, those acquisition opportunities don't always come up at the right time, so we're also building some very strategic, long terms plays, so that if we need to get more capital, we can do that. It's just exploding.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

You can never get a table, you may not get one with power, and of course it's not conductive to business. Jerome Change: A couple of the typical clients here are Tsavo Media, the new company from Michael Jones and Twiistup founder Mike Macadaan. Many of those people have been stuck at home, because there were no other choices.

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MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. Every region needs its local media & events. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. And of course you need a mature venture capital industry. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week. Can’t list them all. How do we make that happen? Venture Capital.

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MARCH 12, 2013

You need a CDN to improve the performance of your content, especially as the web is getting heavier, more complicated, and there's more rich media. Of course, since we're venture backed, we do have to consider our investors, as they're looking at some point for an exit. Those two areas are a bit of a moving target.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Mike was one of the founding members of 24/7 Media, which he took public, and was taken over by WPP Group. John Waller met him 10 years ago at 24/7 Media as well. Most of these companies will exit through M&A or IPO, with M&A more likely than an IPO, of course. He recently became CEO of X1, an Idealab company.

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