TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

New platforms led by YouTube have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways. Popbase is an app that operates almost like an interactive forum for new media.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I’ve spent a lot of my career thinking about digital and online video (with investments in companies like Maker Studios) so for that reason amongst many, I was excited to open the Upfront Summit a few weeks ago by interviewing Meg Whitman about Quibi and the digital media space. monthly subscription (or $8 ad free) for Quibi?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Until recently, three legacy providers (Sizmek, PointRoll and Google’s DoubleClick) have dominated the rich media market. But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Social Media Week (SMW) helps organizations connect and share the latest social media findings through social, cultural and economic talks and workshops in major cities worldwide. 7083 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028. A City of Angels: How Social Media is Bringing LA Closer to Utopia. 9:00-9:30am. 2:30-3:30pm.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Hard to believe another Digital LA Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is happening this week back-to-back with the new LA Tech Summit produced by Cornerstone. LA Tech Summit takes place the following day and takes a more comprehensive look at the entire tech eco-system in Los Angeles, not just Hollywood.

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socalTECH

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. Juan Bruce: My background is in design engineering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

For those who may be living under a rock and have no idea what SXSWi is, its five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Digital Dailies: Reinventing Hollywood’s Workflow. Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

A gorgeous day to talk tech while enjoying some of Hollywood’s premiere theme park attractions. Sleek in design, the HTC One features front-facing speakers. HTC BlinkFeed provides customized content and real-time updates streamed live on your home screen. Lynn Walford of Wireless and Mobile News shows it off for us here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. customer relationship marketing programs designed to preserve your core revenue. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblo g.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA on.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Plus, we provide all of the back end fulfillment--it's soup to nuts--from manufacturing, to fulfillment, to customer service. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. There are lots of custom merchandise sites out there--how do you compete? Thanks, and good luck!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2010

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. The reason is that like Hollywood these seem to require large up-front investments and seem to be hit driven. Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

” Clearly, the right time to trumpet your product is when it can live up to the media hype. Winning customers is sales. I wasn’t attending enough sales meetings, I wasn’t looking customers in the eye and seeing their reaction. Go see customers yourself. Focus On Customers – Nothing Else Matters.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2016

CEO, David Hanson, American robotics designer and researcher created Sophia in the likes of Hollywood legend, Audrey Hepburn and his lovely wife. In an interview with Sophia for CNBC, she says, “I am already very interested in design, technology and the environment. Of course the media took her sarcastic statement to the moon.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

This San Francisco startup has amassed an impressive portfolio of innovative products that have the potential to disrupt content distribution in Hollywood and everywhere else. What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. provides a strategically significant opportunity to make media and business run better. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Advertise and get noticed with us!

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A few sponsorship spots still available for early 2010 events: TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more. Custom ad deals and partnerships. . . Are you interested?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Those with their ideas selected were out on the prowl, looking to recruit the top designer or developer in the room. Yes the real Oscars were also on this past Sunday but if you’re in LA or Hollywood, you wouldn’t be tuning into anything but Startup Weekend LA). By 10:00 PM, teams were working away into the night. What a SWLA.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. a great place for startups?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs. Q Manning – Rocksauce Studios , mobile ap designers and developers. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Hollywood has even made a movie about the founding of Facebook that glamorizes startup life instead of showing what it really is: a day in day out marathon of work with very little glamor. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. This doesn’t make sense.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. This is where the digital media puck is going. Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. The device itself will have no storage.

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