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. In addition, there are incentives for referring others to the platform.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

Juan Bruce: My background is in design engineering. I spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley, working for BMW''s technology office, and design firm Ideo. I then went back to Stanford for business school, and ended up coming down here to Southern California to run a design studio for an Ideo competitor, Continuum. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Create new online communities and customer forums , rather than joining existing ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Ask why it should be, and why customers should care. Remember Hollywood secrets.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

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. The company recently announced plans to introduce a self-service version of its rich media authoring and ad serving platform.

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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

APRIL 15, 2010

I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform. It’s core platform stuff. No big surprise. PLUS RELATED FUNDING ….

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

If you look at what Pinterest does for anything design related, it''s not just fashion, it''s not just design, it''s not just DIY, it''s everything. We''ve made it so people can customize us to only turn on movies and TV, and don''t have to see anything with music and books, for example. What''s the next big thing for you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Ask why it should be, and why customers should care. Remember Hollywood secrets.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys, which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Our platform can be used worldwide. Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys. Can you tell us more about your company.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys , which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Our platform can be used worldwide. Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys. Can you tell us more about your company.

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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 are also lots of tools to customize their store front, to match the look and feel of any destination they might have on the web--whether that's a MySpace page, their own site, etc. Thanks, and good luck!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2010

Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Ask why it should be, and why customers should care. Remember Hollywood secrets.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore. Coincident.TV

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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. billion dollar mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

YouTube AND other platforms. Each distribution channel you sell products in has its own unique customer base but your goal is to build a relationship with those end customers. The platforms are expanding and fragmenting. But the future won’t be dominated by Hollywood. It’s both / and.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We manage user login so businesses can focus on core product and engage customers faster. Fun Fact: LafaLafa is a play on the word ‘Laugh’ from the business tagline ‘Laugh your way to maximum savings’ and is meant to evoke a happy feeling for customers when they find the best deal. Cirrus Identity. AngelList: [link]. From: India.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

One of our guys does a lot of work with upcoming Hollywood film composers, you can see in our ‘ about ’ section, Gerrit Wunder, he does work at the moment for Hans Zimmerman and so on. Tell us about your connection to Los Angeles. The Los Angeles music scene is very important for us because of connections. So creativity is key.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

That said, Apple will remain a closed system designed to drive media consumption through a closed iTunes system and a take a toll for media distribution. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings. The device itself will have no storage.

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