socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine said that the companies--who have all gone through the 90 day mentorship process at StartEngine--include the BedAbroad (international student housing marketplace); CARBON 38 (online luxury fitness destination for women; Smilu (cross-platform, multiplayer video games); WhereMyDogsAt (mobile social networking for dog owners); Ember (demand (..)

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Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

As our first time covering a 500 Startups demo day , we could only imagine the stratospheric levels of stress our Batch 8 founders must have gone through to get on stage and present their progress from their last four months of startup bootcamp. In true 500 Startups fashion, Demo Day had an almost cathartic feel. ” Demo Day.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator sponsored by Walt Disney and being run by TechStars, had its demo day Tuesday, showing off the nine companies to emerge out of the accelerator.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2014

What do you get when you combine a technology investment demo day with a Hollywood-style story pitch session? It might look a little like Demo Day for Warner Media Camp , the startup incubator program being run out of Los Angeles by Turner/Warner Bros. warner media camp demo demoday content hollywood' READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA , which I wrote about previously. You want to be able to demonstrate your product and the best way I call, “A day in the life of …” where you show the demo as though you’re a user with a problem that needs to be solved. Startup Advice'

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

Imagine Impact , the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley-style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a development deal with Netflix and is looking for submissions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’m comfortable with introductions and then getting into the demo.&#. I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. Just jump into the demo after intros.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Croquet is developing software for collaborative applications, which has applications in virtual worlds and augmented and virtual reality. The big win is, first of all, since it looks like a single computer to the developer, they just have to program their software as a single computer. What is Croquet? The idea is pretty simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform. would acknowledge – they needed to get to the demo more quickly.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2011

Gaikai said that "The Escapist" will use its platform to stream demos of games like Electronic Arts Dead Space 2 and Mass Effect 2 to game players, with other major video game publishers making their titles available through the site. Financial impact of the win were not disclosed.

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Rustic Canyon Sites Electronic Arts Los Angeles 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Be sure to involve real people and real customers, such as GoPro cameras , with user generated demos and amazing aspirational videos. Apple expanded their business exponentially with app developers, and Amazon found new ways to make their suppliers look and act like they are part of the business.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

We caught up with Debra Baker , Senior Vice President, Global Business Development at Warner Bros., This is our second class, and it culminates in this Demo Day we just had. These companies were each offering a product or platform that really addressed one of those areas. Warner Bros. What''s your big goal for the program?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After some pre-game mingling, we began our evening with demos from companies that had been picked from months of company submissions. With a scale-able platform ready to expand to different industries (utilities and maintenance services, etc.) Crowd Seats came up first to give their two minute breakdown of the company.

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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. .” Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio. Epic Games.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 109

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. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. WOW, right? has accomplished. Coincident.TV

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2016

Earlier this week, The Wave VR announced a round of funding, to develop a virtual reality environment specifically for live music. Adam Arrigo: What The Wave VR is, is the world's first, interactive music concert platform. At a minimum, we want to let people on any platform to come in as an audience attendee.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Because of that, the second thing, in addition to more capital, we thought we should have a building where there is lots of entrepreneurial activity, and where they could be lots of entrepreneurs in different stages of development. It's very hard to build something like a biotech in four months, because of the research and development.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

On July 27, 2012 the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee produced the Mobile App Hackathon in Los Angeles, California. Developers were allowed to code in any language they were most comfortable with including Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, and XNA. Kudos to the rockstar developers and designer in my team.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

While iPhone is really still the only true game in town for mobile applications investors can see in the near future a world in which multiple mobile applications platforms will likely exist – perhaps with Blackberry, Palm Pre and Google’s Android operating system gather more momentum. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. The demo is the ceremonial end to the structured part of it, but our focus is really on building a really great business. Some flew in from overseas, different states and from Silicon Valley to attend.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Will Dennis, comedian extraordinaire, humored the crowd with a demo and a pitchdeck that poked fun at the tech start-up industry. Below is the entire USC Startup Weekend Demo Night. Neighborly. Text To Get Her.

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USC Startup Tech Coast Angels Guide 82

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. But what about markets?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga. Co-creator of the Lotus Share platform, which powers the new Lotus Connections Files and Wikis components at IBM. Demos and awards start at 5:30pm. Sizhao Yang: Co-founder of BetterWorks. George Ishii: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni.

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Santa Monica Yammer Geni Southern California 72

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2015

One of the oldest and most-popular developer communities, IBM’s developerWorks has announced today a first-of-its-kind premium subscription model, developerWorks Premium , geared toward maximizing developer access to IBM’s software, tools, training and partners at a fraction of the cost.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: We will be launching our private beta at DEMO. It's in the automated translation category of the industry.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

However, demonstrating that value to clinicians without a DEMO or a pilot is a challenging aspect of the market adoption. Habra: Mobile Therapy spent the majority of the time leading up to the initial pitch competition perfecting our platform and ensuring that both the application and the Web dashboard is 100 percent rooted in real science.

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Competition Mobile Technical Review Startup 123

LATechDigest

AUGUST 23, 2016

Focus is on Growth-Stage Companies and Strategic Business Development. WSC Technologies has developed a platform that creates personalized sports videos automatically and in real-time, helping sports leagues and broadcasters to engage fans and monetize their content. The program launches today in R/GA’s LA office.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. A number of VC’s stopped by our booth or watched our demo on the DEMO website and we had about 5 proactive inquiries. The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO. After Office 2.0 Folksonomy.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. Most have been involved in some capacity along the way with Startup UCLA, and all will be represented during the demo day. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming.

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UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

With this in mind, we figured it would be a great opportunity to get a direct look from someone who’s been immersed in the field, and spoke to Chance Barnett, CEO of LA-local investment platform, Crowdfunder. In order to encompass both, they need to build a large platform. ” Platform Focused. CrowdFundX.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Our partnership with Wearable World will help us realize a vision that is about the common good, and our goal for San Francisco is to create a platform of real products and solutions that improve people’s day to day lives.”. Nominations for the IoT Innovation Council are currently being accepted now through November 30.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

E3 brings out developers to show off their future games to the masses. When a handheld game is released simultaneously – or around the same time – as the console game, the handheld iteration is usually terrible thanks to the console version getting more of the development attention. The game demo was simple and sweet.

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IP Startup Design Training 77

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. What: A Startup Demo event. Or your personal laptop with your business laptop.

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Company Companies Web Evite 106

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. View Larger Map. 7:00 – 7:45pm – check-in.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102