Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. This is the list I would start with.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Southern California is still the home of Hollywood -- the symbolic name for the motion picture industry, but that industry has changed dramatically in recent years. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/technology-startups-go-to-the-movies-tickets-31210790314?aff=es2.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

What’s your role in the Coachella Valley area startup ecosystem? Our “everything water” web service, called the HydraCommunity, is designed to allow collaboration between water agencies, water customers, water use equipment, and other water related services. What makes the Coachella Valley an ideal place to start a company?

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

What’s your role in the Coachella Valley area startup ecosystem? Our “everything water” web service, called the HydraCommunity, is designed to allow collaboration between water agencies, water customers, water use equipment, and other water related services. What makes the Coachella Valley an ideal place to start a company?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. But a market in which every network competes to sign up the largest talent by throwing rev share deals at them is also stupid.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Earlier this week, Good Growth Capital (www.goodgrowthvc.com) announced it has started looking at investments in Southern California, adding Krisztina Holly as West Coast Venture Partner for the firm. Our Infinite Corridor Fund makes pre-seed to seed investments in transformative science startups, primarily MIT-related.

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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. Time sure flies when you’re having fun, or building a startup. ” It’s like having an online studio helping independent filmmakers and YouTubers get seen.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

One new, Los Angeles startup-- Laudville (www.laudville.com)--recently launched its service to try to tackle that huge task, of bringing your content together. Phoebe Scott: I started Laudville, because I consume a lot of entertainment of all kinds. So, I started working on it. What is Laudville? What is Laudville?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2013

In West Hollywood, Los Angeles last night, Werner Herzog’s new documentary, “From One Second to the Next” premiered at the Silver Screen Theater located within MOCA’s Pacific Design Center followed with Q&A from the legendary director himself. ◄ Back.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2016

We spoke with Z about how her new initiative�started with Mayor Eric Garcetti�is looking to elevate the manufacturing ecosystem in LA, and help connect it with LA's entrepreneurship, technology and startup world. There is a really an opportunity to support that sector, which usually gets overshadowed by technology and Hollywood.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

TechZulu is proud to team up with Digital LA and accelerators Amplify, StartEngine, Launchpad, local companies BetterWorks, PromoJam, start-ups and co-working spaces, all working together to create the first-ever Silicon Beach Fest to celebrate startups, tech, and entertainment! Media/Tech: io/LA (Hollywood).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Can a mobile app make creating and designing your space as easy as posting a selfie on Snapchat or Instagram? We caught up with co-founder Beatrice Fischel-Bock on the idea and journey behind Hutch. You do that by taking a photo, and picking a filter, which constitutes looks that we provide from our designers. What is Hutch?

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

We spoke with Kristztina "Z" Holly --most recently, Vice Provost for Innovation at USC--about what Mayor Garcetti''s EIR program is all about, and her vision for how it might help shape the industry in Los Angeles. To some people, automotive might be surprising, but we''re the leading center for automotive design and automotive accessories.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

While we happen to be located here, we have panels throughout today and tomorrow, talking about where in LA should I build my startup -- we have people from Hollywood, Pasadena, USC, talking about those neighborhoods. What is the biggest thing you''ve learned about the startup business from running these conferences?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

But the request this time was different: could we urgently help make realistic screen displays for a big Hollywood science fiction movie that was just about to start shooting? There are, I think, several reasons Hollywood movies often don’t get as much science input as they should.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles. It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. On Friday evening, the SWLA energy started to brew at the Coloft as participants began showing up around 5:00 PM.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. Head to the beach on the first weekend of summer to celebrate LA’s digital innovators in tech, startups, entertainment, fashion, marketing, and more! Register for a 5-6?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots. And I'm especially proud to have received our 501(c)(3) charitable designation from the I.R.S. There just hasn't been anything like this across the manufacturing industry like there is in tech or Hollywood.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

TechZulu is helping the Southern California tech community out by listing all the great panels. Digital Dailies: Reinventing Hollywood’s Workflow. Power Up Your Life thru Mobile Gamification (Velti). Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks). Funding: The New Indie: BONA FIDE film.

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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. Remember Hollywood secrets. That’s giving up control, with some risk, to get control. Here are the new marketing rules I support: Insight comes before inspiration. Want control?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. TechZulu catches up with the founder of Assignmint, Jeff Koyen, as he talks about Assignmint, freelance, and LA startups.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 21, 2019

Rather than selling dresses for $25, Ida’s designs were now selling for over $300. If Ida had been a prima donna designer, she might have rejected this request out of hand. Products such as the Symington Side Lacer were designed to flattened women’s breasts. In contrast, Ida’s designs accentuated women’s feminity.

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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. Remember Hollywood secrets. That’s giving up control, with some risk, to get control. For example, if you sell printers, you can start with cost-saving device optimization.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Nick Ghirardelli and Rupert Ralston aim to help new filmmakers find a crew and collaborate on projects. Nick and Rupert got in touch with TechZulu to talk about Filmzu, the entertainment business, and startups. TechZulu: Where did the idea of Filmzu start? To have a dedicated place to help people showcase their talents.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Well, summer’s almost here and the weather’s warming up. 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. AT&T Locker helps you hold onto those memories no matter where you are.

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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. Remember Hollywood secrets. That’s giving up control, with some risk, to get control. brand experience entrepreneur digital marketing startup secrets business' Want control?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

500 Startups officially announced their Batch 15. We were stoked when we partnered with 500 startup for REACH NeXT and now are over the moon that they selected one of our winners. Also, 500 startups officially open their applications for Batch 16 on AngelList. Learn to code by cloning real-life startups. Code4Startup.

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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. Remember Hollywood secrets. That’s giving up control, with some risk, to get control. Tags: startup marketing advertizing digital business. Your brand is a story; tell it.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. Startup Weekend is a 54-hour frenzy in which a group of strangers can come together to form a company and compete for prizes.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

But I thought I’d take some more time here to expand on what I think are the challenges, and opportunities, of starting a tech company in LA. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists. Opportunity #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

Our last (belated) one is from Kevin Winston , the founder of Digital LA , the big networking group which helps to connect Silicon Beach through an extensive lineup of events. As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media. Remember Hollywood secrets. That’s giving up control, with some risk, to get control. Here are the new marketing rules I support: Insight comes before inspiration. Want control?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that. The evening cocktail party was an 80’s theme and lived up to the traditional Twiistup fame with an open bar, elaborate costumes, Hollywood lighting and poker games until 4 in the morning. photo credit to Brian Solis].

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

She also has served at DoubleClick, had a stint as an investment banker at JPMorgan, been a venture capitalist at Bertelsmann Ventures, and started with an Electrical Engineering degree before her MBA. Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago. It was an opportunity I didn't want to pass up.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

the rising tech movement sweeping through the burgeoning Los Angeles startup scene ­— he wants to put L.A. Inspired by Silicon Valley’s ability to focus and tweak ideas into new technology, Crilly came up with Develop.la. Paul does this cool thing where he puts up ideas he wants to see startups do and apply to Y Combinator with.

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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. They will help us, they will play with us, they will teach us, they will help us put the groceries away. Sophia’s Secret Sauce. Sophia’s Interest and Goals. Cue Violins).

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