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Understanding What’s Going on in #LATech

Both Sides of the Table

Not just Tinder, Dollar Shave Club, Riot Games, CornerStone OnDemand and the companies you’ve heard of but there are large successes that are less well known but now very large startups businesses like Ring, Zip Recruiter, GumGum, Laurel & Wolf and too many other great companies to mention. Don’t we know it.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Companies represented include: Disney, Warner Bros.,

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Twiistup 007: Date, Speakers, Early Bird Special

Tech Zulu Event

Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. Rick has led and sits on the board of 4 FirstMark portfolio companies, including Clickable, Weplay, Live Gamer and Riot Games. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. Paul Grahm.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Brandon Beck – Riot Games. StarCraft 2 might be the most played eSport currently, but Riot Games’ “League of Legends” is garnering prize pools in the millions. They raised some money, stole some guys from Blizzard, and released the game for free. Here are 10 people I think will be leading the charge.

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

Both Sides of the Table

It is fitting that 2012 is the year that Snapchat really took off in Los Angeles and raised its first venture capital and began a five year ascent to becoming LA’s most recognizable startup company and largest IPO alongside LAs other great startup brands such as Riot Games and Tinder. Are you kidding me? And this is true.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. Rick has led and sits on the board of 4 FirstMark portfolio companies, including Clickable, Weplay, Live Gamer and Riot Games. . . Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories.