From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

They are designed so that parents will love them too. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs. Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now? Gregg Spiridellis: We've got four products in the market right now.

Content 224

Content Startup Screening Education 224

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

They are designed so that parents will love them too. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs. Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now? Gregg Spiradellis: We've got four products in the market right now.

Content 138

Content Startup Screening Education 138

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. A technology that will surely revolutionize how viewers interact with content and television in the very near future.

Screening 109

Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2010

Before I start writing this review, I want to say how much I appreciate the web series' nominated for Streamy Awards. Sure, it was held at the modest (though historical) Wadsworth Theater, and, let's face it, the nominees and winners a little one-sided, but it was achieving its goal of elevating web shows to a new status in Hollywood.

Web 40

Web News Technical Review Writing 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. VENICE RISING. Venice: 13% | L.A. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A. Derek Wooden.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. I wish every city could have an 1871.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The Spiridellis brothers have been at the right place at the right time several times over in the building of JibJab, now located in Venice blocks away from the ocean. They decided the best business approach would be to develop rich characters with a strong web presence that they could build an audience around.

Screening 88

Screening eBook Content Ideas 88

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The Spiridellis brothers have been at the right place at the right time several times over in the building of JibJab, now located in Venice blocks away from the ocean. They decided the best business approach would be to develop rich characters with a strong web presence that they could build an audience around.

Screening 65

Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

And costume & set designers. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. The costs of building a company have gone down dramatically, from $5 million to get to launch in the late 90’s to $500,000 (or even lower) today for web companies. It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. And writers!

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313