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DECEMBER 27, 2012

The biggest news for Digital LA this year has been creating and spearheading Silicon Beach Fest, LA's first startup entertainment community festival in Santa Monica and Venice in June, 2012.

Dollar Shave Club

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , which develops 3D avatar technology, said today that it has partnered with video game company GGL Global Gaming, to provide free game content on its web site. Big Stage develops technology which converts digital photos of a person into a 3-D avatar. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market. When we do a deal with a game developer to do integration, and then do another deal, we have to do more integration, etc.

Entertainment

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment, a USC spinoff developing avatar technology, announced a new effort to provide its technology to third parties. Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels; the firm's technology was developed at the University of Southern California.

Tech Coast Angels

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. But we do have great technology developers. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales. You don’t. Get over it.

Company

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. You can go to your particular interests, pick your favorite brands and entertainers, and favorite them. How did the company start? That''s where the company started from.

Mobile

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 19, 2012

LA City Council Member Eric Garcetti will give the opening keynote for the inaugural Silicon Beach Fest , a celebration of digital innovators in startups and entertainment happening June 21 – 23. Festival Highlights: - Hackathon : Teams of more than 50 developers compete for more than $50K in prizes. Click here to register.

Rustic Canyon

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APRIL 21, 2009

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , the startup which uses photos to create animated, 3-D facial avatars of users, has added new content from a game from GGL Global Gaming. Big Stage is a spinout of technology from USC, originally developed for the CIA.

Content

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Entertainment Co., READ MORE>>.

Idealab

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that. 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.

Santa Monica

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 23, 2018

Electronauts is an impressive title from the California VR studio that also developed the addictive first-person shooter, Raw Data. Before co-founding the company, President Nathan Burba served as the director of Project Holodeck, a USC project aimed at creating a full-body 360-degree VR experience.

Southern California

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. What inspired you?

Web

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA.

Startup

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MAY 11, 2011

Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC. This is my third company.

Study

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Tringe: I went to USC film school, and graduated with a MFA in film production. I saw that independent film was changing underneath us, and then I moved to work for Vuguru to do creative development for a year with Kristin Jones. What's your background? That's Michael Eisner's company, and Larry Tanz is president.

Web

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. How did you get into this - looks like you came from the entertainment world? I found the process incredibly great.

Media

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo.

GRP Partners

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

Social Network

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

User-Centered Design : Not only did they develop and program what they could, they also worked as a group to determine the design and user-experience aspects of their mobile apps. The winners, Techno Unibot Freaks, with In a Flash received a prize courtesy of EA entertainment. And the winners?

Technical Review

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As a footnote, the Innovate Pasadena logo is IP--there''s some symbolism around IP, intellectual property, and internet protocol, because we''re more science oriented than the Westside, which is more entertainment content and consumer oriented. We want to create businesses and engage with entrepreneurs.

Pasadena

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. There is a really genuine and real opportunity in the intersection of media and entertainment technology here in Los Angeles, and people are focused here on that for a legitimate reason.

Invest

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2016

Los Angeles is often thought of as just the city of entertainment and creative industries�but it turns out, it's a lot more. In a similar way, I played that role in academia, at both USC and MIT. Because of that, the Mayor now has a Deputy Mayor of Economic Development, to focus on manufacturing.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J. Social Media: Snapchat.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Attending discussions at SMWLA week is a great opportunity to learn and mingle with some of the world’s top content creators, strategists and all around top-tier digital influencers in Los Angeles, the mecca of entertainment. They have broken events down by two hubs: Social Tech , and Entertainment. ENTERTAINMENT HUB.

Social Media

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

So, despite their rivalries and silos, people have come together, and we now have all 5 UC campuses in Southern California, plus Caltech, Harvey Mudd, USC, UC San Diego, and others involved. The risk-taking culture is fantastic, and the ecosystem is super-well developed. It's a phenomenal place. It's a great place.

Southern California

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. She has specialized in entertainment and Internet law since 1998. She has guest lectured on cyberlaw at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism.

IP

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

We sat down with Roland Trimmel, the head of operations for Re-Compose, (the developers of Liquid Notes) to talk music, technology, and business. If you look back, the original founder, Stephan studied at the USC Foreign School of Music, so there is a long standing connection with LA. Thanks for joining us Roland.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Abdul Khan (@ImHungryinLA) - Co-founder, Verso Entertainment. Cash Warren (@cash_warren) - producer, entrepreneur, president of Verso Entertainment. Clinton Schaff (@clintschaff) - USC Online Communities Industry Faculty. Zac Sanford (@zacsanford) - VP Development, Suntaur Entertainment; #scriptchat.

Social Media

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

and Founder at AuctionWagon), Ian Hunter (Co-founder/CTO at Zaarly), Grant Nestor (Community Manager at Factual ), Rahim Sonawalla (Developer Evangelist at Twilio ) and Rob Zazueta (Vertical Response). Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg. Rob Maigret. Scott Sangster.

Los Angeles

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Deborah Ramo: It's interesting, but my background is actually in the entertainment world. A number of years ago, myself and some of my colleagues in the entertainment industry developed a nonprofit workplace in Hollywood. Eventually, the idea was that the entertainment industry's workforce would reflect our audience.

Help

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

With unrivaled weather, a host of high-profile universities and unlimited array of daytime and nightlife entertainment, Los Angeles seems like a dreamland for young tech professionals and the companies hoping to employ their talents. And for good reason. DVDs are dying and streaming is on the rise. But as long as L.A.

Los Angeles

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

Hollywood