Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

For those who haven’t heard of what Startup Weekend is all about, it’s building a company on STEROIDS! Friday Night, people started trickling in at Coloft at 6pm. People were so excited for the weekend, many of who have participated in Startup Weekend before and a few like me, who were there for the first time.

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Startup Technical Advisors Ideas USC 99

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

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Web Content Startup Education 187

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Product Development: philosophie. Silicon Valley? That’s so yesterday. Get to know them now before they become household names.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last night, Amazon.com jumped into the movie business, with its own, online film submission site, Amazon Studios , backed by the help of a number of notable USC Film School advisors. Despite coming from Amazon, the local involvement is heavy, with USC's School of Cinematic Arts heavily involved, as well as other local entertainment execs.

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Sites Hollywood Summary USC 217

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

How do you keep up with everything that''s happening with your favorite interests, brands, and personalities on your mobile phone? We caught up with CEO Phil Kelly to better understand what the company is working on. How did the company start? Phil Kelly: I started the company early last year. Or, you can go to Yapert.

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Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd catch up with two of the co-founders of Marina Del Rey-based Telesign (www.telesign.com), Ryan Disraeli and Stacy Stubblefield. How did the company start? Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. What were you doing before?

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. We just graduated, and wrapped up a round of $750,000, with a bunch of great folks from both up north and here.

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Content News Startup Research 230

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. Accelerators and coworking spaces will continue to be the foundation for our growing startup scene.

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Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2012

If you weren’t able to make it out to Wokcano to mix and mingle with the hottest startups this week, you missed out. Not to worry because we’ll recap the night with some information on the demos from these up and coming companies located in LA. He went through Start Engine and after 6 months launched their beta.

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Startup Doc Ideas Mobile 73

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. You can use keywords like: Events in Los Angeles or Southern California Events or even Santa Monica Events.

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Southern California Los Angeles Technology Council Stirrers and Shakers 243

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.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity. It started around a year ago, as I was driving back from Santa Monica from an event. What is Innovate Pasadena? So, I thought I''d see if there was an interest here to active a community in town.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. How did you end up starting the site? I ended up managing that project. This is my third company.

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

Helixis really has developed an instrument which really has exceeded the current standards, at a fraction of the cost, and we're really excited about it. We've got a number of companies which have now received subsequent financing and up-rounds, so we're now firing on all cylinders. Sharon Stevenson: That's correct. Is there a market?

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

People can buy anything, look up news, watch videos, and the list goes on and on. App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. TechZulu reaches out to Matt Lucido , founder of Porter, and discuss Porter, LA, and startups. You don’t have to do them yourself and you can free up time.

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Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

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!, He is known for being able to monetize the social web.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. One is that any producer of a short video on the web, or any producer of any content, can use out to find their desired content. What's Scripped?

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Last month, Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), the developer of machine translation software, was acquired by SDL , a publicly held, UK-based firm in the language translation business. Mark Tapling: Starting in March of 2008, Language Weaver really embarked on a growth strategy. Mark, thanks for the time today.

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Equity Startup Acquisition Funding 168

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality.

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Capital San Diego Invest USC 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. “Sustainability is about developing an investment focus around social economic benefits that occur from capital solutions. The floor opens up to Sandy Itkoff. Let’s Talk Money.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology. About The Show: TZLaw Segments are: News You Can Use: a weekly roundup of top tech law headlines and analysis geared towards lean startups. reputation rating websites and advising technology startups.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

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. Many companies are developing second screen technology, but few have come close to what Coincident.TV Cool, right?

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. How did the company start? What is Laughstub?

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

socalTECH

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.

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Social Media and Urban Development in Hollywood. Tuesday: Startup and Entrepreneurship. Showcase: io/LA’s Most Creative Startups. Keynote: Jeff Cole, USC Annenberg School Center For The Digital Future. Socially Charged Fashion: How Social + Mobile are Building Brands from the Bottom Up. 2:30-3:30pm. 4:00-5:00pm.

Social Media 92

Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. eBay and others.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313