socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. Now, we're investing in our own team, firm, and platform so we can further support those founders.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

We spoke with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton , the brother and sister team behind PromoJam, to hear more about the company's platform. Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. We also have a mobile platform, which integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. What is PromoJam?

Social Media 217

Social Media Startup Platform Media 217

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

Tech.Co

MAY 21, 2016

About a year ago we introduced you to VNTANA , an Los Angeles, CA-based startup that wanted to leverage hologram technology to help celebrities and brands use holograms to entertain and engage their followers and fans. They Collect voluntary and passive data from users, such as email contacts, number of impressions, etc.

Social Media 85

Social Media Email Media Entertainment 85

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

One of our big mantras, internally, is to be the fastest responder when you see a customer email us. Even if you don't have the answer immediately, we'll shoot them an email right away, saying, we hear you, even if we tell them we have to find out the answer. The second, was investing in relationship management and support.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. Please email us reach@techzulu.com. Josh Yguado - President SGN.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). and Petri was co-founder and head of creative at Remedy Entertainment that launched the hit PC games Max Payne and Alan Wake.

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Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 373

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation.

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. Josh Yguado - President SGN.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. Scott Grimes: Ultimately, we are a text messaging platform build on top of Twilio. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M We love texting, because it's a very personal, intimate environment.

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Content Social Media Startup Artificial Inteligence 124

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. In a mobile world, what's a unique way to reach out to your friends and others?

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Social Network Mobile Media Examples 246

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After logging into your account via Facebook API, the platform uses your date of birth as the core data to help you calendar all of your friend’s birthdays and discover other people around you who also celebrate your special day. It reinforces the company’s culture of being a platform for giving and celebration,” said Hagger.

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Venice Startup Social Network Tool 128

InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. Founded in 2007, GumGum has become the largest in-image ad platform. A similar phenomenon is now occuring within the video ad ecosystem.

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Customer Custom Entrepreneur Advertising 226

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

Newsletter 233

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 It is important to leverage the fastest growing platforms but anticipate changing terms of service. 34:30 – 37:00). 51:30 – 1:02:40).

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon. It can literally deliver thousands and thousands of messages, tens of thousands per minute, to every form of platform. You've been in more traditional entertainment firms--as an executive in a big studio--why jump to a startup?

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Entertainment Startup Class Los Angeles 159

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

The best form of this right now is email, and even then, that's through a one-size-fits-all email. While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. After IAC, I started my own company, MerchEngines, which was a search marketing platform for local businesses.

Southern California 245

Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

So here are the top 8 tips from 2 successful brands on what we can do to create engaging content and market our brands using YouTube as our platform. That as a business it is impossible to build your brand without an adwords strategy or partnering into a YouTubers existing audience or an having a robust email list.

Dollar Shave Club 106

Dollar Shave Club Tips Marketing Sales 106

InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. Founded in 2007, GumGum has become the largest in-image ad platform. <Break here> Skimlinks For The Video Age. . Share and Enjoy.

Customer 133

Customer Custom Entrepreneur Advertising 133

socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

Our other shows are about sports, entertainment, movie reviews, university news--all of the things that fit under the umbrella of news. Back in 1997, I had emailed my friends telling them that online video would be the future, and I was going to go there. They sent me back skeptical emails saying that it would never work.

Media 196

Media News Startup Technical Review 196

InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

A smart-ass, street-wise angel was an effective, albeit controversial, spokesperson in this instance because, through his humor, the actor communicated the company’s fundamental positioning: i.e., “Central Desktop turns email hell into work-together heaven by bringing people and information together in the cloud.”. Don’t Try Too Hard.

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Marketing Conference RSS Angel 209

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

You take all the photos and videos and upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Vine, and other social media platforms and experience the event through the eyes of the crowd. But the list is increasing as we are supporting more and more social media platforms. We sent out a lot of emails and showed them a lot of visuals of what we can do.

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Social Media Startup Media UCLA 94

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Marc Mitchell: I grew up here in Los Angeles, and I have always been involved in media and entertainment, After Los Angeles, I went to Stanford during the first tech boom. We did that through email, and eventually mobile. What platforms are you on? It's because so many games use that platform. I was COO of UrbanDaddy.

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Mobile Culver City Startup Examples 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. There are multiple platforms used to get the job done.

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

It was taking people an incredible amount of time to get out and just have a cup of coffee with someone, and lots of emails and phone calls. What I also like, is I'm a massive foodie, and love to cook and entertain, and this was the perfect combination. All of that takes the fun out of dating.

San Diego 264

San Diego Hollywood Mobile eHarmony 264

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. Embedded in the page are standard social media buttons like Facebook, Twitter, Disqus and good old fashion email as methods to recommend programming that you like. The folks over at Blip.tv To date, Blip.tv

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Web Netflix Social Media Product 65

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

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. David Waxman: It''s always great if you can get a referral, but you can also feel free to reach out to me directly--my email is on our website.

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Entertainment. How can film and distribution companies increase their revenues by utilizing the myLINGO platform? We have many entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles, many of whom are working in the entertainment sector. We also have Chris Cookson as a technical advisor. I wouldn’t have asked people to work for us on sweat equity.

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Unlike working with an agency, which involves lots of emails and phone calls, they just come to our website, sign up, and submit some information on their brand, how they want us to create content, as well as some brand guidelines. We put all of that into our system, and distribute it among our network through our logistics platform.

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Help IP Content Google 133

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform. We've got the name of every politician, entertainer, celebrity, athlete, business person, and brand -- you name it, we have it. We picked up a bunch of blogs, emailed them, and have gotten a really good response rate.

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. The Sponsors. We don’t fry it (unhealthy). mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Mixergy 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. The Sponsors. We don’t fry it (unhealthy). mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Frank Addante

JULY 20, 2012

The challenge will always be decentralizing a common platform or code base, and assigning team members who wear multiple hats to one team. That team’s members likely thought about video, music, entertainment, games, which resulted in the creation of the AppStore.

Product 59

Product Company Companies Organization 59

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We focus on developing strong distribution channels through social media, search, blog outreach and email programs to accelerate the discovery, sharing and engagement with Funny Or Die content. Building the Funny Or Die brand and social media platforms to where they are today. How do you market the Funniest site on the internet?

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Sites Marketing Social Media Tips 61