TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They want Netflix to address a list of demands in the categories of content investment, employee relations and safety, and harm reduction. “We value our trans colleagues and allies, and understand the deep hurt that’s been caused.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Apple did this with the introduction of the smartphone, which altered the value chain for computers, video, and software, which were already staples that they knew well. He entertains no sense of a static business. Redefine your product to reach a new category. Populating new domains to sustain your market.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 7, 2014

Tonight’s show features 34 categories celebrating the best of original online programming for digital platforms. This year’s event is being held in partnership with New Media Expo (NMX), the world’s largest conference and trade show for bloggers, podcasters, Web TV and video series creators.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

On Saturday February 9, Demo Video Lab is holding a one-day event to teach secrets to successfully launching a crowdfunding campaign. This is because the project itself was poorly planned and companies failed to produce a good video. Demo Video Lab will prevent you from making those common mistakes. Web Series. Consumer Product.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). Our product is called Starring You, which lets oyu put yourself into any video we create. Our ABC video series are 26, one-minute songs about the letters of the alphabet.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Founders and investors circling the space suspect a wave of Silicon Valley interest is coming, however, and that it will alter the category entirely. Los Angeles-based funds, in closer proximity to the entertainment industry, have been quicker to invest in the creator economy. Now, everyone wants to become an influencer.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

Borenstein became frustrated when she realized there were no high-quality instructional videos, it was even difficult to aggregate the few videos in one place. So step by step, she began the works on what is now Grokker.com , the expert video network, to address this need. That was 2012. Why is it called Grokker?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

Last week, Adconion (www.adconion.com) announced that it had spun out Joost (www.joost.com), its online video service, into a separate company, which is going to be based out of Santa Monica. Specifically, there was a greater and higher level of consumption of video. There are lots of video ad networks. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Here is the video link or click on the image above. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). Our product is called Starring You, which lets oyu put yourself into any video we create. Our ABC video series are 26, one-minute songs about the letters of the alphabet.

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Content Startup Screening Education 138

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

Gone are the days of heading to your local video store and snatching up a cool indie flick or two to pair up with your take out and your summer blockbuster action flick. Shows on the site are handpicked by a team of editors and organized into several categories. boasts more than 3 billion video views. The folks over at Blip.tv

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

In a way, startups have become kind of like the video game industry. And so it occurs to me that many startups in the consumer world are now truly hits driven like video games or movies. It might be in online game platforms solving the problem of entertaining people. It might be online videos targeting niche audience.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Watching video online has never been more accessible than ever. But to get to certain videos, viewers need to find the right website or know some keywords to view it. Pheebo TV does away with all that and places every popular video channel viewers want into one app. AM: I think for video they are great. What is Pheebo?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. 6SensorLabs.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. They have built proprietary ad serving, video serving and image recognition technology, complete with patents, and invented in-image advertising. Millions, billions, trillions?

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LATechDigest

AUGUST 23, 2016

The companies include new platforms for creating real-time data, video, and highlights for amateur and professional sports teams, community-based content creation tools for brands and organizations, as well as innovative cleaning technology for high-performance sports apparel and gear. The program launches today in R/GA’s LA office.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

The whole category of “sponsored search&# came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained. In these last two categories LA has as much of an advantage as any other market. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

People outside of your friendship circle, i.e. strangers, will not donate until the progress bar shows 20% to 30% ( this number is lower in the gadgets category and higher in causes category ) — no one wants to be the first. Add Photos/Video. Adding project photos and/or video increases the success rate as well.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Hagger is hoping people will be able to relate to each other around different categories and build friendships. Aimed at capitalizing on this trend, Doppels will soon offer the ability for a member to send a birthday video that ends with the unveiling of the gift. Doppels means ‘same’ in German. Giving Back.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. We have built our own system for managing and serving video, for the interactive components, and likewise, for the test and assessments.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 29, 2011

With SocialVents you’re able to filter by category, distance and date to deliver only the events that what you want you to see. The folks over at SocialVents have even included cool features to let you add photos and include YouTube videos in your event post. Don’t care for the other stuff and only interested in live music?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Tongal created a community full of people around the world, who can collaborate on making videos for people to enjoy. Tongal is a website dedicated to those who have the passion to develop new and exciting video advertisements for companies. 250 to win the best idea for an advertisement and up to $25,000 for those with the best video.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Without further adieu, I present to you the winners of the 1st annual REACH NeXT conference: Entertainment: Storygami. Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. About one quarter of all of the searches on Google are for entertainment related content, and studios are not playing into that at all. Video games are also huge.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons. I know this category has gotten a lot of press. So creating and launching hundred million dollar+ video game titles was part of Scott’s DNA. But the product is called textPlus, not textFree.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results. Content is kind, and most people think of that as entertainment, video, or music content. One of the biggest issues, is that consumers typically find coupons through a Google search query.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

We started in the mobile area in 2003 and 2004, and in 2006 we formed a company, MyNumo LLC, which initially started as a portal for artists to publish their ringtones, mobile videos, and more. We re-launched it a month ago, with new categories and subcategories, and it became the number one educational title for some time.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

The curated design and photography-driven entertainment site is where GIFs and memes intermingle with stunning photography, video and the ability to purchase in app. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. More Mansion Videos. See the entire Mansion video lineup. the entertainment industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills).

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2012

Some exciting news from Las Vegas in the massive Sony Booth (for every time I’ve been at CES, Sony’s area takes up damn near the entire exhibit hall /HugeExxagerationButSeriouslyTheyDoItBig) with multiple product releases in every possible category of an electronic consumer’s life.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We have been based in LA for around 45 years and we have deep roots in entertainment and media. When you had an explosion of content developers that wanted to be in LA with all the resource that the entertainment industry has available here, all the creative people want to be here. We have been doing it since the 1930s.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 9, 2013

The web consists of over 1,000,000 movies and shows and 150,000 of them are instantly watchable and have over three times the amount of free shows and videos for you to play. Just look up the name, show, or a person and all those categories are listed in thumbnail style. Searching is very simple.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

With a database of millions of questions in stock, they provide entertainment and generate revenue in two manners: by having users put money on the line to play, or by allowing users to play free with non-obtrusive ads. Their presentation ended in a quick trivia round about science, a category which (of course), the techy audience chose.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2009

Vicon became the largest motion capture hardware and software company and our primary markets there were entertainment, computer games, film, and also life sciences and engineering. There's a broad set of categories, and even others we hadn't anticipated.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’m investing heavily in Internet video. So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. TreeHouse is also a video company. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. Americans watch 5.3 We read less than an hour / day.

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