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OCTOBER 9, 2012

The bible of entertainment industry news, Variety , has been acquired by Internet entrepreneur Jay Penske, via his firm, Penske Media , the companies said today. Variety has been covering entertainment and Hollywood news since 1905. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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MARCH 20, 2014

According to the startup, which is led by Todd Wagner, it has added such names as local tech entrepreneur Clark Laundry (SHIFT/TagWorld), Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein (The Weinstein Company), musician Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park), and news anchor Dan Rather to the advisory board.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood. Media and Entertainment has seen more barriers to entry being broken down.

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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. Media Partners.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. NowLive is trying to do just that, leveraging both technology and the entertainment world to build its business. We also are dong the Twilight premiere from LA.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

If you''re a large, Hollywood studio, how do you tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community? to hear about how the program is both helping the studio tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community, as well as helping those startups find new customers in the media and entertainment business. Warner Bros. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2018

Santa Monica-based SPACES (www.spaces.com), led by CEO Shiraz Akmal and a team of entertainment veterans from Dreamworks Animation, is hoping to do that with a series of physical attractions, powered by VR technology. We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. So we did a one-day fall Silicon Beach Fest at io/LA in Hollywood. At the closing party, attendees kept saying "This is great! When's the next one?"

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JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

WEMO Media is an interesting combination of Hollywood, computer games, and deep technical experience, one of the few companies we have seen which seems to combine both the worlds of high tech and software with content, interactive, and Hollywood. As a studio, we are building entertainment titles that capture that spirit.

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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. Z also has recently launched a new podcast series , where she talks to entrepreneurs here at the intersection of entrepreneurship and manufacturing. Tell us about MAKE IT IN LA, and what you are doing?

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

The backers of the new accelerator include Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Sonos, Harmonix Music Systems, Bill Silva Entertainment, QPrime, Silva Artist Management, and Era of the Engineer. Techstars did not say where exactly the accelerator will be based.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. Beyond entertainment, ad tech is huge with Rubicon''s IPO and the TrueX $200M acquisition by Fox. What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? I like events.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Post navigation.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Eighteen months ago, when MAKE IT IN LA's launch from Mayor's Garcetti's office was featured in a White House press release, we announced an audacious goal of reaching 1,000 entrepreneurs with our programming by the end of this year. Check out the entertaining video here.) (Check out the entertaining video here.)

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The startup--created by Robert Earl (Founder and CEO of Planet Hollywood), Grant Hosford (formerly of eHarmony), and Connell (formerly of Nokia)--is using the Internet to arrange group dates at local restaurants, to connect people in person and offline. How did you get from working on mobile to online dating?

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JUNE 2, 2014

Last month, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti created a new program, aimed at growing, assisting and sustaining entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. The new "Entrepreneur-in-Residence" program has appointed its first, two, EIRs--Krisztina "Z" Holly and Amir Tehrani.--both And, one crazy thing I''d love to see, is for Hollywood to play a role.

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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.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

We have a soft spot for investors and entrepreneurs, who might be super-smart, but are not necessarily as experienced. I think, to answer the question for entrepreneurs, is unfortunately, people have fallen back a bit to their traditional networks. We discovered them very early. That's where we add value. It's even harder now.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

We take a really friendly, Shark Tank approach that promotes young entrepreneurs, and lets them pitch to a group of seasoned investors and venture capitalists on a panel, and where they not only get an actual investment, but also go through a retail challenge, to get consumer feedback. How did you get involved with angel investing, initially?

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MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. Entrepreneurs that start companies in LA are often focused on revenue and business models. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Jan Zands: I come from the entertainment industry, where I've built software for production companies, where producers are making 30 calls a day, and receiving 30 calls a day, and they needed a system where they could keep track of call volume. In Hollywood, a lot of people don't return calls. And then all your to do calls.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. Matthias Galica: The first two verticals which correspond to our use case are in music and entertainment.

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JUNE 15, 2017

At the time, the primary platforms having an impact on Hollywood were Facebook and Twitter. In particular, the entertainment industry is not as metrics focused as a startup. That was around 2010, when there was only a handful of YouTube creators who had over a million subscribers, and the first year the iPad came out.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Join us as we kick off the holiday season in grand style and bestow the Digital Family Outstanding Achievement Honor on Scott Painter, Founder of CarsDirect and Entrepreneur. digiday:APPS * December 10th * The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. Tell a friend, and purchase your ticket at www.digitalfamilyinc.com. Win a ticket to digiday:APPS.

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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.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). It's clear that Hollywood people speak a different language from technology people.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Rich Raddon: When Zach and I came together, I had been working in LA for fifteen years in entertainment and traditional media. It seems most venture investors have been very shy about investing in Hollywood content related ventures. I ran the Los Angeles Film Festival for a decade. Fascinating story. more) READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Brett Markinson: The best place to start, is I'm a serial entrepreneur. I started in media technology, and built a number of companies, which I was able to build out and get the ball rolling, in digital, nonlinear editing and special effects technology in Hollywood. Location-based entertainment is shopping.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

It's a great testament to the management team, that we've been able to gain traction among big strategic partners, such as carriers and the major Hollywood studios. Our team comes from the entertainment industry--we have the entertainment background, and we have done this before. We've also seen lots of consumer traction.

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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. and Facebook beef up their presence and more Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs establish footholds in.

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MARCH 3, 2011

About one quarter of all of the searches on Google are for entertainment related content, and studios are not playing into that at all. That might be a quote, or description of what's going on in a scene, or a character. We're going out there, and harnessing that. Our job is to help capture some of that demand.

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