socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. Miso Media. The firm's products are an example of what applying technology, and smartphones and tablets, can do for music education.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

Today I want to talk briefly about why I believe Snapchat is an important media company. I’ve heard the new media doubters before as nobody thought Google, Facebook or Twitter would ever make money. From the business perspective you need to understand a few things about media and video in particular.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard coincidentally cites Mike Yavondite’s Qiigo as an example; Mike was a guest on TWIVC later that day. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. But Google is still showing great financial performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media. Real customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2014

Google Glass. Google Glass is one of the most famous examples of wearable Tech. Although there are many companies making variations on the product, Google’s seems to be the most advanced and streamlined. Let’s take a look at a few of the most anticipated smart devices changing the way we use technology. Oculus Rift.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media. Real customers.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. We make websites, and we make banners, primarily for the entertainment industry and Hollywood. Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A.

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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. Social Media has been traditionally seen as branding medium, but that seems to be shifting this year.

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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. But it’s not just the pull of outside influences sapping the talent, as many of L.A.’s

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. Los Angeles. People either love it our hate it.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. TechZulu catches up with one of the co-founders of Bedloo, Vincent Plummer, and talks to us about social media, startups, and Bedloo. We are all coming from a background in entertainment. Since Bedloo is a social media voting platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The old media companies were resistant to change. Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. Their creative and animation is not only beautiful and elegant, it is included in the cost of the CPM for placing media for free.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

One of the biggest issues, is that consumers typically find coupons through a Google search query. They do a Google search, and they''re presented with thousands of sites in the search results. Content is kind, and most people think of that as entertainment, video, or music content. A specific example of that is Vistaprint.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Tomorrow starting at 8pm PST We will be live streaming ( click here to view live stream ) the "Action Sports + Social Media Marketing Mash Up" event put on by SoCal Action Sports Network. He’s a great example of how to build “your” personal brand to take it to the next level. |. |. Gregory Ferenstein, Fast Company Magazine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Early hype actually should precede the final product, and consists of proof-of-concept stories, media events and industry exposure. According to Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report for 2014 , wearable user interfaces such as Google Glass are now in this stage. Peak of inflated expectations.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. After recent announcements by Google and Apple, the mobile advertising ecosystem is abuzz with optimism and flush with venture capital. Should media companies offer their content on an ad-supported basis or get users to pay up front?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

01% conversion rate again to the people who clicked over to the website from the YouTube video, that’s 185 new customers, 185 people who would have never thought to google search for a tampon service, who will now be signing up to spend the 15 bucks a month to get tampons delivered to their door. If we apply that.01%

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Jared Golden – Pear, connecting local community groups to their sponsors. Ricky Johnson – PledgeCents , improving K-12 through community learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

in fact we still look at many deals in the media sector whose main objective is to entertain people. A good example of this Ag Tech theme is 6SensorLabs a company out of MIT that we’re very excited about and the funding was recently announced. 6SensorLabs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Their purchases are limited to restaurants, bars, retail clothing outlets, travel and entertainment. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

One example is driving, which has an actual physiological reason it makes you creative. I know this sounds abstract so let me give you an example from this week. I started to build this into a media & entertainment value chain that broke down the components of the industry into discrete parts. If so, why?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials. For example, you might look at the movie, the Matrix, and you'll see that the teaser scenes from their marketing department won't get you the scene where Morpheus says -- take the red one or the blue one.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

And while the entertainment industry takes a lot of credit for the awesomeness that is SXSW, tech holds its own when it comes to creating the electric atmosphere of this epic coming-together. Ann Hiatt, Chief-of-Staff to the Chairman at Google. Neha Narula, Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT Media Labs.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

Our builders included Jason Yim , CEO of Trigger Global; and Daniel Busby , Lead Engineer at Two Bit Circus ; with Scot Rubin , Founder of G4TV and Nitropod, to represent media and consumers. Robin brings up a compelling example to frame this discussion. ” Diving Into Psychology. On the Horizon.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A very big thanks to Alexandra Harris, the founder of FanCause , a company that aims to connect entertainment brands with their fans to raise money. The iPhone is a great example of simplicity and clarity. Entrepreneurs should also use social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) Sounds like a noble cause.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011.

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