socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

Media 95

Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. We are all coming from a background in entertainment. We are power users and we are constantly trying to redefine platforms we are frustrated with. That is how Todd and I met, from all the talk of using platforms that frustrates us.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

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. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.

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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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Hollywood HTML Software Review Advertising 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Another example in the VR space, is I've worked personally with virtual reality companies, and we have a number of clients in that space, so from an investment standpoint, that�s an obvious place to look at. You've worked on both sides, in both entertainment and traditional media, and technology.

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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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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

Advertising 66

Advertising Marketing Startup Framework 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

Marketing 100

Marketing Social Media Framework Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Buying Google keywords will be popular and expensive. Photos…the final frontier.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

Media 101

Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Provides an enterprise collaboration and storage platform. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2014

As we recall, this year has kicked off with some fierce acquisitions in the connected home and internet of things (IOT) space, namely with Google’s high profile $3.2 Once inside, Belkin’s Wemo systems control everything from lighting to entertainment, and weMonitor watches over everything’s power consumption.

Belkin 87

Belkin Startup Acquisition Entertainment 87

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

Robin brings up a compelling example to frame this discussion. The panel describes new hardware dynamics as we move into the next generation of gaming (Google Glass, Oculus Rift v.2). The pressing question on everyone’s mind: How close are we to whole, immersive environments, or a unified platform for gaming?

Mobile 93

Mobile Platform Technology Screening 93

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? MW: It’s interesting.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

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. Great companies like Amazon, Google, and Apple have adopted product-driven structures very successfully. The perfect example of a product-driven organization.

Product 59

Product Company Companies Organization 59

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The group has expanded beyond Action Sports to include brands from Consumer Electronics, Music & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Automotive & Motorsports, as well as our growing college student consumer community. He’s a great example of how to build “your” personal brand to take it to the next level. |. |.

Social Media 40

Social Media Southern California Media Orange County 40

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. TechZulu will be streaming Digiday : Mobile live from 8:00am - 5:00pm PST Monday 3/8. The advertiser? The agency?

Mobile 40

Mobile Media Case Study Advertising 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

One obvious example is the OSI model in which we have seven layers ranging from the physical layer at the bottom of the stack (e.g. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. Let’s take some examples.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

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. Enter Google.

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Content Google Media Hulu 386