Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!) But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. For example, if someone is browsing a clip, they can see the origin of that, if it's a movie, and that can be linked to a DVD, or merchandise, or a T-shirt. What is the SnapCuts service? They can then share that across a social network.

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Social Network Mobile Media Examples 246

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

I don’t believe it’s hyperbole to say that Twitter and Facebook are truly transformative at a societal level, for example. My example du jour is LinkedIn. It might be in online game platforms solving the problem of entertaining people. It’s not all sunshine and candy canes.

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Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

The people who spend the most money on reaching consumers: consumer products, car companies, food & beverage, entertainment – need to reach mass audiences and smaller channels aren’t as effective for them relative to the time to produce creative and learn how to perform in a channel. It creates a reason to “go now!”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard coincidentally cites Mike Yavondite’s Qiigo as an example; Mike was a guest on TWIVC later that day. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. Fansnap is an example, search for ticket purchases. 34:30 – 37:00).

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Thus the rise of the “ sharing economy ,” with collaborative and peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms , including Lyft (rides), Airbnb (lodging), and WeWork (workspace). There are always opportunities to participate in existing platforms, such as becoming an Uber driver, or to start your own platform sharing your favorite hobby.

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Platform Startup Social Media Customer 145

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

I like to refer to that as the ultimate brand fan page, or to take the example from the apparel industry, where I come from, a virtual look book for a brand. If a fan know they can get their entire brand fix there, rather than having to jump across multiple profiles, multiple social media platform, and networks, that's very compelling.

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Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We watch our news and entertainment anywhere we want to on any kind of device we choose. Examples of re-imagining the business. There are hundreds of other examples of re-imagination everywhere we look, making our lives easier and our reach greater than ever before. Let’s explore examples of these and more.

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Mobile Commerce Software Review Yammer 156

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. You can go to your particular interests, pick your favorite brands and entertainers, and favorite them. How did the company start? We all have likes and interests.

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Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Chance Barnett: Crowdfunder is an equity crowdfunding platform. We have funded deals from seed stage all the way through Series C, and have a growing pipeline of notable, celebrity technology and celebrity entertainment investors coming onto our platform. From your perspective, where are we nowadays with crowdfunding?

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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. It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation.

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Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

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 241

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

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. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.

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Companies Company Technology Startup 291

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Entertainment has changed. New platforms led by YouTube have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2020

And as physical events and the entertainment industry that depends on them shuts down, virtual things have come to epitomize the popular culture of the pandemic. Fashion is having its moment in the metaverse. A riot of luxury labels, music, and games are vying for attention in the virtual world.

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Design Los Angeles West Los Angeles Social Media 219

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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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

So I went online and saw that the forums were outdated--for example, you'd see the last post was in 2001, who would be coming back to that? For example, Desperate Housewives, Gray's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Pushing Daisies--we do a lot of films. We're going to make it easy as possible to share information on multiple platforms.

Social Network 174

Social Network Startup Sites Networking 174

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform. Can you maybe give a concrete example of that? We've got the name of every politician, entertainer, celebrity, athlete, business person, and brand -- you name it, we have it. That's everything in the direct noun space.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

The convergence of the Internet and the entertainment business has made Los Angeles a hotbed of activity in the online entertainment industry, attracting companies from all over the country interested in connecting Hollywood with the Internet. Creators now have a platform to launch their business.

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Entertainment Advertising Hollywood Startup 100

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

For example, if you as a consumer shop at a place, when you're done with your transaction, you can take a picture of your receipt, and start earning "punches" on Punchard at the places you shop. While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. We sold that to IAC.

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

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 Santa Barbara 159

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

We make websites, and we make banners, primarily for the entertainment industry and Hollywood. I think it's a shining example of Silicon Beach's technology helping out Hollywod. Was it difficult from shifting from an agency to becoming a platform developer? Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product.

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Hollywood HTML Software Review Advertising 157

socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2009

We sat down and spoke with Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried , co-founders of the firm, about what the firm is up to now, their view on how to mesh entertainment and the Internet, and how to go beyond creating a viral hit. Miles Beckett: Our company EQAL is a social entertainment company, which means two things.

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Hollywood Content Paramount Entertainment 113

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Milana Rabkin: As a platform, we work on a consensus model. They can use Stem as a platform to distribute that content. As revenue comes back from the platforms and services they've monetized that content on, we automate the disbursement of payments to everyone at the same time. Currently, that's music and online video.

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Startup Content Metrics Platform 140

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2012

For those who may think Las Vegas is just the home of Zappos, Conferences, and day/night entertainment, well you are right. The platform organizes users’ personal and business lives in an environment designed for thought partnering. Her talk gave great examples of how Tracky can help simplify her Online and Personal life.

Social Media 96

Social Media Incubator Conference Entertainment 96

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

One example is Santa Monica-based hardware company, Ring, who transitioned to a hybrid business model that now includes recurring revenue. Other examples include media tech companies ZEFR and GumGum � both having record years and positioned extremely well for continued growth in 2017.

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. He entertains no sense of a static business. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings.

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Examples IP Acquisition Social Media 99

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

For example, say we're buddies--and I wanted to encourage you to go out and vote, you go to the AT&T multimedia storefront, find the Obama "Yes We Can" Mogreet, and type in a cell phone number and just click send. Our team comes from the entertainment industry--we have the entertainment background, and we have done this before.

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Mogreet Paramount Entertainment Mobile 133

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

We make it really easy for you to add tags before you post something to your own social platform, and before you send a quick reply to your friends on what you've bought. The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. Right now, we're helping people every day make money on their favorite social platforms.

Help 113

Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

imperson provides an artificial intelligence platform enabling fans to have conversations with their favorite movie and TV characters. StatMuse is developing an artificial intelligence platform to help sports fans explore data using simple, natural language. Video Engagement Platform. 2 AI Companies. Advertiser Optimization.

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Class Artificial Inteligence AMA Platform 82

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Haim's background is in media and the entertainment industry, for several decades. For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company.

Southern California 100

Southern California Media Venture Capital Invest 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Haim's background is in media and the entertainment industry, for several decades. For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company.

Capital 100

Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

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. We got started after our seed funding on August first of last year and immediately went to work with platform companies. You mentioned you're VC funded?

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Tool Platform Venture Capital Startup 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

It gives us the ability to do what we love, which it to create engagement and content that people find entertaining, informative, and authoritative, and moves an audience, and introduces the right kind of selective sponsors and clients to that engaged audience, in a respectful way. It ends up being good for both. Why podcasting?

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Media Report Advertising Content 150

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.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 13, 2011

Early adoption is being championed by a lot of the people that have been the earliest users of ShareSquare – specifically the music & entertainment verticals, for a number of reasons. For example, you might walk down the street and scan a QR code off a Coca-Cola poster, play a little game, and win a free coke.

Entertainment 77

Entertainment Tips Platform Mobile 77

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Ever since sound was first introduced into movies, the entertainment business has never really faced a huge change. However, the online presence has shifted the entertainment landscape drastically and is threatening to change the business for better or for worse. Is it kind of like social media platform? What does Filmzu do?

Content 81

Content Entertainment Startup Los Angeles 81