SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, etc. Part of the reason is that when I look at the CTOs, we see that the industries (games, entertainment, aerospace, retail, etc.), or focused on industry or type of company.

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Southern California Software Development Software Develop 150

Berkonomics

AUGUST 28, 2014

Yes, most of that is from NetFlix and YouTube and others delivering entertainment content. But an increasing amount is now coming from web sites and YouTube videos created by companies looking for an edge in their marketing efforts. Ninety percent of all traffic on the Internet is in video form.

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Netflix Sites Content Entertainment 166

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.

Mobile 156

Mobile Commerce Software Review Yammer 156

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. Obvious examples include SxSW in Austin or Big Omaha in, well, I’ll let you guess.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ An example of a great serialist was Charles Dickens in which Oliver Twist & Nicholas Nickleby and others were written and distributed serially. It’s entertainment. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. Think creatively.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

every thing from smartphones to the network, video streaming for example over the Internet. My resume includes things like videogames, online worlds, online web, from everything as an engineer to a producer to technical director, to CTO. I view myself as having a pretty good background across a lot of things., Thanks, and good luck!

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Los Angeles Technology Startup Examples 203

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. Elearning is an example.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. This is my third company. You also have a background as a scientist at JPL? It's actually based on Amazon's cloud.

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy. Can you maybe give a concrete example of that? First off, talk about SendLove.to

Startup 174

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. It's now a one-stop shop for surfer's entertainment, plus a utility portal. First off, tell us about your network of sites?

Web 140

Web Content Mobile Sites 140

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

This last month was really building out the detail of the product, and launching our web site. Some examples of those who we have worked very closely with are Ron Garrett, who was the lead engineer on Google AdWords. Those are two examples, we have about a dozen. We're thinking September or October to launch the program.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information. An example of that is the UCLA flood. What drove your interest in this area?

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

We go to the web, we go to feature phones, we go to smart phones, we go to land lines, iPads, Droids, and so on. You've been in more traditional entertainment firms--as an executive in a big studio--why jump to a startup? Did those prior entertainment relationships help to get those celebrities to work with you?

Entertainment 159

Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell. Founded in 2007.

Venture Capital 241

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 241

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

You can go to Mogreet.com or go to our wireless web site, at wap.mogreet.com , or use your cell phone on any number of carriers, such as AT&T, Verizon, etc. Our team comes from the entertainment industry--we have the entertainment background, and we have done this before. But, there are two things.

Mogreet 133

Mogreet Paramount Entertainment Mobile 133

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

If you think about virtual worlds right now, there's a lot of hype around kids worlds and entertainment, much like there was a lot of hype around Second Life in the past. Raph Koster: If you think of how virtual worlds have worked, they haven't worked like the web has. We've seen avatars on the web, and they came out of virtual worlds.

Web 100

Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A specific example of a platform failure in this space, Neighborrow , enabled sharing of relatively low-value items (like power tools, bikes, and kitchenware), where the money saved was often offset by the inconvenience of pickup and delivery. Don’t expect to rely totally on social media, word of mouth, or a personal web site.

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Platform Startup Social Media Customer 145

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

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

TechZulu is proud to team up with Digital LA and accelerators Amplify, StartEngine, Launchpad, local companies BetterWorks, PromoJam, start-ups and co-working spaces, all working together to create the first-ever Silicon Beach Fest to celebrate startups, tech, and entertainment! Content : Web / viral videos TBA. CoWorks : TBA.

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Startup Press Hollywood Email 106

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2013

We have negotiated pricing for preventative, restorative, emergency, and even cosmetic dentistry, and it''s easy to use through either our web or mobile service. You often hear complaints that Los Angeles companies are too much about e-commerce and entertainment. What''s also very important about what we''re doing, is it''s not that.

Pricing 227

Pricing Startup Networking Software Review 227

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now?

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Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

We've had event companies, and clubs, and web businesses, all vertically focused on either passions or really exciting subjects like knowledge management, sales, field force automation, and home office computing, small business, bedtime reading. On the fun side, we have different show in the entertainment world. That is amazing.

Media 150

Media Report Advertising Content 150

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As a footnote, the Innovate Pasadena logo is IP--there''s some symbolism around IP, intellectual property, and internet protocol, because we''re more science oriented than the Westside, which is more entertainment content and consumer oriented. For example, JPL and Idealab have literally spun out around 300 companies.

Pasadena 242

Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. The first rule of choosing a brand for anything is to figure out the image you want to project.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 23, 2014

One of the goals of entertainment awards galas is to expose talent to a wider audience that may have not been noticed by a chart-based PR machine. Read More Reactions Around The Web: VGX all the awkward moments. All the great YouTube, gaming and entertainment talent in the world still needs great direction.

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Technical Review Entertainment Content Class 92

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. Perhaps one of the reasons it took 20 years for the commercial web to monetize images is because matching images with content is a very difficult. Take the Oscars for example, users will be searching for information on the Oscars before and after the main event.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

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

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. Details coming soon!)

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Their purchases are limited to restaurants, bars, retail clothing outlets, travel and entertainment. It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services. There are three “megatrends” as he puts it – real time data, the social web and flash marketing. My own view on these services is nuanced.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. For example? Web analytics, pretty clear. He continues with an example where they’d spent a lot of effort on implementing tracking on every portion of a product. Machinima’s example?

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

For example, let’s say someone has always wanted to be a rockstar, but they are a dentist. Make your campaign live on that date, (for example, Sunday May 9th). Here’s an example; 11. For example, ‘for every contribution I will give X to XYZ organization’. Add Photos/Video. Can be video or photo or both.

Startup 109

Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

For example, some people have special destination experience, perhaps Peace Corps that they can parlay into a meaningful and unique travel experience. Over the years, as our reputation grew, we got more repeat business and corresponding word of mouth (then) everything changed, especially with the web. .

Entrepreneur 187

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Advertising 187

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2008

A quick example is a retail experience, where you might pick up a box at the store, and go up in front of a "magic mirror" where you can see yourself holding the box--but also see a 3D object popping up out of that box in real time. The second one is in the entertainment market. How did the company come about?

Startup 100

Startup Advertising Los Angeles Sales 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2014

Once inside, Belkin’s Wemo systems control everything from lighting to entertainment, and weMonitor watches over everything’s power consumption. They refer to the concept of “customer ownership” and provide examples. And you can only get so much data from smartphones and web services.

Belkin 87

Belkin Startup Acquisition Entertainment 87

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. Some might only want children, for example. For example, you can customize your breast, and someone like Disney doesn't want that.

Tool 113

Tool Platform Venture Capital Startup 113

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

When you go on Reddit for videos on your iPad for example, there is not a great way to do it besides the website. Looking towards at the end of this year or early next year for our first outside seed round and plan out to build an Android and web version and do marketing and sales. Thank you Arthur for your time.

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Startup Design Mobile Software Review 106