socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based ShareSquare , a new startup focused on the QR Code creation area, has launched its services this week, focusing on helping musicians and entertainers create QR codes. QR codes are three dimensional barcodes which can be recognized by mobile phones to connect users with web sites and other information.

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Seed Funding Entertainment Los Angeles Web 154

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. It specifically does NOT play Top 50 music, instead, helping the audience explore and find up and coming music. Music Mastermind. Music Prodigy.

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Southern California Startup Sherman Oaks Venice 254

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last night, Amazon.com jumped into the movie business, with its own, online film submission site, Amazon Studios , backed by the help of a number of notable USC Film School advisors. Despite coming from Amazon, the local involvement is heavy, with USC's School of Cinematic Arts heavily involved, as well as other local entertainment execs.

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Sites Hollywood Summary USC 217

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The firm's technology--which creates a 3D, virtual avatar from digital photos--was originally developed at the University of Southern California for the CIA, and was spun out into a venture funded company targeting the consumer market. For those not familiar with BigStage, tell us what the company is doing with your avatar technology?

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

Dollar Shave Club 272

Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

OneCubicle helps you build a career, through a jobs page, jobs listings, career advice, micro transactions for resume help, and an upcoming celebrity mentor feature. I'd also been a television producer on many sports and entertainment shows, including NBC and Fox Sports. You can also use the service to network to your next job.

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Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. Kieve Huffman: My background, and that of my business partner is digital entertainment and digital media.

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Startup Buzznet Entertainment Social Network 213

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry. and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry.

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I’m currently working with several startups, helping them launch new web businesses. And do you know anyone that I should speak with who might be able to help me find more work?

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Los Angeles Product Angel Startup 179

socalTECH

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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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. Prior to starting KnowledgeBase, Alex founded HostPro, an industry-leading web hosting and application services provider. Additionally, he has extensive application development, web hosting, and data center build-out and management experience.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. Elizabeth Amini: We make online games, which are fun and easy, and help memory, concentration, focus, and relaxation.

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

We sat down with Peter--who is now working directly for LA''s technology mayor Eric Garcetti as Chief Innovation Technology Officer--to understand how a technology insider think he can help tap into the rich technology industry here and help use technology to improve the life of everyday citizens. That''s the short term goal.

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Los Angeles Technology Startup Examples 203

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

No matter how much you think you know about Steve’s lean startup philosophy, Eric Ries’ contributions to the movement, or the methodologies by which companies have put lean startup tenets into practice, I am confident you will be enlightened and entertained by Steve’s frank and insightful remarks. . free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias.

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Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. How is the company funded? I think we've truly got some of the best analytic minds around.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Entertainment." Once WalMart has helped you establish your brand, it will then be possible to sell premium products via other channels, such as boutique shops or even directly to consumers. Never heard of VidCon? Think "Consumer Electronics Show meets E! Border Run.

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Course Advertising Social Media Content 190

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. ReachLocal, founded by Zorik Gordon, publicly traded company helping small businesses across America use the Internet for marketing [Woodland Hills.

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

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. Entertainment is confusing--we didn't make investments in pure content plays. It's very much a low cost model.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? Studies show, if you don't, people will turn to piracy.

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Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! And the company that helped websites publish RSS? As you traveled the web and found stuff you liked you could “bookmark&# it (sound familiar) so that you could find it again.

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RSS News Blogging Yahoo 349

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Raph Koster: If you think of how virtual worlds have worked, they haven't worked like the web has.

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Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

This morning, Los Angeles-based Mogreet (www.mogreet.com) announced it had raised a Series B funding round for the firm's mobile greeting services. We caught up with James to hear more about the company, how he managed to get funding even in this economy, and his view on the mobile market. So tell us about this new funding round?

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Mogreet Paramount Entertainment Mobile 133

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. We want to create businesses and engage with entrepreneurs. Andy Wilson: Great question.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2012

The exceptions to this advice would be if you are being paid for your startup position by external funding, or if you have enough money in the bank for both you and the startup to survive for at least a year. If you don’t have a partner, you’ll often lose interest and find something else to entertain you. 10,000 uniques a week?

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Funding 95

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

A total of 10 startups made up of 5 companies that received the most votes from the crowd and 5 companies chosen by the Angels and VC judges pitched in front of a live audience for a chance of winning $25,000 in funding. They provide a platform that helps users find heal discounts and deals provided by health professionals in their area.

Startup 85

Startup Miramar Venture Capital Santa Monica 85

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. It's also a great way to build out your own YouTube channel, which we also help them do. Sam Rogoway.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to fund in the video creation world. Engagement.

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

How is the company funded and backed? Rather than taking their hard work and just leveraging it on the web, the pitch is--we'll do this work for you, put reams and reams more metadata around a given movie, sound bite, TV show episode, or video game. Our job is to help capture some of that demand.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Your cousin specializes in entertainment law – that’s different. Here’s a hack for you.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding. This last month was really building out the detail of the product, and launching our web site.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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. million dollars from some of the biggest funds (First Round Capital, NEA and GRP), is precisely because they solved such a huge problem.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

You cannot afford to speed, gun the engine, take detours, or spend your precious cash on a killer stereo to entertain you during your trek. Capital efficient, web-based businesses should have a credible plan to self-sustainability. Future funding should be discretionary to propel prospective growth, not a matter of survival.

Startup 221

Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Email 221

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

For instance, if you are building water wells in indigenous areas, send your contributors a photo of the people your campaign helped showing them drinking the water. Use words like “bring” instead of the word “help”. Looking for someone to help you create a magnetic video showcasing your product? Video Production.

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Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( We are always looking for ways to help improve the experience here at TechZulu. Discover - Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. Are you interested? We can get your name out there.

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Stickam Content Draper Web 60