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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. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. What Does a City Need to Compete?

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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. Earbits has created a service which lets you browse through over 200 stations of streaming audio, advertising free. Music Mastermind.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 23, 2009

Past presenters have received millions in funding from our program; and several have sold their company for huge earnings. See [link] (more).

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MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

San Diego-based Legend Films, a provider of film restoration services and owner of the web site RiffTrax.com, said Thursday that it has closed on $5M in a Series E funding. Legend Films said it would use the funding to support efforts in 3D conversion technology, its home entertainment business, and for Rifftrax.com.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

The funding round brings the company's total raised to $9.4M. Metaplace operates a service which allows users to create their own virtual worlds, which they can embed on their own web pages and sites. The firm's co-founders, Raph Koster and John Donham, both come from Sony Online Entertainment. READ MORE>>

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JUNE 18, 2009

You can also use the service to network to your next job. I'd also been a television producer on many sports and entertainment shows, including NBC and Fox Sports. I recently opened up a company, Champion Media, providing entertainment branding, marketing, and public relations for Gen Y brands. How are you backed?

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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the venture funded online advertising effort run by Frank Addante, is reporting this morning that advertising CPMs were flat in Q4, even as the firm said it had an 30 percent growth in revenue across its publishers. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Advertising Report Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

The 200-400 invited guests will range from some of the web most influential Journalists, Bloggers, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram users, founders, VCs, CEOs, captains of industry, early adopters, PR execs and more. Apps & Software Business Entertainment Entrepreneurship Events REACH GadgetReview Technology TechZulu Wearables'

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Santa Monica Entertainment Design Research 101

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

Right now, that''s a jumble of different social services, websites, and more--which is the problem that Yapert (www.yapert.com) thinks it has solved. 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.

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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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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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MAY 23, 2012

and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry. Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases.

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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. Likely any successful web entrepreneur has more ideas than time. What are you working on now?

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Peter Marx: The Mayor''s office has oversight, along with the city council, for thirty seven different departments, ranging across all kinds of different services. My resume includes things like videogames, online worlds, online web, from everything as an engineer to a producer to technical director, to CTO. What do you say to them?

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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. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time.

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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.

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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.

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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. How is the company funded? Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures.

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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. My own view on these services is nuanced. 15mm in Series A.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! As you traveled the web and found stuff you liked you could “bookmark&# it (sound familiar) so that you could find it again. It’s at the core of what Delicious was.

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APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. Of course if you’re already known you could put your name or location on your fund name. But consider the following: 1.

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Njoku in April this year closed an $8m funding investment round from Tiger Global and another $2m from a Swedish firm, Kinnevik and still he says more is yet to come. We also have a music streaming service, iROKING , which has been dubbed by some as the ‘Spotify’ of Africa. Tell us about funding rounds you have had? Why Africa?

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Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids'' soccer game. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

I made it easy and made it beautiful and took all the different services and made it all under one interface. I just use Pheebo and other services. How hard was it to fund Pheebo? Luckily we have been able to self-fund our operation so far and we haven’t taken any outside investments. I don’t even have cable anymore.

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Startup Design Mobile Software Review 106

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. The key to the LA tech scene is finding people who really understand content, and funding pepole in content who understand technology, and getting together.

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Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

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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. So I've been in this environment either as a manager, service provider, consultant, mentor, and founder.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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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. Our lives are intertwined.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

All you have to do is hover over any video or image and drag it to the network or service of your liking. Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

We built that to 50 people with funding from a VC in Ireland closely connected with the European company. ISPs are looking to differentiate themselves with value added services, beyond just telecom and entertainment services, and you are starting to see themselves looking at a platform and what they can add.

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Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors. Mark Suster , GRP Partners.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

Signaling an overall shift away from costly hardware in favor of affordable cloud-based voice and text messaging services for the commercial and non-profit sectors, CallFire announced that it has surpassed 50,000 users. We are excited to welcome a leader of Ron Burr’s caliber to the CallFire executive team,” Ravishanker said.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89