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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M That system allows us to arrange shoots and coordinate with contracted talent to produce that content.

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Los Angeles-based Ficto launches its Quibi competitor — with Niantic as a content partner

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The company’s entertainment is designed to be interactive with live-streaming, geo-location, live chat, polling, choice-based narratives, 360 viewing, augmented reality, and click through e-commerce, the company said.

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FilmTrack Raises $10M, Acquires Dashbox

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Los Angeles-based FilmTrack , a developer of contracts and rights management software for the media and entertainment industry, has raised $10M in a Series B funding, and also acquired Dashbox, a developer of cloud-based music asset and metadata management software. FilmTrack is led by Jason Kassin. READ MORE>>.

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The Story Behind ScoreBig's Live Entertainment Tickets, with Adam Kanner

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As an executive at the National Basketball Association (NBA), Adam Kanner saw those issues--plus the industry's own desire to sell its unsold inventory--so he created ScoreBig (www.scorebig.com), an online marketplace aimed at connecting consumers with awesome deals on below-face value, live entertainment tickets. ScoreBig is a channel play.

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Canoo takes the covers off of its debut electric vehicle

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Remarkably, Canoo has completed the design and engineering of its first model in just 19 months and is preparing its vehicles for production through a contract manufacturer. Entertainment systems are dependent on customers’ own devices and the canoo is compatible with both iOS and Android operating systems.

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A Conversation With Appetize's Kevin Anderson On Getting Customer Service Right

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Ahead of the conference, we sat down and spoke with Kevin Anderson , co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), a rapidly growing developer of point-of-sale software, on the topic of customer service. Lots of startups talk about trying to outsource all their customer support. Kevin Anderson.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

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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? We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace.

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