TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Kardashian is launching private equity firm SKKY Partners in conjunction with ex-Carlyle consumer head Jay Sammons to invest in business across consumer products, hospitality, luxury, digital commerce and media, the Wall Street Journal first reported. Jenner will be joining SKKY as a partner, the Journal reported.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. What's the idea behind Maple Media? What's the idea behind Maple Media?

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JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. It's a diverse group, both entertainment and technology. The firm is backed by Google Ventures, as well as a number of well known angels.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Manatt Digital Media is a professional digital media service for businesses. In early October, Manatt Digital Media was a proud sponsor of Siemer Silicon Beach Summit. TechZulu met with Hale Boggs, from Manatt Digital Media, and discussed Manatt Digital Media and the future of LA’s startup scene.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 25, 2021

“There’s a long history and a lot of relationships here,” said King, one of Hollywood’s premier power players and the founder of the global media company, Macro. Mayor Adrian Fenty To Be Its Newest Special Advisor. “Adrian and I go back to 93 [when] we were in law school. “We look at all verticals.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

If you''re a large, Hollywood studio, how do you tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community? to hear about how the program is both helping the studio tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community, as well as helping those startups find new customers in the media and entertainment business.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

What's the idea with ROC? Walter Grieves: We have 20 percent entertainment and about 50 percent tech startups. What's the idea behind the community use of space here? There aren't that many new ideas in real estate, it's all about how you execute. It looks like you've targeted both entertainment and technology here?

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AUGUST 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based Gipper Media --a new app inspired by a high school entrepreneurship project--has launched, with the backing of Pandora co-founder and SoCal technology vet Jon Kraft and former Stamps.com Chief Softwarwe Architect Girish Venkat. Venkat was also co-founder of Thrively, and also founded CoreObjects.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The theme for Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is startups and Hollywood, featuring leaders from movie studios, music labels, agencies, and startups in entertainment – how Hollywood studios are investing and working with startups, and how Silicon Beach startups are making entertainment businesses. See you there!

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media. We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The LA-based accelerator is powered by Techstars and is looking for “technology-based companies focused on transformative media and entertainment experiences.” Applications are being accepted starting today, through April 16, 2014 for early-stage companies with innovative consumer media and entertainment product ideas.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Haro is from the entertainment industry, and has served at Maverik Digital, GetGlu, Penske Media Corp, along with Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Venice, California-based anonymous messaging app developer Whisper said Tuesday that it has named Shelby Huston Haro as the company's Vice President of Sales. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2012

The team said that its idea it to create an app which takes advantage of all of the features of the iPad and iPhone, including voice recognition, accelerator, touch sensitivity, plus the iPad 3's Retina display. and Demand Media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ). It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

They are overloaded by the media with amazing advertising messages, and people now realize that you can’t believe anything you see in pictures, and even videos can be edited to deliver any message. In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools.

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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. Miso Media. Combine that with the growing startup community here, and you end up with at. intersection of technology and music.

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JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing. What is Fliptu?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. Image Credits: Robiiiworld (Brandy Merriweather via BStarPR).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. What is uCast?

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

I need to focus my time on big ideas paired with extremely passionate entrepreneurs. In reflection, think I need to center my time around those principals and focus on bigger ideas. I think we will see the rise of a newer and larger mobile-focused media companies and the continued evolution in traditional television entertainment.

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MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Most of these guys have no idea who they are marketing to. That's really the core focus for us.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2010

An event for executives in the Entertainment, Media, Technology and related business fields to come together and network and share ideas. Tuesday, January 26, 2010 -- ExecTec Networking Dinner. See [link] (more).

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JANUARY 13, 2010

An event for executives in the Entertainment, Media, Technology and related business fields to come together and network and share ideas. Tuesday, January 19, 2010 -- ExecTec Networking Dinner. See [link] (more).

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JANUARY 6, 2010

An event for executives in the Entertainment, Media, Technology and related business fields to come together and network and share ideas. Tuesday, January 12, 2010 -- ExecTec Networking Dinner. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 30, 2009

An event for executives in the Entertainment, Media, Technology and related business fields to come together and network and share ideas. Tuesday, January 5, 2010 -- ExecTec Networking Dinner. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 9, 2009

An event for executives in the Entertainment, Media, Technology and related business fields to come together and network and share ideas. Tuesday, December 15, 2009 -- ExecTec Networking Dinner. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

An event for executives in the Entertainment, Media, Technology and related business fields to come together and network and share ideas. Tuesday, December 8, 2009 -- ExecTec Networking Dinner. See [link] (more).

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

An event for executives in the Entertainment, Media, Technology and related business fields to come together and network and share ideas. Tuesday, December 1, 2009 -- ExecTec Networking Dinner. See [link] (more).

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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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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? What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. It takes an effective team to attract and serve a community in business these days.

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JULY 6, 2020

I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ). It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

chapter of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Alliance (METal) and the voice of KenRadio's World Technology Roundup on CBS Radio, Rutkowski has recruited a roster of mentors to coach entrepreneurs who enroll in the institute's programs in LA. For example, there's an idea for an events company we're considering.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

The startup--which has the backing of such high profile investors as Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's A-Grade Investments, Dreamworks, and Live Nation--also has some major partnership with entertainers like Madonna and No Doubt to create crowdsourced videos of their events. What's the idea behind Vyclone? The rest is execution.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Social Studios TV introduces you to a new (beta) Facebook app called, Your Show and bridges the gap between TV and social media. Social Studios TV thought there was something missing in the social media world. This is an app designed for the social media fans looking for a new way to stay connected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2022

We all want to be entertained. That hero may be an idea, it may be an individual, it may be an initiative, but without the struggle and the knight on the white horse that comes to the rescue, there is no story, and the audience will not listen. Exciting their passion to better the world or themselves is far better than saving a dollar.

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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? Basically, that disruption is 18-34 year olds have changed how they consume media.

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