socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

What's the idea with ROC? They're using the ROC platform to have their events in all one place, and take their investing from 8 to 30 days, down from 90 days. Walter Grieves: We have 20 percent entertainment and about 50 percent tech startups. What's the idea behind the community use of space here?

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Tech Zulu Event

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.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. Clearly, a16z General Partner David George too was bullish on the idea of a combined company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

He’s here on stage with Snoop Dogg and they had just dialed in Shaq to record a live video for his platform. As you can imagine, when you introduce tech professionals or VCs to a grammy-award winning rap artist they start with pre-conceived ideas but of course that “pattern matching” is what leads our industry to underestimate people.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. 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.

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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 ). Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. Most of these guys have no idea who they are marketing to. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful.

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socalTECH

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. Warner Bros.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen. The second thing, is instead of being just a platform, we also have content partners pre-integrated.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

Deborah Ramo: Amavitae, which means "love life" in Latin, is a mobile-first platform to help the emerging workforce find a career that they will love and have a natural aptitude for, and to help them understand what careers are growing and will be around in the future. So how does a user use the platform? How did this start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

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 ). Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

We spoke with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton , the brother and sister team behind PromoJam, to hear more about the company's platform. Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. We also have a mobile platform, which integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. What is PromoJam?

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Milana Rabkin: As a platform, we work on a consensus model. They can use Stem as a platform to distribute that content. As revenue comes back from the platforms and services they've monetized that content on, we automate the disbursement of payments to everyone at the same time. Currently, that's music and online video.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

We make it really easy for you to add tags before you post something to your own social platform, and before you send a quick reply to your friends on what you've bought. The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. That's where I first started getting the idea to create what is now Indi.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2020

And as physical events and the entertainment industry that depends on them shuts down, virtual things have come to epitomize the popular culture of the pandemic. ” From that perspective, the Aglet app is more of a Trojan Horse for the big idea that Mullins wants to pursue. Fashion is having its moment in the metaverse.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Canoo will launch its first vehicles in the Los Angeles market and expects to not only provide its “skateboard” platform for its own vehicles, but potentially work with other customers that would put their own cabin on top of the Canoo platform, Kranz says.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Lost for ideas on how to buy someone an unforgettable experience? The platform’s database is made up of hundreds of once in a lifetime activities that people can buy their partners, friends, family and loved ones. The post The gift-giving platform that offers experiences instead of things appeared first on TechZulu.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2014

This is an interesting twist on dating, how''d you come up with the idea? Max Fischer: BeLinked, formerly LinkedUp, is the first, mobile dating app that has the popular swipe left, swipe right feature, but which is based on the LinkedIn platform and LinkedIn API. Why LinkedIn? But, so much about dating starts out very subtly.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. At 12.30pm in the afternoon the idea to create the video was hatched. think Apple.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The idea of video on demand has been around since as early as 1990 when GTE partnered up with AT&T to create the first VOD system. VOD Streaming Platforms Are Open for Independent Filmmakers. But VOD also provides Indie producers a platform forth which to display their works. Film-Making Technology Is Crushing Hollywood.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2016

The idea is that we want to simplify complex topics, in a way that is fun, engaging, and entertaining. Where'd the idea for Napkin Finance come from? That grew into these napkins, and into a platform, where we have the opportunity to teach individuals, including using videos, a glossary of finance terms, and other assets.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Appetize is backed by the Guggenheim, the 49ers Family Office, WME SVP of Music Marc Geiger, Roar Entertainment and others; the company recently announced deals with Live Nation and the Sacramento Kings, and is part of the Dodgers Accelerator. For hotels, for cruise ships, for sports and entertainment, and for restaurants.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Valuable personality traits in his previous life working in entertainment, no doubt. FROM THE BEGINNING. Crazy right?

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. Part of being an investor is questioning the ideas of founders. It ends up it's a massive space, and I loved the idea around recognizing and rewarding employees in a cloud based solution.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After logging into your account via Facebook API, the platform uses your date of birth as the core data to help you calendar all of your friend’s birthdays and discover other people around you who also celebrate your special day. It reinforces the company’s culture of being a platform for giving and celebration,” said Hagger.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Beginning this fall, the beta launch will give groups the advantage of sampling the first experiences with the service and will lay the groundwork to grow the platform. Marijn Maas explained that the idea for the platform developed into its current form during his honeymoon in the Maldives and Sri Lanka.

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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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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

If a fan know they can get their entire brand fix there, rather than having to jump across multiple profiles, multiple social media platform, and networks, that's very compelling. Jeremy Gocke: The first incarnation of the idea for Fliptu started to gel between 2008 and 2010. That's where the initial idea for Fliptu came about.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Ever since sound was first introduced into movies, the entertainment business has never really faced a huge change. However, the online presence has shifted the entertainment landscape drastically and is threatening to change the business for better or for worse. TechZulu: Where did the idea of Filmzu start?

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz? Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon. It can literally deliver thousands and thousands of messages, tens of thousands per minute, to every form of platform. What's the technology behind this?

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry. What is the idea behind Moviepilot? Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. We started about four or five years ago.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

How did the idea to launch your own accelerator come about? What we realized, is that using a platform like the Dodgers to validate those products, and at the same time, solve some of our own problems, made a lot of sense. The breadth of scope of our entire business group adds value.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

The convergence of the Internet and the entertainment business has made Los Angeles a hotbed of activity in the online entertainment industry, attracting companies from all over the country interested in connecting Hollywood with the Internet. Creators now have a platform to launch their business.

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Entertainment Advertising Hollywood Startup 100

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down. Clark Benson is the Founder and CEO of Ranker.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. We are all coming from a background in entertainment. We are power users and we are constantly trying to redefine platforms we are frustrated with. That is how Todd and I met, from all the talk of using platforms that frustrates us.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A good example of that is Skyhawk Therapeutics, which has built a small molecule platform that enables rational design of small molecules that target specific binding pocket regions of RNA. I could name many, many more, but these are the kind of connections that help you spark ideas, and enable people to find you.

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