Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

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 don’t need to know everything about business before they start. Learning doesn’t have to be all work. Adaptive business advising and learning.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

How about Andy Milonakis? The new app is the first application launching out of TouchFrame , a new startup out of the MuckerLab incubator in Los Angeles. TouchFrame has teamed with 51 Minds Entertainment, part of Endemol, to develop what it says is a TV-quality play along game show. Are you smarter than Mike Tyson?

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JUNE 20, 2014

We spoke with Kevin Winston, the organizer of Silicon Beach Fest (www.siliconbeachfest.com), which is currently going on in Santa Monica and runs through Saturday, about the energy here in Southern California, as well as a little bit about what''s going on with the event this year. We have Chet Pipkin, talking about Belkin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

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 don’t need to know everything about business before they start. Learning doesn’t have to be all work. Adaptive business advising and learning.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

I was just down at Demo Day for the USC Incubator. I just found out about a great award opportunity for people connected to USC (or who can figure out a connection in time). Apply here: [link] ABOUT THE PRIZES Significant cash prizes will be awarded to the top 3 teams: First place: $25,000, Second place: $15,000, Third place: $10,000.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In order to get a better understanding about what they do and how they are preparing for Celebrate, we sat down with Mobile Therapy’s Thought Leader and Co-Founder Jacques Habra to hear about their journey to get to Celebrate. Tech.Co: Since launch, what was the most challenging part of gaining market traction?

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Dan Dato: My background is I've spent just about my entire career in the startup ecosystem, in one way or another. I worked with the founders as a consultant for about a year, before I joined then in 1998. Bruce and I had been talking about this concept since we met each other four years ago. Bruce, what's your background?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Influencers and creators are small businesses and if you think about all the things that small businesses need these days to succeed, they will be repurposed for the influencer marketing space.”. People in the industry need a place to go and figure it out, to talk about it and learn about it.”. focused fund.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We spoke with Joel about how the company is trying to reinvent the car repair experience. We can do about 85 percent of all repairs on the driveway, on site. I spent the last seven years running a company called ScoreBig, a LA-based tech startup in the live entertainment space. RepairSmith is backed by Daimler AG.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The Summit will examine verticals such as transportation, hospitality, entertainment, city services, healthcare, among others, and discuss potential IoT applications. To learn more about the IoT for Cities Summit and Challenge and follow this event, click here. Wearable World, Inc. , The post Wearable World Inc.

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JULY 22, 2019

You see a lot of news about the Space Force, about going back to the moon, and investments in our lunar gateway. However, unless you're building rockets and giant launch pads, we're not talking about massive capital outlays. I've been working in tech in Los Angeles for about thirteen years, across a variety of industries.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

We caught up with Michael Abrams , Senior Vice President, Innovation at The Walt Disney Company , to talk more about this year's class of companies and the program. What was the most interesting thing about this year's accelerator class for you? The intersection of technology and content is what creates media and entertainment.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup. What is Tilofy about? How did Tilofy come about? About 100 teams participated in that competition, and 10 teams were selected to be part of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage program. My degree is from USC in big data.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

We sat down with Steve to chat about what the Alliance is working on, and why he decided to champion the growth of the technology industry here. Tell us what the Alliance is all about? I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. I love the place.

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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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AUGUST 25, 2015

How did the idea to launch your own accelerator come about? We've been pleased with the response from the market, and from interest in the early stage businesses in our industry, and we're really excited about the tons of businesses we're launching today. We saw the opportunity, and decided to put resources where our heads where.

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MAY 10, 2018

We spoke with Behzad last week about the fund, his experience at Cross Campus, and how the two intersect with the local tech community here in Southern California. Tell us a bit about your involvement with Cross Campus? We used Cross Campus as their working headquarters, and subsidized their living expenses here for about three weeks.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2017

What I love about that, was it was something I had been thinking about doing, and the seed was planted three years ago and came back to me in an unexpected way. It's all about how the team and founders are able to approach, process, and absorb input during the program. That is critical to how successful they are.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Incubator: Amplify LA. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Docstoc also offers a premium level of resources that can handle just about any scenario encountered by a small business. Silicon Valley? That’s so yesterday.

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JUNE 10, 2015

We caught up with Lee to hear more about the book and what he learned. Tell us a little bit about your new book? What about it is broader than Silicon Valley? Give you background in entertainment, was the whole technology industry here a surprise to you? Lots of startups here have tried to incubate a startup culture.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 6, 2018

His startup, CounterFind , is tackling the $4 billion problem of counterfeit merchandise and is the leading “online police” company that shuts down fake sport and entertainment merchandise ads and product listings in real time. While] raising money, we got to learn about the strategic partners in the race.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Davis talked about Loot Crate’s incredible trajectory, growing from shipping Avengers cologne as one of its first mystery box items to having none other than Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr, as an investor a mere four year later. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Pelv-Ice is a pelvic support device for post-partum mothers and a recent winner of the Accelerating Innovating Mentoring (AIM) 2013 incubator and pitch competition. Soni interviewed a panel of entrepreneurs that represented SoundSpectrum, MediaHound , AIO Robotics , and GymFlow about their technology, startup process, and future steps.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Tell us a little bit about your background? I've been engaged in about thirty startups, anywhere from in incubators, being an angel investor, to leading the charge. We sold that about a year and a half ago to Nordstrom, for approximately $270M dollars. I've been doing that for 25 years. What is value?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

How about wearing Jordans or a pair of Converse? TechZulu catches up with one of the co-founders of Bedloo, Vincent Plummer, and talks to us about social media, startups, and Bedloo. Vince Plummer: Let me talk a little about our background of who we are first. We are all coming from a background in entertainment.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Tell me a bit about your background. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. Details coming soon!)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

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 don’t need to know everything about business before they start. Learning doesn’t have to be all work. Adaptive business advising and learning.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2010

What we went about creating was the best way to most easily control how your personal videos are shared online. Greg Siegel: I had most recently been representing actors as an entertainment agent at Endeavor Agency, but I had started out in the Internet world way back in the nascent days of the Internet.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The aforementioned article notes that they are teaming up with startup incubators in hot spots like Silicon Valley and New York City in addition to South Florida. Apps & Software Entertainment Gadgets AI Automation communication Connected Consumers Google Homes innovation Verizon Wireless Voice Authentication'

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

TechZulu catches up with the three to talk about WESAWIT, startups, and the LA scene. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. Our latest product we are excited about is a dashboard that allows you to keep track of your fans. MR: It was all about knocking on doors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Wait a second, what’s this CAA logo all about? He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. He told me he was planning on recruiting somebody for a similar role and I asked about his spec. Are you merging? It was nearly identical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

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 don’t need to know everything about business before they start. Learning doesn’t have to be all work. Adaptive business advising and learning.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

For many founders, getting noticed by investors, potential customers, incubators and other companies, is a necessity to take your product to the next level. Bautiful Box will keep your pet entertained while at home and will train it too! Bautiful Box (Cagliari, Italy). Pebby (Singapore and Sunnyvale, CA).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The program launched today, so we spoke with Howard to learn more about the Start Engine program, and what it is going to do. Talk about your accelerator? Los Angeles is an amazing place, and we have fashion, e-commerce, advertising, games, media, entertainment companies which I think make Los Angeles a phenomenal place.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

It’s about as close as you can get to a macro-level crystal ball for the tech industry, expressed through a rapidfire string of insights from the minds of some of tech’s biggest investors, founders, and gamechangers. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

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 don’t need to know everything about business before they start. Learning doesn’t have to be all work. Adaptive business advising and learning.

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