Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. We try to make it very easy for the average consumer to get more financial information, content, and ultimately, product, in the financial industry. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M

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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? Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. My degree is from USC in big data.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. NowLive is trying to do just that, leveraging both technology and the entertainment world to build its business. We also are dong the Twilight premiere from LA.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

One of the best-informed, and entertaining, technologists is Peter Coffee. Peter Coffee is Director of Platform Research at salesforce.com. Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Peter Coffee's Annual Technology Forecast. Don't miss the pre-meeting roundtable. See [link] (more)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Brad Brooks: The biggest news from TigerText this year is that we're evolving from what was a pure secure messaging product to a comprehensive clinical communications platform. What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year? Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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JANUARY 8, 2020

It gives us the ability to do what we love, which it to create engagement and content that people find entertaining, informative, and authoritative, and moves an audience, and introduces the right kind of selective sponsors and clients to that engaged audience, in a respectful way. It ends up being good for both. Why podcasting?

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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. In addition to the video, we also deliver everything around that video, including metadata, all the user information, all the subscriptions and monetization, and data that happens around video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2014

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. As we were developing the product, we noticed that more and more articles were popping up about people going through dates due to LinkedIN''s platform.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests. You can go to your particular interests, pick your favorite brands and entertainers, and favorite them. How did the company start?

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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. The firm's CEO and co-founder, Jennifer Sargent , has an interesting background, most recently serving as an executive at Variety/Reed Business Information. Everyone knows this.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

That’s right folks TechZulu is hooking you up with 10 Free Tickets (a $1500 value) to this upcoming event, which is going to be jammed pack with great speakers, and information you don’t want to miss. The conference will feature rising leaders in entertainment, technology, new media platforms, entrepreneurship and investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry. Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. Our platform is all about connecting early fans and early audiences with new and upcoming movies, months before a movie comes out. What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

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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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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? What is your app all about?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2008

The firm said it has launched what it is calling a "virtual currency platform" to handle virtual currency. The firm said the new product will manage virtual currency from Super Rewards, Offerpal, and SocialMedia Networks. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, as well as AT&T and Greycroft Partners. READ MORE>>

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Jacques Habra: Mobile Therapy provides valuable information to clinicians on their clients well-being in between therapy visits. As far as the pitch itself, we wanted to convey quickly the positive impact using this type of technology will have on the mental health industry; and entertain the audience at the same time.

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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. 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. For many people, that's the same way. READ MORE>>.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Have really strong analytic skills to put large amounts of information into context. Ability to source information easily to help build a thesis around companies / industries / competition. And we’ve begun relaunching our “platform services” for entrepreneurs. And did I mention RELAUNCH A NEW WEBSITE !

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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. ” THE SALES PLATFORM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. Such solutions combine the power of a video’s capacity to inform with a direct response ad’s ability to facilitate a desired action.

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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. It was information overload, and the customer now didn't know what was what, and we were losing sales. It was the same issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. He's gone through this a couple of times now, so we have a robust platform which can predict the content users will like, and do so in an elegant and efficient manner. By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. They are taking data scientists’ and analysts’ understanding of their information to the next dimension. Their speech recognition software has a high level of accuracy, as though a human was transcribing the information.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews. Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Entertainment." To this end, he and his brother Hank recently launched Subbable , a platform by which content creators can directly marshal their fan''s financial support. What follows is a blow-by-blow account of the convention''s Industry Day keynotes, which focused on the current and future status of the online video ecosystem.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. There are multiple platforms used to get the job done.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

Surfline.com is for the general surfing community, Buoyweather is for the international marine environment, and we also have a new site called Beachlive.com, which is targeted at the general beachgoer, with information about weather conditions at beaches around the world. Is that information free, or how are you handling that?

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