Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posed a question to me, “If Walt Disney were starting his company today, what kind of company would he build?” Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!)

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Three years ago, I had started to explore launching a new accelerator, to support women entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. I started as a corporate lawyer in New York, and worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey. I met a bunch of people in the context of doing that, and one of them was Carol Webber, who is now a venture capitalist.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

The biggest news for Digital LA this year has been creating and spearheading Silicon Beach Fest, LA's first startup entertainment community festival in Santa Monica and Venice in June, 2012. Now the stage is set for Silicon Beach to really start to play ball in 2013. So we did a one-day fall Silicon Beach Fest at io/LA in Hollywood.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

The biggest lesson learned in 2014 was that all the hard work we''ve put into LA tech over the past few years has started to pay off big time in the form of IPOs, large funding rounds, valuations, and exits. Beyond entertainment, ad tech is huge with Rubicon''s IPO and the TrueX $200M acquisition by Fox. This is just the start.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. I started helping them with strategy in 2000 and then. On the following Monday, Marten was besieged by the tech press. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus. we'd been playing poker for many years.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. Matthias Galica: The first two verticals which correspond to our use case are in music and entertainment.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

The group says they took inspiration from similar community-oriented tech incubators in Atlanta like the Russel Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs , PROPEL Center and Gathering Spot , but Collab Studio will focus more specifically on the entertainment industry. Black Founders Matter presses VCs to pledge commitment to diversity.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Things are starting to heat up and not just weather wise here in the LA Tech scene. Speakers From Startups/Entertainment/Tech Include: Howard Marks, StartEngine Co-Founder, formerly Activision Founder. Speakers From Startups/Entertainment/Tech Include: Howard Marks, StartEngine Co-Founder, formerly Activision Founder.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2012

It is an old warning in the entertainment industry. A mantra, tag line, motto, or logo with your unique brand definition is a good start. Press releases and PowerPoint presentations with a uniform use of the mantra or phrase will reinforce your effort. How do you define yourself? Back your story up with a statistic if possible.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

It’s unbelievable how often start up founders stifle their company from growing by not knowing how to effectively communicate their brand. It was a surprise knowing these start ups have spent $1000s for the chance to be noticed by the right influencer, whether it be a venture capitalist, early adopter or the press.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

TechZulu is proud to team up with Digital LA and accelerators Amplify, StartEngine, Launchpad, local companies BetterWorks, PromoJam, start-ups and co-working spaces, all working together to create the first-ever Silicon Beach Fest to celebrate startups, tech, and entertainment! Press: Techzulu @ Coloft.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

As a starting point the board is intended to have legal and financial responsibilities to a few key constituencies: shareholders, debt holders, creditors, employees, government and major parties with whom the business operates.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. We make websites, and we make banners, primarily for the entertainment industry and Hollywood. We started working in stealth mode on the product, and built the product and got it working. Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you’re funding the same stuff as everybody else and if you started your activities when the clues were obvious you’re much less likely to drive enormous returns. A couple of years ago we started debating internally what some of the future big themes would be for our fund. Venture Capital is a tricky industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. I know this category has gotten a lot of press. My excitement really starts with the Gogii team! Let me start with the power of blogging. When I started blogging as a VC I had zero idea it would lead to my current audience level of 350,000 page views / month.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

The first “Intro to the LA Startup Community” back in October 2012 was taught by Sam Teller , Managing Director of Launchpad , a four-month accelerator program started by venture capitalist Mark Suster. Michael Carney , a tech reporter for Pandodaily , taught how to craft a compelling press release.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

They didn’t use any magic, its just what they offer and an awesome community of friends, press and members. We are not just focused on Start-Ups nor do we refer to ourselves as a co-working space. Hub LA is based on a global brand started out of London. One month old Hub LA already has over 100 members!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

When I couldn’t talk David into doing early-stage deals back in 2008/09, I hooked up with the guy who seemed to be working with the largest number of high-quality LA startups I had encountered – Dave Young – and started working with him and Nicholas Hobbs of DLA Piper. And that’s where I thought the goodness ended.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Eighteen months ago, when MAKE IT IN LA's launch from Mayor's Garcetti's office was featured in a White House press release, we announced an audacious goal of reaching 1,000 entrepreneurs with our programming by the end of this year. Check out the entertaining video here.) What was the big news for your company this year? in August.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2013

Nick Tran, Social Media Director for Taco Bell said, “The new entertainment for teens is YouTube. It’s like a press junket for online with public access. Forming these partnerships with YouTube content creators, both top stars and people just starting out, takes a sensitivity to the creative process.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2011

Graham Farrar: Really, the company started about two and a half years ago. In part, we started it because we were trying to scratch our own itch. We used to travel with her, going to restaurants, with a backpack or bag full of books to keep her entertained. We bootstrapped the company, and just started making books.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. We started sending out the newsletter. The newsletter started to grow pretty quickly. Magazine ended up doing a cover story on Kyle and I called, An American Start-Up.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

I've been working in the entertainment industry for a decade, in screenplay development, distribution, and talent management. I started working on that, and realized that there was this problem. We've really just been focused on growing organically, and have done very little press, with virtually no marketing to date.

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Tech.Co

JULY 5, 2016

Built to be speedy, maneuverable, and conduct stunts at the press of a button, the Nano has a lot of competition on the market. Over the course of a month we flew the Nano inside, outside on a variety of breezy and non-breezy days, and let first-time flyers to give it a whirl with entertaining results.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Some become true breakouts that can be built into a franchise even though they started as just a game, like Angry Birds. It might be in online game platforms solving the problem of entertaining people. And so it occurs to me that many startups in the consumer world are now truly hits driven like video games or movies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. How did Tilofy come about?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I’ve found that the bigger these devices come, the more awkward and unwieldy they are when pressed to your cheek. The screen gets really hot as its pressed up to your cheek and so I find myself just putting my ear up to the speaker.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

In today’s “attention deficit” economy you need PR more than ever and this doesn’t come through press releases but rather a continued, authentic conversation.&#. The closing event was the filming of a live version of Jason Calacanis’ “This Week in Start-Ups” (appropriately named TWiST – episode is here ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. We started sending out the newsletter. The newsletter started to grow pretty quickly. Magazine ended up doing a cover story on Kyle and I called, An American Start-Up.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

It's a diverse group, both entertainment and technology. I was friends with two kids from Caltech, and I had brought an idea to them--which ended up totally different from what we ended up doing--and we decided to start a business together. beta launch, with no press, and we'd specifically withheld putting it out there for the public.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But Muir isn’t secretive that she got her start writing fan fiction. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” series might be the best example of how a writer can start their career by posting derivative stories online — before the series was an international hit, it was Twilight fan fiction.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s how we package our company story and drive our press coverage. When I make important phone calls I literally play out the start of the call in my mind’s eye before I ever pick up the phone. I often start with a blank piece of paper & a pen and start doodling. Many people are visual thinkers.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

What You Know: A lengthy stream of media and press that have the tech world scratching their heads in confusion and/or denouncing them as the rap beef rudos of Silicon Valley. When we started, we did the personalities and just had fun with it. Wearing sunglasses on stage was for entertainment. But still they didn’t get in.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Simply press the light or group of lights to turn on or off, or long press for a color wheel. Open the app, select from the music on your device, press play and whichever lights you’ve told to will start dancing along with the song. Sliding left or right changes the brightness. It is also very simple. Conclusion.

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