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. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. We''re in four major U.S.

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

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.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

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. Put the power of the web to work. Sliding left or right changes the brightness.

Screening 40

Screening Slides Startup Press 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2014

Once inside, Belkin’s Wemo systems control everything from lighting to entertainment, and weMonitor watches over everything’s power consumption. IFTT focuses on connecting web apps, but an example for connected home use would be: If the motion sensor has been active for the last 10 minutes, turn on the water heater.

Belkin 87

Belkin Startup Acquisition Entertainment 87

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now?

Startup 190

Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. million users making it considerably larger than some of its peers that have historically received more tech press inches.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2010

Before I start writing this review, I want to say how much I appreciate the web series' nominated for Streamy Awards. Sure, it was held at the modest (though historical) Wadsworth Theater, and, let's face it, the nominees and winners a little one-sided, but it was achieving its goal of elevating web shows to a new status in Hollywood.

Web 40

Web News Technical Review Writing 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996).

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. We worked with an enterprise web analytics application that was very, very expensive and very, very complicated. Tell us how you got the name?

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

DO INCLUDE a $5 option because you want to think of that option as a person contributing spirit to your campaign and the possibility that they may share their spirit online with their friends in the social web means that $5 option could lead to larger donations from other contributors within their network.

Startup 109

Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. It’s not just that we’re connected to the Internet at higher speeds and for longer; we’re actually always tethered to the web. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. I see the same again with the entertainment industry. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343