TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. Image Credits: Robiiiworld (Brandy Merriweather via BStarPR).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

The account “hack” was architected by brud as part of an ongoing virtual reality drama playing out on Instagram and other social media platforms between avatars it had developed, all designed to attract media attention, according to people with knowledge of brud and its plans. “[Manufacturing] social influence.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 30, 2016

When people express concern about how smartphones are damaging our young people, I laugh. Being concerned about cultural progression “damaging us as a society” always repeats itself with the current trend and will continue to play itself out again and again and again. Let’s be very clear here. By the 60s, it was the TV.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2023

A website or blog without appealing or entertaining content for your market segment is not enchanting. Craft an “About” page. Provide all this information in an About page. You need a blog and social media interaction to keep your content fresh and responsive to the market. Refresh it often. Help visitors navigate.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

It turns out, nowadays, creating the content is only a small part of your job description The most successful YouTubers, studios, brands and agencies today are intensely focused on using social media to engage with fans, get that content out there, and grow their audience. and why social is so important in today''s content world.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? 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. What is PromoJam?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

A website or blog without appealing or entertaining content for your market segment is not enchanting. Craft an “About” page. Provide all this information in an About page. You need a blog and social media interaction to keep your content fresh and responsive to the market. Refresh it often. Help visitors navigate.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2011

TeenSpot's entertainment and community website is a moderated, social networking and chat site, focused exclusively on teenagers. The site includes message boards about movies, fashion, celebrities, music, and more.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks. What is Fliptu?

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This nuanced approach can cater to the most specific of viewer moods and preferences, ensuring a seamless entertainment experience. This category encompasses a vast array of content, from emails and text documents to social media posts. Pour in the soy sauce, stirring well to coat the chicken and veggies.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. It's all about execution.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 14, 2020

Years later, after Grazer graduated from Columbia and embarked on a career as a therapist, and Bird, a longtime proponent of therapy since her teens, had moved on to a job at the LA-based social media giant, Snap, the two reunited.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tal Siach is a life-long serial entrepreneur who has mastered social media as a guerrilla marketing tool. I began our discussion by asking Tal about his use of social media to blunt Intuit’s threatening suggestion that Mint was participating in false advertising regarding the manner in which they were counting “users.”

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. 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.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009 -- Entertainment News Goes Social Panel. Extra extra read all about it! Join us for our panel discussion on how industry news sources are using online, especially social media, to report entertainment news. Digital LA. online, your iPhone, Blackberry, tweets, etc!

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2014

We spoke with Lisa Hennessy , one of the founders of DreamJobbing and an entertainment industry veteran, to learn more about the startup. How did the idea for this come about? We started brainstorming about this a year ago, and just launched yesterday. What is DreamJobbing? It''s been a year in the making.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Within hours, fans confronted the authors in the Discord server with their concerns about the project. An emerging tech dystopia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Long-term sales.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Entertainment has changed. New platforms led by YouTube have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it. If you're a big influencer, you might get paid by a brand, but every day, people are providing word-of-mouth advertising, posting about their favorite things.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Among those involved in TheBlu are Andy Jones (Avatar), Joichi Ito (MIT Media Lab), Scott Yara (EMC/Greenplum), Yair Landau (MK Capital, formerly of Sony Pictures Entertainment), among others. We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu? Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2022

We all want to be entertained. Think of the popularity and power of social media – the average daily usage worldwide is now up to 136 minutes per day. Just remember that business is about people, more than products and solutions. Exciting their passion to better the world or themselves is far better than saving a dollar.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Los Angeles�as the center of the entertainment industry�has begun to adopt a new role as the center of online video in recent years�and has also with the e-commerce industry and expertise here from the technology industry. We caught up with him to learn more about IPSy and its subscription business. It's all about self expression.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. This past year 2012 was all about forming teams, picking players, and choosing uniforms. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Marginal legality or poor public image.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Long-term sales.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

Curtis is the former publisher of the Robb Report, which he sold back in 2015, and has a long history of operating media companies that have published such titles as Home Office Computing, Home Theater, Mobile Computing, Worth, and many others. Talk about what CurtCo is working on? We're excited about everything in podcasting.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Tribeca’s chief creative officer Geoffrey Gilmore said in an interview with innosight.com about Hollywood, “They only want to make a lot of profit.” Indie movies are promoted by building them up around a virtual distributed version of a screening event through social media. Film-Making Technology Is Crushing Hollywood.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

When Upfront Ventures partner Kara Nortman first met Natalie Portman a few years ago to talk about ways their non-profit organizations All Raise and Time’s Up could collaborate, she never realized they’d eventually be partners on a sports franchise. “[But] the way we think about it is brands.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

How about wearing Jordans or a pair of Converse? Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. TechZulu catches up with one of the co-founders of Bedloo, Vincent Plummer, and talks to us about social media, startups, and Bedloo. What is Bedloo all about?

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Tech.Co

MAY 21, 2016

About a year ago we introduced you to VNTANA , an Los Angeles, CA-based startup that wanted to leverage hologram technology to help celebrities and brands use holograms to entertain and engage their followers and fans. Aside from the social media integration, the systems also collect data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Don’t expect to rely totally on social media, word of mouth, or a personal web site. The current pandemic has already highlighted new things that can be shared online, including access to healthcare facilities, education resources, and even entertainment venues. New business models are changing the rules of business.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

There are lots of others trying to put content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok, which is more about entertainment around social media. What we do, is we take them from social media into a one-to-one relationship, via text, directly to their phone. What will you use this new funding to work on?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. Social Media.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Think about how you would sell in person. Don’t worry about major production value, but you do need great audio and clear messaging. Nick Tran, Director of Social Media for Taco Bell. In fact one YouTube market waiting to be dominated is Mommy bloggers. No one has yet to rule that space. Get likes and subscribers.

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