socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2015

Los Angeles-based Vixlet , a startup developing a social networking site linked to sports leagues, teams, and entertainment companies, said this morning that it has named former General Motors Chairman and CEO Daniel "Dan" Akerson as a special advisor to the company. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Why did you decide to start yet another social networking site? It's not in my make up.

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Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Now an accelerator tailored to sports technology startups might be giving those founders a connection to the ultimate in sports and marketing royalty: the Dallas Cowboys. The new Blue Star Accelerator, aimed at nurturing young tech companies in sports and entertainment, is expected to open up shop after the start of the new year.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

We’re excited to announce TechZulu is officially partnering with New Media Expo (formerly BlogWorld) to create a Startup Launchpad at their next event taking place January 6-8, 2013 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas. What does this mean for you ? Leo Laporte (Owner, TWiT.tv Dino Dogan (Founder of Triberr.

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Media Startup Conference Social Network 109

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2014

In Los Angeles, it seems like everyone has either a script or a startup idea in their back pocket. We spoke with Lisa Hennessy , one of the founders of DreamJobbing and an entertainment industry veteran, to learn more about the startup. We started brainstorming about this a year ago, and just launched yesterday.

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Platform Media Startup Social Media 233

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We caught up with Dan to hear about how the firm is going beyond online sales, and making shopping online for fashion as much entertainment as e-commerce. Dan Murillo: Little Black Back is what we call an entertainment shopping company. Dan Murillo: Little Black Back is what we call an entertainment shopping company.

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Commerce Sites Entertainment Social Network 153

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Creating a successful startup is all about marketing these days, no matter how compelling your solution. Every new startup rolling out an innovative solution is the start of a new cycle. Many startup solutions flame out at this point. Investors seek out startups at this point that are well positioned for rapid scaling.

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Startup Marketing Entrepreneur Social Network 97

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace.

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Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. We caught up with Babette to get the story behind the site, and how the site helped her escape from the world of reality television. What is BakeSpace?

Social Network 174

Social Network Startup Sites Networking 174

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". In "The Social Network" Denise portrays Gretchen, the attorney of Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

On your birthday, something special happens on social media: you receive hundreds of likes and well wishes from friends, family, high school classmates and people you haven’t talked to for years on Facebook. And while this has been the standard for years, one startup is hoping to personalize the birthday wishes even more. Giving Back.

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Startup Venice Social Network Tool 128

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms.

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Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2014

We spoke with Max Fischer , CEO of the company, to learn more about how he came up with crossing the business worlds of LinkedIn with the popular world of swipe right, swipe left dating apps. This is an interesting twist on dating, how''d you come up with the idea? But, so much about dating starts out very subtly. Why LinkedIn?

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Networking Startup Ideas Mobile 185

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I have started thinking about what the future might look like and I’ve started imagining what I call, “MMOV” or massive multiplayer online video. Maker’s talent started commenting on it and sharing it. In fact, that’s how Maker Studios got started in the first place. Why would it?

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

They still have all of these clients who want to learn from them, want to continue to train and work out, and instead of putting their content up for freeon a social platform, we can now let them upload different workouts and videos, and set a price for what they cost. Indi stands for individual.

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Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2013

Yet everyone seems to have their own view of key risk drivers for startups, and I’m no exception. I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. Very few businesses can be started without money. Market and opportunity risk.

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Startup Examples Entrepreneur Social Network 104

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Are we headed for a long era of innovation in which startups are the new norm? In a way, startups have become kind of like the video game industry. And so it occurs to me that many startups in the consumer world are now truly hits driven like video games or movies. It seems almost incomprehensible that only 2.5

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Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

We caught up with Andy, whose executive experience ranges from ZeroDegrees, NBC Internet/Xoom.com, Infoseek / Go Network, to CNET and Snap.com, and whose last firm was MerchEngines, which he sold last year, to hear more about his new startup. Andy Steuer: This is the eighth startup I've been a part of. What is Punchcard?

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

LATechDigest

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

If you want a shot at making it big in the entertainment world, you go to Hollywood. Not only does Castar’s functionality center around a process which is fundamental to the entertainment industry: talent casting, the company just so happens to be helmed by individuals who are themselves talented entertainers.

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Compton Entertainment Hollywood Social Network 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Similar to DEMO and TechCrunch Disrupt, the Austin-based conference is holding a showcase to feature the most exciting startups around. There are categories for Innovative Web Technology, Social Media and Social Networking Technology, Entertainment Technology, News Technology, and Music Technology.

Technical Review 72

Technical Review Social Media Social Network News 72

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based Tibesti , an online social shopping site, said today that the firm has exited its beta and officially launched its site. The startup is hoping to get people to share their product recommendations with friends and others, in exchange for up to 50 percent of the commission from sales. READ MORE>>.

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Sites Social Network Entertainment Networking 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

They want a means of representing themselves that is animated, and changeable, and actively communicates in places like MySpace, Facebook, and other social networks. There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. What usually happens, is there's a barrage of poorly targeted ads leading up to opening weekend, and it drives downhill from there. It's all about execution.

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 7, 2019

Earbuds , a new startup from Austin founded by former Detroit Lions lineman Jason Fox, wants to bring the power of social media to your eardrums. “We were playing Caroline in the first game of the season and Cam Newton was warming up right next to me,” Fox recalled. “He was jamming. . “He was jamming.

Entertainment 224

Entertainment Social Media Social Network Media 224

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. But I never gave up. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. Well, we started out a free text messaging platform.

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Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 31, 2010

The New Media ecosystem is growing rapidly with content distribution networks, mobile devices and social networks connecting and interconnecting consumers like never before. Saturday, February 6, 2010 -- New Media Revenue Models: Growing Greenbacks in the Digital Ecosystem. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum.

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Media Enterprise Forum CalTech Social Network 100

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

domain name, and we caught up with him to hear more about why he things everyone should get their own.LA Page Howe: I've been a fan of the domain since 2008 and 2009, having grown up in LA, lived here, and seen the story here through the good and the bad. But, that started a whole idea of new domains. domain name.

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Social Network Startup Mobile Google 100

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. They can then share that across a social network. We thought it would be nice to combine that with sending a text message, which is how the whole thing started.

Social Network 246

Social Network Mobile Media Examples 246

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Worlize is a user-created social gaming and chat platform for Facebook and social networks including Twitter, MySpace and OpenSocial. Brian has over a decade developing and deploying cutting-edge technology within the entertainment industry.

Blogging 84

Blogging Paramount Social Network Entertainment 84

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Over time if you produce compelling content you can package it up and repurpose it to distribute through other channels. So Who Will Win the Future?

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Hollywood Content Yahoo Java 374

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Yet everyone seems to have their own view of key risk sources for startups, and I’m no exception. I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. Very few businesses can be started without money. Market and opportunity risk.

Startup 89

Startup Examples Entrepreneur Social Network 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2017

Thus I recommend that the rest of us need to step outside our comfort zone, and start practicing some specific strategies to recognize cultural shifts, and maybe even start a few trends of our own: Embrace online social interaction with customers. Don’t miss emerging needs to feel good and be entertained.

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Customer Custom Marketing Startup 56

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

The evening cocktail party was an 80’s theme and lived up to the traditional Twiistup fame with an open bar, elaborate costumes, Hollywood lighting and poker games until 4 in the morning. Jason’s cutting wit and insightful commentary made for entertaining listening on topics ranging from the Microsoft / Yahoo!

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. Why start another one? What's special about your virtual world?

Media 150

Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

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. Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. Labinot Bytyqi: The whole idea came up when I was working in the corporate world.

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92