Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

Since my experience and interests have been primarily with technology, I’ve been watching those trends for a long time, and I see rapid change, but predicting impact is a challenge. Technology won’t solve this one. Here technology is stepping up to the plate with driverless vehicles, resulting in big opportunities all around.

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JULY 29, 2016

Los Angeles is often thought of as just the city of entertainment and creative industries�but it turns out, it's a lot more. We spoke with Z about how her new initiative�started with Mayor Eric Garcetti�is looking to elevate the manufacturing ecosystem in LA, and help connect it with LA's entrepreneurship, technology and startup world.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2013

A wondrous place designed for kids to learn that Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math are not only interconnected, but fun to boot. The team behind Two Bit Circus hopes to make education entertaining and entertainment more educational, by transforming the way people view games and amusement. Carnival !

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. You can go to your particular interests, pick your favorite brands and entertainers, and favorite them. How did the company start? We all have likes and interests.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But audience size and consumption is massive and growing plus; Study Innovator’s Dilemma ( my cheat sheet here ). No matter how much it bothers you, people do like to entertain themselves with a “lean back” experience. And we like to be entertained. This requires more than technology.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

It's an incredible mix of commercial, military, and vicil organizations to support all kind of the innovative technology that we can grow really quickly. One, is the renewed focus of the American government on space exploration and technology. It's transforming industries like entertainment, healthcare, and aerospace.

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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. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

Since my experience and interests have been primarily with technology, I’ve been watching those trends for a long time, and I see rapid change, but predicting impact is a challenge. Technology won’t solve this one. Here technology is stepping up to the plate with driverless vehicles, resulting in big opportunities all around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

A more comprehensive study by Gallup showed that 70 percent of employees today lack these attributes. Evaluate where technology and training can help. Practice that model at work to optimize employee productivity, by encouraging time off for vacations, family events, and entertainment.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 5, 2015

A new third-party study commissioned by Disney reveals that parents feel nostalgia for the way they used to play growing up and that they also have a desire to keep their kids active. The study also found that children enjoy being active—yet at the same time, they have a growing appetite for technology-infused products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 18-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 7.2 According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Check out the entertaining video here.) Yet, in another study, it still has difficulties understanding Homer Simpson's actions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3 According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.”

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Without further adieu, I present to you the winners of the 1st annual REACH NeXT conference: Entertainment: Storygami. Rufus Labs is a wearable technology startup in Los Angeles with a heavy focus on building devices for the industrial sector (EMS, police, campus/event security, warehouse, etc). Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 30, 2011

Although we did not work at the same company (I was at CallWave and my friend was at SIPphone), during the mid 2000s, we both had the misfortune of attempting to entice cellular carriers to adopt the unique features enabled by VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) technology. Sadly, I was right.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since that time the speed at which companies have developed both technologically and from a business perspective has been nearly as staggering as the 760 mph system itself. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies collaborates with over 800 field experts from around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

Since my experience and interests have been primarily with technology, I’ve been watching those trends for a long time, and I see rapid change, but predicting impact is a challenge. Technology won’t solve this one. Here technology is stepping up to the plate with driverless vehicles, resulting in big opportunities all around.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

The evening was completed with a speech from the Keynote speaker, Lucy Hood , executive director of USC’s Institution for Communication Technology Management. The winners, Techno Unibot Freaks, with In a Flash received a prize courtesy of EA entertainment. Seek out similar academic competitions and programs. Find a hero.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ). Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. Learning doesn’t have to be all work.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

And while the entertainment industry takes a lot of credit for the awesomeness that is SXSW, tech holds its own when it comes to creating the electric atmosphere of this epic coming-together. Since securing funding for a wide range of companies for the firms disruptive technology division, she has become a staple of the investment community.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

Deborah Ramo: It's interesting, but my background is actually in the entertainment world. A number of years ago, myself and some of my colleagues in the entertainment industry developed a nonprofit workplace in Hollywood. Eventually, the idea was that the entertainment industry's workforce would reflect our audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

So my strategy was to focus on technology heavy companies who could bring measurability and performance to inefficient parts of the digital media landscape. Every generation of new technology and new media starts out by emulating those that came before them without realizing that things are fundamentally different when you change media types.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2009

In association with some of the regions top trade associations/social networking groups and industry hosts, DFR '09 promises to be the largest holiday party of the season and help weave our various communities of interest into the larger collective family of professionals working in and around the technology industry.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. However, greater exposure to studies performed by other, less widely-read persuasion experts would have been appreciated. As I noted in Why Most Business Books (Still) Suck , I am generally not a fan of business books.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2010

The Hidden Impact of Technology on our Everyday Lives … There’s an old (semi true) parable about frogs boiling in water. In times like these we reflect more about life in general and about the impacts technology has on our lives and on our society. But most technology impacts us in imperceptible frog-boiling like ways.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

We do not concentrate on any specific industries, and we're industry agnostic, and we're not focused on any particular industry, whether that be biomed or entertainment. We'd also love to create a venue where we could also send entrepreneurs from LA to Israel, to study or make connections, and network with their counterparts in Israel.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

From the start he saw the power of technology to augment social interaction and began forming an interactive collective which led to it’s spin off and incorporation as Syyn Labs, LLC in 2009, and gained quick notoriety for their RGM music video collaboration with OK Go. He make others see technology as magic. 10:15am: MIND. 12pm: BODY.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

The curated design and photography-driven entertainment site is where GIFs and memes intermingle with stunning photography, video and the ability to purchase in app. There is real technology underneath the hood for a personalized experience at Tapiture. Amazon can recommend, but it has no understanding of what drives the users to buy.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

He was a co-founder of Applied Semantics, which started the AdSense technology, which they sold to Google in 2003. There are lots of studies that show that friends who show each other content, are five times more likely to engage with the brand they have been introduced to, compared with a brand that was not recommended by friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ). Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. Learning doesn’t have to be all work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2010

In his world, and many others that entrepreneurs inhabit, the problem is not a lack of ideas or technology. People tend to complain about minor annoyances, but spend money on entertainment. Areas of study in many domains have become so narrow and deep, that experts fail to see the forest for the trees. Silos” of knowledge.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. Kevin was previously an executive at GloNav, and founder and President Allan Hundhausen was previously at Quark, Inc.

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Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

While storytelling may have been formerly relegated to the entertainment industry, it’s gained a special significance in the tech world. The launch of technologies like Facebook’s Oculus Rift, and Microsoft’s Hololens have provided startlingly realistic immersive experiences that are just the tip of the iceberg.

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Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

While storytelling may have been formerly relegated to the entertainment industry, it’s gained a special significance in the tech world. The launch of technologies like Facebook’s Oculus Rift , and Microsoft’s Hololens have provided startlingly realistic immersive experiences that are just the tip of the iceberg.

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