socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We had the notion that we could create a service that was aimed at the mass market, which was really user friendly, which provided a service to the consumer, and that helped bring back the fun in the entertainment experience, so that we could help the consumer bridge the digital divide. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

During The Future of Wearable Entertainment and Hollywood, it will be discussed how augmented reality inspired by movies become a reality for all of us. The Future of Wearable Music will be a discussion on how wearables can change our music experience from entertaining to healing. Paul Crandell – VP of Marketing, GoPro.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The companies said those systems are typically used in entertainment, surveillance and security, marketing and training, and other industries. ActiveScale develops "object-based-storage", storage which stores unstructured data like video and images in an easy-to-retrieve way, unlike traditional file-based storage. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2018

The Los Angeles Dodgers , along with Elysian Park Ventures , the private investment firm created by the ownership group behind the Los Angeles Dodgers specifically for investments in entrepreneurs in the areas of sports, technology, and entertainment, have launched and funded a new venture called E|L1.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2017

According to Mitu, its ACCELERATOR program will provide hands-on training and mentorship to multicultural digital creators, teaching those creators every aspect of the digital media industry in a boot camp-style environment. The new effort is also tied into Mayor Garcetti's L.A.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2017

Playa Vista-based virtual reality content developer SPACES announced on Wednesday that it has added Ian Richter, the former EVP of franchise and emerging platform development at Legendary Entertainment, and Joe Garlington, formerly of Walt Disney Imagineering, to its advisory board.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2013

Through Jason’s tweets I discovered the actionable, entertaining and authentic podcast ProductPeople.tv, “for people who love building products”. The post Customer Support Training | What is excellent customer service? HELP your customers with resources to make their lives easier. FOCUS on a specific market and overdeliver.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2016

According to the company, it is aiming its system at used in everything from themed entertainment, marketing, e-sports, and real estate to film and TV, law enforcement training, to museums and other applications. The new startup is being led by Jason Crawford, who the company said invented its technology and serves as CEO.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Los Angeles-based Appetize , which develops cloud-based, point-of-sale (POS) systems, has scored a big win with the Sacramento Kings , as the Kings said it will implement the Appetize POS solution at both Sleep Train Arena and the future Golden 1 Center. Financial impact of the deal was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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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. Moreover, LLMs come equipped with an extensive knowledge base derived from the vast amounts of data they've been trained on.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 6, 2013

war games" for critical military exercises), today key computer simulations and training (variously dubbed "games") increasingly permeate the government world. Evolving from pre-computer roots (e.g., "war

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Santa Monica-based SPACES (www.spaces.com), led by CEO Shiraz Akmal and a team of entertainment veterans from Dreamworks Animation, is hoping to do that with a series of physical attractions, powered by VR technology. We're an entertainment company. What is SPACES?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2023

Entrepreneurs inherently understand that they have to be the initial leader of their startup, but often they don’t have the experience or the training to know where their leadership competencies lie, or how to build a leadership team. Entertainer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2020

Entrepreneurs inherently understand that they have to be the initial leader of their startup, but often they don’t have the experience or the training to know where their leadership competencies lie, or how to build a leadership team. Entertainer.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. For things to be fair and respectful, everyone in an organization has to have some baseline of unconscious bias training.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment , which develops avatar creation technology for turning photos into animated, 3-D likenesses, said Wednesday that the firm has launched a new effort targeted training content creators on the firm's products. Tags: bigstage stage entertainment avatar content. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 25, 2021

Their unified understanding of technology, media, entertainment, and government, along with a successful track record of investing, give them deep insights into burgeoning shifts in culture and behavior.”. “We look at all verticals.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. It takes years of training and practice to make music: or does it? Combine that with the growing startup community here, and you end up with at.

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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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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Appetize is backed by the Guggenheim, the 49ers Family Office, WME SVP of Music Marc Geiger, Roar Entertainment and others; the company recently announced deals with Live Nation and the Sacramento Kings, and is part of the Dodgers Accelerator. For hotels, for cruise ships, for sports and entertainment, and for restaurants.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

I'm also tracking the growth of esports - both amateur participation through leagues, analytics platforms and training solutions as well as new tech around the viewer experience for pro esports - lots of exciting stuff here. Finally, what's your prediction on what will be most important thing for the technology industry in the coming year?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen have been landing in Los Angeles since the invention of the nickelodeon to create a studio that would dominate popular entertainment. For over 100 years entrepreneurs have come to Hollywood to try their luck in the dream factory and build an empire in the business of storytelling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. That's great training for the startup world. My co-founder, Taylor Mcpartland, is the entertainment guy. He spent the past 8 years as a producer and writer, and has a phenomenal Rolodex in the entertainment business. I'm a guy that gets things done as a sales person.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The startup--which has the backing of such high profile investors as Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's A-Grade Investments, Dreamworks, and Live Nation--also has some major partnership with entertainers like Madonna and No Doubt to create crowdsourced videos of their events. It looks like you have a number of entertainment partnerships already?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 23, 2014

If there was one constant among streaming internet awards shows it was the audience feedback filled with comments like: “Train wreck!” One of the goals of entertainment awards galas is to expose talent to a wider audience that may have not been noticed by a chart-based PR machine. ” “Who is that?”

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. Ken Rutkowski is the man making happen here. As President of the L.A.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

At the very basic level, we have folks responding to email, phone, chat, and text from our suport line, with account managers at the next level working on training, installations, and higher level support. On the other end of the spectrum, we have customer success managers and also have account managers. His name is Quinton Myers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

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. You will never be able to satisfy all the requests for your help, so it critical that you prioritize your efforts based on impact, not noise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Provide the resources and training to get the job done. Sessions can be off-site to create a sense of entertainment, but need to be realistic in creating a sense of urgency and building a culture of thinking outside the box, and creating implementation plans. Empower and facilitate your team in getting change done, with or without you.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. Ryan’s long-term goal is to help large populations of people train themselves at young ages with world-class online teachers. Video training without an increased job on the other end for those looking for a career change is a lost opportunity.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Personally, I've been meditating and exercising on and off for the last thirty years with training at a Zen monastery in Japan and jumping into a few marathons. That growth mindset is something I've been working on everyday in what I read, the meetings I take, and how present I am in everything I do.

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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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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2015

With the growing need for Software Engineers at technology, entertainment and media companies in the Los Angeles area, Hack Reactor, which has three founders who are University of Southern California graduates, identified fertile ground for MakerSquare to educate, train and mentor technologists in Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I used an analogy I heard from Michael Dougherty (founder of Jelli) recounting what First Round Capital told him, “sometimes you’re on the local train and sometimes you’re on the express train. The express train might get you there faster but there are no options to get off along the way.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Valuable personality traits in his previous life working in entertainment, no doubt. LET’S TALK ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner." Money allowed Walt to do more of what he loved to do, which was create entertaining content.

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