Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

” We explained what we felt the core values of a firm of the future needed to uphold: Provide real operational insights to entrepreneurs (the days of being “money men” are gone). Give direct feedback to entrepreneurs on their businesses or if we’re not investing why it’s not a fit for us.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

If you''re a large, Hollywood studio, how do you tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community? to hear about how the program is both helping the studio tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community, as well as helping those startups find new customers in the media and entertainment business. Warner Bros.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. Milana Rabkin: As a platform, we work on a consensus model. Currently, that's music and online video.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. Sara Bordo: My co-founder, Brad Sexton and I, both come from the Hollywood studio world. We spoke with Sara Bordo , the firm's founder and CEO, about the company.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Halla exists to help people understand a more curious world. When you say you help people make better choices, what does that look like to a user? Spencer Price: That's a fair question.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The startup--created by Robert Earl (Founder and CEO of Planet Hollywood), Grant Hosford (formerly of eHarmony), and Connell (formerly of Nokia)--is using the Internet to arrange group dates at local restaurants, to connect people in person and offline. We wanted to use the Internet to make things easy and help create initial connections.

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Tech.Co

JULY 18, 2016

Several startups have been selected to demo their products for other founders and entrepreneurs. You’ll be able to rub elbows with people that can help you get where you need to go. X Factor Films – a Hollywood 2.0 studio and platform for badass female entertainment, its creators and fans.

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Los Angeles Angel Startup Newsletter 70

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We take a really friendly, Shark Tank approach that promotes young entrepreneurs, and lets them pitch to a group of seasoned investors and venture capitalists on a panel, and where they not only get an actual investment, but also go through a retail challenge, to get consumer feedback. How did you get involved with angel investing, initially?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I knew them when I was the Founding Executive Director of the MIT Desphande Center For Technological Innovation, which I set up and built to help cultivate early stage innovation. We have a soft spot for investors and entrepreneurs, who might be super-smart, but are not necessarily as experienced. We discovered them very early.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Hollywood Walk of Fame. It’s awesome.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral. We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. going to put it on their channel on Youtube, or maybe their website platform. Those two pieces helped feed each other.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2014

For example, if you are watching the World Cup streaming from ESPN or your favorite WB show, you can grab your favorite moments and share them across any medium, whether that''s a chat platform, Snapchat, or anywhere. We''re also backed by the Entrepreneurs'' Roundtable in New York. Is your product available yet? Why are you in LA?

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Content Los Angeles Seed Funding Hollywood 113

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Big crowd of entrepreneurs, professors, students, and established professionals. I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk. Oh, and the cocktail party afterward also rocked! (I

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? I call that providing habitsmonthly habitsto help individuals do better, make better decisions, and who need strategy and strategic implementation of this on regular basis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Remember Hollywood secrets. Digital channels enable you to turn products into on-demand services that help customers reach their goals, and add value. brand experience entrepreneur digital marketing startup secrets business' Want control?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The “what” is well known in LA circles – Troy discovered a little known young singer named Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga and helped her launch her career. So Troy and Lady Gaga were amongst the earliest artists that turned to social media and tech platforms to break out. It’s the same story.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

We hope the advertising will be much more considerate of users, helping them on their mission, and so that it can help you achieve something, consumer or acquire something, or watch something. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started. That''s a huge part of it.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. We will never be Silicon Valley in the way that Toronto will never be Hollywood. Entrepreneurs in LA spend a lot of time commuting up to the Valley. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

It's really the home of a broad base of services to help media and tech companies develop new opportunities, and accelerate their success. Peter Csathy: I'm an entrepreneur, a builder of companies. That's an area the team and I have spent extensive time, and where we can create a strategy to help out.

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Media Blogging Hulu Invest 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore. has accomplished. Coincident.TV

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Remember Hollywood secrets. Digital channels enable you to turn products into on-demand services that help customers reach their goals, and add value. Don’t repurpose, re-imagine. Ask why it should be, and why customers should care. Want control?

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Customer Custom Marketing Demand 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. If I had link bait with stupid ideas then entrepreneurs wouldn’t want to work with me. I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago.

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Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Just 20 years old and a recent Harvard University dropout, Olenka provided insight into her transition to Los Angeles, life as an entrepreneur, and how she’s passionate about helping non-English speakers see American movies in their own native language. So being an entrepreneur is a lot like being a student.

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Remember Hollywood secrets. Digital channels enable you to turn products into on-demand services that help customers reach their goals, and add value. Don’t repurpose, re-imagine. Ask why it should be, and why customers should care. Want control?

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Marketing Startup Demand Customer 91

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys, which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Our platform can be used worldwide. Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys , which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Our platform can be used worldwide. Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys.

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Startup Technical Review Patents Services 121

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2016

We use our technology IQ, our car IQ, and integrate back end solutions that take data off the car, takes data from the driver, information from charging stations, and integrates that all together, to help drivers intelligently manage those electric vehicles. That's all before even considering the environmental benefit.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

There are trade publications such as Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline at one end, and gossip celebrity news at the other end. However, it was an idea and concept which had been brewing for awhile, and besides, I had a personal interest in starting my own company and wanting to be an entrepreneur. longer than I had planned.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. Towards the end of 2006 I realized that EC2 was transformative and that people needed help understanding it as well as tools to work it. It helps to think positive and focus on the awesome things that are indeed possible.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. We saw people were exchanging sound bites, sending them around to friends, and using the platform as we had envisioned, which was not just for long form audio, but for actual sound bites.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. The following week, I joined AT&T Hackathon at iO/LA in Hollywood and again pitched the idea. Luckily, I joined another team that eventually won 1 st Place.

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Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Tons of great conversations about new startups, hardware, and the entrepreneurs building them. As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

It's a great testament to the management team, that we've been able to gain traction among big strategic partners, such as carriers and the major Hollywood studios. If I'm Paramount, for example--and we've done a number of campaigns with Paramount to help promote upcoming movies--you understand video content.

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Mogreet Paramount Entertainment Mobile 133