socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. Alec Shankman: Gotcast is the largest online interactive casting platform. But, there was no good for Hollywood to find them. Can you talk about what you've seen?

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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. Last month, the product launched with $1.2 I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Milana Rabkin: As a platform, we work on a consensus model. They can use Stem as a platform to distribute that content. As revenue comes back from the platforms and services they've monetized that content on, we automate the disbursement of payments to everyone at the same time. So where is the product now?

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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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Paramount Entertainment Hollywood Content 187

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

JULY 10, 2019

Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. We all went to Oakwood High School, in North Hollywood in Los Angeles. Food is the perfect example. I went to Berkeley.

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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

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. Is your product available yet? We''re also backed by the Entrepreneurs'' Roundtable in New York. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

JULY 18, 2016

Several startups have been selected to demo their products for other founders and entrepreneurs. X Factor Films – a Hollywood 2.0 studio and platform for badass female entertainment, its creators and fans. And for those L.A. This isn’t just a showcase for the sake of a showcase. More startups to come**.

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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.”. These innovative products ranged from digital comic books to sports data analysis. Over $50,000 in prize money.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. I first met him there and knew he was a talented entrepreneur that I wanted to work with some day. And of course we had, TheMan.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant.

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Marketing Demand Startup Custom 104

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I think you’ll learn more in watching the 20-minute interview that Troy Carter and I did than you will in most tech interviews because he cuts down to the raw essence of what it takes any product to be discovered and nurtured and the power of being able to connect the right emerging artist with the right influencers in a market.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market. Those licensing fees can be pretty amazing.

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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. I had helped launched music products at Nokia, and they put us together.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). It's clear that Hollywood people speak a different language from technology people.

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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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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I started protyping an idea of how to do this, across all platforms. Joey is a longtime entrepreneur and friend, and we've almost worked together a number of times over the years, and it happened he was selling his adtech company while we were in Southern Arizona together in 2019, and he asked me what I was up to. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

We''ve already integrated Twitter and Facebook, and our product is in its earliest MVP, and it''s now out there. After we alpha tested an early version of this, I decided I really wanted to pursue it, and pursue it as a full scale product. You were in Chicago; did you move here to work on this? I quit my job and decided to move here.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

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. If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant.

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Custom Customer Marketing Demand 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant.

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Marketing Startup Demand Custom 91

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., 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. You have deliverables.

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

The reason why, is we're more than a consulting firm, in that we also provide access to capital, and access to production, resources, and talent. Peter Csathy: I'm an entrepreneur, a builder of companies. Twitter started as a mini blogging platform, but now it also wants to become more of a media company.

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Media Blogging Hulu Invest 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. Yet nearly any entrepreneur who has an idea that other people aren’t doing will tell you that it’s hard to get investors excited. We’ll re-compare notes then. This requires novel thinking.

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Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

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. It was an eye opener.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

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

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2016

Although we had developed a really good system to manage those fleets, we were not getting the velocity we wanted to get more of our product on the road. On-demand is really not about the sharing economy, on-demand is about the micro entrepreneur economy. driving for on-demand services.

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Demand Los Angeles Inglewood Pricing 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur? What guidance can you give to anyone in a financially safe career who longs for the exciting life of an entrepreneur? We always focused on making the story bigger.”. In the end the skeptics get convinced because they see others reap the benefits.”.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

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

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Even the older Motorola RAZR, which is the highest volume phone in the country, supports our product. While the core messaging and text messaging user is typically a teen female, we find the product really spans a wide demographic. To use Mogreet as a video distribution platform is a no-brainer.

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Mogreet Paramount Entertainment Mobile 133

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). before which is second-time entrepreneurs. Be extra productive.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

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

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

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