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JANUARY 19, 2017

For today's youth, it's often hard to figure out what they want to do in life--according to Deborah Ramo , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Amavitae (www.amavitae.com). What is your app all about? Why do you and your founders have such an interest in this area, and what's your own background? How did this start?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Hard to believe another Digital LA Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is happening this week back-to-back with the new LA Tech Summit produced by Cornerstone. LA Tech Summit takes place the following day and takes a more comprehensive look at the entire tech eco-system in Los Angeles, not just Hollywood.

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JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

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JUNE 18, 2018

It is a movie that will both lift you up with the possibilities of how much of an individual person can have a positive impact on masses of people as well as challenge you about what you’re doing to make the world a slightly better place. What does that SAY!?!” The YouTube embed and this link have a short trailer.

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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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JULY 27, 2015

One of the side effects of the war over Flash, has been with advertisers--particularly in Hollywood--who rely on Flash to help display their advertising banners and video to users. Matt Cooper: What we're really trying to do, is reshape the advertising space. Where do you fit into the mobile ad market?

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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 spoke with Andrew about the startup and what it's all about.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2012

They simply don’t get product / market fit and aren’t patient to stick around and help you find it. Didn’t Kim Kardashian help make ShoeDazzle? If you DO want to do endorsements do them the old-fashioned way – trade what celebrities really care about (hint: $$$) in exchange for their endorsement of your product.

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MAY 17, 2017

Ted Dhanik is co-founder and CEO of West Hollywood-based engage: BDR (www.engagebdr.com), which recently just launched an influencer marketing platform aimed at Instagram.users. If you've paid an influencer for 12 hours, 1 hour, three hours, or 24 hours, you need technology to measure that you're getting exactly what you paid for.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Large groups that are cut out of traditional representation are precisely the groups that achieve breakout successes by getting around the system and giving the market what they want directly. I’m not sure what it takes to get through to people who green light traditional media. Yes, with a “B.” There is no more Latino-only market.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

What is EV Safe? Since then, we have had our chargers on movie studio sets for actors and crew to use for major Hollywood movies, and have also supplied charging equipment for motorcycle companies. What we've been doing is offsetting our carbon footprint by planting trees with the Arbor Day foundation.

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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. The firm's apps are revolutionizing sheet music, applying modern technology to what has--until recently--been stuck in the era of pencil and paper.

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JULY 27, 2013

What I loved about the founding team from day 1 was that the founders were all people who tried to break into Hollywood and found the system closed. “If my objective is raising capital and I’m struggling, what can I learn about those who do get funded and how can I improve my odds by changing? . Take Maker Studios.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Your “anchor talent” helps attract audiences that in turn want to discover new artists. This helps get CPM rates higher – even within YouTube. Much of it already is. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

You can watch the video above for a very brief overview of why we rebranded and where we see our place in the VC ecosystem along with what has changed in our industry. If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. It would be out of sync.

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APRIL 12, 2017

My only relationship with LA was through the movies, so I naively synonymized LA with the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and never really gave it a chance. I imagine the link with Ashton, Guy, and Ron really helped opened up doors for A-Grade? We know what we're good at, which is mostly consumer facing technology.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

What''s the story behind M-GO? It was just too hard, or too scary, or too difficult to find what they were looking for. As it turns out, as we thought about that, we started looking for partners to help us build a platform. That''s how content deals work in Hollywood. What''s needed here, is to get to scale.

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JULY 10, 2019

What is Halla? 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? I went to Berkeley.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

First off, what is your YouTube channel all about? I like helping people, and I'm using YouTube to help all of that. I have never had what people call a traditional job, working as a teenager at a movie theater or retail. What is it that draws viewers to your channel? How did you get into posting these videos?

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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. What is NowLive all about? Sara Bordo: My co-founder, Brad Sexton and I, both come from the Hollywood studio world. What's unique about NowLive?

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APRIL 23, 2017

Very, very few founders have an easy time despite what you read in the press. Knowing that now will help you greatly in your dark moments to know that you’re not the only one struggling. Also, make sure you know several partners at the VC firms who have invested in you because in tough times it helps to have very broad support.

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JUNE 20, 2014

We spoke with Kevin Winston, the organizer of Silicon Beach Fest (www.siliconbeachfest.com), which is currently going on in Santa Monica and runs through Saturday, about the energy here in Southern California, as well as a little bit about what''s going on with the event this year. What''s new with Silicon Beach Fest this year?

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Greeene wrote the book while struggling to suceed as a Hollywood screenwriter, I wasn''t surprised. Mr. Greene''s book might be applicable to Hollywood''s super-competitive, mean-spirited culture. Protect your personal and corporate brands by always doing what you should do, rather than what you could do.

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JULY 29, 2016

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. Tell us about MAKE IT IN LA, and what you are doing? What were those findings? It's actually a very complicated area.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Every corporate transaction you’ll do will require somebody to help you to: Think through the options, negotiation terms, get other investors on board, talk with new investors/partners/companies you’re acquiring, etc. That’s what they’ll be saying to other VCs or their partners as your company is flaming out.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

But the request this time was different: could we urgently help make realistic screen displays for a big Hollywood science fiction movie that was just about to start shooting? But just based on the working title (“Story of Your Life”) I wasn’t even clear that this movie was science fiction, or what it was at all.

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APRIL 17, 2012

It’s what I strive to. Somebody asked the question, “What do you think about the term ‘Silicon Beach?” Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. .” That always stuck with me.

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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. What is Stem? At the time, the primary platforms having an impact on Hollywood were Facebook and Twitter.

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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? What is BiasSync? 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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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

West Hollywood-based automotive startup BORROW (www.joinborrow.com) recently launched a new, subscription service which gives users access to a pre-owned, electric vehicle (EV) through short term leases, of only 3-, 6-, or 9- months. What is Borrow? The startup is backed by MuckerLab, and led by CEO Jon Alain Guzik.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We spoke with Michael Tringe , one of the startup's co-founders, to learn more about what the company is getting set to launch. What is CreatorUp all about? Those teachers are what set us apart.

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JUNE 2, 2014

We spoke with Kristztina "Z" Holly --most recently, Vice Provost for Innovation at USC--about what Mayor Garcetti''s EIR program is all about, and her vision for how it might help shape the industry in Los Angeles. What exactly does the position of EIR involve? What attracted you to this role as EIR? Also, the U.S.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

What is EV Safe Charge? Since then, we have had our chargers on movie studio sets for actors and crew to use for major Hollywood movies, and have also supplied charging equipment for motorcycle companies. What we've been doing is offsetting our carbon footprint by planting trees with the Arbor Day Foundation.

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MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? What is the idea behind Moviepilot? We really help them understand what their audience is all about. We started about four or five years ago.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. What is Laudville? That would be movies that were best for me, what music albums I should download.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Mark Templeton knows a bit about success and what it takes to reach the top of one's industry. You can learn how Success Isn't What Happens To Other People - It Can Happen To You HERE. about your skills or your abilities or your DNA, it's about what you refuse to give up on - what you will keep doing until you succeed.”.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

What does that even mean? And why does every investor who talks about online video say things like “We don’t want to invest in MCNs” as though anybody even knows what one is? We helped talent with O&O (owned & operated websites) and with ad sales. Multi-Channel-Network. It can’t be funded.

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