Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2016

This holiday season, we are sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology community. 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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. We spoke with CEO Darren Marble to learn more about why analytics are important to the modern film-maker, and how the company is helping. What is FilmBreak?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. We set up to develop that technology, in partnership with institutions and researchers, psychologists, and marketing professors.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

It’s focus is on the evolving changes in technology that have had an influential impact on the business of entertainment. Topics of the panels include Media and Entertainment Focused Startups in Silicon Beach, Business Model with CFOs and Intersection of Technology and Content Production and Distribution. 11am Opening Remarks.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

If you wanted to find someone who truly understands the convergence of the media and technology, you need to go no further than Peter Csathy , the CEO of newly launched CREATV Media (www.creatv.media). It's really the home of a broad base of services to help media and tech companies develop new opportunities, and accelerate their success.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

We''re now in beta, and are incorporating services like iTunes, Amazon, and Hulu, and will be incorporating more (this) year. Phoebe Scott: Right now, we''re affiliates of other sites that we work with, such as iTunes and Hulu. Instead of waiting for someone else to fix my own problem, I thought I might as well give it a shot.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Or maybe you’re trying to dramatically change the way TV is consumed, like Boxee or TV advertising works on the Internet, like Hulu. If you look at Hulu and said, “the networks will never enable a strong competitor to broadcast TV you’d need to put your head in the sand. Nobody knows that.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Their baked in marketing technology helps producers determine the best distribution system by matching genres with online viewers demographics across 4,000 affiliate sites. Yekra also allows creators to establish an exclusivity rights period and set up distribution to other platforms including Netflix and Hulu Plus.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. You don’t “Bing” information or “Hulu and chill.” Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Not really.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2015

Straight outta Austin, MakerSquare has teamed up with coding school collective, Hack Reactor , to open a new campus in LA to help fill the tech talent gap and to provide the area with the necessary talent pool to continue the Los Angeles tech expansion (as a call to action for President Obama’s TechHire initiative).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. So the video content you recommend--is that user generated like YouTube, or professional content like Hulu? Aaron, thanks for the interview.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Out is the “cocktail only&# Twiistup and in is the new format of a conference that should take its rightful place on the national technology calendar. We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Craig has recently uncloaked his stealth startup, BetterWorks (www.betterworks.com), focused on helping companies to manage and offer fringe benefits to their employees. For the last three months, we've been working very closely with people in technology, finance, media, entertainment and consumer goods.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Los Angeles is 3 rd in the global startup ecosystem, behind Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley. With Yahoo!,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

But I also accept and appreciate the ads in Hulu because I know that I’m watching shows for free. In-Stream rewards the content producer, Contextual just the technology provider – The funny thing about contextual search like that in Google is that it benefits the tech company and NOT the content producer at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But they’re under the gun to crank out story after story so they don’t have the time or energy to understand why your behavioral targeting technology is mathematically better than your 5 competitors. ” Many people in Internet TV talk to me about “ Torso TV ” or “ Why Hulu is like OPEC.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

Robyn spoke about fostering a positive company culture, what that really means, and why it’s important, drawing on lessons learned from leaders like Jack Welch, and personal experiences with companies like Hulu. KRISHNA SUBRAMANIAN. He is also a Social Producer at CBS News’s What’s Trending.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. We're looking to build out our investment portfolio.

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Southern California Media Venture Capital Invest 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. We're looking to build out our investment portfolio.

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Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. ” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. Is the technology even possible? So how far are we from the ideal level of technology sophistication?

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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). Well, that technology came from an L.A. startup scene so hot.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Visualization is so important to help yourself & others conceptualize ideas. I personally find music more distracting than helpful. Creativity is what helps us think of our ideas in the first place. It’s what helps us imagine what feature sets would be most appealing. For others they swear by music.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I have learned lots of lessons over the past 20 years about technology, entrepreneurship and investments. Think Hulu is done by the studios for all good reasons? I made my point a bit too sarcastically, which probably doesn’t help the debate. So it goes with blogging. The answer is obviously neither or both.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Google balances the universe and helps all of the hardware, software and media companies ensure it isn’t a “one horse race.&#. they’ll continue to look for independent technology partners. We all saw what happened when technology let us buy singles on iTunes rather than whole albums pushed by record labels.

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