SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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socalTECH

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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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. And of course you have Hollywood. Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones. Let me use LA as an example.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. I will write about some of these topics soon. That is conformity. People buy at the wrong times. I still love B2B application. I am really bullish on data-as-a-service.

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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. Coincident.TV

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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. We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Coming from the world of academia, did you feel you had to overtly fight the Hollywood stereotype that business leaders have to be greedy and vindictive to win? . “In

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I had my own list on my iPhone, writing down what I wanted to watch, and where those shows are. I started protyping an idea of how to do this, across all platforms. Matt Knox: The idea came up, because most people have their own method of figuring out what they want to watch next. How has it been starting your business in a pandemic?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2010

Now producers of all stripes expect to deliver their content to a multitude of platforms. Best Writing: “Odd Jobs” Jeremy Redleaf. Maria Timpani, SAG. . Radical Disruption Part 2 Programming Innovation. Digital is a done deal. Moreover, viewers embrace interactivity, intensifying programmers’ relationships with advertisers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Anyone can write a check, but not everyone can provide intellectual capital. It might be more difficult for a SaaS platform, or something that's not as tangible, but anything tangible in health and wellness, fashion, and any other kind of consumer group would be a good fit. And, that help is not always capital.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

The following week, I joined AT&T Hackathon at iO/LA in Hollywood and again pitched the idea. The events organized by the community gives us the platform to connect with these people as well as cultivate innovation and share key knowledge. As a journalist, I’m glad it happened to me so I can write about it.

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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. 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.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). Hulu is the leading player for streaming television.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

To this end, he and his brother Hank recently launched Subbable , a platform by which content creators can directly marshal their fan''s financial support. As I write this article, Crash Course stands at 83% of its pledge goal, with nearly 10,800 fans funding the show''s production costs for its upcoming season.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. This post is an accusation.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours. This is where Assignmint comes in. It’s growing.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

We did a lot of investigative research — cold calling executives in Hollywood through networks at Harvard and networks through Johns Hopkins, the school where my brother graduated from. I’d write to my professors and say “I’m so sorry, I have this meeting or I had this phone call that I had to take.”. Skip classes.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing. So how could we accomplish this, while maintaining the close alternative SXSW vibe we had last year?

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA. MySpace HAS followers, what it doesn’t have are people excited to promote themselves on their platform. Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review. Who are the evangelists pimping MySpace?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

McFedries, brud ‘s founder and chief executive, confirmed that the Miquela account had been hacked in a text exchange with me, writing, “some redditor idiots hacked the page we think.” I’ve used my platform to raise real money for important organizations throughout LA and I’ve seen lives changed as a result.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings.

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