socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. So we did a one-day fall Silicon Beach Fest at io/LA in Hollywood. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2012

So you can imagine I see my fair share of celebrities looking to get into the technology industry. It’s going to get you some press buzz – sure. You could contact Adam Lilling who is rumored to be raising a new fund and has deep ties to both the tech world & Hollywood. I live in LA. And I’m a VC.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But the narrative in the press about Al Gore was that he was a smarmy know-it-all. Bush had the opposite narrative in the press. Obviously press narratives of people are characterizations that seldom match reality. This point isn’t just about press meetings. Not something easily repeated in the press.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. What technologies are you looking at in 2015? As far as technologies, look to more wearables, virtual reality, guesture control, drones, and fingerprint ID. I like events.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

But the real threat comes from the change in technologies that rule the old business obsolete. Equally, the streaming business has got to accelerate content acquisition, focus on customer retention, improve streaming technologies to make it better for users / worse for competitors, and they’ve got to continually improve the UI.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. There just hasn't been anything like this across the manufacturing industry like there is in tech or Hollywood.

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MAY 7, 2013

He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. To the credit of Danny, Ben & Lisa – they never aspired to be the CEO’s of a rocket ship media & technology company.

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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was introduced by a senior technology executive that I really respect in the LA area and a close friend of mine told me separately that he would like to invest if they did a friends & family round. Needless to say I was positively predisposed to this individual before the meeting started. is important. Sir, what do you actually do???

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

But, I was really passionate about music, and technology, and the convergence of the two, and wanted to see if I could built out my own business. We have done lots of social media campaigns, and we have really collected with the music ecosystem, such as labels, bands, venues, press, management, and street teams.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The old saying in Hollywood is that “It’s not what you know but whom you know” but the truth is always more deceptive and the tech industry is a lot more susceptible to this notion than you may think.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

Our focus was to utilize new technology for streaming over the internet, broadcasting underserved sports which normally don't end up on TV, in HD quality, for viewers across the country and world. What is IBN Sports? John Mudge: We launched IBN Sports in January of 2007, focused on creating an interactive, broadcast network for sports.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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 In terms of honesty and ethics, I’ve found over and over that at the leading edge of technology it’s as much about setting and meeting expectations as about raw functionality.

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