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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In this solo episode we meet up with Sarah Zurell and talk about Pavemint, the creative talent of Los Angeles, Hollywood to tech, collaboration, diversity, and running full featured product development. Welcome to Tech Scenes where we explore what makes tech founders and the cities they live in thrive.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

For over 100 years entrepreneurs have come to Hollywood to try their luck in the dream factory and build an empire in the business of storytelling. The company already has 20 different interactive virtual reality experiences available and is in Los Angeles to connect with top talent for additional productions, the company said. “We

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Well, visitors to Hollywood's Sunset and Vine are about to see just that, with the expansion of The Melt , a Silicon Valley, venture-backed grilled cheese shop founded by Flip video CEO Jonathan Kaplan. The Melt apparently is opening up a new location in Hollywood, as it expands beyond its roots in San Francisco. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 8, 2010

This week TechZulu will be streaming Digital LA's Games Go Hollywood panel live June 10, 2010 from 8-9:30pm PST. Join us and Digital LA for a pre-E3 panel on Games Go Hollywood! Games can do thrills - but what about tears to broaden their reach? Prince of Persia is the latest game to go big at the box office. Should they try? -

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Tech Zulu Event

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Every year, a personal Upfront Summit highlight is getting to sit down with experts in a field I care about. I encourage you to watch the entire 30 minute video (below or here ) both for insights into Quibi and understanding how a leader like Meg thinks about innovation, but I’ll also pull out a few highlights.

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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. We sat down with Alec the other day to hear more about the company and what it's try to do. But, there was no good for Hollywood to find them.

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socalTECH

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. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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 was the youngest person at the firm, fresh to LA, super excited about everything, and I gravitated towards those smaller deals in the venture space.

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socalTECH

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. You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company? Does what you do leverage the features of HTML5?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Southern California is still the home of Hollywood - the symbolic name for the motion picture industry - but that industry has changed dramatically in recent years. Many of the studios have sizable in-house technology development operations, but all acquire technology or technology products from outside their corporate borders.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 12, 2013

Hollywood Gap. The nature of the creative process of legacy Hollywood movies separates fans from the content creators. Movies often require months to script and cost, additional months to film and are usually not released until months or even years after post-production work is completed. Celebrities In The House. See you there.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2012

Hollywood-based Cocodot , the online invitations startup headed by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, has made a subtle shift into the e-commerce sector in recent days, adding jewelry, chocolates, gifts, and more to the site. It's unclear when the shift happened, although the company just began emailing users about its various products today.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We caught up with M-GO''s CEO, John Batter , to hear about where M-GO fits into the streaming media market. John Batter: M-GO was formed about two years ago as a joint venture between DreamWorks and Technicolor. I personally come from DreamWorks, and was President of Production previous to taking the opportunity to come run M-GO.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2013

Who says that Southern California's high tech industry is all about Hollywood and e-commerce? and Gigabit DOCSIS products, and more; Irvine-based Vizio announced new HDTVs, smartphones, tablets, and Windows 8 PCs; and Viewsonic , based in Walnut, showed off its new high resolution touch displays.

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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. We spoke with Sara Bordo , the firm's founder and CEO, about the company. What is NowLive all about? What's unique about NowLive?

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2021

Debate is raging across the US about the requirement for vaccines – not least on Facebook itself – but the tech trendsetters are insisting that their own staff are fully vaccinated before returning to work. It's also insisting that anyone working on a Netflix set – from production assistant to star actor – is fully vaccinated.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Last month, the product launched with $1.2 Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

We spoke with Eyal Pfeifel , Co-founder and CTO of Imperson, about the startup and its technology�which hints at some of the impact technology development might have on Hollywood. Imperson is based in Israel, but is backed by Disney and has been aiming use of its technology in Hollywood. Tell me what Imperson is all about?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2012

The big announcement party that e-commerce giant Amazon.com has set for Santa Monica airport's Barker Hanger looks to be all about the Amazon Kindle Fire, and Amazon Kindle Touch, as the firm bragged this morning that it had "sold out" of its Kindle Fire. Kindle Fire is Amazon's tablet PC, which is based on Android. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2016

There are also many misconceptions about starting a business. There are three things we know about startup business plans: one, you will write one eventually. The Product has to be Flashy. So any delusions you have about being congratulated should be abandoned as soon as possible. Business Plans aren’t Necessary.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Video production & distribution is becoming much more programatic. MSN & AOL.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

To better understand exactly where EV technology is today, we caught up with Caradoc Ehrenhalt , the CEO and founder of a Los Angeles startup, EV Safe Charge (www.evsafecharge.com), to chat a bit about his view of where EV charging technology today. We do run into a lot of questions about that, and it's safe to charge. What is EV Safe?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 29, 2010

Jessica Iclisoy, Founder and CEO of California Baby, will speak about how she turned her search for safe, natural products for her own newborn baby into a multi-million dollar business serving customers from Hollywood to Hong Kong. Wednesday, May 5, 2010 -- ACG 101 May Breakfast Meeting. See [link] (more).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

“LA’s best chapter is about to be written,” said Eric Garcetti, LA City Council Member and Mayoral Candidate. “It’s great to get the tech and Hollywood communities together to celebrate digital innovation,” said Kevin Winston, creator of the Silicon Beach Fest, and Digital LA CEO/Founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I have started thinking about what the future might look like and I’ve started imagining what I call, “MMOV” or massive multiplayer online video. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. Why would it? billion views. think Apple. think Apple. million views).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. But the narrative in the press about Al Gore was that he was a smarmy know-it-all. They wrote about his verbal fumbles. Before that he was a US senator.

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

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2016

This tech startup aims to improve the entertainment talent casting industry, and Hollywood is the perfect location for them to thrive, which they are managing to do. Also, it congregates information about new opportunities and events in a certain region. That is exactly what Castar did. Castar was cofounded by Thomas Q.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2017

We spoke with CEO Matt Levin to hear about how Donut Media is looking to speak to the Millennial car enthusiast through both its online videos as well as social content. Matt Levin: I came from Optimist TV, where I was head of product there. My co-founders, Ben and Nick, come from the production world. It's pretty broad.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 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. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood. Media and Entertainment has seen more barriers to entry being broken down.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 12, 2013

Hollywood Gap. The nature of the creative process of legacy Hollywood movies separates fans from the content creators. Movies often require months to script and cost, additional months to film and are usually not released until months or even years after post-production work is completed. Celebrities In The House. See you there.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We thought we'd take a look at the trend, so we recently talked with Adorian Deck (https://www.youtube.com/user/AdorianDeck), an up and coming 22-year old Youtuber, who told us his story about how he's made Youtube his full time gig, and gives us some insight into the world of influencers and branded videos. It's a nice escape from reality.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 27, 2014

However, such alignment is missing at most tech startups, and thus there is little causality between a celeb’s investment and their ability to drive meaningful product adoption. Steer clear of high-overhead investors, whether they be Hollywood celebrities, high-profile tech investors or total nobodies. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

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? How did that effort come about in the first place?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The new financing will give Relativity the cash to fully build its “Stargate” factory, a semi-autonomous, full-scale production facility that will house the company’s massive 3-D printers and produce its first rocket, the Terran 1. space industry.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

I just found out about a great award opportunity for people connected to USC (or who can figure out a connection in time). Apply here: [link] ABOUT THE PRIZES Significant cash prizes will be awarded to the top 3 teams: First place: $25,000, Second place: $15,000, Third place: $10,000. I was just down at Demo Day for the USC Incubator.

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