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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. Sara Bordo: My co-founder, Brad Sexton and I, both come from the Hollywood studio world. Everything on a page on our site is not only about engagement but transactions.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

Attending Wearable Tech LA on July 17th in Pasadena will give you an opportunity to meet and collaborate with the best of Hollywood, Music, Sports and Health including leaders from the NBA, NFL, NHL and others. 15 Startups to pitch their products – 2 winners to be announced. Mar Yvette – Lifestyle Reporter, Good Day LA Fox 11.

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Entertainment Hollywood Pasadena Conference 88

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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. I had helped launched music products at Nokia, and they put us together.

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MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. What's the idea behind Audiolife?

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

We sat down with Bruce Nash, founder of the sites, to learn more about the new service. What's the story behind the site and how you got into tracking Hollywood numbers? Back in 1997, when I started thee site, there was no one really doing box office tracking or movie financial tracking on the web. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. One method to negotiate a lower rate or no cost to have a developerwork with you > Pre sell your product. One method to negotiate a lower rate or no cost to have a developerwork with you > Pre sell your product.

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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? MOviepilot is starting to bring its movie recommendations and discovery site to the U.S., and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Once WalMart has helped you establish your brand, it will then be possible to sell premium products via other channels, such as boutique shops or even directly to consumers. 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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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. But, by the time you go to all of those sites, you have dozens of tabs open. It''s a very fractured process.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? Fascinating story.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

The deal calls for local and regional television broadcasters to integrate its SportsTop product into their web sites. Jacked provides sports information, including scores, statistics for players, chat, blogs, play-by-play, merchandise, and more via the web, synchronized real-time with broadcast sports games.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Hollywood Walk of Fame. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. And it carries no inventory.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? Obviously eBay is really successful because you have the largest inventory of product online.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006. We have a browser-based product, and an iPad app that's gotten an enormous amount of critical acclaim and user adoption. You helped define video on the web with iFilm. What is Frequency?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. Zazzle] and c) artisan products [etsy, foodzie]. uh, hello!

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( Discover - Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Are you interested?

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. That gave us a leg up in terms of product visibility, and we were able to go into major record labels and major sports teams, and were on the radar well before other people talked to them.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0,

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products. The company is profitable and scaling super nicely, but even when guys are really bought into the product at the studio level, it takes time to close deals. But, I'll tell you, it's been a really long slog.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? We have our own site, IBNSports.com, and we also work with partners schools to create a presence on the network. The model is really distribution of our content across multiple distribution points, primarily on the Internet.

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Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

For those who haven't tried your service, tell us the story behind the site and how you started it? Why and how do people use your site? You can go to Mogreet.com or go to our wireless web site, at wap.mogreet.com , or use your cell phone on any number of carriers, such as AT&T, Verizon, etc.

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Mogreet Paramount Entertainment Mobile 133

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

This year, it being our third year in a row conducting on site interviews and live streaming, we definitely had to ensure this year’s lineup was up to snuff with the great ongoings of SXSW. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Here are some sites from the trade show floor!

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

The Winklevoss twins, the 31-year-old Harvard grads who are probably best known for their years-long legal fight with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook, have put $18 million of their Facebook settlement cash toward buying a brand new bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills, according to a report today out of TMZ.*.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. 20 Recommended Quora Threads for Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 1, 2010 The Q&A site Quora has become an indispensable trove of knowledge and expertise when it comes to the tech industry. By doing the job. Where is it?

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JANUARY 5, 2009

Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. All of our sales are out here, engineering, and production staff--with researchers and the big brains, along with our financial people in Manchester--where we're still a corporate UK company.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million.

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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). Be extra productive. This is a whole new "generation 2.0" Learn more.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. Ian Rogers: The company was founded by Peter Gotcher, who founded DigiDesign in the 1980's, which really changed the face and revolutionized digital production.

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Media Yahoo Startup Tool 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Will Hsu, Chief Product Officer for AT&T Interactive Jordan Rohan, Managing Director of Equity Research, Internet and Digital Media, Thomas Weisel Partners. Presenter: Boris Fridman, CEO, Crisp Wireless 12:15pm: Lunch and Luncheon Keynote Presentation: Mobile-ize Your Business: Opportunity on the Mobile Web : The Internet is mobile.

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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. I built the product I wanted, as a writer, editor, and as a publisher. Is Assignmint national or a global web-system? It’s standardized.

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