socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. About a week later, our CTO was in Japan, and calls me, saying he had a crazy idea for a music, app, and he'd tell me about it when he got back.

Media 267

Media Education Startup Google 267

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

However, Mobigirl Media (www.mobigirlmedia.com), a new mobile advertising network, is looking to change that by specifically creating an ad network focused on girls. Jennifer Noonan: Mobigirl Media is the only mobile ad network targeting girls. We had no idea when it was going to appear, even. What are you all about?

Mobile 208

Mobile Networking Media Advertising 208

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. While there, I was approached by a guy with an idea around sports statistics, and we spent about two months to figure out what was interesting about the sports market.

Media 100

Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. While there, I was approached by a guy with an idea around sports statistics, and we spent about two months to figure out what was interesting about the sports market.

Media 100

Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

socalTECH

JULY 30, 2019

TenOneTen said that the initial episodes feature such investors as Eytan Elbaz (Social Native, Render Media, Scopely), Will Hus (Mucker) and Britt Danneman (Alpha Edison) with upcoming interviews with with Eva Ho (Fika), Mark Mullen (Bonfire), Anna Barber (Techstars) and others.

Venture Capital 153

Venture Capital Los Angeles Entrepreneur Ideas 153

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2009

Rotohog's CEO, Kelly Perdew, told socalTECH that the idea behind the round is that it will take the firm to profitability. Perdew said the firm is providing its fantasy sports games to sports leagues, networks like FOX, and large media companies. READ MORE>>.

Mission Ventures 100

Mission Ventures SoCalTech Venture Capital Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Los Angeles-based 9 , a startup offering consulting and production for brands, entertainment, media, internet and retail companies, has raised a small round of funding from private investors. According to the firm, it will help companies that want to create and sell ideas across broadcast TV, broadband, print or digital media.

Funding 100

Funding SoCalTech Entertainment Content 100

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.

Startup 159

Startup Technology Hollywood Media 159

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing. What is Fliptu?

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2016

The new drone--which costs $499.99--is specifically designed to take aerial photos and videos of consumers, for sharing on social media. Yuneec said the new flying camera will fly both indoors and outdoors, and is controlled by an iOS or Android app, and can instantly post videos and photos to Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Marketing 113

Marketing Social Media Pricing Design 113

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

What does the landscape of social media marketing look like, in the wake of Salesforce.com's acquisition of Buddy Media? In the past month alone, some of the worlds largest enterprise technology companies have acquired social media marketing start-ups accumulating a total spending of close to $2.2 billion dollars.

Social Media 140

Social Media Startup Media Acquisition 140

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the developer of Twitter client applications, said Thursday that it has partnered with the publisher of The Economist to power a new desktop application and curated channel Idea People Media , The Economist Group's vertical ad network business.

Content 176

Content Pasadena Hollywood Ideas 176

socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

as part of that company''s Warner Media Camp accelerator. How did you get involved with the Warner Media Camp? Justin Wu: Last year, we talked to Media Camp about our idea, when it was at a much earlier stage. This year, after working with Team Downey, and several other accelerators, our idea became more developed.

Commerce 153

Commerce Content Downey Media 153

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly. Where did the idea come from and how did you start working on this? We started experimenting with lots of ideas, and Namesake is the evolution of a thousand small tweaks.

Social Network 273

Social Network Startup West Hollywood Ideas 273

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

At least six, Southern California companies -- Nimble , ParkMe , Quarterly , Beachmint , Chromatik , and Dollar Shave Club -- have been named as one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies list today, a healthy share of the publication's annual look at the best ideas, hottest industries, and innovators.

Dollar Shave Club 231

Dollar Shave Club Southern California Entrepreneur Company 231

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Tragos is a veteran of technology industry here, having come from Spin Media (formerly, Buzznet) with his two other co-founders. At Spin Media, we tried to do that ourselves, but that really sucked up product and development resources, who really should have been working on building the user experience, rather than ads.

Buzznet 100

Buzznet Outsource Development Design JavaScript 100

socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2013

That''s the idea, at least, according to Aaron Hirschhorn. kennel boarding media social dogvacay photos cute' He explained the sharing of cute dog photos came out of the company''s desire to create engaging content in Facebook, about something that people find interesting. READ MORE>>.

Custom 216

Custom Customer Santa Monica Social Media 216

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based Gipper Media --a new app inspired by a high school entrepreneurship project--has launched, with the backing of Pandora co-founder and SoCal technology vet Jon Kraft and former Stamps.com Chief Softwarwe Architect Girish Venkat.

SoCal 100

SoCal Southern California Coach Incubator 100

socalTECH

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. What's the idea behind Topspin Media? Topspin is backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group. The majority of our company is engineering, not marketing or services.

Media 100

Media Yahoo Startup Tool 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This time, Crowdfunder said it is focusing on companies in the scoial enterprise space, and has partnred with Demand Media, along with Toniic, TED Fellows, Thiel Foundation and others specifically aimed at the social enterprise. The event is similar to CROWDSTART LA, a pitching competition the company launched last year. READ MORE>>.

Startup 215

Startup Competition Demand Los Angeles 215

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

I need to focus my time on big ideas paired with extremely passionate entrepreneurs. In reflection, think I need to center my time around those principals and focus on bigger ideas. I think we will see the rise of a newer and larger mobile-focused media companies and the continued evolution in traditional television entertainment.

Dollar Shave Club 140

Dollar Shave Club Userplane Tsavo Southern California 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Invested.in , the developer of a site which helps users raise money for projects and ideas, has launched an effort to provide a white label version of its platform. The new Invested.in platform allows anyone to create their own, white-labeled crowd-funding sites, according to the company.

Platform 185

Platform Technology Sites Los Angeles 185

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Haro is from the entertainment industry, and has served at Maverik Digital, GetGlu, Penske Media Corp, along with Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Venice, California-based anonymous messaging app developer Whisper said Tuesday that it has named Shelby Huston Haro as the company's Vice President of Sales. READ MORE>>.

Sales 100

Sales Fandango Venice Entertainment 100

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2012

The team said that its idea it to create an app which takes advantage of all of the features of the iPad and iPhone, including voice recognition, accelerator, touch sensitivity, plus the iPad 3's Retina display. and Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

Activision 212

Activision Yahoo Mobile Entertainment 212

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media. We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu?

Cloud Computing 208

Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. First of all, what's the idea behind StockTwits, for people who haven't used the service? Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. It's fun, I guess.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. Kanaan Jemili: Garry Winnick had the idea a few years ago, when he saw the shift happening from traditional video to digital video. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. What is uCast?

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Media 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Miso Media. Miso Media's guitar learning app is changing how people learn music, listening to musicians, letting them know if they're playing the right notes, and teaching them how to play a guitar, all from their iPad. Do you wish you could learn how to play the guitar? Wish you had an alternative to expensive, inconvenient teachers?

Southern California 254

Southern California Startup Sherman Oaks Venice 254

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. We now have a team of nine engineers and scientists, with experience from companies like IBM, Demand Media, and Google, all part of our core engineering team.

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2010

According to Kingston, it will award $3,000 for the best idea on how to destroy one of its solid-state drives, as a follow up to an earlier set of videos it released last January showing people trying to destroy--unsuccessfully--its SSDs. The firm said the contest runs through November 5th.

Social Media 140

Social Media Ideas Media 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

You can have the best idea in the world with the fanciest board members and advisors but you need a world class management team to execute, iterate and ultimately navigate troubled waters. Prior to starting Crosscut, Brett was a serial entrepreneur who built, operated, and sold a number of internet media companies including Myspace.com.

Southern California 100

Southern California News Platform Class 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The room buzzed with anticipation and enthusiasm as the teams struggled through the requisite technical difficulties to present their ideas. On Sunday, fighting frayed nerves and sleep deprivation, the courageous developers, designers and business folk prepped for their demos. Angelhack LA photo via Kin Lane @ Flickr ). READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica 178

Santa Monica Competition Los Angeles Design 178

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

What's the idea with ROC? What's the idea behind the community use of space here? There aren't that many new ideas in real estate, it's all about how you execute. We're even building a digital media lab on our second floor. Walter Grieves: Our goal is to bring together universities, startups, and investors in one place.

Google 253

Google Tech Coast Angels Screening Santa Monica 253

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As the founder of an accelerator, I'm constantly being approached by ambitious people with big ideas, and generally we invest in 1/100th of what comes to us. I think we're going to see a real shakeup in how people view social media. I think that the biggest news for StartEngine this year is our productivity. Finally, Google.

Southern California 168

Southern California High Tech SaaS Social Media 168

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Students are great source of ideas because they’re willing to challenge the existing norms – the basis for all disruption. But beyond the idea that startups come from colleges, they are obviously a very important feeder system into local startups with cheap, young, hard-working talent. I thought it was an amazing idea.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. What do you mean by infrastructure?

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Rustic Canyon Palomar 153

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

What's the idea behind the incubator? So, I set out a little bit in an ad-hoc way starting companies as ideas came to me. We are the founders of these companies, and the ideas come from our own team. We've got a very strong team of general partners, and increasingly we're getting ideas from our major partners.

Incubator 208

Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208