Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. The costs of building a company have gone down dramatically, from $5 million to get to launch in the late 90’s to $500,000 (or even lower) today for web companies. So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: Walk into their Venice-based office and you’ll find a giant giraffe (dubbed their co-founder’s “spirit animal”) stuffed in their version of a startup treehouse. Incubator: Amplify LA. Developed by four Stanford University students, Snapchat , now located in Venice, is a new way to share moments with friends and family.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Venice-based Zefr (www.zefr.com) got its start in the content world--licensing movie clips and posting them online--but soon, figured out there was a whole different opportunity in developing software tools to understand exactly what was happening on YouTube.

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Hollywood Help Media Content 159

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

MR: We always had a web presence. Whatever you see on the app, you can see on the web. The web isn’t dead and the mobile app is still growing. But now, we have been gaining a larger audience thanks to our online web presence. There are a lot of incubators and a lot of money that is starting to flow here.

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Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. VENICE RISING. Venice: 13% | L.A. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups.

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