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JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. What is Jukin Media? Can you talk about those businesses?

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M We put all of that into our system, and distribute it among our network through our logistics platform.

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JANUARY 28, 2013

If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. Currently, users pay up front for data packages, and there are inefficiencies in that market.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

Can tapping the power of the crowd not only help you find customers and help fund your project, but also help you shape your startup idea and find funding? A new, Los Angeles area startup, JumpStartFund (www.jumpstartfund.com) recently launched, offering up a combination of crowdfunding and crowd-advice for entrepreneurial ideas.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. What is Halla?

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Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008. How did you start company?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

TechZulu caught up with Adam Fridman , founder MeetAdvisors and this is what he said. Adam Fridman, MSF from DePaul, 4 years investment banking and 10 years in business development consulting and start ups. They should come to him, and that’s how MeetAdvisors started.”. Which startups or entrepreneurs have signed up?

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

You get Greenwave Reality (www.greenwavereality.com), a new startup based in Irvine, which is looking to apply the company''s consumer experience to the world of connected devices. You may not have heard of us, because we started in Europe with our products. What is your product all about? At Linksys, we had a problem.

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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. The problem with the “long tail” content is that only the platform provider (ie YouTube) makes money. Why would it? think Apple. Harlem Shake.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2012

That they’re not afraid to stick their noses up to the establishment. ” I like people to have a healthy bit of motivation derived from wanting to stick their middle finger up at somebody who once dissed them or held them back. Well – he had this awesome platform that was super technical – great IP.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

Audiences have moved very quickly to mobile, and I think that mobile is a brilliant platform on which to build a next generation brand. You were at Rovio before - how does a startup like yours capture the kind of success that Rovio had, what was the key there that success? That''s a great way to build IP for the mobile generation.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2009

To try to understand what the company is up to, we spoke with the firm's President and CEO, Ken Hubbard. How did the company start? We developed a platform for them. Instead of three or four weeks, three days later, we were able to watch streaming video over the Internet form our platform.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks. When I started in 2007, one thing we did even in the early days was engage with operators. That's the core of our strategy.

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Networking Startup Software Tips 153

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

The last time we spent much time chatting with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage , they were at Los Angeles telephony software firm Fonality , busy getting their employees set up in a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) "fight club". We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform.

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Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

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APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. How long has Bccthis been around?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

The Vinetta Project (www.vinettaproject.com), a group which is focused on helping to accelerate the growth of female-led startups, announced a few weeks ago that it is working with P&G Ventures, the internal "startup studio" of Procter and Gamble on an effort to help female-led companies in Los Angeles.

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Entrepreneur Metrics Los Angeles Help 124

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. In terms of money, and in terms of brands, I think you're starting to see a lot of endemic brands sponsoring e-sports tournaments and individual teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

As a small business advisor, I always recommend that being “self-sustaining” requires taking frequent and aggressive measures to step out ahead of the pack, including yourself, before you start feeling the pain of change and new competitors around you. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Having re-read it, I believe his real premise instead is, “Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea for startups that one wonders why things were ever done that way.&#. Either would be fine with startups, so long as they can easily change their valuation. When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me.

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Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

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JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Jovian's platform allows us to process and analyze campaigns in-flight, and also provide in-flight course corrections for marketers.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Our artists, our labels, they all own 100% of their IP. Whenever there are instances, maybe a song has leaked online, they''ll give us a heads up. It''s always up to our labels or up to our artists as to what it is they actually want to do with the content. What kind of rights do you need to give up?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Crowdfunding is the hot new vehicle for raising money to support your entrepreneurial efforts, with over 1,250 website platforms around the world to help you, according to a 2015 industry report. Understating or overstating your request will likely kill your credibility or your startup in lieu of follow-on requirements.

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Technical Review Platform Entrepreneur Funding 58

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JULY 9, 2012

What goes into the thought processes of companies when they're acquiring startups and other firms? Ixia is long past the startup phase, having over the years grown to become a major force in the network testing equipment, and as a publicly traded firm has been in acquisition mode recently. We always like to buy companies like Anue.

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Acquisition IP Networking Marketing 173

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. I discussed these issues in the video.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

To address the need for more affordable webinars, services like DimDim (acquired by Salesforce.com earlier this month), and Huntington Beach-based Freebinar (www.freebinar.com) have been offering up free webinar products to users. My first company was Digevent, a startup in the webcasting space.

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Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

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JULY 12, 2013

However, Metacloud (www.metacloud.com), a startup providing private cloud services, is looking to change the equation and make it much easier for companies to deploy their own private clouds. We think those four dimensions matter because you can sort of mix and match those, and end up with interesting business models.

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CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower Speaker Bios: Jason Oberfest, Senior Vice President, Business Development of MySpace Jason Oberfest is Senior Vice President, Business Development at MySpace, as well as SVP and GM, MySpace Open Platform. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2014

MoMo is part of the global MobileMonday™ community, which started in the birthplace of mobile, Helsinki, Finland. MoMo connects the entire tech ecosystem, from startups and entrepreneurs to VCs, policymakers and academics. Second, we need to pay closer attention to obstacles that are slowing the transition to an all-IP world.

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JUNE 15, 2011

We caught up with CEO Eric Frankel this week to talk about the firm, his decision to go from the comfortable world of Hollywood as President of Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution, to a startup, how the firm is using the cloud to power it service, as well as where the firm is going next. What's the technology behind this?

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Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

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JUNE 16, 2009

We caught up with the firm's CEO, Jason Spievak, to learn more about the firm's technology, as well as to hear about the company's experienced team, which came out of Callwave. Once you are authorized to take a phone number, you can apply it to a campaign that is running, and we'll start looking for calls as well as clicks.

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Advertising Networking Santa Barbara Startup 113

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Do this for a couple weeks!

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Startup IP Email Report 29

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

Attendees were treated to 20 characters to choose and beat senselessly, while more than 30 characters are reported to show up in the final game. Smash Run is simply a side-scrolling beat-em-up. It looks like Nintendo has a new IP up its sleeve. Players can also jump through gates and platforms easier in squid-mode.

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IP Startup Design Training 77

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It’s not yet an ecosystem driver in B2B, although the longer it takes for other business supply companies to catch up, the harder it will be to beat Amazon. The value for consumers stems from having different vendors selling products on one branded platform with good customer service. However, there is still room for competition.

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Organization Customer Custom Study 91

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

We caught up with Kelly Tompkins, the firm's founder and CEO, to hear more about the firm. Why did you decide to startup up another travel site? Kelly Tompkins: With each one of these startups, we learned a lot. The underlying technology has two and a half years, and four and a half million dollars put into the platform.

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