socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. That's really the core focus for us.

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

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. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. Over the past few months I've been building my networking, and we've done about a deal a month so far. I think the right team and network are very important, as is traction, validated by customers.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. There is a really genuine and real opportunity in the intersection of media and entertainment technology here in Los Angeles, and people are focused here on that for a legitimate reason.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Econ/Business from UCLA and with a JD from UCLA Law, Brian Lee was a talented attorney. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. socaltech socal socalcto

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Some of the technical expertise resides here--we found some very brilliant acoustic engineers at UCLA who are doing a big chunk of the processing--and we in fact think we've done something sufficiently interesting that we have some patents in provisional state, and we hope to lock that down in the next year or two. READ MORE>>.

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