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JUNE 5, 2013

It''s unclear if Scripted.com''s other, Southern California angels participated in this funding; the firm has previously announced funding from Jody Mulkey (Shopzilla), and Keith Richman (Break Media). scripted paige craig venture capital freelance writing content marketplace' READ MORE>>.

Southern California 159

Southern California Redpoint Writing Venture Capital 159

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. Here's the rest. Here’s how to do it.

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

AUGUST 23, 2013

Mark writes about The Perils of Shiny New Objects. In today''s uber-connected, social media, everything-is-public, people tell you there''s killing it with these new features, investor & mentor whiplash - it''s hard to avoid the latest thing. Yet sadly most startups have "shiny object" obsessions. The new thing.

Social Media 187

Social Media Mentor Writing Blogging 187

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

We caught up with Julie Schoenfeld , the firm's CEO, to hear about how the firm's offerings have evolved, an interesting comparison of the firm's software to what Demand Media is doing, and what this new funding will go towards. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. Congrats on funding.

Marketing 232

Marketing Funding Content Writing 232

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). We'll continue to write checks into our companies, whether that is from our fund or SBDs from our LP base.

Invest 145

Invest Funding Capital Startup 145

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We''ve put lots of money into areas we know well, such as technology for the financial services industry, technology for retail services, and technology for digital media. How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow? I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans.

Funding 196

Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Santa Monica-based eHow, an online "how to" site owned by Demand Media, said Wednesday that the firm is seeing an increase in economy and personal finance related articles, due to the economy. Demand Media is the well funded Internet media venture of former Intermix CEO and MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.

eHow 100

eHow Santa Monica Demand Media 100

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2015

Why did you decide to write the book? I came here originally to write screenplays, a long time ago, in 1988, and saw the indie film movement as it was burgeoning, and saw a lot of excitements in Los Angeles. We have aerospace, we have medical technology, and of course we have media communications.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Startup Angel Writing 100

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We had worked at another organization together in online marketing, and learned every aspect of the business, from closing new deals, on-boarding new clients, to building media plans. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

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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. That's part one.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

I see it in some clusters, in some communities--like Northern California, around Boston, around Austin, Texas in terms of high tech, and the same things in Southern California and New York in terms of media. In the consumer Internet and consumer mobile industry it's not like writing software for the enterprise.

High Tech 150

High Tech Southern California Writing Conference 150

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Woodland Hills-based United Online reported its results Thursday, saying that the firm's revenues from its communications segment decreased by 17% in the fourth quarter, made up by a similar 17% increase in its Classmates Media business. The firm announced it had revenues of $256.2M in the prior year. for the fourth quarter.

Woodland Hills 100

Woodland Hills Writing Report Media 100

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

We do, as of the writing of this in early December, seem to be seeing a correction at this time. The biggest news was the continued bullish market now coming on ten years even though historical cycles show markets don't usually last more than 7-8 years. I had expected a correction much earlier in the year and I was wrong. On Demand).

Southern California 100

Southern California News Class Writing 100

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MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. The majority of our time is now spent online. What does that look like?

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

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JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

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JUNE 8, 2011

We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. Our media clients were telling us that they were losing revenues to Groupon. It's similar to a franchise. READ MORE>>.

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Scripted.com, which is led by Sunil Rajaraman, also counts Break Media's Keith Richman as an advisor, along with actor/writer/director Edward Burns. Scripted.com allows online publishers to hire writers to develop blog posts and Twitter posts from an online marketplace.

Angel 173

Angel CIO Southern California USC 173

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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. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it. It's fun, I guess.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. Plus there are amazing LA tech events put on by DealMaker Media , DigitalLA , Twiistup , and many more. In fact Paige Craig has coined it Silicon Beach.

Company 111

Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111

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JULY 20, 2011

We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. The driving force for me was the gap in the market which I saw, a disruption in media consumption patterns. Basically, that disruption is 18-34 year olds have changed how they consume media.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Peter Marx: I started in the technology industry by writing software for imaging microscopes--looking at things like cell populations using early CCD cameras and understanding cell morphology; working on video compression; working on networking stuff and software for early digital telephony like ISDN and on forward. Thanks, and good luck!

Los Angeles 203

Los Angeles Technology Startup Examples 203

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We have a number of curation and publishing tolls that let our users write metacontent and annotations on the content, and to create fresh content feeds they can place on their website, in a newsletter, on mobile, or on social. It's all about what is happening on the realtime web.

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. We call it storytelling media.

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

It's a fascinating new world out there in entertainment and media, where YouTube stars are now as popular--or maybe, more popular--than traditional celebrities. That said, I think it's great that people are now able to film something in their bedroom, and jump into Hollywood fame, writing books, and becoming legit stars.

Startup 100

Startup Hollywood Content Examples 100

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MAY 18, 2010

As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009. We're also raising capital to get the word out in a better way. READ MORE>>.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

You need a CDN to improve the performance of your content, especially as the web is getting heavier, more complicated, and there's more rich media. Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

It was through that experience, that I sat up in my chair when working at Intel Capital, thinking that, this is cool, I've got a pretty big checkbook to write from, and to do deals from, but there are so many more companies I could be investing in that I am not.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Invest Capital Startup 100

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

We stopped doing consumer facing content a year ago, and handed over writing of the Impact Section on Huffington Post to the team at AOL. However, you'll never see that in the media. We decided it would be smarter to not compete with our customers, and instead focus on the core strength of the company, the technology an infrastructure.

Causecast 222

Causecast Startup Content Education 222

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Steve Jillings: We have really big stuff coming in 2012. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Web 238

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

That was the jumping off point for OneCubicle a little over 18 months ago, when we started writing the business plan and code. I recently opened up a company, Champion Media, providing entertainment branding, marketing, and public relations for Gen Y brands. Talk a bit about your previous experience?

Social Network 100

Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We run it through our exchange, OpenX Market, which is in simple terms a stock market for online media. That's part of the reason I made the shift, because I could see the writing on the wall in search, while I saw display was ripe with opportunities. They can put their inventory in there, and lots of people compete to buy it.

OpenX 242

OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) OTHER DEALS.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Every region needs its local media & events. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. I prefer not to do any angel investments because I focus on my VC funds but it was gratifying to write some small checks to support local teams.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317