TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

While Google just launched its LA hub, Microsoft has operated a cloud region in Southern California for a while, and started wooing Hollywood last year at the National Association of Broadcasters conference, according to Tad Brockway, a general manager for Azure’s storage and media business. We open these doorways.”

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2009

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 -- Netflix Manifesto. Recently what looks to be a Netflix power point made its way around the net titled Reference Guide on our Freedom and Responsibility Culture. This document which looks to be a cultural manifesto for their salaried employees is well worth the 128 page read. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Southern California is still the home of Hollywood - the symbolic name for the motion picture industry - but that industry has changed dramatically in recent years. The half- dozen movie giants that have been with us in one form or another since the 1930s, plus huge upstarts like Netflix and Amazon (Prime).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 16, 2011

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 -- ExecTec on the Netflix Manifesto. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. The same is true for distribution of content: YouTube and NetFlix are now viable options for releasing original movies and TV Series. Don't bet on any one platform.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

All in a room at the University of Southern California Silicon Beach Event on September 18th, 2013. The Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley panel came next and featured a heated discussion between a former employee of Netflix and Fox representatives. Over $50,000 in prize money. Filled with innovation.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Combining the theme of holiday shopping with Southern California's technology industry, here are eight electronic gifts from local companies to add to your shopping list this season. Access your media collection, connect to the Internet, stream video from Hulu, NetFlix, YouTUbe, and more. Sonos Play:3. is based in San Diego.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It's a talent marketplace that connects marketers with customers, from big boys like Netflix, to startups like Allbirds, and all kinds of other companies. We have a very cash efficient model, so we just raised around $4M, but, frankly, we could have raised a lot more. That's why we built MarketerHire. How are you funding the business?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. We are so excited to have done 25 deals, many in the SoCal area, with many more to come. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2019

Previous speakers include the Co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak, the Founding CEO of Linkedin Reid Hoffman, the Former CEO of Cisco John Chambers, the Co-founder of Netflix Marc Randolph, judges from Y Combinator, Plug and Play, Intel Capital and many others! Last year, Leuko Labs was the $1,000,000 USD winner from the U.S.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

You have Genius on iTunes, NetFlix''s recommended movies, Facebook or Twitter. Everyone thinks of Northern California as the place to do anything technology related, but for unique power users and entertainment enthusiasts like me, you realized that entertainment--my first love--is in Southern California.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Matt Know: It's interesting, because the demographics are the same as Netflix, and it's pretty spread out between those demographics. Netflix is now in 190 countries. I'm in Dallas, and the rest of the team is in Southern California, and I haven't seen these guys since February. There's a lot of new content coming out.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Matchmaking has been around a long time, and if you've seen the popular Indian Matchmaking show on Netflix, you'll see it's been around for awhile. We launched our application officially in February of 2019, and we've now been in Southern California for 18 months. We plan on expanding to other markets in 2021.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 5, 2011

It is applied effectively in a variety of explicit/implicit, and systematic/opportunistic models: collective intelligence (Wikipedia, Yelp, and Twitter analytics); collaborative filtering (Amazons product and Netflixs movie recommendation engines); social tagging (del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and Digg); social collaboration (Amazons Mechanical Turk); (..)

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids. We try to understand your preferences, like Netflix does with their recommendations, and understand and give you a personalized experience. It's also not just a huge database, it's about personalized recommendations based on your tastes.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 5, 2011

It is applied effectively in a variety of explicit/implicit, and systematic/opportunistic models: collective intelligence (Wikipedia, Yelp, and Twitter analytics); collaborative filtering (Amazons product and Netflixs movie recommendation engines); social tagging (del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and Digg); social collaboration (Amazons Mechanical Turk); (..)

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

Ashish Soni, Founding Director, Viterbi Students Institute for Innovation(VSi2), Executive Director of Digital Innovation, and faculty member, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Jimmy Liu, CEO, Gymflow Rajiv Maheswaran, CEO, SecondSpectrum Jens Windau, CEO, AIO Robotics Kevin Winston, founder, Digital LA …and others!

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

One of the most original, subscription startups to come out of Southern California's tech accelerator boom emerged last week, looking to disrupt not just another retail sector or e-commerce category, but something else entirely: the airline industry. Think of it like Netflix. When you fly one of them, get you get another.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. Maybe, that's directly with that piece of content--buying it as a ring tone, or buying the DVD, or renting it on Netflix, or seeing an ad that was cross promoted with that content.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. Netflix is a great example.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Kevin Miller, president of Westside Rentals, which bills itself as Southern Californias largest home-finding service, says he has seen rents in Santa Monica and Venice increase by about 10% over the last 18 months—compared with other desirable areas such as Beverly Hills and Culver City, where he says rents increased by about 4% to 5%.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Example: Netflix). After seeing hundreds of startup pitches for this year's Capital Factory program, I can tell you that the two most common errors in positioning a company against competition are, strangely, opposites: Claiming you have no competition. There is no competition.

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