socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. We just graduated, and wrapped up a round of $750,000, with a bunch of great folks from both up north and here. So, we started to create ways of categorizing and classifying comedic content.

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Content News Startup Research 230

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. How did you guys start the company? It's too big of an opportunity to pass up.

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Southern California Google Technical Review Manhattan Beach 100

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. Cool, right?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. One is that any producer of a short video on the web, or any producer of any content, can use out to find their desired content. What's Scripped?

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Tony Karrer is the CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web, and eLearning development firm. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. in Computer Science.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

We started in the comedy industry, hence the name, but basically for venues, we have a website management tool so you can fire your web programmer. How did the company start? Scot Richardson: We started our product in the middle of 2009, and the product has been basically available since January of 2010.

Ticketmaster 140

Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality.

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Capital San Diego Invest USC 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. The floor opens up to Sandy Itkoff. However, they remind us that (generally, in the US) other sectors have been propped up by the government in embyronic stages (fossil fuel subsidies, etc.),

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

What we've done, is we've taken technology originally developed at USC, a CIA funded project, and gained global commercial rights for the non-security sector. There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. eBay and others.

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