socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. At 12.30pm in the afternoon the idea to create the video was hatched. think Apple.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

So here are the top 8 tips from 2 successful brands on what we can do to create engaging content and market our brands using YouTube as our platform. If any ideas in the script take away from the core message for selling the product it will hurt it the effectiveness of the video. Jeffrey Harmon, CMO of Orabrush and Orapup.

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Dollar Shave Club Tips Marketing Sales 106

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Where'd the idea for DinnerDate.com come from? The idea really came from looking at the dating industry online. What I also like, is I'm a massive foodie, and love to cook and entertain, and this was the perfect combination. The idea is to help restaurants gain extra users, but not through discounts. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Hollywood Mobile eHarmony 264

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry. What is the idea behind Moviepilot? Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. We started about four or five years ago.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

We came up with an idea for an app and around that time we met with Chris. The idea for the app is to see events through the eyes of the audience. You take all the photos and videos and upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Vine, and other social media platforms and experience the event through the eyes of the crowd.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. However, from my understanding you might actually be the largest consumer website using "semantic web" technology – can you explain how that works? “In

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Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz? Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon. It can literally deliver thousands and thousands of messages, tens of thousands per minute, to every form of platform. What's the technology behind this?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. There are multiple platforms used to get the job done.

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Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

The idea is hard to refute; The United States is the economic powerhouse that it is because of a culture of innovation, entrepreneurs, and the “can do” attitude that makes it so distinct. 0, eCommerce platforms: Volusion and BigCommerce (which raised $40M last year with Steve Case). Offline engagement platform EyeQ.

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Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Time will tell.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2009

We sat down and spoke with Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried , co-founders of the firm, about what the firm is up to now, their view on how to mesh entertainment and the Internet, and how to go beyond creating a viral hit. Miles Beckett: Our company EQAL is a social entertainment company, which means two things.

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Hollywood Content Paramount Entertainment 113

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Fouad and I had this idea to allow people to interact with sound bites and audio clips. We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. We spoke with David Aronchick , the CEO and co-founder of the firm to hear more about what it's up to.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. Michele Ruiz: The only thing I would add, is this is a software-as-a-service solutioneverything is on our online platform.

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Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons. Where do those videos get distribute? Thanks, and good luck!

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy. We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Making ideas reality : dependency. The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. Web analytics, pretty clear. ” How to sell your idea to multiple departments: Make all requirements detailed, make presentations, and really sell the reasoning and mission.

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Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! Nevertheless, it was fantastic showcase of new ideas and a glimpse into the future of tech. Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst got in touch with TechZulu to explain the idea of Cojoin, LA, and the advantages of business intelligence software. Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? Where did the idea come about in the first place?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Millions, billions, trillions?

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. What's the idea behind Klicksports? We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Scott Stratten - President of Unmarketing - This session covers the ideas that blogging with passion and emotion, not frequency is what makes a blog great and the ability to take a stand on topics is what separates you from the rest. Collecta delivers real-time streaming news, via widgets, APIs and its Site Search Platform.

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Social Media Blogging Media Web 63

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. Sounds like a great group.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Social Media Week is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media. Here in Los Angeles we've tied the entire conference together with the Twelethon , a creative fundraising platform in support of Inner-City Arts. What is Social Media Week? What's it all for?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2015

To help you get the most out of your Hues, I tested 20 of the most popular, highly rated iOS apps to come up with a top 5 list of must-have apps for using your Hue light bulbs (iOS is the dominant platform for Hue control, and all these below work on both iPads and iPhones): 1. Put the power of the web to work. Huemote (free).

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. Time and technology has enabled these adolescent ideas to come to fruition. Full circle indeed.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 88

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. You folks are just that awesome that we try and hook our readers up whenever we can so you are Welcome!

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. Time and technology has enabled these adolescent ideas to come to fruition. Full circle indeed.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. Their purchases are limited to restaurants, bars, retail clothing outlets, travel and entertainment. 15mm in Series A.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

DO INCLUDE a $5 option because you want to think of that option as a person contributing spirit to your campaign and the possibility that they may share their spirit online with their friends in the social web means that $5 option could lead to larger donations from other contributors within their network. Accepting Money via Credit Card.

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Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Subscribe to RSS.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Step by Step From Idea to Bootstrap Startup. Starting a dev team to build a brand new idea is harder. The constrai.

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