TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Kevin Mayer, the former chief executive of TikTok; GV chief David Krane; Aaron Levie from Box; the tech media and entertainment guru, Matthew Ball; and product maestro Eugene Wei all participated in the round as well. And performers on the platform take all of the ticket revenues, with Moment House earning money by charging fans a small fee.

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Los Angeles Entertainment Seed Funding USC 173

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

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. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. So we've partnered and worked with technology partners, and built a technology company to develop applications for ourselves and third party platforms.

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Content News Startup Research 230

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. I don’t see this changing much like I don’t see you building blockbuster movies outside LA or shift the media buying center of gravity out of NY.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. million comedy fans through our social media email list, we we think we can see the same in the music industry. How is the company backed? We currently reach 1.3

Ticketmaster 140

Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. With the ability to import images from social media, HipTraveler creates a shareable, searchable itinerary.

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Competition Startup USC Southern California 104

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. He’s worked as an English and Film teacher at the American School of Tangier, and has also assistant taught film production at USC. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production.

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Communications: Of course comms companies are springing up globally including WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat and the dominant platforms of Facebook & Twitter. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. Los Angeles. People either love it our hate it. All the stereotypes and caricatures are overblown. LA investors are more pragmatic.

Companies 290

Companies Company Technology Startup 290

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. People are not simply watching the TV anymore.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo!

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

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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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. They're the largest marketing platform in the music business, and we've signed on to be their exclusive ecommerce partner.

Van Nuys 191

Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. There is a lot of searching and sorting just to find out, for example, what the USC Trojans or Tesla Motors might be doing. That''s where the company started from.

Mobile 159

Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Fun Fact: Their latest investment was into LA-based Daqri – the augmented reality platform that has been used for campaigns with Cadillac and MAXIM Magazine. Social Media: Snapchat. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

So, despite their rivalries and silos, people have come together, and we now have all 5 UC campuses in Southern California, plus Caltech, Harvey Mudd, USC, UC San Diego, and others involved. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. more) READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

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. They can put themselves and their friends into the media and the digital experience. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Its an event that provides a platform for the worldwide twitter community to: listen, connect, share and engage with each other, while collectively exploring the effects of the emerging real-time internet on business. Carlos R (@CarlosHernandez) - Social media educator & co-creator of Social Media for the Uncomfortable.

Social Media 40

Social Media Journal Media Education 40

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The universities are now more focused on the innovation economy, with schools like USC, UCLA, Caltech, the Claremont Colleges all bringing good people to LA. There's content, digital media, and enterprise, and obviously eSports is centered here, AR and VR should be centered here, though we're early on that so we'll see how that plays out.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

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. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42