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139 Articles match "Los Angeles","News"
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Los Angeles-based GotCast.com , the online casting site run by Alec Shankman, said today that it has launched two talent searches for on-camera roles, for The Streamy Award, and HollyScoop, a syndicated TV show and site focused on celebrites, music, and fashion news. GotCast allows users to submit their profiles, photos, and information in hopes of getting casted for entertainment positions. The new guaranteed roles are for a red carpet host for The Streamy Awards, and a host for Hollyscoop's TV show and web site.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The firm is venture and angel backed, and was co-founded by Wil Schroter, who is involved with a number of other startups here, including Affordit. News, ABC competition game shows, feature films, etc.--people We also have one individual angel involved, Paige Craig, who we came in touch via Mike Jones, who is really excited about media properties out there and people from interesting backgrounds trying to basically do what we're Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...
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Friday, February 12, 2010
According to data pulled from Twitter Grader , HubSpot is reporting that Los Angeles is in fact the top twittering city, meaning we have the highest amount of users. Tags: Articles News hubspot twitter twitter grade Considering how many of you love to talk about and promote yourselves this shouldn’t be too surprising. It is however nice to know that we beat San Francisco in something, even it if it mindless chattering.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...
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Friday, August 21, 2009
The Los Angeles startup space continues to grow with its latest addition, Launchpad LA . Founded by local VC Marc Suster , Launchpad LA hopes to provide mentorship to the next generation of Los Angeles based entrepreneurs. Having worked with the greatest CEOs in Los Angeles (Jason Calacanis, Jason Nazar and Mike Jones) I can personally tell you how valuable good mentorship can be. Looks like LA is getting something similar to Northern California’s Y Combinator , an organization that can help train and fund the best ideas from the area.
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Monday, December 29, 2008
Here is something perfect for ego driven Los Angeles, Twithority .
Tags: News twitte It returns Twitter search results from the top 10,000 users based on total amount of followers. For those looking for “mavens” or “influencers” or <insert latest buzz word>, this is a great way to find them.
The new site came out of a recent Techmeme
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Friday, September 18, 2009
3) Sounds like something great for Los Angeles, how long before we can use it here?
8220; City Sourced is particularly useful to the denizens of Los Angeles because of the fragmented nature of our environment. 8230;I’ve moved to Angel Investing…I’m looking at that one too. ” One startup getting a great response from TechCrunch50 is CitySourced . This innovative service empowers citizens by making it super easy to report civil issues like potholes, graffiti and more.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
The bad news is that my blog gets about that many new visitors each day. You can see examples like eLearning Learning which gets more traffic than my eLearning blog. Other Thoughts Common questions I get at the end of a presentation like this are: Where can I go to get help getting going? Where do I find out more about getting going? I'm trying to build a network of people who can help with this as I discussed in Los Angeles Social Media Starters . One person I'm talking I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.).
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
The team behind Los Angeles-based DemoPit.com , an online site reviewing new startups, has launched a new, Digg-inspired site focused on user-submitted startup news. According to John Diep of DemoPit.com, the site has just launched AppBuzz.com , a site which allows any startup to submit their own startup news, ideas, and tips. Tags: appbuzz startup news demopit dig The new site uses the open source Plugg content management system.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Los Angeles-based SodaHead.com , the social question-and-answer and polling startup headed by former MySpace VP of Operations Jason Feffer, is morphing its focus towards the social news area, saying last night that the company is looking to become a "social newspaper." According to SodaHead.com, the site is looking to create a forum to discuss breaking news and "hot topics" which are important to users on the site. The site--which originally started as a question-and-answer site along the lines of Yahoo Answers--said it now has a community of 2.5 million people who
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment has inked its third partnership of the week, saying yesterday that it has tied into Splash News, a provider of celebrity news and photos. Big Stage, which develops virtual 3D avatar technology, said that the agreement allows consumers to put their 3-D avatars into celebrity photos from Splash News, both on the Big Stage web site and at partner web sites. The firm said the partnership will allow consumers to put themselves into photos with stars like Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Shaquille O'Neal, and embed those photos into things like Facebook, MySpace, and the web.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Los Angeles-based RotoHog , which develops fantasy sports games, announced Monday that the firm has signed on Sporting news, to create fantasy games for the brand. According to RotoHog, it will build free and paid online fantasy games for football, basketball, hockey, golf and motor sports for Sporting News, to be featured on the publication's web site. Financial terms of the multi-year agreement were not disclosed. RotoHog said it will begin providing the games, starting with football, in late summer 2009.
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