Launched onstage in SXSW 2019's top 10 product launches
Selected! Top 10 Company To Release Cutting-Edge Product On Stage At SXSW
10 Block (formerly known as Second Screen) is on the 2019 SXSW homepage today.
We're top 10 finalists to release a new product on stage opening day at the premier interactive conference in Austin, Texas.
Congrats to our fellow finalists & good luck in March! See a full list below.
Ampl
Santa Monica, CA
Ampl is an article discovery & article sharing platform that enables users to easily create conversations within shared articles on mobile. You can highlight text & add comments within articles, so a focused conversation is waiting for whoever you share the article with. It makes article sharing fun & easy.
Dorsum
Portland, OR
Dorsum is a company solving the problem of back pain caused by spinal misalignment during repetitive motion activities. Our supportive spinal device inserts into apparel as part of an interchangeable back support system. Dorsum is committed to creating purposeful and dependable products that adapt to motion and the user’s needs.
Leaf Tyme
Chicago, IL
The Leaf Tyme mobile app is a directory for the cannabis industry that connects consumers and patients to licensed dispensaries, brands, and clinics in their area. The platform allows users to find cannabis laws and regulations by state and learn how cannabis can help with common health conditions.
Lumous Helmet
Los Angeles, CA
Lumos is a next generation bicycle helmet that features integrated lights, brake, and turn signals. Lumos started as a Kickstarter campaign, and has gone on to be featured as one of Oprah’s Favorite Things and TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2018. Lumos is also the first and only bike helmet to be sold in over 300 Apple Stores worldwide.
Nori Health
Nieuwegein, Utrecht
AI-driven chatbot coach for chronic disease patients. Nori helps them through regular conversations to discover and change lifestyle factors that make symptoms worse. To find an optimal quality of life with positive relationships.
Reviver Auto-mWebb
Foster City, CA
Reviver Auto created the Rplate, the world’s first and only digital license plate, transforming the 125 year-old metal license plate into a multi-functional, bi-stable high definition digital display, and customizable, connected vehicle platform. It enables virtually any legacy vehicle to transform itself into a connected smart vehicle taking advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s technology including smart cities, AI, autonomous and semi-autonomous systems, various vehicle ownership business models and much more.
Riteband
Stockholm, CA
Riteband is a stock exchange for music that empowers artists by bringing them cash when they need it; from fans and other investors who buy their future music copyright revenues. Backers can make a profit through secondary trading, just like on the stock exchange. Find the hit. Make money.
10 Block transforms high quality feature films & TV series into an experience the mobile generation loves by making great stories into bite-size blocks you can discover, binge and share on your phone. Their platform helps content owners reach today’s mobile viewers in an addictive social community.
The Labz
Atlanta, GA
The Labz’ is a music collaboration platform that frees music creators from the complex burden of song ownership data collection, ownership splits and song registration. We do this by integrating into the music creator’s current music sharing and songwriting digital workflow, collect data while creators collaborate, take that data to instantly register their ownership on a Blockchain database platform, and auto-generate simple forms such as a copyright and a split-sheets.
Thisten
Winnipeg, Canada
Thisten is an audio to text platform that transcribes the world’s information – in real time. Backed by Google Creative Lab, Thisten was founded by Liz Jackson and members of SkipTheDishes’ startup team – Rui Melo, Ben Grynol and Sudeep Sidhu.
Judging winning venture ideas at UC Berkeley: how about a toothpaste that fills in your cavities?
Called it! Congratulations to UJU for winning best of the Berkeley-based teams at BMOE Summer 2018.
And, an algorithm called it too?
Good time at Jason Calacanis's Founder University
Got a lot out of this mini accelerator experience from Jason Calacanis, the founder of Silicon Alley Reporter (a fellow dotcom industry pub to the one I was once an editor at!) among other things, like the LAUNCH startup conference, festival, podcast This Week In Startups and LAUNCH Incubator.
I was among the 60 founders chosen from 300 applicants, and I was representing Second Screen, Inc. where I've been COO since January (icymi!). Founder University is a three-day curriculum for founders who have launched their product but haven't raised Series A.
The Wrap's Power Women Breakfast for Girls Who Code
Good morning at TheWrap’s #PowerWomen2018 breakfast benefit for #GirlsWhoCode at Dolby Laboratories. Heard from #femalefounders of entertainment and technology ventures as well as the mayors of Oakland and Compton. #enttech #startups #wrapwomen
Second Screen featured in Europe's leading magazine for media & entertainment industry
In January I took a cofounder & COO role in Second Screen, a mobile startup in LA's Silicon Beach that aims to become the Netflix of bite-size series. Europe's magazine for the media & entertainment industry interviewed us for their May issue when they took a look at the adoption of second screen technology and other rapidly growing areas of mobile content.
Today they made the Second Screen app their cover star. Thanks to TVB editor Jenny Priestley for the interview of Second Screen's founder & CEO Estella Gabriel.
"Wouldn't the clever idea be to create an app where viewers can watch content but also comment about it?" asks TVB Europe's editor in her note prefacing the magazine.
Estella talks about social discovery: "Instead of an algorithm like Netflix has, we use a referral system. You can see what your friends are watching."
You can read the whole issue here.
Media & publishing pros 'running with the ball', TBT
SUBMIT YOUR FEATURE FILM: Second Screen is now seeking 50 founding filmmakers
Second Screen, where I am COO & Cofounder, is now accepting film submissions for consideration.
The first founding filmmaker is on board at Second Screen, and he's an award-winning ambassador for the 49 other feature makers this mobile streaming platform is now seeking, for equity! Do you know a filmmaker like Fernando Lebrija who is right for Second Screen?
FILM DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES: become a Second Screen content partner
See more by visiting the Second Screen site.
Writing foreword to Expat Harem's natural successor, Expat Sofra
Meet the contributors to Expat Sofra and look for the book this spring!
TBT, speaking at Microsoft HQ Turkey to the inaugural meeting of Turkish Women's International Network
Watch the talk here, and all the talks by members of the network that aspires to become the most impactful network focusing on women in Turkey and abroad. TRWIN collaborates with companies, NGOs and individuals to amplify our collective impact and empower women to realize their potential.
I've been pleased to serve as a member of the Advisory Board of Turkish WIN since its inception.
TBT, panelist at Exceptional Women In Publishing Conference
Check out Exceptional Women In Publishing, a non-profit org to educate, empower and support women in publishing and to educate, empower and support women and girls through the power of publishing.
TBT, a podcast panel of global citizens
TBT, the Istanbul Indie Film Festival #10
Another life, another networked world!
This came in the mail today. It's from the major faculty of my liberal arts college, an event for my professor of Bronze Age Archaeology, Jim Wright. He was a great teacher, as I recall!
Also, it's a reminder of the solidity of liberal arts education. This classically-based education was meant to turn out a person who was "virtuous and ethical, knowledgeable in many fields and highly articulate." It doesn't matter what you do with it, you're equipped as a well-rounded individual.
Today's email and its particular Bronze Age lens on power and place is so far from where I am right this minute, and yet I am back in class in an instant, to when civilizations around the Aegean first established a far-ranging trade network and all together moved out of the Stone Age.
Then I'm back again, to today, back to looking at the future of stories for millennial audiences as a business, tech, and entertainment issue. That's a focus of mine right now and based here in California's own power centers of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Hope all my Bryn Mawr archaeology peers have a fun symposium!
