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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

I live in the city of Santa Monica. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. Let me use LA as an example.