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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica.

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

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I live in the city of Santa Monica. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones.