Capital CIO Platform Santa Monica 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. 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. LA investors are more pragmatic.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. I live in the city of Santa Monica. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Los Angeles.
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