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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Los Angeles has a strategic asset : content creation skills – In order for the Internet to go mainstream you first needed the infrastructure to support it from networking equipment (Cisco, Juniper) to databases (Oracle) to search (Google) and more recently mobile devices (Apple). Frank Addante has created Rubicon Project.

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

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In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners). You also have the headquarters of many of the countries largest companies.