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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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not near the beach): Factual, founded by Gil Elbaz who built AdSense [Century City]. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. Here’s a short list that are decidedly East of the 405 freeway (i.e.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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