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

Both Sides of the Table

If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly. 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. Hautelook, Gogii, Magento. Hit some bumps in the road?