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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway. But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

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One of my friends, the CIO of a large healthcare system, did a study with Verizon of their facility, and found that there were 3 million SMS messages sent in a month. An example of this is you might be a physician at Cedars, but also be a physician at UCLA and a physician at St John''s.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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