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Gradient X Snags Exec From OpenX

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Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Never say never – GRP Partners is actually looking very closely at a company in its A round that is raising a large sum of money. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. I’m sure others have, too. You don’t.

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

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You have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!, You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA.