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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC.