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

Both Sides of the Table

I live in the city of Santa Monica. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! Let me use LA as an example. Los Angeles.