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

Both Sides of the Table

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. Hautelook, Gogii, Magento. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.

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Interview with Matthew Graczyk, Zubican

socalTECH

He's now at Gogii, which has received investment from Kleiner. So, the core revenue model is online advertising. We'll also be offering premium offerings, classifieds, e-stores built directly into profiles, and a whole bunch of other things--but the core model is advertising. B2B advertising is really an interesting story.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

For the Scott Lahman fans, the inclusion of Sky Dayton cover JAMDAT which is a lot of the Gogii team. Your former Activision early hire Scott Lahman is not on this list as CEO of Gogii/TextPlus. Gogii / TextPlus is absolutely one of the best patron cos here in LA. Thanks to our advertisers. MarkLanday. Howard nice post.