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

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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. We have the actors, directors, producers, lighting specialists, writers, agents, post-production editors, etc. Hautelook, Gogii, Magento. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.

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Interview with Matthew Graczyk, Zubican

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Matthew Graczyk is founder of angel-backed Zubican (www.zubican.com)--saw a problem, which was the difficulty of finding suppliers for products for businesses--and decided to solve the problem, with a site specifically targeted at helping B2B buyers and sellers connect. He's now at Gogii, which has received investment from Kleiner.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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His second venture was Tesla Motors, creating the first production electric car of the modern era. 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. Thanks to our advertisers.