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And Then There Were Three: RealD Hits Markets Today

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With the IPO of Los Angeles-based RealD , which starts trading this morning on the NYSE as RLD, Southern California now has three successful IPOs on record. RealD joins Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal and Carlsbad-based MaxLinear among the list of local firms with a successful IPO this year. shares of its common stock.

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Report Tallies $7.7 Billion In SoCal IT Exits In 2011

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Green Dot's backers included Sequoia Capital, Total Technology Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp. billion in liquidity was generated in the sector.

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LAVA Honors Richard Riordan, Local Technology Firms

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The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) held its annual awards event last night, honoring former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, as well as local, venture backed companies in a banquet last night at the Luxe hotel in Los Angeles. Other IPO finalists were RealD , ReachLocal , and Inphi.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. LA should be LA.”

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Los Angeles. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. I believe you can attract people to relocate to Los Angeles but it’s likely that they’ll come from locations other than Northern California. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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

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Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. Los Angeles. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.