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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. This is especially true in LA, the second largest city in the country with a population if 16 million.

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

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We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. You have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!, You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! eBay and others.