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Interview with Aviv Grill, Miso Media

socalTECH

The firm is backed by Google Ventures, as well as a number of well known angels. There are two ways you can use the app -- you can either play your iPad like it is a real instrument, by strumming the touch screen. You're backed by Google, isn't that right? Aviv Grill: Yes, Google ventures led our last round.

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The Talent Tourniquet | Making Los Angeles Startup Friendly

Tech Zulu Event

The presence of Google and Microsoft’s outposts have helped to a certain extent, but Southern California can certainly do better when it comes to retaining — and attracting — talent. People don’t just solely watch TV nowadays; they multitask with a handful of screens. At SBF, a number of good ideas were floated to do just that.

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

Both Sides of the Table

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.