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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. He built & IPOd Demand Media. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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Angel Funding Advice

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The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. When I write an angel round check I always tell me wife, “let’s assume that money is lost.&# So goes angel investing. My experience tells me that most individual angels like to write $25-50k checks for companies they really don’t know well.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California.

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

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In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0