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

Both Sides of the Table

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. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ). But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?