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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We will never be Silicon Valley in the way that Toronto will never be Hollywood. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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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. My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. And of course you have Hollywood. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.