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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway. But if you grow to be that big it would be a very nice problem to deal with.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. not near the beach): Factual, founded by Gil Elbaz who built AdSense [Century City]. Maker Studios, leading YouTube producer, generating hundreds of millions of video views every month [Los Angeles, near Culver City].

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