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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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not near the beach): Factual, founded by Gil Elbaz who built AdSense [Century City]. Think about venture capital. Those that were around 30+ years ago never had to think about branding – there were hardly any other VCs. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC.

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Gil Elbaz On Factual's New Warchest

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That very big vision is an open database platform, providing data as a service across different verticals. That dataset is of interest to anyone with a location aware service. In a couple of weeks, we're moving to a larger office on the west side, in Century City, which will give us space for more people.