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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. So if you’re out to create content businesses there is no better time and no better place than here. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. (my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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

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My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles.