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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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

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I live in the city of Santa Monica. Everybody knows about the leaked memo of AOL’s Tim Armstrong saying he wants to up his content from 4% video to 70% video. That sets LA & NY up nicely for a number of emerging content creation industries. LA is producing content at scale. Let me use LA as an example.