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MARCH 17, 2010

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. In content creation we definitely have assets other markets don’t have.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313