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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle. ” And of course it’s not a true assessment. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. This is the list I would start with. downtown LA]. Also East of the 405?

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

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.