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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA.

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