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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. 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. Come join us.

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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.