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Scripted.com Finds $150K

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Scripted.com , the online marketplace for freelance writers which has a number of Southern California angel investors, said Wednesday that it has raised another $150,000 in funding. Founder Sunil Rajaraman started Scripted.com (formerly known as Scripped.com) in Los Angeles, but the firm later moved operations to San Francisco.

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Local Angels Back Scripted.com

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A number of Southern California angel investors, including Jody Mulkey , the CIO of Shopzilla, have backed Scripted.com , a new online marketplace for freelance writers. Scripted.com also operates Scripped.com, an online marketplace for script writers, and was founded by UCLA and USC graduates in Los Angeles, and later moved to San Francisco.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. Of course if you’re already known you could put your name or location on your fund name.

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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. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. 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.

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

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I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Let me use LA as an example.