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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. So if you’re out to create content businesses there is no better time and no better place than here. The community has matured – The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing.

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