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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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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. If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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

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While nobody has yet “cracked the code&# on production quality video over the Internet (YouTube won UGC video), there is a lot of innovation happening in LA from places like Eqal, Deca.TV, ThisWeekIn, Machinima & Maker Studios. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA.