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MANDT VR Names CTO

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Los Angeles-based MANDT VR , an augmented reality and virtual reality production company, said on Thursday that it has named Mike Dunn as the company's Chief Technology Officer. Mandt was most recently CIO at VER, and also had previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Time Warner, Hearst Interactive Media and TrueCar.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created two new generation LA startups (Zag and TrueCar, both backed by GRP Partners).

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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.