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ReachLocal's Zorik Gordon On Daily Deals

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Earlier this week, Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal (www.reachlocal.com), which helps small and medium sized businesses place online ads, announced a deal to buy daily deals site DealOn.com. You're entering into a fairly crowded area, what's the value that ReachLocal adds here? Zorik Gordon: We're excited about the acquisition.

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Local Firms Rank In Deloitte Fast 500

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Deloitte & Touche announced its national Fast 500 winners today, the firm's annual list of fastest growing technology firms in the nation. Tags: competition ranking firms technology growing fast deloitte.

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How Serviz Plans To Conquer The Home Services Industry

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Both Zorik and Michael very successfully took ReachLocal from just a small startup to a large, public company. Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year. You guys were running ReachLocal for many years�what lessons did you learn there that you are applying here?

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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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The move is an interesting one, given the number of Southern California technology companies trying to go the other direction, and to hit the public markets. READ MORE>>.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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Out is the “cocktail only&# Twiistup and in is the new format of a conference that should take its rightful place on the national technology calendar. We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology.

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

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I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds who have a history of giving $20 million to early-stage technology companies hoping to swing for the fences and become the next Google, Facebook or Twitter. You just don’t. Get over it.