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

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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We Have Only Scratched the Surface of the True Value of Twitter. Here’s What You’re Missing

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Oh, and if you’re in Chicago or Seattle you have your home town events, too. Here’s yours: Chicago (Nov 7) Seattle (Nov 9). **. Who are you on the web? It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. Call it “Strategic Twitter.” ” **. Historically you are your email address.

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