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

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I grant you, it’s not like Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto – but there is a burgeoning tech community much as you’d find in NYC these days. My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. Communities outside the Valley have matured. million in SF Bay Area ). In our regions?

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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. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA investors are more pragmatic.