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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

Over time, though, military spending wound down and many large aerospace and military companies left Southern California. If you took a random sample of 100 entrepreneurs here in LA, over 50% might not be able to tell you how to technically calculate 90-day cohort retention or how to build a cash flow statement.

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

Both Sides of the Table

The funds not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. Recruiting & retention will be different outside the Valley. eBay and others.

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Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller shares how he built a $2 billion cloud startup from LA

The Next Web

The company has a 98 percent voluntary retention rate (which doesn’t count terminated employees), and Miller attributes part of that success to not having to deal with the poaching that goes on in the Valley. The company has managed 95 percent retention of clients. We were essentially funded by our clients…in an indirect way.”

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What has your logo done for your lately?

Up and Running

Stop and think about all the material you produce to support your small business: ads, catalogs, stationary, envelopes, mailing labels, business cards, reply cards, websites, socials media pages and blogs… Your company name and logo appears on an extensive range of supplementary marketing collateral. But how memorable is it?