They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook.  As LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google.  We Side note: LA seems to have had some success in mega deals led by private equity firms as evidenced by DemandMedia and Chris DeWolf’s latest company backed by more than $20 million in private Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All

We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). A debate ensued in which the consensus was, “to build the next Google or Salesforce.com you probably need to be in Silicon Valley but that SoCal had produced many great companies that made a tremendous amount of money and that would likely continue.” ExpenseBay Wins Showoff Twiistup 6 has come to an end.