so I feel I have an unbiased appreciation for BOTH Californias. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.  We So it’s always a trade-off.  You I believe you can attract people to relocate to Los Angeles but it’s likely that they’ll come from locations other than Northern California. Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All

So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009. We So We're also looking at technology in the retail sector, or which touch the retail supply chain--things like out of home advertising, software to optimize the retail supply chain, and other related areas because we know the retail sector so well. You know Zag, herein town, and more recently our new car investment, TrueCar. This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com). GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active

However, how much of a link do Israeli technology companies see with Southern California's technology industry? Israeli high tech executives heading to the Israel Conference in Los Angeles this Thursday told us that there was a strong link, in general, between Israeli high tech firms and California in general--usually as an entree into the North American market--but do not differentiate much between Southern or Northern California as a base for operations. "I Los Angeles, which has one of the largest Jewish populations in the world, is known for many links to the country of Israel.