The New Frontier
March 6th, 2008 by Benjamin KuoSouthern California appears to be the new frontier — or at least the newest center of attention — for high tech and digital media startups. In the last week, there’s been widespread coverage — in both new media and (countless) blog sites, as well as major news outlets like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and others — on a number of stories ranging from the Velocity Interactive’s new media studio Generate, to the acquisition of Pluck by Richard Rosenblatt’s Demand Media, to new startups in the region.
It’s interesting to see the momentum (at least in terms of coverage) firms here in Southern California are getting recently, which is a huge contrast to the level of attention we normally get in the course of business. I’d hesitate to say we haven’t seen this level of fascination with companies here since the Dot Com boom (and unfortunately, bust).
