{"id":101594,"date":"2013-09-12T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dacgroup.com\/making-it-rain-in-la-a-brief-look-at-silicon-beach\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T05:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T10:09:19","slug":"making-it-rain-in-la-a-brief-look-at-silicon-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dacgroup.com\/en-gb\/insights\/blog\/strategy\/making-it-rain-in-la-a-brief-look-at-silicon-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Making It Rain in LA: A Brief Look at the Growth & Culture of Silicon Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

For most of us on this side of the pond, Los Angeles conjures up the image of glamorous movie stars striding confidently along a white sandy beach, the iconic Hollywood Sign visible in the distance.\u00a0 In recent years, however, the city has had a new claim to fame.\u00a0 It has emerged as America\u2019s (and perhaps the world\u2019s) new rising star of technological and digital innovation<\/strong>.<\/span> Over the past decade, entrepreneurs and tech engineers have flocked to the west side of the city in order to flex their creative muscles and implement their digital visions.\u00a0 The focal point of this trend is an area nicknamed Silicon Beach, which runs from Venice to Santa Monica, the sunny hotbed where we set up our American office.<\/span> Since the early 2000s, startup tech companies have been sprouting up all over the place but it was the arrival of search titan, Google Inc. in November 2011 that cemented the area\u2019s reputation as the new search and social hotspot.<\/strong><\/span> This section of map highlights the concentration of digital agencies and technology-related companies within the area. \u00a0Our new American office – located at the dark-blue pin – is slap-bang in the middle of it all. <\/span><\/p>\n

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LA\u2019s proficiency in almost everything creative and arty is well known and it is perhaps this endless pool of creative talent, the hordes of engineering graduates to emerge from local universities every year, along with the city\u2019s deep pockets and investment potential that contribute to the location\u2019s popularity.<\/span> Additionally, there are an impressive amount of accelerator and incubator companies<\/strong> within the area, ready to provide assistance, resources and funding to fledgling tech firms they think will go the distance.<\/span> The volume of these companies is impressive.<\/span>\u00a0This infographic<\/a> shows us some of the more prominent accelerator companies in our area.<\/span><\/p>\n

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