Last Sunday I arrived in San Francisco. I was attending the SF Music Tech on Monday (which was quite amazing), and had a couple of meet-ups with SF partners plus visited a company named ‘Klout‘. This visit was related to the Belgian Webmission, a grassroots organised trips to SF and the valley.

On wednesday I left for LA. There I had a kindof meeting craze. Closed 2 huge deals which are going to take us to the next level. Met a ton of people, met 4 lawfirms, 2 financials partners, had dinner with a good friend of mine, and bought a cool present for my little dude :)

There’s a clear difference between SF and LA. One of the few is the respective love for tech and media/music. SF is all about tech. If you’re in the content side of the industry, you have nothing to win there. LA is business driven with always a focus on media, music or gaming. I read somewhere that in SF, everyone has a business idea for his own tech startup in the backpocket, while in LA most have a movie script with them. Both have in common that their’s an enormous entrepreneurial drive. Everyone is going after their wildest dreams: create a startup, make a movie, jam in your rockband, rething the gaming biz, … It’s such a difference with the belgian perspective. The best example is when I explan SonicAngel in the US, the answer is usually ‘ Wow, what an amazing idea and achievements already. This can be huge’. In Belgium, people usually ask if besides this music startup, I also have another job …

For some reason, I feel at home in LA. It’s really weird, but I blend into the city. The digital media startup scene in santa monica, the crazy vibe of hollywood, the amazing waves of malibu, the bursts of downtown, … If you can see through the fake cult of celebrity hunt, the city of Angels gets to you … Yep, like the eagles of death metal cynically sang: ‘I wanna be in LA’.

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Eagles of death metal: I wanna be in LA.