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San Gabriel Valley: Bitcoin Creator Not The Only Inventor In Town

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Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, who got his PhD in Chemistry from Caltech, then went to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor, and built Intel from an initial $2.5

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. But even this is changing.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click.