Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service. So he founded IdeaLab with his wife Marcia Goodstein (he talks in the video about working with a spouse and also working with siblings). IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2010

Micro-messaging service Twitter said this morning that it is banning third-party advertising in its stream, taking direct aim at Los Angeles-based Twitter advertising service Ad.ly. However, Twitter's own "Promoted Tweets" feature is direct competition to TweetUp's services.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Twitter client apps developer headed by Idealab's Bill Gross, appears to be further moving away from its reliance on Twitter, and is getting set to launch a new service called Chime.in a direct competitor to Twitter's service. has been listed on Idealab's website since at least March of this year.

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Idealab Pasadena Services Report 164

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , the Twitter advertising startup, is further looking to diversify its service from Twitter, saying this week that it has added support for Facebook. The move is similar to a move by fellow Twitter ad startup TweetUp, started by Idealab's Bill Gross, which added Facebook status updates at the end of August.

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GRP Partners Advertising Idealab Social Network 191

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? A few years ago, there was still a sense of competition between various start-up communities, but this sentiment has been replaced by a sense that we are stronger together. We see a growing sense of regional collaboration.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2012

Aigerim Duiseneyeva and Shana Zheng are the co-founders of the firm, and told us more about the service. First, for people who have never used your service, can you talk about how it works? How did you end up working with Idealab? Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition.

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