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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). The question will be “at what price?&# And for investors, “at what valuation did they get in?&#. $10 Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo! But bill is a BIG idea guy.

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

Both Sides of the Table

He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch?