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Interview with Jon Waterman, Founder and CEO of Ad.net

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Jon Waterman: We envision ourselves today as a marketplace outside Google and Bing. Our core competency, historically, has been in the pay-to-click space, but we've focused completely outside of Google and outside of Bing. Talk about the market, when you say you're outside Google and Bing, explain what that means?

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Eight Tech Gadgets To Add To Your Gifts List

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robotics startup spun out of Idealab--uses cleaning cloths to tidy up your hard floors. features an interface powered by Google TV, and delivers both the web and streaming. Is your pet dog a social media maven? The Mint Plus Cleaner--which was developed in Pasadena by Evolution Robotics, the. owned by iRobot. The CoStar.

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

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How Chippmunk Hopes To Use UX To Rise Above The Coupon Crowd

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One of the biggest issues, is that consumers typically find coupons through a Google search query. They do a Google search, and they''re presented with thousands of sites in the search results. We''re intimately familiar with the pain points that retailers feel, and which consumers have been feeling as well.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

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ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. June 17: Silicon Beach Fest: Pasadena Day , Hosted by Idealab.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT. Investors: Google Ventures. LivingSocial.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. There is clearly a lot of inefficiency in this process.