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3D Printing Redux: How Idealab's New Matter Wants To Bring 3D To The Masses

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Pasadena-based New Matter (www.newmatter.com) is developing a 3D printer, the MOD-t, which it says will help bridge the world of 3D printing experimentation with the consumer. Steve Schell: The company is just over a year old, and was founded at Idealab, by Bill Gross, last January. How far from shipping product are you?

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UberMedia's New Product Ties Your Ad Views To Your Local Shopping

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Pasadena-based mobile ad measurement platform developer UberMedia , one of the companies out of Idealab, has released a new, mobile attribution product that tracks cross-media advertisement and correlates that to foot traffic in stores. READ MORE>>.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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We have been holding off on this announcement for quite a bit and now we can officially announce Bill Gross of Idealab as our SuperDemo presenter. Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. SuperDemo: Bill Gross. Bill received his B.S. Gold Sponsor. .

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Spotlight: LA Tech Winter | Recap, Videos, and Thank You!

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The next company up was Storitz , operating as an online reservation system for storage units (think Orbitz), the company helps consumers not only search for available listings, but also make reservations with real time feedback on availability and customer reviews.

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

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His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. So he founded IdeaLab with his wife Marcia Goodstein (he talks in the video about working with a spouse and also working with siblings). Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? They are very hands on.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo! But bill is a BIG idea guy.

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The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns

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There are five prominent ones in town, Launchpad, Amplify, MuckerLab, StartEngine, and IdeaLab. Comment help. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI In many cases, the next logical step for one of these young companies will be to join another, later-stage accelerator. You can follow Michael on Twitter @mcarney.

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