Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Alex is a member of the New Venture Group at Idealab, headed by Allen Morgan.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

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JULY 1, 2010

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Competitors: Gowalla. a fbFund winner.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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MAY 4, 2010

They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. the funding and market coverage. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”. LivingSocial.

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

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MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! So he founded IdeaLab with his wife Marcia Goodstein (he talks in the video about working with a spouse and also working with siblings).

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350