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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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Interview with Andy Steuer, Punchcard

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The firm is backed by Idealab, and is headed by Internet veteran Andy Steuer. We caught up with Andy, whose executive experience ranges from ZeroDegrees, NBC Internet/Xoom.com, Infoseek / Go Network, to CNET and Snap.com, and whose last firm was MerchEngines, which he sold last year, to hear more about his new startup.

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Mingly Launches Mingly Web and MyPeople | Manage Your TwitFaceMailBookLink

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The irony: a sad state that even with the huge number of social network applications we have at our disposal, we’re oftentimes lost, unable to keep up, or still lose touch so easily. It’s not your fault that we can only be social creatures to a certain extent before brain overload.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected.

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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. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers.

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Spotlight: LA Tech SuperDemo Announced! | Mike Jones Former Myspace CEO

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This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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Insteegram: Tech Meets Fashion | Interview with Founder Ed Park

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“I found it to be the best social network, connecting people on a deeper level. Park’s platform allowed them to do so. Kim was the Technical Lead at Triptrotting when it was incubated in Idealab and came on board to Insteegran last October. You strip away all the layers the mass society gives you.

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