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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). He received a B.S.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. -A Competitors: Gowalla. Total Raised: $21.4mm. Kontagent. -A

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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 (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. LivingSocial. AppDynamics.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. billion to Yahoo! He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). 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. Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic.