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

Both Sides of the Table

So he founded … wait … CitySearch. IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? We talked about patents. Shopping.com. The Wedding Channel.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Picasa, CitySearch and ESolar have all gone through Bill Gross and without his steady hands, the companies, and Los Angeles, wouldn’t be the same. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI