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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers. Gold Sponsor. .

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers. Gold Sponsor. .

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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. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. There will be new opportunities in this value chain.

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

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So he founded IdeaLab with his wife Marcia Goodstein (he talks in the video about working with a spouse and also working with siblings). IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. And now, of course, UberSocial, Bill’s latest project.