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San Gabriel Valley: Bitcoin Creator Not The Only Inventor In Town

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Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, who got his PhD in Chemistry from Caltech, then went to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor, and built Intel from an initial $2.5 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. Comment below!

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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Usually, it's someone with just curiosity about the app, and the advertisers will pay several dollars for that download, only to have the user just delete the app, without having ever played it or even gotten through a tutorial. To a man, they tell us it's the best advertising unit they've ever seen in their life. That's number two.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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Alex Benzer: I was a computer kid in high school, though I thought I'd go into advertising. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech. How did you and Charlotte get into software?

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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And, let’s not overlook the research juggernaut called Caltech, which managed $332 million in sponsored research and $1.77 Advertise on VentureBeat. socaltech socalcto billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. MYTH 5: The SoCal crowd is better looking. Okay, so they got this one right. blog comments powered by Disqus. Learn more.