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

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It''s also home to many other prominent technology companies, including OpenX and NewEgg. Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 million in venture capital into one of the biggest semiconductor companies in the world.

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Study: $48 Billion In Value Created Over 15 Years In SoCal IT VC-Backed Firms

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IPO successes (as measured by the market capitalization at the close of the first day of trading) include Entropic ($500M IPO in 2007), Divx ($625M IPO in 2006), eToys ($7.8BM IPO in 1999) and Xylan ($2.3B Tags: results investment exit california southern acquisition merger capital venture. IPO in 1996).