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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. They designed the next gen UI for the film The Minority Report. When I chose a name for my blog, I spent days thinking through what I wanted to represent.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Okay, thats AdSense. 10 years ago.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. CincyTech today has $28.5

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. We have all of the 2nd-time entrepreneurs from Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, etc. Marketing Muscle.