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Insights and Opinions: Idealab and the Bill Gross Legacy

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For today's Insights and Opinions section, we thought we'd share a recent article penned by Clearstone Ventures' William Quigley. as a social network for brands, but I still dont think Bill gets nearly enough credit for just how completely innovative Idealabs model and output was during the time I was there to witness it all.

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Venture Conference Highlights SoCal Startups

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Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. David Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, pitched Geni.com, an online site focused on both family trees and social networking.

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

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They did it entirely through social networking. Capital to date? $20k Get Angel capital and build a prototype. Many, many thanks to Jim Armstrong of Clearstone who insisted that I needed visit an incubator or two. “I told you so” doesn’t begin to cover it. It took month and years.

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Interview with Phil Ressler, BigStage Entertainment

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The firm's technology--which creates a 3D, virtual avatar from digital photos--was originally developed at the University of Southern California for the CIA, and was spun out into a venture funded company targeting the consumer market. However, I've only spent 5 and a half years of the last thirty in venture capital.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc.,

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