Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2020
leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. As with all promotions, the reality is that Kara was already acting as a senior leader at our firm and also in the industry at large. She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership,
Tech.Co
MARCH 5, 2015
CitySearch, now a part of IAC, established the category of local online community directories. The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 13, 2014
Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does). Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures).
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. They decided early to only book very high quality vendors so they build a system that could pull in Yelp & CitySearch reviews and they set the standard that it had to be highly rated. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep!
socalTECH
JUNE 1, 2015
A convergence is happening, and it's thoroughly complementary rather than being competitive. I came back to the states for Ticketmaster Citysearch, and I had actually been looking to go back to Canada as my son was at school at University. Wi-Fi is now a lot more like cellular network technology, rather than a separate network.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? I brought up the fact that I find many larger companies abusing the patent system to slow down smaller competitors which is actually anti competitive. Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service.
SoCal Delicious
MARCH 1, 2010
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). before which is second-time entrepreneurs.
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