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).

Venture Capital 408

Venture Capital Startup Outsource Development CitySearch 408

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.

Idealab 70

Idealab Paid Search CitySearch Resource 70

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep! But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? But also when you’re developing so is your competitor. Shopping.com.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. So they develop short-hand ways to qualify things better. Why invest now when I can see how your company develops? Neither can any VC.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. But we do have great technology developers. You just don’t.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313