socalTECH
MARCH 9, 2010
McGovern has also served at Business.com, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and IBM. IVT's services are used for webcasting investment conferences, training sessions, and other corporate events. McGovern was most recently CEO of itzbig, an online interactive job board site, and has also served as CEO of Marketwire. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
JUNE 27, 2013
GRP Partners--which has invested in such successes as Overture, CitySearch, BillMeLater, DealerTrack, and others, and is currently an investor in Maker Studios, TrueCar, Burstly, and others--said it decided to change its branding as venture capital has changed.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales. (my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google.
SoCal Delicious
AUGUST 23, 2010
Citysearch is an online guide that offers information and recommendations regarding local businesses including restaurants, shops, bars, hotels, and others. It’s been my experience that the more focused and intimate events far ‘out-perform’ (however you’d like to characterize it) the mega-conferences.
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 8, 2011
We both had different types and interests in men and thought it would be great if there was a Citysearch for women based upon types. Talia and I were sitting around on friday night complaining about the difficulties of meeting the right guys. We spent the time researching and gathering all the data we could.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Summary notes, as always, provide below. It was a pleasure to write them myself.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 5, 2011
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. I’m just saying’ … what local assets do you have that load dice in your favor? Marketing Muscle. It’s awesome. billion.
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