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Edmunds.com Settles Suit Over Fake Member Accounts

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Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , the provider of car shopping and auto information, reported Wednesday that it has settled a lawsuit against Humankind Design Ltd. and Citysearch, who had been targeted by Humankind, to help those companies determine if they need to take action to protect their own consumers.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. He thought, “This way any product you launch you can talk instantly with and get feedback from customers.&#

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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GRP’s biggest winners over the years have not only come from LA (Overture, CitySearch, TrueCar) but from Chicago (Envestnet, Ulta), Las Vegas (HDI), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack), London (LastMinute.com) and other locations. How can you do a job half time? Pretty well as it turns out.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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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 think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. I could tell you what’s next but then I’d have to kill you.

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Catalyzing Innovation In Pasadena, with Innovate Pasadena

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Andy Wilson: Innovate Pasadena is a grassroots effort to engage a cross section of the innovation, design, and entrepreneurship community in this part of Los Angeles, here in Greater Pasadena. My own history, is I was here when Overture was doing great things, and Citysearch, Earthlink, and eHarmony were all here.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. 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. North of the 101].

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Cincinnati has had the accelerator The Brandery for several years, which caters to the great strengths of design and brand management that are dominant in this city. But across Santa Monica & Venice we increasingly have smaller but important versions like Cross Campus, Amplify, Mucker Labs, Science and so forth.

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