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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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Idealab

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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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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Make sure to check out Both Sides of the Table !

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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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