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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. That distributed print cloud enables a speed of iteration that most marketers would not expect is possible. What is a print cloud?

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. We really believe in the market.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. a fbFund winner. Competitors: Omniture , Webtrends.

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

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Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Cars Direct / Internet Brands. they can build teams that really focus on building & marketing great products. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. Shopping.com. The Wedding Channel. Commission Junction.