socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Grant Hosford: My favorite consumer tech trend is voice activated assistants like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. In education, I believe we are seeing the first wave of educational games as they were meant to be � engaging and self-directed learning paths that the best teachers use to drive deeper understanding of core subjects.

Education 172

Education eHarmony Southern California Idealab 172

socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2010

Los Angeles-based Factual , the open data startup headed by former Google engineering director Gil Elbaz, said this weekend it has partnered with Newsweek on a "America's Best Public High School" initiative. Applied Semantics was acquired for pre-IPO Google stock in April of 2003. READ MORE>>.

Rustic Canyon 150

Rustic Canyon Miramar Google Santa Monica 150

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. Sam was also a member of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and inaugural new media team and previously worked for Google, Credit Suisse, The Colbert Report, and Senators John Kerry and Hillary Clinton.

Venture Capital 287

Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

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APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. But higher value product sales often require a phone call.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. June 17: Silicon Beach Fest: Pasadena Day , Hosted by Idealab.

GRP Partners 88

GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. But obviously Google won the war. Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers. That gave Google a huge cost advantage.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350