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Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. John Delacruz: Right now, people come to our web site and tell us what they want. Tell us a bit about the involvement of Idealab here?
Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Alex is a member of the New Venture Group at Idealab, headed by Allen Morgan. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.
A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers!
One of those high profile neighborhoods here is Pasadena, home of Idealab, Caltech, OpenX, and many other high tech companies and institutions. Because of that, I formally reached out to Caltech, Idealab, the Art Center College of Design, and all the CEOs I knew running tech companies out here. Andy Wilson: Great question.
Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. This is the list I would start with.
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Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. After an initial round of seed funding of $500k led by Pasadena’s Idealab, Mingly saw great success as they built up their Gmail user base. Finally, some solid relief.
It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. AppDynamics.
Terry Kay: We have always been about helping the entrepreneurs succeed, first, and then, we figure out how we get our fair share from that success. The premise was, let''s help companies succeed, and cut ourselves a fair deal, and treat entrepreneurs in a decent way. What does that mean to entrepreneurs? It''s more than money.
Mobile Web America, Inc. Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet.
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We have a very visual marketplace, that for the mobile and web, lets people show their closets, garages, homes, and stores. We do the same thing on the web, making selling really easy. The entire platform, both on mobile and web, is built for having one experience. What is HipSwap? It's a good group. Rob Kramer: Absolutely.
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and web plug-in capabilities (Yelp), Storitz definitely gave the biggest eye opener of the evening with their revelation that Storage Units is astonishingly, a $20 billion/yr industry. To close off the evening we had an especially inspirational super demo from Idealab’s Bill Gross.
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We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.
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I first joined the Xprize Foundation, and later got together with Bill Gross at Idealab, where I ended up working as CEO for a number of companies in energy storage, with Energy Cache, to Edison Microgrids, and also was involved in a variety of other things Idealab was doing at the time. You then caught things like Web 2.0,
At Idealab, we saw many shots on goal with companies who were consumer focused, and we have found the quality of entrepreneurs going to consumer Internet companies has changed dramatically, which represents a real opportunity. It's all about the entrepreneur. That's when you start meddling in the company.
In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.
Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg. Rob Maigret.
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. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. & #celebrity to pull off anything! Photo by TechZulu).
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