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Nativo Adds Long List Of Premium Publishers

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Nativo said it has been selected by The Street, USA Today Sports Media Group, Source Interlink Media, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Internet Brands, Entrepreneur Media, Investor Place Media, Reader''s Digest, Sandusky Newspapers , as well as others, where it is providing native advertising to those publishers.

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How Chippmunk Hopes To Use UX To Rise Above The Coupon Crowd

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We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals. I then went to another local company, Internet Brands, which was originally an Idealab company, and had the opportunity to build their shopping division. What is Chippmunk? READ MORE>>.

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Need A Job? Come To Idealab Job Fair!

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For those that may be unfamiliar with Idealab, it was founded in 1996 by entrepreneur Bill Gross, Idealab provides a broad range of operational support to its companies, allowing the company management teams to focus on getting to market quickly and cost effectively and to take advantage of the serial start-up experience of the Idealab team.

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. I spent 18 yars, and Jonathan a new less, building quite a few consumer Internet businesses. We were working on a portfolio of consumer Internet brands.

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

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He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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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. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur. It seems like that's been a long time coming. That's part one.

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Interview with Gordon Gould, SmartyPants Vitamins

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We're able to build out a brand story, which is not possible when you're just dealing with store shelves at Whole Foods. We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand. All of our competitors are focused on being on shelves, and they don't get the web in any meaningful way.

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