socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

Is there an opportunity to rise above the crowd, and become a leading player in the industry for a startup? One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. Brian Nickerson: I started out at Yahoo, in their search group.

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Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2011

That’s right folks Idealab is hosting a job fair at their offices for 10 of their startups companies. Bill Gross and Idealab have founded or advanced development of more than 75 companies including Overture Services, eSolar, UberMedia, CitySearch, Picasa and Internet Brands.

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Idealab CitySearch Social Media Pasadena 95

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

In fact, he’s personally started 34 businesses and run 17 of them. He started a car washing business as a way to be able to drive other people’s fancy cars. They say that the best entrepreneurs are those who fundamentally want to solve problems or change industries. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

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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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

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. Can you talk about how Redpoint splits up investment -- do certain partners handle certain industries, or is it more geographic? That's part one.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

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. It's really exciting, and we're fired up. We're learning more about how Google Shopping works, and looking to dominate there.

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Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# Cars Direct / Internet Brands. Shopping.com.

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