Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market.

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Idealab Paid Search CitySearch Resource 70

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2014

If it seems strange to find the inventor of Bitcoin living in the San Gabriel Valley, it''s actually not all that surprising given the area is home to one of the most prominent research universities in the United States, The California Institute of Technology ; NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; and the original Internet incubator, Idealab.

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San Gabriel La Canada Flintridge CalTech La Canada 124

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. He invented the category of sponsored search. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch?

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350