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

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APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Overture sold for $1.6

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

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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. Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service. Overture (Goto.com).

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350