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Need A Job? Come To Idealab Job Fair!

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Bill Gross and Idealab have founded or advanced development of more than 75 companies including Overture Services, eSolar, UberMedia, CitySearch, Picasa and Internet Brands. Bill Gross will be on site to give a special welcome, and executives from Idealab’s companies will pitch their businesses to attendees.

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. However, there just hasn't been the underlying technology to make it possible to pull all of that together. What is Postie?

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

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Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. Current round: $4. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Total raised: $6.0mm.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Cars Direct / Internet Brands. He invented the category of sponsored search.