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 Sites Startup 257

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2010

Venture capital firm First Round Capital , the early stage venture fund whose Managing Directors include Idealab's Howard Morgan , said last night that it has created its own startup exchange fund, a fund which allows the founders of the firm's various startups to diversify their investments and share in the success of the company's portfolio.

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Capital Funding OpenX Startup 169

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Lamb was previously at American Discovery, and also was co-founder and COO of local startup Done Right! He also headed up corporate development at Overture Services. Hansen was previously CFO at Internet Brands , where he oversaw that firm's IPO, in addition to experience at Danone Waters and other firms.

Clearstone 150

Clearstone Internet Brands Mission Ventures Pasadena 150

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

It looks like you have many top tier brands and customers signed up, what has been the reason for their adoption? John Tomich: We started our company in 2004, and we''re now about ten years old. When we started, we did see a lot of concern around the channel conflict you are mentioning, particularly in the apparel business.

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Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

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. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

We've both build marketing technology platforms in emerging digital channels, and also built direct-to-consumer brands who rely heavily on performance marketing and data-driven marketing. We were working on a portfolio of consumer Internet brands. We woke up and saw the same pattern, over-and-over.

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