article thumbnail

Idealab

Tech.Co

Overture Services, which began life as GoTo.com, was the first company to introduce the concept of paid search — the business model that powers the multibillion-dollar online search market. New models for improving the search experience are at the core of several companies currently growing inside of Idealab.

Idealab 70
article thumbnail

Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

socalTECH

What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands. Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit.

Google 127
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Scuba or skydiving?

Marketing 209
article thumbnail

This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

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. Maybe even as powerful as search. Zazzle] and c) artisan products [etsy, foodzie]. In fact, it is Overture 2.0.

article thumbnail

Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

SoCal Delicious

businesses and points of interests; products; and much more, plus an extensive set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to. used in a very wide range of both web and mobile services, from Foursquare, to Yelp, to LivingSocial. get to all that data, in real time--which it describes as "mind-blowingly hard data problems".