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    Idealab (formerly known as idealab!) is a startup studio based in Pasadena, California, U.S.A. Idealab was founded by Bill T. Gross (not to be confused...
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    advisor for an assortment of companies including B Cap Group, Arca Group, Idealab, and Math for America. He has been listed on the Forbes 2009 list of Executives...
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  • them. Some startup studios also act as early stage venture capitalists. Idealab, founded by Bill Gross in 1996, was one of the first to introduce the 'incubator...
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  • Santa Monica, CA, Palo Alto, CA, and Mumbai, India. Founded in 1997, as Idealab Capital Partners, Clearstone is responsible for the early-stage funding...
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  • Us since February 2009. eToys was launched on November 3, 1997, as an Idealab company. In 1999, eToys held an IPO. Shares were issued at $20. At the...
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    created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time was incubated by Idealab) in 2002. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso...
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  • electricity to the grid. In 2017, Energy Vault was founded by the startup studio Idealab. In 2019, Energy Vault secured funding from Cemex in May, before going...
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  • domain name was purchased by entrepreneurs Bill Gross and Henrik Jones at idealab in 1996. The domain name was acquired by NetShepard and subsequently sold...
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  • founded in 1998 by Scott Painter, launched from the business incubator Idealab. It was the first company to sell vehicles online directly to consumers...
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    software company, later acquired by Cendant; and the business incubator Idealab in March, 1996, of which he serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive...
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    in payment, in 1999 the contract was reassigned to the California-based Idealab, which agreed to pay $12.5 million of the $50 million upfront and the remainder...
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  • media outlets. GoTo (not to be confused with Go.com or Go2Net) was an Idealab spin off and was the first company to successfully provide a pay-for-placement...
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  • announced an $8.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital, and Idealab. The company addressed a demographic (by its description) of young and...
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  • capital in four separate equity financings. Venture investors included idealab, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Foundation Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners...
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  • Teachers College, Columbia University and Director of the Schupf Family IdeaLab at Skidmore College. He was previously the Robert Naslund Endowed Chair...
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    debuts at CES, featured on WowWee's new Rovio™ robot" (Press release). Idealab. Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved September 23...
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  • system. Credit for the concept of the PPC model is generally given to Idealab and Goto.com founder Bill Gross. Google started search engine advertising...
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  • Launchpad Technologies, Inc., a San Diego company founded and backed by Idealab, and the PointCast network was shut down the next year. Launchpad's eWallet...
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    top employers in the city are: Other companies based in Pasadena include Idealab, Inter-Con Security, Green Dot Corporation, Tetra Tech, Wesco Financial...
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  • York Times. It was venture backed by Flatiron Partners, TechFund, and idealab!. However, the backers ran into financial problems in the wake of the dot-com...
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    one. Also in 1999, to compete with Pets.com, via a joint venture with Idealab the website Petsmart.com became an e-commerce site and a subsidiary of...
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  • Management Company Bill T. Gross (born 1958), American businessman, founder of Idealab, GNP Audio Video and eSolar William Grossart (1896–?), World War I flying...
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  • a dozen others, including BASS and Tickets.com, a company incubated by Idealab. Following the Tickets.com acquisition in 1999, the entire company was...
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    organizations that need to find information quickly. It is an operating company of Idealab, and is backed by U.S. Venture Partners. X1 was founded in 2003, as X1...
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    Retrieved 2008-11-16. DPL Computers & Equipment DPL Library of Things DPL ideaLAB DPL Museum Passes Denver Public Library Locations & Hours, retrieved: 2022...
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  • production as well as marketing, and raised $24 million from Google and Idealab. It also announced it would start to sell its car by the end of that year...
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  • model of selling keyword advertising was first pioneered by Goto.com, an Idealab spin-off created by Bill Gross. When the company changed names to Overture...
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    flight director at Johnson Space Center. Other Vens include Bill Gross of idealab!, MIT's Peter Shor (1981) – applied mathematician best known for Shor's...
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    2001, Weiss was the managing director and entrepreneur in residence at Idealab, a business incubator. Weiss was vice president and general manager of...
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    business incubator Idealab. Bohigian would go on to serve as a managing director at Idealab after the acquisition. As part of Idealab, Bohigian also served...
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