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Idealab

Tech.Co

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. CitySearch, now a part of IAC, established the category of local online community directories.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Overture (Goto.com). Shopping.com.