Showing posts with label idealab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idealab. Show all posts

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Connexus - Another Great Idea(lab)


So Bill Gross made Google profitable with the help of GoTo.com's paid advertising and what we now know as PPC. But what has Bill and his team at idealab been doing over the past few years?

Enter Connexus, the premier online, performance-driven marketing platform, offering a diversified, multi-channel approach to connect advertisers with their target customers. It delivers scale, flexibility and performance to advertisers and publishers across all online advertising formats. Connexus features a multi-channel network of proprietary sites that deliver qualified customers directly to advertisers.

Connexus, founded in 1999, is the union of Vendare Media and Netblue. Want to put your money on a new company? This is your horse.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

CitySearch: Live Like An Insider

Do you want to know what is happening locally. Looking for a restaurnat, bar or club in your city? Want to find the best shopping, spa, or beauty treatment in your local area? CitySearch lets you live like an insider.

CitySearch, founded in 1995, developed online community guides, building its content from the contributions of editors, community members and local businesses. As an idealab legacy company, CitySearch merged with Ticketmaster Online in September 1998 and went public later that year, and currently a division of IAC/Interactive Corp.

Currently CitySearch is a leading online lifestyle guide with information about business, restaurants, spas, hotels, and retail stores segmented by city or metropolitan area.

Looking for a job at CitySearch? Visit the career opportunities section of the website and see the CitySearch careers page on the IAC site.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Idealab's Howard Morgan & the Aptera Motor 3 Wheel Car



Idealab is an incubator for Internet start-ups, new products, and services. This video offers a presentation from Idealab co-founder Howard Morgan. The topic of the presentation is the new Aptera Motors 3 wheel car, and steered mirrors helping generate solar power. Also a quick look at the Desktop Factory inexpensive 3d printer.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Idealab: Ideas and New Tech Companies

Are you the next big Internet startup? Do you have backing for a VC? If you were apart of Idealab you could become a pioneering technology company. Idealab is an incubator for tech companies that have a successful track record. Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate the next great technology companies.

Successful Companies
CitySearch, Commission Junction, GoTo.com, NetZero, Picasa, and Tickets.com all have a solid track record and are successful companies. Many more companies are currently operating under the Idealab umbrella including eSolar, Cooking.com, and Snap Technologies.

Legacy Companies
A few legacy companies have been bought out by big business including Picassa (Google) and NetZero. Will you be apart of the next big tech company with Idealab?

Want a job at an Idealab company, visit their career section to find a cutting-edge job in the tech sector.