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OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November. It also has a built-in advantage in telling the world how awesome it’s doing – it’s the center of the media world. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program. Maker Studios.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Well, it’s nice to say we have a kicker in Chicago now, isn’t it? But Dan being from Chicago, I knew I had to throw that in there. But then there’s lots of ways to leverage those on social media as social posts. Dan Gershenson: Yeah, yeah. All right, let’s talk about this book, shall we?

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JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. I wish every city could have an 1871.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense). Some of the biggest wins of the past 5 years were built outside of the Valley. ” We went the opposite way.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Oh, and if you’re in Chicago or Seattle you have your home town events, too. Here’s yours: Chicago (Nov 7) Seattle (Nov 9). **. Of course we know that this is already happening as web services are now driving significant portions of the Internet and people are driving toward a future Semantic Web. ” **.

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