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This Week in Venture Capital #40 with Bill Gross, founder of Idealab

Wednesdays at 2pm (PST)

This week, Mark Suster is out of studio as he travels to Pasadena and Idealab for an exclusive interview with Idealab founder and inventor of the sponsored web search, Bill Gross.

  • http://twitter.com/RenegadeTools Renegade Tool Co.

    One of the the best shows yet!

  • http://twitter.com/LutzVA Lutz Villalba-Adorno

    Very very cool show!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/cheeonline Chee Pang

    Agreed really great episode one of the best! Maybe Mark should do road trips more often :P All sections were good but was hoping there would be a bit of discussion on UberMedia. I like the original TweetUp concept seems like an interesting evolution of the Overture model. However understand the focus was more on Idealab nevertheless great episode!

  • http://www.charlescarter.me ccarter

    This was a great episode for me personally, thanks.

  • http://twitter.com/JonDod Jon Dodson

    So encouraging to hear the “story behind the story” and wisdom gained as these guys came up through the years. Thanks for a great interview!

  • Margaret Johns

    One of the more interesting shows. Loved the discussion around “early to market.” I had no clue that Bill Gross had such a history before he founded Knowledge Adventure, or that he was a CalTech mechanical engineer, which is a substantial background. I’ve yet to meet a CalTech graduate that was lacking brainpower.

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  • http://twitter.com/zachcb1 Zach B

    Lots of great takeaways from this episode, here are some of mine–
    1) All of Bill’s ideas have came from personal want, reading a lot, seeing trends and observing what other problems people are having. You must have passion for what problem you are solving.
    2) When starting your business, you have to be TEN times better than the competition in some dimension. This is because the competition is already moving while your working on building your business/idea.
    3) Investors who actually use your product are the best investors. The investor must be as passionate about your product as you.
    4) You need to have people around you who you disagree with, but you have so much mutual trust and respect, that their opinion is valuable to you.