2006 Pricing Sales Yahoo 
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2022
You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is over $900 billion.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 14, 2008
The firm also named Steward Easterby as VP of Sales; Bill Lepter as VP of Business Intelligence; and Star Marcus as VP of Human Resources. Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!;
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2019
You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2015
Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Or do you need to raise prices? This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. portfolios.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 13, 2013
You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.
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