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LegalZoom Adds Former Yahoo President Decker To Board

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Decker, the former President of Yahoo!, Decker was president of Yahoo from 2007 to 2009, and served as CFO of Yahoo from 2000 to 2007. Brian Liu, co-founder and Chairman of LegalZoom, said the addition of Decker will help the firm through its next stage of growth. to the firm's board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk.

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

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The bottom line is that Los Angeles Tech is trying to help find and navigate that content. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point. The content comes from other places. This is mostly from bloggers, but also from pages being included by members.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

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Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! I remain as childishly giddy at Nick’s vision as I did in our conference hangout we had in 2009. and Microsoft had become. I’m excited to see what Nick can product.

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Interview with Jeff Kupietzky, Oversee.net

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Jeff Kupietzky: I think, like other folks, we had challenges at the end of 2008, and through 2009. Jeff Kupietzky: The notion is that there are now two primary upstream providers of search, Google and Yahoo. Yahoo, for the most part, is ceding to Microsoft and Bing. This year we think we'll return to the growth profile we had.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 That seems to be the case for lots of AOL / Yahoo! AppDynamics. Read more: TechCrunch.

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

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By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. But the people whom I consider best in this industry are quite helpful indeed. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! And reinventing itself.