socalTECH
MARCH 6, 2014
Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, who got his PhD in Chemistry from Caltech, then went to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor, and built Intel from an initial $2.5
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). They have become a juggernaut in online advertising, pictures, video and online games. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future.
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socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. Alex Benzer: I was a computer kid in high school, though I thought I'd go into advertising. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech. We have some great mentors now.
SoCal Delicious
AUGUST 28, 2012
Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. And, let’s not overlook the research juggernaut called Caltech, which managed $332 million in sponsored research and $1.77 Advertise on VentureBeat. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?
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MARCH 11, 2011
I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011
We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! eBay and others.
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DECEMBER 5, 2010
I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo!
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