socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising. AdECN was a system that basically was trying to be the New York Stock Exchange of advertising.

Advertising 157

Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? There are lots of people there doing competitive intelligence, or doing research on an industry or landscape.

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Snapchat 74

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

That''s the part of eBay and our infrastructure that give us a competitive edge. That gives us a competitive edge, and takes away from something that is very anonymous to something more friendly and neighborly. You don''t see the Google''s and Yahoo''s of the world on the street, interacting with customers. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 100

San Diego Mobile Marketing Sites 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

It's my belief that many marketers still measure in layers -- they might look at how direct mail, or search, or display, or TV, or brand advertising, or their sales force performs, in a certain swim lane. Advertisers are known for their creative focus, not focus on analytics. He's been an integral advisor to us.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2013

Hike is a person to person messaging app and mobile portal which Yahoo Japan is interested in working with. We believe they just deteriorate the user experience and hardly provide any real ROI to advertisers too. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? Several, most close are WhatsApp, Line, Kik. Challenges?

Competition 58

Competition Startup Yahoo Media 58

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Startup 96

Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. It actually is still only marginally profitable, with revenue only from advertising. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Startup 97

Startup Course Yahoo Invest 97

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Yelp currently is the go-to source for reviews for the simple fact that they have the most reviews; this puts Yelp in a position to use questionable and aggressive sales-tactics when selling overpriced advertisement packages to small business owners. Any competition? FourSquare and Ness, and smaller players like Everplaces and Forkly.

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Both Sides of the Table

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.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. It actually is still only marginally profitable, with revenue only from advertising. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Startup 91

Startup Course Invest Yahoo 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

Revenue and competitive position followed. Zuckerberg had so much confidence and determination to stay independent that he turned down an early $1 billion offer from Yahoo. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

Competition 65

Competition Social Media Metrics Customer 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Revenue and competitive position followed. Zuckerberg had so much confidence and determination to stay independent that he turned down an early $1 billion offer from Yahoo. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

Startup 144

Startup Social Media Metrics Customer 144

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I guess this is how a world-class firm like Sequoia Capital finds and invests in world-class companies such as Google, Yahoo!,

Company 40

Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Were all connected. Sponsored by Westin.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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 have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!,

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

Revenue and competitive position followed. Zuckerberg had so much confidence and determination to stay independent that he turned down an early $1 billion offer from Yahoo. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

Social Media 87

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 87

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization advertising effectiveness, content distribution, monetization. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Startup 93

Startup Course Yahoo Invest 93