socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

This morning, Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com) announced a venture round from Velocity Interactive Group for its software for managing online advertising. FatTail is solving the problem of buying and selling advertising, one I've seen as a challenge as long as I've been in the media business, which is twenty two years.

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Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! eBay and others. You just don’t. Get over it.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. Paul Grahm.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Furthermore, AltaVista paid lip service to the importance of search, lost focus, and was suffocated by an “angry mob” of search purists in the company who essentially did everything they could to prevent AltaVista from monetizing search.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

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! Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

Up until now linking, syndication, and shared comment services have been used to connect the dots on distributed conversations but the practical usefulness of these approaches has been reached in many cases. Poor integration between social media and location services. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising.

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Startup Course Yahoo Invest 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, And of course these numbers are only increase.

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