Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? We also talk about creating things specifically for the web, how to distribute on the web, and how to build a revenue stream aside from advertising revenue.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. They have become a juggernaut in online advertising, pictures, video and online games.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

What's the idea behind Orgoo? Michael Kantor: The idea behind Orgoo is to solve what is a very large problem out there, which is that communications is fragmented into many different services. We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. how do you compete?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo! Krishna will speak about the future of mobile advertising, and how to maximize its potential.

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JULY 1, 2010

So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. They say that the best entrepreneurs are those who fundamentally want to solve problems or change industries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following formula for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Because GoTo.com was his idea. billion to Yahoo! But bill is a BIG idea guy. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. Overture sold for $1.6 But I made it for a reason.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up. So what's the idea behind Bccthis? What's the idea behind the Twitter support? We've obviously toyed with advertising and sponsorship as well. We sketched out, literally on a napkin--what if we could do something about this?

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following formula for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. It actually is still only marginally profitable, with revenue only from advertising.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? 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. We now have four people on that team, and we have the whole group in Silverlake.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew spoke to us to give us a better idea of what the company offers and why it was started. What's the idea behind Zubican? There's also a lot of other noteworthy people, including senior executives from Yahoo and others. So, the core revenue model is online advertising. What's the business model behind the site?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following formula for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. It actually is still only marginally profitable, with revenue only from advertising.

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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 have 4-5 ideas on how to monetize this but that will come later. We believe they just deteriorate the user experience and hardly provide any real ROI to advertisers too. Competition?

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MAY 4, 2010

We also talked a lot about whether founder liquidity is a good idea. Online advertising platform for local businesses; ReachLocal reported over $203 million in revenue for 2009, compared to around $146 million in 2008. That seems to be the case for lots of AOL / Yahoo! We both agreed it was. businesses. 187.5mm.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. Advertise on VentureBeat. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. 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. Overture was sold to Yahoo!

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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). Thats not Los Angeles. Were all connected.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. “If You Build It…They Will Come”, may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company.Driving traffic to your website is a formula that can be reverse engineered.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. At Lunch, you share and discover genuinely useful information and ideas.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Step by Step From Idea to Bootstrap Startup. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Starting a dev team to build a brand new idea is harder. So you have an idea.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo!

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. We feature entrepreneurs from all walks of life via our interviews and events, with the mission of helping you bring your ideas to life.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! At the time, everyone seemed to be enamored with the idea that your company had to be ‘all things to all people’. He wanted Quigo to be in the business of letting advertisers buy directly into the system. were doing.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. The idea is to get other major sites to integrate some core functionality of your site into their own, as a value ad. Search Engines.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. Twitter was such a great idea with so much promise. Sad but true.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

which has already been adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Opera and many others with Google and Yahoo! cloud computing, open APIs, and other major advances, the ideas in software these days are increasingly coming from the consumer world and then pushing their way into the enterprise realm. close behind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following formula for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo! The idea of forced bundles will seem archaic. So many people are stuck in the mindset that YouTube is UGC (as defined as people uploading silly videos or watching Coke & Mentos explode) and that brands don’t want to advertise on UGC. I have no idea who will win.

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