Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, The initial Apple/AT&T deal was of course limited to the geography in which AT&T operated and thus after its initial success Apple had a template for exclusivity agreements in other countries. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

Of course, we have technology to help us with that, but we offer human intervention to make sure that transactions go smoothly. That''s the part of eBay and our infrastructure that give us a competitive edge. You don''t see the Google''s and Yahoo''s of the world on the street, interacting with customers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Jovian's platform allows us to process and analyze campaigns in-flight, and also provide in-flight course corrections for marketers. We're even seeing it become a significant competitive disadvantage for companies who have leaders who are not focused on using analytics to make their business decisions.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. The large acquirers, the Microsoft and Yahoo''s of the world, were buying 20-40 companies a year. Their only option is an IPO. That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! And now, of course, UberSocial, Bill’s latest project. I brought up the fact that I find many larger companies abusing the patent system to slow down smaller competitors which is actually anti competitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). And of course there was the F-bomb count that Cathy Brooks and I were keeping on Dave … by the end of the panel we had counted 8.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. Of course it’s great to bring in outside experience to complement your team but it must be done judiciously. Know what you believe is important.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Jetty is used in everything from Eclipse programming environments to a number of commercial application servers out there, to open source projects like Hadoop, the highly sponsored project from Yahoo which showed the fasting sorting of terabyte of random information recently. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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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. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. And of course you have Hollywood.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

They risk little but of course knew better all along. And AOL stopped Yahoo! Expect big competition in the group messaging market. What is a startup to do? For starters, fear not. The world seldom ends. You just have to deal with some insufferable VCs and journalists for a while. Tell that to DropBox. Or Box.net. We’re focused.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! I’m in Seattle this week.

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