socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. He reports to another department. Claude Jones: We've been here for six years to date.We

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

The customer gets a great price, and the retailer gets both a new customer and a new sale. You can walk into any audio/video store, including Best Buy or Home Depot, and negotiate with the sales or customer service representative. I started by career at Yahoo, and also worked at Intermix.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers. They can’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So that we’re speaking the same language I would define “exclusive” as a period in which your company is prohibited from doing business with certain customers or business partners, which is why many incorrectly assume this is necessarily bad. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. Design a product or service that you can sell.

Snapchat 74

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, It should talk about how many customers you think you will acquire and how much you’ll charge for your product. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? portfolios.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Tim is the former head of Yahoo's Global Advertising Marketplaces unit, overseeing Display, Search and Video, and was VP of Search at Overture. We manage that competition through an aucton process. Our customer footprint, as I mentioned, is huge. How is the competitive landscape is nowadays? We've grown a ton.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. 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? What's the idea behind the site?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

As eBay, we have the ability to really focus on a more, family friendly experience, and put more customer service behind our product. That''s the part of eBay and our infrastructure that give us a competitive edge. You''ll see us more on the streets, with brand ambassadors, speaking to our customers face to face.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Mark and his team sold Broadcast.com, to Yahoo! Even after Yahoo’s stock tanked following the dot bomb crash, Mark and his senior team still walked away with a whole lot of Chicklets. " Yahoo could have purchased a variety of Internet based video companies when they acquired Mark’s venture. in 1999 in a $5.7 Do the work."

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! One key board member knows Marissa. Ask for short conference calls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

If you are a premium customer, we charge for the calls. The premium customer can buy that premium service in denominations of $25, $50, $100, or $200 dollars. Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. It's 5 cents per call.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. Do your customers understand the need for your product, and has that been an issue? First off, for those not familiar with Marketshare -- what is it that you do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. Design a product or service that you can sell.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

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. Emoticons - We’ve also built-in some beautiful and fun custom emoticons that’ll let you express yourself like never before. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? Challenges?

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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. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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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! He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. .&# Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.

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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. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. Design a product or service that you can sell.

Startup 91

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo!

Outsource Development 333

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. Most importantly, it just doesn't feel right to us to hold positions in competitive companies.

Venture Capital 100

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo!

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.&# Will they? You would never go see an important executive at a customer and then sit around and wait for them to realize how great you are. Or maybe you had a major customer win that you’d like to walk them through.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. Your customers’ biggest need is not for more things. Your best strategy is to find more customers that fit the things you do best, rather than building more things.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. They decided to re-open the competition for 3-4 more weeks. Ask your customer why you lost. I don’t want to lose next time. Losing sucks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. Your customers’ biggest need is not for more things. Your best strategy is to find more customers that fit the things you do best, rather than building more things.

Startup 144

Startup Social Media Metrics Customer 144

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

A great leader knows customers and has direct relationships with them. She can anticipate reactions to price increases or product changes by customers and she can sustain competitive challenges because she knows the customer will stick by her. They are on the road visiting customers and investors. Team Building.

Startup 150

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

Prior to founding Grokker, I was President of publicly traded Move Inc and also held a number of executive positions at Yahoo! You can completely customize your Grokker experience into collections to create your own series of exercise and/or recipe how-to videos for easy access. What makes you unique from the competition?

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

Marketers use that data, for example, to only sell BMWs to those who can afford it and are their target customer. I think it's fair to say we did that--Rightmedia sold to Yahoo, we sold to Microsoft, and Doubleclick sold to Google. Jeff Green: It's very fair to say that age, gender, and income are highly commoditized.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

I guess this is how a world-class firm like Sequoia Capital finds and invests in world-class companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Rich Customers Target customers who will move fast and pay a premium for a unique offering. Focus Customers will only buy a simple product with a singular value proposition.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

As always it comes down to competition. They were grateful for the extra money as their launch was overwhelmingly successful and they had to rapidly hire staff to support customer demand. Or your last boss from Google, Facebook or Yahoo! I’m sure this happens, too. Why are VC’s really doing seed deals? is now a VC.

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