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. However, we’ve seen some tremendous traction in terms of demand and growth in the last couple of weeks since we went live. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? How any users so far?

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. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits. Myspace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon crashed.

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. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

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. I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. Their only option is an IPO.

Southern California 124

Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

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! They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. 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.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services? More and more, entertainment has transformed into a demand driven industry. We used that platform to start engaging audiences with movies and that data, and built up.

Startup 164

Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

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! If you’re doing well you’ll have demand. Think again. is now a VC.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Invest 265

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.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands is also a platform that others can use to deliver real-time communications in any browser-based application, from Enterprise Social and Collaboration Applications like Jive, Salesforce and Box to applications that are more oriented toward consumers such as Facebook (check out at https://apps.facebook.com/tenhands ) or Yahoo.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

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).

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

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 account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. Startup Survival Guide: Beating the 800lb Gorillas.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69