socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

John Nahm: Phonevite is a community-based, voice broadcasting service, which allows the "average joe" -- or any small organization -- to send event reminders, emergency alerts, or any kind of group communications out over the phone. Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California Yahoo Organization 100

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. It's pretty much been all organic. It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do.

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PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

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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. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. We met everybody in the organization. They had agreed!

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

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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. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. We met everybody in the organization. They had agreed!

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

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MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! Rob is one of the most driven and successful CEOs I work with.

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Tips Email Venture Capital Blogging 365

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JUNE 22, 2015

So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, And often these contracts don’t prohibit you from marketing to competitors so you can often start to build your future pipeline while not immediately selling to the competition. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Custom Customer 150

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products. They are run by smart & shrewd people or they wouldn’t become leaders in incumbent organizations in the first place. earned handsomely from Google’s success.

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Startup Framework Marketing Custom 376

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

For example, in Ann Arbor , the number one place for pizza is also number one for deep-dish pizza and cheesy bread, while the number four place for pizza is number one for thin crust pizza and organic food. Any competition? FourSquare and Ness, and smaller players like Everplaces and Forkly. Any funding raised?

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

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. One of their partners is Ted Meisel, who we worked with closely when he was CEO of Overture, before selling it to Yahoo. He's been an integral advisor to us.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

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MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers. – the biggest Internet portals of the day. billion – not a bad result, hey?

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Competition Idealab Product Ideas 350

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

Today, Grokker.com, the community driven content network offering has 3500 plus high quality, expert-led videos for yoga, fitness and cooking too make it easy and enjoyable for enthusiasts to discover valuable content and seamlessly organize and share choice topics, experts and opinions with a larger like-minded community.

Help 87

Help Content Activity Organization 87

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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. We met everybody in the organization. They decided to re-open the competition for 3-4 more weeks. I don’t want to lose next time.

Startup 151

Startup Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review 151

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). If we continue our success we will have strong competition. So many I couldn’t mention them all.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

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JANUARY 1, 2016

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. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo ! Many tech execs (and VCs) I know have “bunker mentality.”

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

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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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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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. I don’t care if you’re a 10-person organization, a 1,000 person organization or a multinational corporation – often it is the few key players that change the dimensions.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands’ vision is to enable every person and organization to collaborate more effectively and get more done together anywhere without boundaries. How unique are you from the competition if you have any? When was it launched? Unlimited full feature service beyond 3 hours per user/month will cost $10.

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Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

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!, Outwit the competition. Customer, not Competition Be a leader, not a follower. Companies often focus too much on their competition. I think this list is spot on. Take the contrarian route.

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Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

How to create a technology start-up inside a large organization - based on how we are doing it right. Ever since grade school I've been told organization is my number one problem. Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. Your Online Organization is Creating Data: Use It!

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