socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. How did Tilofy come about?

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

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. How is the competitive landscape is nowadays? They can put their inventory in there, and lots of people compete to buy it.

OpenX 242

OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

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?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

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

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

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? There are lots of people there doing competitive intelligence, or doing research on an industry or landscape.

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

Everywhere else where you can talk about the stock market is anonymous, like Yahoo's message board, or other forums online. Lots of people play fantasy football who are not terribly interested in football, but they like doing something with their friends which is fun and competitive. It's much like a Fantasy Football dynamic.

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Social Network Startup Networking Content 239

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 seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do. What is Scour?

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

I started by career at Yahoo, and also worked at Intermix. You have all the bidding, going back and forth, and competition which drives the price up. That''s why we wanted to make a service which enables consumers to name their own price. What''s the story behind the company? What''s the biggest challenge for you?

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Pricing Product Help Sales 273

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

That''s the part of eBay and our infrastructure that give us a competitive edge. That gives us a competitive edge, and takes away from something that is very anonymous to something more friendly and neighborly. You don''t see the Google''s and Yahoo''s of the world on the street, interacting with customers.

San Diego 100

San Diego Mobile Marketing Sites 100

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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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. John Nahm: The Northern California technology environment already assumes you already know a lot of stuff, and it's very competitive in nature. John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California Yahoo Organization 100

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

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? We started in Berlin, and also were connected with the movie industry and filmmakers and the independent film scene here. We plan on opening up shop at the end of June.

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

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MARCH 29, 2010

I think it's fair to say we did that--Rightmedia sold to Yahoo, we sold to Microsoft, and Doubleclick sold to Google. Wed decided to put on our fair and neutral hat, protect the market, and change the landscape. It's now clearly also become a top priority at Google. Finally, how far along until you have product?

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Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

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

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.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317