socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. So, it''s no surprise that the area--specifically, San Diego--was chosen for the pilot launch of a new service from eBay, called Close5 (www.close5.com),

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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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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.

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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. A great leader knows customers and has direct relationships with them. Know what you believe is important. Chip Kelly had bunker mentality. Team Building.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Of course you could start your own company. Even when you do sign-up initial customers it’s still not clear that your company will be a success and you’re still likely paying yourself under market rates. Of course I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t start a company. She joined Yahoo!

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

It's smaller than other alternatives, and is much easier to add to existing software and devices, is lots more scalable than alternatives, and works with both rich web or back end database, web services queries, such are used in transactional banking or gaming type applicatoins. It gives them an escalation path only dealing with us.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! He thought, ‘of course they haven’t read them, when would they get time?’ And it really genuinely worked… until Cunningham found himself in a flurry of emails regarding partnerships, more videos, and customer requests for selections. Time is money.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. Which of course it won’t, right? I want to build a great company, and I want to get you on my board for my new ridesharing service. You have confidence. [00:20:54]

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be having this conversation a lot lately about Facebook, Yahoo!, How much do we cut back public services to shrink our national debts? Take Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! I never worked at Yahoo! I really loved Yahoo!

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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. Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service. Shopping.com.

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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. If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly. And of course you have Hollywood. eBay and others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

They risk little but of course knew better all along. It is the same movie I saw 10 years ago when every VC would say to me, “yeah, I get that you’re an online document sharing service, but what’s going to happen when Microsoft enters the market? And AOL stopped Yahoo! Some services like Tango already do video calls.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

Up until now linking, syndication, and shared comment services have been used to connect the dots on distributed conversations but the practical usefulness of these approaches has been reached in many cases. Poor integration between social media and location services. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

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

JANUARY 13, 2016

And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, And of course these numbers are only increase.

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