Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Although the carriers made a lot of money initially by selling dial-up Internet services, customers never took their software because, well, it sucked. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, MSN and eventually Google. How to Craft Exclusivity Agreements. ” 3.

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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. Design a product or service that you can sell. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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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

JULY 21, 2010

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

First off, for the folks who haven't heard of WePlay, what is the service all about? He saw the power of user generated content, and the power of building a passionate community online, which certainly led to a good thing with Yahoo. Lane Soelberg: We are a social platform for families involved in youth sports.

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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. Of course it’s great to bring in outside experience to complement your team but it must be done judiciously. Know what you believe is important.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Of course you could start your own company. Of course I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t start a company. She joined Yahoo! And if you want to be a CEO one day you need the messaging to reflect that. For many people that’s the right answer. If you can and if you want to – you should.

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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?’ Many authors do lectures and other services. You can also expect new features to roll out in the coming months including more content and differing services from authors in the coming year.

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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. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Over the course of the last few months, we began digging into the business and got comfortable with the team, did our homework, and went in and made the investment. We've also got other people coming in as well, people I really respect, like Ted Meisel, who came out of Yahoo and is an investor and advisor.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. nsyght is a real time service that pull in events and posts that and your friends make on all the social services that you use. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm.

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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. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! And of course you have Hollywood. eBay and others. Get over it.

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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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MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service. And now, of course, UberSocial, Bill’s latest project. .&# Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business. – the biggest Internet portals of the day.

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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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MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Furthermore, AltaVista paid lip service to the importance of search, lost focus, and was suffocated by an “angry mob” of search purists in the company who essentially did everything they could to prevent AltaVista from monetizing search.

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MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. 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! And of course you need a mature venture capital industry. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week. Can’t list them all.

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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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