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. The idea there is to grow our exchange in Japan, which is the second largest advertising market in the world. They are driving buyers and sellers into the exchange, which is pretty awesome.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following formula for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. They say that the best entrepreneurs are those who fundamentally want to solve problems or change industries.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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. We have 4-5 ideas on how to monetize this but that will come later. How any users so far?

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

What is the idea behind Moviepilot? In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids. More and more, entertainment has transformed into a demand driven industry. Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. We started about four or five years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

As an angel investor, I sometimes worry that all the viable unique ideas must already be taken. We all want to get out there ahead of the crowd, and invest in that truly innovative idea that seems so obvious in its appeal that you wonder why nobody ever thought of it before. For other ideas, the wave has simply passed.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? He built & IPOd Demand Media. When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. acquired Overture for $1.63

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. 1B+ Revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

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! They also do follow ons so Chris’s idea about signaling exists with FRC. I’m not the only VC who feels this way.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# Overture was sold to Yahoo! I totally agree.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . At Lunch, you share and discover genuinely useful information and ideas.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

What inspired you to come up with the idea? This enables on-demand scalability and delivery cost advantages that MCU-based providers like Citrix, Vidyo or Webex cannot achieve and won’t be able to pursue without massive architectural changes.

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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). Thats not Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Step by Step From Idea to Bootstrap Startup. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Starting a dev team to build a brand new idea is harder. So you have an idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

You have Demand Media here. You even got Yahoo! In terms of where it’s going to go…I have no idea. Since you have been in LA for a bit…what is your take on LA’s future in the startup world? JK: I think LA’s startup scene will have a number of rock star exits. LA’s startup scene isn’t as young as the hype suggests.

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Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. The people with the time, energy & creativity to build organizations like TechStars need to bring their ideas to fruition. It takes both to build a community.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Thanks in advance! Sad but true.

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