socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Now, a new, Los Angeles team--led by Josh Meyers --is tapping a team of experience LA technology vets to take what is a diamond in the rough, and polish it up, to bring the deal site to the next level. I was at Overture, then Yahoo, and later People Media, which we sold to Match.com.

Content 212

Content Yahoo Los Angeles Sites 212

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. It is often LESS performant. So what did happen?

Startup 376

Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

As a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (now an official sponsor of the event), I first reached out to my fellow board members. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! YouTube and many others. ’s HQ in Burbank.

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. The client demand we are seeing as we have married our analytics with Jovian's engineering is staggering. I think we'll see a dramatic escalation of demand for the software this year.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

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. That means that publishers can integrate our technology with other components in the enterprise stack, for example, their financial system or sales force management system, or CRM system.

OpenX 242

OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

Company 339

Company Companies Technical Review Content 339

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Steve Curry: I had been at Yahoo managing their storage operations. After I left Yahoo, I spent a couple of years with Forsythe Solutions Group, as a liaison with account executives. We spent lots of time with enterprises where technology was not their core product. It''s a very unique business model.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

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. Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. My degree is from USC in big data.

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

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. I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. Their only option is an IPO.

Southern California 124

Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. He built & IPOd Demand Media. acquired Overture for $1.63 Yes, Google won.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. With Yahoo!, Los Angeles is 3 rd in the global startup ecosystem, behind Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley.

Report 104

Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down.

Screening 82

Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Mr. Csathy’s career spans Internet, music, motion pictures/video, live entertainment, and technology.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. This generally involves the BDC selling the startup’s technology under the BDC’s brand. Do not allow your adVenture’s technology to be buried in the bowels of another company’s product, without reasonable attribution. Do Not Give up Branding.

Outsource Development 170

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 170

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

We were using technology to connect with our audiences, and we were really obsessed with data about our audiences. We realized that technology was very powerful, and could help us connect with great fans on the other side. In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids.

Startup 164

Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Competitors: Gowalla.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Help us understand your technology--is this focused on the automated language translation technology, or on the process of localizing a web site? No one is taking the time to solve actually extending this innovative technology to where content resides. The last place I worked was at Yahoo. It also supports blogs.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. This generally involves the BDC selling the startup’s technology under the BDC’s brand. Do not allow your adVenture’s technology to be buried in the bowels of another company’s product, without reasonable attribution. Do Not Give up Branding.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 124

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.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

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

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. . He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The TenHands team realized that there were powerful macro technological and social trends emerging that could be leveraged to deliver simple affordable video collaboration for businesses in a way that has never been done before. Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx.

Cloud Computing 65

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). Well, that technology came from an L.A.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! He invented the category of sponsored search.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

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. Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . Web and mobile technology have developed differently in Japan than any other country with hardware, Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, japan, Localization. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. 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! LA and Seattle are in the second (or third) major wave of technology innovation.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

Examples in the past, that were not huge leaps in technology, would include the light bulb, telephone, the zipper, and post-it notes. By definition, these are all really thinly disguised Internet search engines, provided by or competing against the 500 or more existing search engines already out there, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

Ideas 87

Ideas Sites Social Network Startup 87