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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

And many short-termists will think it’s a bad idea. Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. I argued ages ago that Yahoo! Imagine if Carol Bartz or the Yahoo! [most importantly] – It’s a great strategic decision. Indeed, my Twitter stream tells me so. A note for industry.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Because GoTo.com was his idea. billion to Yahoo! But bill is a BIG idea guy. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. It’s core platform stuff.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Earlier this month, Fullerton-based HipGeo (www.hipgeo.com) announced a $500,000 funding round from Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham. It does what Mint.com did for finance, for geolocation.

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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. They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. -Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Scott has this obsession.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

What's the idea behind Orgoo? Michael Kantor: The idea behind Orgoo is to solve what is a very large problem out there, which is that communications is fragmented into many different services. We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. how do you compete?

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance?

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APRIL 28, 2010

So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up. So what's the idea behind Bccthis? What's the idea behind the Twitter support? Once we get the Gmail application in place, we're going to start looking at expanding support for other platforms, such as Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. we’re engaged in reading and discussing the ideas of those that we respect, like or are interested in. We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns.

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MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial. Read more: peHUB.

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APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. But, what do they do from there?

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MAY 23, 2012

What is the idea behind Moviepilot? Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. Our platform is all about connecting early fans and early audiences with new and upcoming movies, months before a movie comes out. We used that platform to start engaging audiences with movies and that data, and built up.

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JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas.

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JANUARY 20, 2014

The idea is hard to refute; The United States is the economic powerhouse that it is because of a culture of innovation, entrepreneurs, and the “can do” attitude that makes it so distinct. 0, eCommerce platforms: Volusion and BigCommerce (which raised $40M last year with Steve Case). Offline engagement platform EyeQ.

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MARCH 26, 2009

Eric Hovanec: We're a distribution and revenue platform for specialty lodging providers, including vacation rentals, condominium hotels--anything that isn't a hotel. We've got a software-as-a-service platform that handles all of that for them--all they have to do is hand the guest the key. Our platform allows that.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo! Check them out below: Tony Adam, Founder/CEO, Eventify and Visiable Factors.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups. SocialEngine is four years old, and that's the startup we applied to TechStars with.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Rogers is the former GM of Yahoo Music, and sat down with us to talk about the company and his view of the music business and where it is going. What's the idea behind Topspin Media? You've gotten quite a bit of attention given your prior position at Yahoo -- why'd you leave Yahoo for a startup, and why Topspin?

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We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. We're in Santa Monica, and sometime people think we're a venue or rental space for events, but what we are, is a 100 percent software company.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Communications: Of course comms companies are springing up globally including WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat and the dominant platforms of Facebook & Twitter. acquired Overture for $1.63

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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. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. It filed for an IPO on August 6th.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Co-founder and CEO Mark Weidick was VP and General Manager of Cisco’s TelePresence Video Exchange where he was responsible for a team of 150 developers that built and supported video exchange platforms for AT&T and other Service Providers. What inspired you to come up with the idea? Platform of the Future.

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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!, Take Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! I never worked at Yahoo! But his role as “Chief Yahoo!&# But his tenure as CEO (and frankly the whole culture of Yahoo!

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MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Subscribe to RSS.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. Publisher Platform (P3). VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

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. it was about community and portals, but early on with Friendster and obviously MySpace we saw it was more platform based. Companies that come out of the back side are generally solid ideas.

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JULY 27, 2009

What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is? Microsoft SharePoint is a collaboration platform, typically hosted by an IT department. But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! History repeats itself.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Bambi Francisco is founder and CEO of Vator.tv, a leading platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to broadcast and communicate with industry professionals, and VatorNews, a video business network. Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.),

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JANUARY 13, 2010

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. I wasn’t seeing the feed because the system had no idea I had two accounts (and I had forgot). Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo! Example What do I mean? I later realized that I had two logins.

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JUNE 13, 2011

And AOL stopped Yahoo! The golden rules to live by are: Platforms are channels not businesses. If you put all of your eggs into one platform shame on you, not them. They seem to have several interesting ideas. Tell that to DropBox. Or Box.net. Tell that to DocStoc, Scribd or SlideShare. It’s why we all exist.

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2013

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. You even got Yahoo! In terms of where it’s going to go…I have no idea. It is also a problem for editors who are looking for the right writer.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! At the time, everyone seemed to be enamored with the idea that your company had to be ‘all things to all people’. So, they built an auction system, a self-service platform, and an ad-server from scratch. were doing.

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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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JANUARY 20, 2010

While the focus perhaps should instead be on the conversations themselves and integrating them across whatever platforms within which they are taking place, the view today is instead still too much on individual tools and channels. This could also address some of the disconnect between older and newer social media platforms I outlined above.

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MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. Are you going to do all of this?

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings.

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