socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

What's the idea behind the site? I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. ResumeBucket hits the market with the idea and premise that simpler is better. Plus, we will provide resume writing services.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. And they made an early investment in Yahoo.“ “….a Was it David Cohen’ Idea? It was David’s idea.” “Well I didn’t know David. If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!).

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours. You even got Yahoo! It’s growing.

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Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ). acquired Overture for $1.63

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. 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.&#

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is? But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. It's like an intranet, but has collaborative features like document management.

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. Rami Rostami: One of the things about the new crowdfunding phenomenon, is that everyone is raising money, validating their ideas, and maybe raising $500,00, or $50,000, or $5 million. But, what do they do from there? That said, we still need investors here.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. April was really focused on locking down the business strategy an idea.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo!

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford had a shot at unseating Yahoo!, You had no idea how important that brand name was until you left it behind. What attributes am I looking for during the process? Yeah, right.

Entrepreneur 338

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338

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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OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. 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’. Thank you, John. were doing.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday.Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site.Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.To

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. Leave comments on their posts, link to them from your site… do that and when you approach them to write about you, you’ll find a welcomed reception. Make a list of the journalists writing the articles, they’re easy to find on Linkedin and Facebook.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

SoCal Delicious

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. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. where entrepreneurs share their stories. Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Thank you eMinutes.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Actually, handling short URIs in your error handler is a pretty good idea when you suffer from a mainstream CMS. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash. It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. Thanks for your time.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo! The idea of forced bundles will seem archaic. I have no idea who will win. I’m such a big believer in the power of writing, editing and producing. My paper warned of the dangers of trying to “move up the stack&# and become a content company.

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Content Google Media Hulu 386