socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Luck has it, I'm also a small investor though an investment in BetaWorks.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. We've also really been investing in the tech community. He reports to another department.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. We've also really been investing in the tech community. He reports to another department.

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

Vinny Jindal: Stockr's mission is to help people invest better. The two things that are mostly lacking from people's investment experience are the lack of a wide network of people to refine investment ideas with, and the best available content about companies they are considering investing in. What is Stockr all about?

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Social Network Startup Networking Content 239

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Josh Meyers: Slickdeals is the web''s largest deal sharing community. I was at Overture, then Yahoo, and later People Media, which we sold to Match.com. We''re making a significant investment now to just understand our own data, and what''s happening on our site. Finally, we are really investing in consumer experience.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2008

Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of web page optimization tools, has lauched a new product for optimizing Google AdWords advertising, the firm announced today. magnify360 said it will be adding support for similar campaign tools for Yahoo, MSN, Comssion Junction, and Atlas this quarter.

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Advertising Tool Yahoo Google 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2014

You can find web sites like the Comprehensive List of Search Engines , which is nothing but a list of 250+ available search engines. Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo. Micro payments, micro loans, micro investments. Search engines. Portals and single sign-on sites.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Sites Yahoo 110

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Global Fitness Media , which is developing a number of fitness-related online web sites, has hired on a new Chief Technical Officer, according to the firm's search agency, NeoHire. Auld was most recently Senior Operations Architect at Yahoo, and has also served at IBM Corporation and Alchemy Communications.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

And I feel the same about investing. I think you make money by investing where the puck is going. And Siebel on your desktop is not the same as Salesforce.com on the web. Your new idea won’t resonate with people the way “check-ins&# does because they’ve never heard of it by definition. My view.

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Startup Evite Web Ideas 296

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! I’ve already written about why I invested in this company so won’t go on and on again. .&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. now (or ever).

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Venture Capital Capital SEO Yahoo 232

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2013

You can find web sites like the Comprehensive List of Search Engines , that are nothing but a list of 250+ available search engines. Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Micro payments, micro loans, micro investments. Search engines. Don’t count on these to save your startup just yet.

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Startup Sites Yahoo Ideas 99

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2011

You can find several lists of the “ Top 100 Alternative Search Engine ” on the Internet, and there used to be a web site dedicated to tracking these. Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Micro payments, micro loans, micro investments. Search engines. It won’t happen tomorrow.

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Startup Sites Web 2.0 Yahoo 90

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was introduced by a senior technology executive that I really respect in the LA area and a close friend of mine told me separately that he would like to invest if they did a friends & family round. He had spent many years at Yahoo! during the better days and we had lots of discussions / debates about Yahoo!’s

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Yahoo 288

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. We also talked about Elevation Partners who invested in Palm and how this deal really salvaged their investment, which was a VERY big bet on Palm.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with well over two billion user accounts, all free. Investors will look at competitors in your industry for the norms.

Snapchat 74

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. I've also been involved in ValueLogic software.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

If you do a Google search for AAPL, the stock ticker for Apple, the top search results are typically Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Google Finance—and StockTwits, a social media communications platform for Wall Street traders and active retail investors. Rosen (pictured above). Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Social Media San Diego Yahoo Google 28

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Such cultures, those industries, are what drives investment, talent, and success to those locations, as the entire ecosystem is designed to foster growth therein that very culture. Web based shipping service Ordoro. Outside of cattle, boots, and oil, are Texas’ industries readily apparent? Offline engagement platform EyeQ.

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Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. “My This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad on blogging.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

We caught up with Peter earlier this week to get the background on Baroda, and to talk a little about the firm's investment goals. Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. billion to Yahoo! I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. We had a big discussion about DST and why these investments. In my mind, not a typical VC investment.

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

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. We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. Yahoo made the decision that they could not, or would not be able to make the level of investment required to keep up with Google.

OpenX 242

OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than a billion user accounts, all free. Investors will look at competitors in your industry for the norms.

Startup 96

Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than two billion user accounts, all free. Investors will look at competitors in your industry for the norms.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than a billion user accounts, all free. Investors will look at competitors in your industry for the norms.

Startup 93

Startup Course Yahoo Invest 93

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2010

Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Micro payments, micro loans, micro investments. The latest is “crowdsourcing” your startup with thousands of tiny investments. The trouble is there are thousands of portal sites, like My AOL and My Yahoo, so you need a portal for the portals.

Startup 70

Startup Web 2.0 Yahoo Sites 70

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: The notion is that there are now two primary upstream providers of search, Google and Yahoo. Yahoo, for the most part, is ceding to Microsoft and Bing. We definitely feel this is an expansion year for us, and that we'll be making investments in multiple types of businesses.

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Oversee.net Yahoo Startup Google 207

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with about 400 million user accounts, all free. Tags: profit startup investment growth business. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 91

Startup Course Invest Yahoo 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

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. Web site generators have made it cheap and easy to launch a site, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to succeed.

Ideas 87

Ideas Sites Social Network Startup 87

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. event I did last fall. in Computer Science.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than 750 million user accounts, all free. Investors will look at competitors in your industry for the norms.

Startup 97

Startup Course Yahoo Invest 97

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

We spoke with Ross about the investment, as well as about his experience as VC and his outlook on the market. For those not familiar with what you're doing now at Velocity Interactive, and tell us a little bit about this investment? Our investments is their first institutional round. Thanks for the interview.

Advertising 100

Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games Statistics Yahoo 40