socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

David founded Geocities back in 1994, took it public in 1998, and in 1999 Yahoo bought the firm as a public company. I wouldn't say we're extremely close to anything right now, but we've seen I'd say at least three different companies were we went further than an initial meeting--not a term sheet, but deeper diligence.

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

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 Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media. Because you throw away the ability to totally control your traffic from social media, and search engine traffic generated by social media as well.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6 They looked unstoppable. It was mostly timing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

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! Consider just how much exposure the Austin community gets every year due to SXSW. Every region needs its local media & events. or the countless other successful startup firms.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317