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APRIL 11, 2022

In February, ecommerce platform Etsy revealed that a record fourth quarter had earned them $717.1 Starting today, they're going on strike for a week in protest of the price change, which they say is just the latest in a series of decisions that have squeezed the small-business sellers who depend on the Etsy platform to survive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

Reward shorter hours of high productivity. Peer pressure keeps productivity standards high. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Bring your own device to work (BYOD).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! Search Marketing.

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Yahoo Platform Advertising Startup 171

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

Mitgang was previously CEO of Veoh, and also had served at Senior Vice President of Yahoo!'s s advertising products, platforms, and services. San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems said Monday that it has named Steve Mitgang as its new CEO.

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Veoh Yahoo San Diego Advertising 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Reward shorter hours of high productivity. Peer pressure keeps productivity standards high. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Bring your own device to work (BYOD).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2011

Irvine-based VIZIO , which makes HDTV products, said today that it has added Hulu Plus , the premium subscription service of Los Angeles-based Hulu, as well as BLOCKBUSTER On Demand, to its connected television line. Business details between the firm were not announced. a month; BLOCKBUSTER On Demand offers up rentals from $2.99 to $19.99.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo! Maynard Webb) and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti.

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Startup Santa Monica Snapchat Yahoo 318

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!, We lived together for seven years while at Yahoo! It was a typical storyline.

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Yahoo Startup Advertising Summary 210

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!,

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

So, we came that idea, and started working for six months polishing it up as its own product. It was originally just a one week prototype, but everyone loved it, so we just made it better and better form there, and productized it. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort.

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Yahoo Startup Mobile Ideas 200

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. How big is YP? Louis and Atlanta.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. How big is YP.com? Louis and Atlanta.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the online music startup of former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said today that the firm has inked a deal with Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of the Berklee College of Music, to partner on a set of online music courses.

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Course Redpoint Santa Monica Education 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2016

With the advent of social media, open publishing platforms, and instantaneous communication, the world is flatter and more interconnected than anyone can truly grasp, and the next great wave of innovations can and will come from anywhere. Previously, Cody established and launched the Disney Accelerator, powered by Techstars.

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Southern California Snapchat Yahoo Social Media 100

InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

At Rincon Venture Partners , we have a laser focus on identifying groundbreaking adtech and business productivity SaaS solutions. When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! and Overture Services. Share and Enjoy.

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Content Platform Paid Search OpenX 171

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

Lane Soelberg: We are a social platform for families involved in youth sports. The social platform is very family friendly, and provides all of the front end functions for parents and kids involved in Little League, Pop Warner, or whatever group activity that keeps a family busy. How did WePlay come about?

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Southern California Startup Platform Coach 183

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

Reward shorter hours of high productivity. Peer pressure keeps productivity standards high. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Bring your own device to work (BYOD).

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Entrepreneur Yammer Case Study Study 102

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis, the CEO and co-founder of the firm, is the former COO and CMO of NextMedium, was a VP at ValueClick, and has also served at Fastclick, Yahoo/Overture, and Earthlink, among other firms. John Ellis: I've got a pretty long track record of building product lines and business units for other companies.

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Westlake Village Yahoo Commerce Social Network 164

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

The partnership is expected to offer working-class professionals access to job listings directly posted within Kaleio’s Marketplace and additional job and internship listings from leading companies, including Amazon, Google, Starbucks, The New York Times , Yahoo!, Mashable, and several others. Below is our interview in detail.

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Yahoo Platform Social Network Tool 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

Reward shorter hours of high productivity. Peer pressure keeps productivity standards high. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Bring your own device to work (BYOD).

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Startup Case Study Platform Yahoo 61

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

Reward shorter hours of high productivity. Peer pressure keeps productivity standards high. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Bring your own device to work (BYOD).

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Yammer 104

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”. CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. He defines this as new products that are dramatically cheaper, lower quality, lower margin but larger markets. MapQuest was (and is) a much shittier product than Google Maps yet people used it for years. I argued ages ago that Yahoo! It defied logic.

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Netflix Evite Pricing Hulu 329

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform. We also added a few more features which were very stock friendly. Only a dummy would do it again.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

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APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform. It’s core platform stuff.

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! In many ways that might be one way to interpret even Facebook where Sheryl stepped in as COO but by all accounts ran much of Facebook for a few years (other than product).

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CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. But higher value product sales often require a phone call.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Both Sides of the Table

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. AppDynamics.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about. Dev Bhatia: You can think of them as lots of different platforms and devices. s began coding what eventually became the product you see today.

Technology 216

Technology Google Commerce Southern California 216

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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. What drove you to start MetaCloud?

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CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. For highlighting what is uniquely LA, for adhering to a strict quality standard for speakers and for building this great platform for the future Francisco Dao (aka “ The Man ”) should feel proud of what he has accomplished.

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. Early on in college, we built a product called Blog Hoster, which allowed you to create white label blogs.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Jovian's platform allows us to process and analyze campaigns in-flight, and also provide in-flight course corrections for marketers.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Bccthis just announced a version of their product which plugs into Gmail. Dave told us about how and why he and his co-founders--both previously executives at Twistbox--decided to start their own startup, specifically outside of the mobile industry, and a bit about the product. How long has Bccthis been around?

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Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

CallFire also used Biz2Beach as a platform to showcase its newest iteration, CallFire Version 3.0. Having previously worked at notable companies including Myspace, PayPal, Yahoo!, Vijesh Mehta, CallFire’s CTO, discussed some of the new features and changes to the CallFire UI. ROBYN WARD. KRISHNA SUBRAMANIAN. MATTHEW AREVALO.

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Social Media Mobile SEO Media 71

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

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. What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

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