Platform Startup Web Yammer 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack.
SoCal CTO
MAY 15, 2009
an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. David Schwartz, Vice President, Corporate Development of Yammer David Schwartz is the Vice President, Corporate Development, at Yammer Inc., He was raised and educated in London.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 22, 2011
Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products. If you’re a startup and you haven’t read my summary of Clay Christensen’s seminal work please do. And this approach to looking at startup industries is what I call “deflationary economics.”. Why Deflationary Business Win.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 17, 2009
I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity. Every entrepreneur starts with an idea that they believe makes sense. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. Geni.com beget Yammer. They had signed up Gawker Media and the New York Post.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Time will tell.
socalTECH
JUNE 21, 2011
Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition.
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