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AUGUST 17, 2010

Avid's Pro Tools -- based on Digidesign's products -- are an industry standard used for sound editing in the entertainment industry. Topspin, is run by Ian Rogers, the former GM of Yahoo Music, and is backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Design a product or service that you can sell. Sure, you may need to give the product away for free to get traction, but assume you will have to sell something someday to get profitable and stay alive. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with almost three billion user accounts, all free. So let’s take a look.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Director, oversees creative development and physical production of derivative webisodes (Grey’s Anatomy, Cougar Town, Ugly Betty, etc.), Neal Weiss, Yahoo! Originals is Yahoo!’s ’s in-house development and production arm which produces top-viewed series including Primetime in No Time, omg! davidbeebe.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Component production – someone needs to manufacture all of those components. Search is just another web application. Google’s vision is the most ambitious of its peers.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0

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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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OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

We caught up with CEO Ian Miller to learn about the company and its NoSQL database, and its roots here in applications built for companies like Yahoo and CBS. That company had done a number of very large products for clients like Yahoo and CBS. What exactly is FatCloud? They can ask questions by turning up at our free clinic.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 17, 2012

Marissa Mayer has started work at Yahoo! Her appointment is expected to spice things up at Yahoo, once a top internet and media firm. She is expected to champion for new products and advance its web technology. This might revive Yahoo’s leading properties like Yahoo! Mail ,Yahoo! Search, Yahoo!

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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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OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. That’s called product leadership.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which operates a service to help small and medium sized businesses place online advertising, said this morning that it is adding a online display advertising product to its mix. The firm said its new offering, ReachDisplay, will help local advertisers place online visual display ads on multiple web sites.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

According to FatTail, Ted Meisel, former CEO of Overture and president of Yahoo! FatTail develops software used to manage the sales of advertising on major publisher web sites, including managing RFPs and ad inventory. The firm said the funding will go towards development and launch of its products sometime next year.

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JULY 11, 2012

In that network, we bring in content from all over the web. Unlike anywhere else on the web, you can then respond directly when you see that comment. Everywhere else where you can talk about the stock market is anonymous, like Yahoo's message board, or other forums online. Vinny Jindal: There are a couple of major differences.

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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. The trouble is there are thousands of portal sites, like My AOL and My Yahoo, so you need a portal for the portals.

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APRIL 8, 2010

I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck. .&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. now (or ever). sites still dominate.

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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. I've always felt that financial vertical is the one vertical--with Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, and First Data--where Twitter should be involved in. Only a dummy would do it again.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. Increase the production of your content. Search Engines. Social Media.

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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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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. What's also important, is that people are using the product. Tim Cadogan: At its root, it's pretty simple.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. If you sell a product direct to a customer – in person or on the phone – you need to understand what their pain points are and position your product benefits against those pain points.

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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. The trouble is there are thousands of portal sites, like My AOL and My Yahoo, so you need a portal for the portals.

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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. Combining the features of several successful products will not assure success (“something for everyone”).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Design a product or service that you can sell. Sure, you may need to give the product away for free to get traction, but assume you will have to sell something someday to get profitable and stay alive. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with well over two billion user accounts, all free. So let’s take a look.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

businesses and points of interests; products; and much more, plus an extensive set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to. used in a very wide range of both web and mobile services, from Foursquare, to Yelp, to LivingSocial. get to all that data, in real time--which it describes as "mind-blowingly hard data problems".

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He had spent many years at Yahoo! during the better days and we had lots of discussions / debates about Yahoo!’s In the meantime I signed up for his product and began playing around with it to get a sense myself for how it works before our next encounter. We started by talking about this person’s background.

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JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is? What we wanted to do is allow people to be productive when they wanted to be productive.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

One of Austin’s fastest growing companies, product video producer Invodo. Web based shipping service Ordoro. And, while granted, I’m no Shawn Collins, founder of the Affiliate Summit , within a matter of months of his moving here (so, yes, add eCommerce’s affiliate industry to the list), I left my own history with Yahoo!

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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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The product right now is like basic Facebook, and we are updating it to a new format we think more people will want, sort of a hybrid between Pinterest and Reddit, so that you can have any combination of features between those two. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

It's a real loss of productivity. We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. Everything we have built is web-based, and there isn't anything to download--you can access it from a computer anywhere. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. Rogers is the former GM of Yahoo Music, and sat down with us to talk about the company and his view of the music business and where it is going. That's really the first product.

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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. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. And it carries no inventory. Competitors: Gowalla.

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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! All of them are really sharp on product and market.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there. We've also got the partnership with Google/YouTube, the partnership with Yahoo Rivals, and we also partner with USA Today and Gannett on their digital properties.

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