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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Video production & distribution is becoming much more programatic. That would be like selling physical consumer products and deciding not to sell at Walmart. But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!,

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

He was also previously SVP of Global Product Management & General Manager of New Ventures at Overture Services before it was acquired by Yahoo! I strongly disagree with Wil Schroter's recent post that people are "eager to write checks." billion, and was President & COO of RiverOne. Continued.).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

An example is Melissa Rundle, who was been writing for the industry doing FunnyOrDie type comedies. Michael Tringe: I went to USC film school, and graduated with a MFA in film production. I started writing, doing production, and wrote a winning student short, and also worked at Creative Artist in film distribution and sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TechZulu caught up with co-founder Calvin Schemanski chat about their upcoming launch, their product and why Long reviews suck. On myfab5, people rank their favorite places instead of giving them star ratings and write bite-sized reviews instead of writing long reviews. What is myfab5?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I opened up an office for them, doing early stage selling, then I built a client services department for HotJobs, and then after Yahoo acquired them, I moved back into sales, in Sales Management, and I helped manage and rebuild a team in San Francisco. I didn't really set out to write a book. That was four years ago. It is a playbook.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. The notion there is not only would be investing in the venture aspect of the business, but would help tilt the company to success by bringing shared services to help bring their products to life. That said, we still need investors here.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. This last month was really building out the detail of the product, and launching our web site. Bruce, what's your background?

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

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. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. We also have direct relationsihps with Yahoo's Precision Match team, and they provide a very optimized feed on our resume and job search resumes.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” It was meant both as a call to those writing angel checks into other people’s companies that they ought to think about putting that capital toward themselves either by becoming a startup founder or (and this was my real point) by taking an under-market salary in a company where they can learn the right skills to do it in the future.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. So we can say no based on geography, we can say no based on it doesn’t fit in our themes.“… “Then we engage with the product and the entrepreneur and because we know these areas very well we don’t have to spend a lot of time understanding the market or understanding the customer.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Write things down. Quite the opposite. I move on.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Write things down. Quite the opposite. I move on.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

No matter where I worked, I never found any sort of product that managed the workflow between editors and writers and it is the number one problem in the publishing world. I built the product I wanted, as a writer, editor, and as a publisher. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo ! They get involved in hard product decisions.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Did we really have good change management procedures if we were willing to launch products without backward compatibility. Write things down. Quite the opposite.

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MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. Overture (Goto.com).

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JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, I need to give credit for the topic to PR Malloy who Tweeted me this question. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit. VCs often don’t use the products of the companies in which they invest. I create videos.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! founder, Steve Cunningham, this is exactly the thought process he went through when developing a product to help you take in and use information faster. For Cunningham and the team at Polar Unlimited, together this created the product. Time is money. Then a week.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday.Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site.Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.To

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socalTECH

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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JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. But the problem with being all in – all in for me, let’s say I can write $10 to $12 million per company. If I write $2 million and we hit a bump in the road, I can write another $2 million. Am I allowed to say this?

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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. And, I dont like to copy and paste.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Our approach is often additive to all parties, resulting in ongoing, productive relationships. thinks his product is probably much easier to (use than) VoiceXML, but he is not sure that the ease of use will offset the market confusion. agrees that Ribbet's strategy is bizarre since they are client-centric.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! And if they can monetize their follower base then they have an incentive to grow their base, Tweet more, engage more and write better quality Tweets. He’s product obsessed, visionary, inspirational and contagious to be around. Everybody gains.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. Increase the production of your content. Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. Make a list of the journalists writing the articles, they’re easy to find on Linkedin and Facebook. Social Media.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Contributors include GRAMMY winning composers and Oscar winning sound effects artists and production houses.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. You have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!, You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford had a shot at unseating Yahoo!, The picture above is from the actual event courtesy of Dan Farber who was writing for ZDNet. What attributes am I looking for during the process?

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MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. No Dave S. = How do we make that happen?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! After rejuvenating from the exhausting sale of Quigo, Mike started a ‘boring site’ called Tracked.com that he thought would be a better version of Yahoo! Thank you, John.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash. When you feature a “product of the week&# , “hottest blog post&# , “today’s joke&# or so, then bookmarkers will love it when its URI doesn’t change. It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. Thanks for your time.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Given how Apple’s products are normally delivered to near perfection it is likely to be a huge holiday hit this year. At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo! And meanwhile I’ve seen several LA startups focus on creating low-cost video production & distribution houses.

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