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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

socalTECH

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. Tags: scour search startup meta interview software advertising engine yomtobian abcsearch.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, That died with waterfall software development. Let’s start with how much value you think you’ll create for your customer if they use your product in terms of hours saved, costs avoided, extra sales, better conversion rates or whatever.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Where does Webtide fit into the software world? We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

InfoChachkie

If Smucker’s can annually generate hundreds of millions in sales for a variety of food products, there is little risk that a mediocre company or product name will preclude you from achieving similar success. Yahoo – Merriam-Webster defines “Yahoo” as “a boorish, crass, or stupid person.” Do''s And Don''t Do''s.

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myfab5 Wanst to Reinvent The Way You Find Food | Interview With Co-Founder Calvin Schemanski

Tech Zulu Event

Omeid Seirafi-Pour is the CEO and Domain Expertise, John Gulbronson is the CTO or Software Developer and I am Calvin Schemanski, the CMO or 2-Time Entrepreneur. Omeid’s mother is a small business owner that has had to deal with the Yelp’s sales team on multiple occasions. Don’t like a restaurant? Then don’t mention it.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization design, Recruiting, Software development. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization music, Revenue, Sales. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo!

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