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APRIL 27, 2014

Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. I don’t. Pay attention.

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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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APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!,

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

An example is Melissa Rundle, who was been writing for the industry doing FunnyOrDie type comedies. I started writing, doing production, and wrote a winning student short, and also worked at Creative Artist in film distribution and sales. He's been working Hollywood, too, and is a real Cinderella story. What's your background?

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Plus, show my you can write! I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. In the technology space we have backed Overture (acquired by Yahoo!), I will not consider applicants without a cover letter. What is the timeframe? Yesterday. We need help. Are you merging?

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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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MAY 27, 2013

I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. One key board member knows Marissa. ” I know it sounds obvious. Rob does it. On steroids.

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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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!, To produce content that people want to watch takes unique skills: Writing. I’m not advocating turning off YouTube. That would be like selling physical consumer products and deciding not to sell at Walmart. MSN & AOL. Set design. Post-Production.

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OCTOBER 11, 2013

I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours. You even got Yahoo! It’s growing.

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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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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

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. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. I will embrace my losses.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

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. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. I will embrace my losses.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

” They prefer to sit in front of a computer doing spreadsheets or coding or writing emails and working on marketing materials than they do investing time in human relationships. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo ! I wanted to just write. I like writing.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

We helped the write out their requirements for a system. You are most vulnerable right after it has been announced that you won (I will write a separate post on this). Write things down. They had a team trained up in Documentum and we certainly had enemies from the inside. But we worked the account tirelessly for months.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. And they made an early investment in Yahoo.“ “….a If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). Or, as always, summary notes available below. Is that when it became big? Was it David Cohen’ Idea?

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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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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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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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OCTOBER 8, 2014

And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.

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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! They see how hard she does her job. They know her personally and know she cares about her constituencies even if she has to make tough trade-offs from time-to-time.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! In fact, many times they write a book to point you to these other tools.”. McDonald’s IPOed 46 years ago with a market cap today of over $100 billion, why? Because, they make food faster. Time is money. Time is money. Many authors do lectures and other services.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

By 2008, I was only a couple years away from the brain damage I suffered at CallWave, after the executive team turned down acquisition overtures from Google and Yahoo (I'll write about this colossal mistake in a future confessional article). Painful Past - We are all also victims of our past.

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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. Finance and a host of other wonderful services brought to you by their sponsors. Everybody gains. I used to.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. We'll even write a half a million check. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2 That as unhealthy.

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JULY 27, 2009

But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. It's like an intranet, but has collaborative features like document management. We didn't talk to Google Maps team to get Maps running--it works straight out of the box.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

On myfab5, people rank their favorite places instead of giving them star ratings and write bite-sized reviews instead of writing long reviews. When talking to review site users, we found the top two reasons people don’t write reviews is because it takes too long and it is confusing.

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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! His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Overture (Goto.com).

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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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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.

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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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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. These were companies like Autobytel when it was Pete Ellis and three other people, a company called Interactive Marketing Inc.,

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. Gerard Casale: We''ve been agnostic to the kinds of deals we''ve been making over the last five or six years we''ve been angel investors.

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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. A bit off topic, but what's your opinion on the whole Microsoft/Yahoo advertising deal, and what does it mean for the industry--given that you used to run that business?

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MAY 5, 2011

When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital.

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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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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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