Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

In April, 1996, Yahoo! Amazon.com and Yahoo! In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

ISP executives have publicly spoken about violating net neutrality. For the uninitiated, the Internet has historically operated per the principle of net neutrality: ISPs treat all data the same. Violating net neutrality would be analogous to installing Internet toll roads. 02 per Google search, and provided Yahoo for free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

In April, 1996, Yahoo! Amazon.com and Yahoo! In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 Net income was around $1.4 million, compared to a $7 million net loss in 2008. That seems to be the case for lots of AOL / Yahoo! Yes, that’s right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

In April, 1996, Yahoo! Amazon.com and Yahoo! In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

Startup 88

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, ’ Our Net Income will be $40 million.&#. 66% Net Operating Margins? 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 portfolios.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2014

Quirky words (Yahoo, Google, Fogdog) or trademark-proof names concocted from scratch (Novartis, Aventis, Lycos) are a big risk. These days, it even helps if the name can easily be turned into a verb, like Google me. Make some sense. Occasionally, business owners will choose names that are nonsense words. Get all three suffixes if you can.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how how do you compete?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2013

Quirky words (Yahoo, Google, Fogdog) or trademark-proof names concocted from scratch (Novartis, Aventis, Lycos) are a big risk. These days, it even helps if the name can easily be turned into a verb, like Google me. Make some sense. Occasionally, business owners will choose names that are nonsense words. Get all three suffixes if you can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Quirky words (Yahoo, Google, Fogdog) or trademark-proof names concocted from scratch (Novartis, Aventis, Lycos) are a big risk. These days, it even helps if the name can easily be turned into a verb, like Google me. Make some sense. Occasionally, business owners will choose names that are nonsense words. Get all three suffixes if you can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

To be sure, a number of well-known tech titans started more-or-less this way: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. In recent decades, most net job creation can be attributed to firms that have been around for five years or less.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Quirky words (Yahoo, Google, Fogdog) or trademark-proof names concocted from scratch (Novartis, Aventis, Lycos) are a big risk. These days, it even helps if the name can easily be turned into a verb, like Google me. Make some sense. Occasionally, business owners will choose names that are nonsense words. Get all three suffixes if you can.

Company 92

Company Companies Google Customer 92

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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. 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. acquired Overture for $1.63 Yes, Google won.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: 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). com> 4/25/08.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad.

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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 invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2 My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

You might net $1 million and that would change your life. If you don’t you may have to lay off staff in eight weeks. How can you process that? Even more difficult. You have an offer to sell your company. Should you? Don’t assume your life is heading that way or you’ll never get through setbacks. What is Plan B? Plan B, fine.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005).

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Jim Andersen, president of prolific Westside developer NMS Properties, says the firm is opening five more buildings not far from the offices of Google and Yahoo, among other tech firms. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook.

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