Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. A few weeks ago I sat through two very contrasting presentations and wrote this blog post right afterward. He had spent many years at Yahoo! This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&#.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The firm said the updated app helps users record and share those trips with friends via Facebook, Twitter, email, text, or within a blog or other web page.

eHarmony

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the online music blog publisher and pop culture publishing firm which owns Celebuzz, Idolator, Stereogum, and other sites, is continuing a hiring roll today, saying it has named Michael Ziegler as Senior Vice President, Sales. BUZZMEDIA said Ziegler will head up sales efforts in the Midwest and Eastern areas.

Sales

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! My blog and what it’s done for my deal flow. - .&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. But I’d love to be wrong and see them all make a ton of money.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

JULY 31, 2012

According to Lindzon in a blog post, Twitter has "hijacked our creation of $TICKER", despite telling him a few months ago that that was "not a hole they wanted to fill." Twitter announced the feature this morning on its stream. READ MORE>>.

Ideas

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford had a shot at unseating Yahoo!, I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. Yeah, right.

Entrepreneur

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals. Brian Nickerson: I started out at Yahoo, in their search group. The company recently raised a $750,000 seed round of funding. What is Chippmunk? Brian Nickerson: Chippmunk is a savings search engine.

Internet Brands

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

Social Network

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 21, 2009

I had a blast co-hosting that event with Jeff Pulver and it was a huge success thanks to Yahoo! great Yahoo blog post here). It’s been mellow since the 140conf LA meetup and the “high&# has worn off.

Draper

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 21, 2009

I had a blast co-hosting that event with Jeff Pulver and it was a huge success thanks to Yahoo! great Yahoo blog post here). It’s been mellow since the 140conf LA meetup and the “high&# has worn off.

Draper

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. That in itself is quite a challenge. Here is what I imagine Rob would say were his most effective tools.

Tips

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2008

The site--which was co-founded by Deepak Chopra's daughter, Mallika Chopra--said it is looking to create a community of like-minded members, blogs from wellness experts, and other curated online content. The new site fatures blog posting from Deepak Chopra, Olivia Newton John, Ed Begley Jr., READ MORE>>

Sites

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance.

Ideas

socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2012

HipGeo debuted its app in September of 2011; the firm is backed by Morado Venture Partners, a seed-stage fund run by former Yahoo! The company's app, which is free, runs on the iPhone and allows users to post information about their travels, document their movements, share photos, and more. READ MORE>>.

eHarmony

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. Early on in college, we built a product called Blog Hoster, which allowed you to create white label blogs. We have a licensing business with that.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

Ideas

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. 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!

Google

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences. Special 500ff discount for socalTECH readers: [link].

SoCalTech

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences. Special 500ff discount for socalTECH readers: [link].

SoCalTech

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences. Special 500ff discount for socalTECH readers: [link].

SoCalTech

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

About how dismissive traditional print was about blogs or the airlines views the “peanut serving&# Southwest Airlines. Or at least diversify the future fortunes of their shareholders in the way that Yahoo! I am reminded about how dismissive traditionally television media is about YouTube – even to this day.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

Venture Capital

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

Los Angeles

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. History repeats itself.

Social Network

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Maggie Mason of Might Girl, Mindy Roberts of The Mommy Blog, and Rebecca Woolf, Girl's Gone Child. The show is coming out of the gate with Yahoo! The new show is hosted by mommy bloggers Heather Armostrong of Dooce, Alice Bradley of Finslippy, Daphne Brogdon of Cool Mom, Asha Dornfest of Parent Hacks, Nataly Kogan of Work It, Mom!,

Yahoo

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

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. Plus, show my you can write! What is the timeframe? Yesterday. We need help. Are you merging?

Venture Capital

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

According to the two companies, the lead editor for the new site will be Alex Blagg, former founding editor of VH1's "Best Week Ever" blog. Braun is the former head of Yahoo's Media Group, and was also Chairman of the ABC Entertainment Group. Berman is former president of Fox Broadcasting and Paramount Pictures.

News

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Tags: Social News TechZulu Law Video AOL Art Neill Bing Blogs BlogWorld BlogWorld Expo 2010 Christina Gagnier Copyright Creative Commons Demand Media Facebook Farhad Mohit FTC Guides Internet JD Lasica Lisa Borodkin Mozilla New Media Rights Startups TechZulu Live TZ Law Yahoo.

Yahoo

Both Sides of the Table

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! It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. I will embrace my losses. May they be few and far between.

Outsource Development

Both Sides of the Table

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! It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. I will embrace my losses. May they be few and far between.

Outsource Development

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” She joined Yahoo! But if you want it in it’s full V1 glory read on … You’ve never been a CEO but might like to be one some day.

Technical Review

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. The started looking at the Carlsbad group of engineers, who were working at Yahoo, in order to jump start something in Southern California. I was an engineering leader at the time, and I had a few meetings with Walmart when I was working at Yahoo.

San Diego

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. The started looking at the Carlsbad group of engineers, who were working at Yahoo, in order to jump start something in Southern California. I was an engineering leader at the time, and I had a few meetings with Walmart when I was working at Yahoo.

San Diego

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2014

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. You can find web sites like the Comprehensive List of Search Engines , which is nothing but a list of 250+ available search engines.

Ideas

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. Also, as you know, I launched my blog along with the rest of my team. You can read their blogs on my links.

Technical Review

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. Also, as you know, I launched my blog along with the rest of my team. You can read their blogs on my links.

Technical Review

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, He is author of the award-winning eLearning Technology blog and a frequent speaker at industry events. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs. in Computer Science.

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