Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Seven Lessons in Business Strategy, Consumer Behavior, and the Internet of Things ,” David W. Norton, Ph.D., These are typically decision makers, shoppers, and early adopters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

This is a theme that comes up in one the most influential business books for me of the past decade, The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb where he talks about the role that luck plays in business success. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! I believe passionately that our application will change our industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

But being in the public eye has its price, and when the bubble burst, The Globe shattered as well. Only problem is, investors have their own short term agendas and generally tend to get awfully loud when there’s a slight dip in the stock, just ask Yahoo, or me, when I took TheGlobe.com public. Is Paternot jaded?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

They've talked about this in their book, Do More Faster, where they talk about a variety of web services, including Sendgrid. Receivers such as Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo don't trust that number. That why we offer a price point where you own your own IP address, and you can control your own destiny.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. acquired Overture for $1.63 Yes, Google won.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Median single-family home price increase, Jan.-Aug. NAME Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

She can anticipate reactions to price increases or product changes by customers and she can sustain competitive challenges because she knows the customer will stick by her. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo ! You can’t get that if you only play the outside book.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

10 ways to profit off of Twitter participation without a book deal, sponsorship or selling your star. Ditch the Book: Running a Business YOUR Way. Name Your Price: Influencing Customer's Purchasing Decisions. Understanding the effect of perceived discounts, multiple product levels, price anchoring, and other.

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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. million members who have added over 270 million books, completely by word of mouth. MUST be on this list!!

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. Most of these sites are based on some type of voting or book-marking system. For example, Pricegrabber lets you find all the stuff you want at the lowest price. Social Media. Online Partnerships / Distribution Deals. Refreshing Content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

I found some good lessons in this regard in a new book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. History repeats itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! We will white label the system, and not only that, we’ll allow you to set your own pricing.” 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!

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