socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team. What's the new book about? Amos Schwartzfarb: The book is called Sell More Faster, the Ultimate Sales Playbook For Startups. That was four years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

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. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Jackson--said it has added a new address book feature, importing of contacts, as well as support for asset sales. CapLinked said the new address feature makes sharing deals on the service easier, and also allows users to import contacts from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail. The firm--which is headed by very early PayPal vet Eric M.

SaaS 147

SaaS Yahoo Venture Capital Los Angeles 147

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

An exception is the classic book by Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, “ Future Work: Changing Organizational Culture for the New World of Work ,” which offers some real insight on this subject. They point to several key trends in organizational cultures and working practices that can boost output, cut costs, and give employees more freedom.

Case Study 125

Case Study Platform Yahoo Social Media 125

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Continuing incidences of personal identity theft , as well major personal data breaches , including Capital One (2019), Marriott/Starwood (2018), and Yahoo (2014) still weigh heavily on their decision process. Norton, Ph.D.,

Social Media 107

Social Media Tool Google Yahoo 107

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

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. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

Pricing 123

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 123

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Innovator’s Dilemma – In his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,&# Clay Christensen talks about why industry leaders almost always fail to act when “disruptive change&# enters their business. If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it. I argued ages ago that Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I found these maladies summarized well in a new book, “ Radical Product Thinking ,” by entrepreneur Radhika Dutt. Yahoo has been an example of a company which expanded in all directions through 53 acquisitions, to the point where most customers were confused, and it was overtaken by Google as your main search engine.

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Metrics Product Yahoo Examples 133

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Just this week I met @MarshaCollier, the author of over 25 books on eBay. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! who gladly offered to sponsor the event and provide the venue at Yahoo!’s I’m honored. YouTube and many others.

Social Network 180

Social Network Networking Yahoo Social Media 180

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Continuing incidences of personal identity theft , as well major personal data breaches , including Capital One (2019), Marriott/Starwood (2018), and Yahoo (2014) still weigh heavily on their decision process. Norton, Ph.D.,

Social Media 131

Social Media Startup Tool Google 131

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. I haven’t read it.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Just this week I met @MarshaCollier, the author of over 25 books on eBay. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! who gladly offered to sponsor the event and provide the venue at Yahoo!’s I’m honored. YouTube and many others.

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

An exception is the classic book by Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, “ Future Work: Changing Organizational Culture for the New World of Work ,” which offers some real insight on this subject. They point to several key trends in organizational cultures and working practices that can boost output, cut costs, and give employees more freedom.

Competition 127

Competition Case Study Platform Yahoo 127

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

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. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

Startup 116

Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Customer 116

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, DataPop launched its initial Search Marketing application across Google, Microsoft and Yahoo late last year and leading marketers and agencies are seeing breakthrough results.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

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. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

Pricing 105

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 105

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, and Schlumberger. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

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. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

Pricing 52

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 52

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Yahoo – Merriam-Webster defines “Yahoo” as “a boorish, crass, or stupid person.” Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.” Legend asserts that the name change from Cadabra was prompted by Yahoo’s alphabetized listing of search results.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Technical Review Software Review 100

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!

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

An exception is a recent book by Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, “ Future Work: Changing Organizational Culture for the New World of Work ,” which offers some real insight on this subject. The announcement by Yahoo a while back, pulling home workers back into the office, triggered a debate on whether some new companies have gone too far.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Yammer Case Study Study 102

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

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.

Social Network 110

Social Network Yahoo Media Networking 110

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

That launch is already booked, and that satellite is nearly complete. I have worked as an entrepreneur in mobile gaming and an executive in the entertainment industry, and worked at Yahoo and also as a management consulting. We also have companies where space is not the only commercial market for them.

Southern California 124

Southern California Startup Entrepreneur Los Angeles 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

An exception is the classic book by Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, “ Future Work: Changing Organizational Culture for the New World of Work ,” which offers some real insight on this subject. They point to several key trends in organizational cultures and working practices that can boost output, cut costs, and give employees more freedom.

Startup 61

Startup Case Study Platform Yahoo 61

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

I just finished an updated book on this subject by Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, “ Future Work: Changing Organizational Culture for the New World of Work ,” which offers some real insight in this area.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Yammer 104

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Think of the Amazon affiliate program where you’re paid if you help Amazon sell books (I think on average Amazon pays about 7% of sales). There are also people like Clicker and OVGuide who are trying to capture the “video portal&# space where they can command referral revenues in the way that Yahoo!

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

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!, In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has written several books on intellectual property law.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

And then we signed a deal with Gannett to power scores to their newspapers and TV and websites, and we also signed a deal with Yahoo's Rivals. We can't go in and use your address book like many apps do. I have an address book with 2,000 people, but how many of those people actually care about my high school team? Maybe three.

Media 100

Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

And then we signed a deal with Gannett to power scores to their newspapers and TV and websites, and we also signed a deal with Yahoo's Rivals. We can't go in and use your address book like many apps do. I have an address book with 2,000 people, but how many of those people actually care about my high school team? Maybe three.

Media 100

Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and “connect&# on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could by synchronized with everybody’s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

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. David Cohen is a very active blogger and spokesperson, as is Brad Feld. That makes it very hard for you to get your emails to an inbox.

Email 157

Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

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.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

Jason’s cutting wit and insightful commentary made for entertaining listening on topics ranging from the Microsoft / Yahoo! Now back to work – we’ve got a venue to get booked. He then led us through a series of discussions about the most relevant topics of the day along with Chris Tolles, the CEO of Topix.

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. If there were no advertising on Google we would have no Gmail, no Google Maps, no Android, no Google Books. That was a kerfuffle too. So did the media.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286