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MAY 5, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the parent company of Buzznet, Celebuzz, Stereogum, and a network of other sites, is in the midst of expansion, saying this week that it has hired on four new additions to the firm's advertising team. McDonagh joins from Prevention Magazine at Rodale, and has also worked at Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. But through nearly a decade of startups I learned that sales comes down to three essential elements: 1.

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APRIL 17, 2010

Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based on-demand, dog walking startup Wag has raised an enormous, $300M funding round, the company announced Tuesday morning. As part of the funding, the company said it has named Hilary SChneider as its new CEO. Wag said the funding comes from SoftBank Vision Fund. and Knight Ridder. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Beyond Meat, the publicly traded producer of plant-based protein replacements for meat, is currently giving other companies in the alternative meat space an education in just how finicky appealing to consumer tastes can be. Charlotte, N.C., and across Kentucky, according to multiple reports.

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APRIL 3, 2017

She also has served at Yahoo, AOL, Sharecare, and Everyday Health, along with working as a news anchor and reporter at CBS and ABC affiliates in South Carolina and New York. Independa said Willey will head up strategy, marketing, sales and partnerships for the company. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!, The best companies look at data to know what time to post. MSN & AOL.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

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JUNE 30, 2016

Los Angeles-based HomeMe , which develops an app to pre-approve renters for apartments, has named two executives, the company said earlier this week. The company said it has named Raj Chauhan as Chief Revenue Officer and Natalie Cariola as Vice President of Sales.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2014

According to Airpush, Shaw also served at AdMob, YouTube, and Yahoo! The company said it now has approximately 230 employees. airpush chief revenue officer google executive sales' Airpush offers up mobile advertising and targeting technology, aimed at mobile apps. Shaw will head up driving global advertising revenue for Airpush.

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MARCH 8, 2012

According to the startup, it has added former Facebook sales director Rob Lissner as Special Advisor to the CEO, to help shape the firm's product and sales strategy. MomentFeed said that Lissner will help in product development, recruiting, and building a sales team; Lissner has also joined the company's board.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the online and mobile movie ticketing service which is a unit of NBCUniversal, said today that its 2012 was its "best year in company history". The company said it had a 12-year record high in ticket sales, web and mobile traffic, and app downloads. Fandango is run by Paul Yanover. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Louis-based ShipWorks , a developer of subscription-based e-commerce shipping software, the company announced Monday. Stamps.com said that ShipWorks will operate as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of the company. Stamps.com said it paid approximately $22M in cash for ShipWorks.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Los Angeles-based crowdsourced ranking site Ranker announced Friday that it has opened up a new video division, Ranker Video , as well as added a few key hires at the company. According to Ranker, it has named Inger Lund Carter--formerly Yahoo! Cohn will be based in New York, at a new office for the company.

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MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Santa Monica-based TaskUs , the fast growing provider of outsourced customer experience and back end services for online companies, said it has hired three new executives on Thursday, to help it with its growth efforts. McLaughlin-Brooks was at YapStone, and also served at Parallels, Business Objects and Yahoo!

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JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. Ryan Costello: We're a software company. The most obvious, is to drive sales. How did you start the company?

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MAY 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based online and mobile advertising technology provider OpenX announced this morning that it has named Tish Whitcraft as the company''s new Chief Customer Officer. OpenX said that Whitcraft will head up OpenX''s partner services team, which includes support, sales engineering, and customer operations.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. DataPop was founded Jason Lehmbeck and John Zimmerman, both of whom have been at Overture and Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2014

One of the vivid memories I have from being a startup CEO is the feeling that most people in your company have a look in their eyes that like they can do your job as well as you. Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. Engineering?

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APRIL 18, 2012

The company said the new office will help support its Bay Area client base, plus provide it with local access to agency representatives at Google and Yahoo. The Search Agency is a provider of search marketing services to clients, providing paid search, SEO, and other services to help its clients. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

DataCert , a provider of enterprise legal management software and services, said today that it has opened up a new office in the Yahoo! Center in Los Angeles, with plans to build out a team providing product management, sales, and engineering in the location. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be having this conversation a lot lately about Facebook, Yahoo!, How much do we bail out companies that were culpable of helping create our woes and what moral hazards does this create? Companies are the same. I never worked at Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We caught up with Jason Lehmbeck , one of the firm's founders, to hear more about the company. We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! We started the company with the goal of making every search ad relevant. Search Marketing. First off, what is Datapop?

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JUNE 21, 2012

Los Angeles-based SocialVibe , the online advertising firm headed by Todd Tappin, has bolstered its exec team today, saying it has named three senior executives at the company. SocialVibe said it has named John Capano as CO, Brett Lofgren as CRO, and Bob Lonigro as its VP of Sales. and other firms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

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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.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! We started the company (because) …if you asked the average consumer what they think of the ads they see, if they see them at all, they are largely irrelevant and in many cases annoying. It is like a marriage.

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MAY 28, 2013

Once you put your offer in, you enter your credit card, and you commit to the sale. Once that offer is accepted, that make the sale, and the retailer handles the transaction just as if it happened on their own website. We take a commission on the sale, and everybody is happy. What''s the story behind the company?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The process for raising money from a VC is a sales process and as such much of what is taught in enterprise sales can be applied. While this post is written about raising venture capital (which I always remind entrepreneurs IS a sales process) the lessons can be applied to any sale or biz dev deal. I disagree.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For example, a few years ago, the company Beepi had a vision to build a new market for buying and selling used cars, but became overly focused on fundraising to grow fast, and ignored many customer complaints. Obsessive sales – must meet revenue goals. Thus you are driven to short-term growth fixes versus radical change.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

It was a decade ago that I led the sale of Expertcity (creator of GoToMeeting) to Citrix. During the early 2000’s, my team grew the company to one of the largest SaaS businesses of its day, with sales of $70 million. Circa 2001, Yahoo publicly declared that they didn’t do cost per acquisition (CPA) deals.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Most people think that being a successful investor is about finding the right deals and nurturing the teams through the difficult times to come out with a great company. He’s bound to be able to help a company or two at the time of a sale. I wonder what this company would look like in 2010 as an independent?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

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APRIL 7, 2009

Ben Zamanzadeh as Vice President of Engineering, and Brian Walby as Vice President of Voice Sales. Anastasi was most recently COO of Rent.com; Zamanzadeh was most recently at Yahoo!; LeadPoint operates an online marketplace where companies can buy and sell customer leads. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

Along with GoToMyPC, companies like Netflix, Classmates and ZoneLabs were learning from each other. This latest wave in this transformation has been enabled by a number of sophisticated technology companies, including: Burstly , Coull , Collider Media , GraphEffect , SteelHouse , RingRevenue , GumGum , and DataPop.

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