Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

If you hire truly talented people you end up definitionally with a lot of competitive peers who will inevitably jockey for resources and control. Extremely talented people are ultra competitive. Contrast that with years of decay at Yahoo! The best leaders are great at hiring in large part because they are inspirational.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

Both are required to stay competitive. The announcement by Yahoo way back in 2013, pulling home workers back into the office, triggered a debate on whether some new companies have gone too far. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is over $900 billion.

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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.

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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.

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San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! Get yourself in a big demo day competition. Does Yahoo! For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

Obviously these folks were serious about winning this competition, and had no time to worry about who the guy taking pictures with his iPhone. They then reached out to Yahoo who jumped on board to provide some funding and once they had that name attached, other big names in the industry took notice.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. How did Tilofy come about?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Tim is the former head of Yahoo's Global Advertising Marketplaces unit, overseeing Display, Search and Video, and was VP of Search at Overture. We manage that competition through an aucton process. How is the competitive landscape is nowadays? They can put their inventory in there, and lots of people compete to buy it.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

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. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent?

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

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. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? There are lots of people there doing competitive intelligence, or doing research on an industry or landscape.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is around $400 billion.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

Everywhere else where you can talk about the stock market is anonymous, like Yahoo's message board, or other forums online. Lots of people play fantasy football who are not terribly interested in football, but they like doing something with their friends which is fun and competitive. It's much like a Fantasy Football dynamic.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do. What is Scour?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Data centers are a strategic layer of the value chain: data center efficiencies and deployments are some of Google’s key competitive advantages and trade secrets. 02 per Google search, and provided Yahoo for free. Those same data centers would later power the rest of Google’s services. Just imagine if ISPs imposed a cost of $.02

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

Both are required to stay competitive. 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. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2013

Hike is a person to person messaging app and mobile portal which Yahoo Japan is interested in working with. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? Competitive space so one has to move really fast but we are not worried. Bharti Group owns Bharti Airtel, the fourth largest telecom network in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

Both are required to stay competitive. The announcement by Yahoo back in 2013, pulling home workers back into the office, triggered a debate on whether some new companies have gone too far. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! I brought up the fact that I find many larger companies abusing the patent system to slow down smaller competitors which is actually anti competitive. .&# Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

You’d think in a town where heavy hitters like Google, Yahoo!, s large population makes the competition for Wi-Fi signals and channels fierce. Living under the sunny skies of Los Angeles comes with many perks, but fast Wi-Fi isn’t always one of them. and Microsoft have a base of operations, the Wi-Fi speeds would be better than ever.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Any competition? For example, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo have all either acquired small startups in the space or are forming big partnerships with other players like Yelp and FourSquare. We are currently using funding from Omeid, grants from the state of Michigan and the University of Michigan and prizes from pitch competitions.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Mark and his team sold Broadcast.com, to Yahoo! Even after Yahoo’s stock tanked following the dot bomb crash, Mark and his senior team still walked away with a whole lot of Chicklets. " Yahoo could have purchased a variety of Internet based video companies when they acquired Mark’s venture. in 1999 in a $5.7 Do the work."

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

Both are required to stay competitive. The announcement by Yahoo in 2013, pulling home workers back into the office, triggered a debate on whether some new companies have gone too far. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

I started by career at Yahoo, and also worked at Intermix. You have all the bidding, going back and forth, and competition which drives the price up. That''s why we wanted to make a service which enables consumers to name their own price. What''s the story behind the company? What''s the biggest challenge for you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is about $126 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is around $400 billion.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

That''s the part of eBay and our infrastructure that give us a competitive edge. That gives us a competitive edge, and takes away from something that is very anonymous to something more friendly and neighborly. You don''t see the Google''s and Yahoo''s of the world on the street, interacting with customers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. The large acquirers, the Microsoft and Yahoo''s of the world, were buying 20-40 companies a year. Their only option is an IPO. That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products. Or at least diversify the future fortunes of their shareholders in the way that Yahoo! And weirdly the buyers of this technology often have a vested interest in buying from the incumbent.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

At the same time, it’s a smart manufacturing decision, as American-made quality usually stands head and shoulders above outsourced competition. “Made in the USA” is more than just a slogan; it’s a philosophy for business, one that emphasizes the importance of staying within the national economy and creating products of the highest quality.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. John Nahm: The Northern California technology environment already assumes you already know a lot of stuff, and it's very competitive in nature. John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2012

A tweet by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on August 9th caused a stir in the tech scenes. A 2011 McKinsey Global report says Big Data is the next frontier for innovation,competition and productivity, this could be reason the seasoned investors and executives believe these are big data days. Big Data Shift.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and value themselves today internally at $4B or more.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, What about your competition – how much do they charge? 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. Going to charge less?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We're even seeing it become a significant competitive disadvantage for companies who have leaders who are not focused on using analytics to make their business decisions. One of their partners is Ted Meisel, who we worked with closely when he was CEO of Overture, before selling it to Yahoo. He's been an integral advisor to us.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. 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!

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