socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

Lane Soelberg: We are a social platform for families involved in youth sports. The social platform is very family friendly, and provides all of the front end functions for parents and kids involved in Little League, Pop Warner, or whatever group activity that keeps a family busy. How did WePlay come about?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If you haven’t read Reed’s explanation of this split make sure you read it (of course, after you’re done with this post ) —> here. Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. I argued ages ago that Yahoo! Imagine if Carol Bartz or the Yahoo! It’s simply brilliant.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Jovian's platform allows us to process and analyze campaigns in-flight, and also provide in-flight course corrections for marketers.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. For highlighting what is uniquely LA, for adhering to a strict quality standard for speakers and for building this great platform for the future Francisco Dao (aka “ The Man ”) should feel proud of what he has accomplished.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. If you want to read more of my views on this topic I’ve covered it here and here.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. Of course, we have competitors. Of course, there are follow up emails, but during an event is the next big chunk.

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JUNE 15, 2015

If we see products are trending, we reach out and strike a deal with the vendor and make it for sale on our platform. Prior to founding Tapiture, he spent quality time at big tech companies including Earthlink, Overture and Yahoo. “We went into this knowing how our users engage with content. I am drawn to it.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! He thought, ‘of course they haven’t read them, when would they get time?’ This is when Cunningham approached the team about creating a platform where viewers could move quickly and seamlessly to action based on their new knowledge. Because, they make food faster.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

We also want to be able to take advantage of the security which is built into mobile platforms. Of course, we have technology to help us with that, but we offer human intervention to make sure that transactions go smoothly. You don''t see the Google''s and Yahoo''s of the world on the street, interacting with customers.

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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!, Take Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! I never worked at Yahoo! But his role as “Chief Yahoo!&# But his tenure as CEO (and frankly the whole culture of Yahoo!

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Over the course of the last few months, we began digging into the business and got comfortable with the team, did our homework, and went in and made the investment. We've also got other people coming in as well, people I really respect, like Ted Meisel, who came out of Yahoo and is an investor and advisor.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Jetty is used in everything from Eclipse programming environments to a number of commercial application servers out there, to open source projects like Hadoop, the highly sponsored project from Yahoo which showed the fasting sorting of terabyte of random information recently. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. Of course, you have to draw the line somewhere. Resources Here are some related articles: The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect Update once to share with many on Yahoo!

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JUNE 13, 2011

They risk little but of course knew better all along. And AOL stopped Yahoo! The golden rules to live by are: Platforms are channels not businesses. If you put all of your eggs into one platform shame on you, not them. What is a startup to do? For starters, fear not. The world seldom ends. Tell that to DropBox.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! And of course you have Hollywood. eBay and others. Get over it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bambi Francisco is founder and CEO of Vator.tv, a leading platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to broadcast and communicate with industry professionals, and VatorNews, a video business network. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Bambi Francisco.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

While the focus perhaps should instead be on the conversations themselves and integrating them across whatever platforms within which they are taking place, the view today is instead still too much on individual tools and channels. This could also address some of the disconnect between older and newer social media platforms I outlined above.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business. So, they built an auction system, a self-service platform, and an ad-server from scratch. were doing.

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MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! I’m in Seattle this week.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, And of course these numbers are only increase.

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