Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. 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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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! Search Marketing.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

They typically have specific budgets lined up, and they're looking for ways to diversity, and also access new customers. A little history, we launched our product years ago, Search IQ. That product right now is on 2,000 publisher websites, it's sold under the SaaS model, and a lot of people on the free, ad-supported version.

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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. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Hello, Yahoo!?! (I I talked to an ex Yahoo! You can earn the right to ask for customer information and remarket to them. They have to.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based EV Connect , the electric vehicle charging station operator founded by Jordan Ramer and led by Scott Jarus, said Tuesday that it has entered into a joint marketing and product agreement with the GE Industrial Solutions business. The company targets commercial, enterprise, hospitality, university and government facilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. 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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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2022

And, in addition to the sellers themselves suspending sales, the strikers are urging Etsy customers to boycott this week as well, by avoiding any purchases through the platform. Physical Product Sales. Physical Product Sales. Digital Product Sales. The strike is scheduled to last seven days, running until April 18th.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2014

But if you level up , raise capital and grow customers, revenue and staff – life changes. Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. And then there’s product management. As CEO, do you step in? Engineering?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

In November of 2015, Citrix announced that it will spin out the “GoTo” Division, of which GoToMeeting remains the flagship product, as a standalone public company. I knew that every dollar I spent to acquire a customer resulted in a 4x return. Circa 2001, Yahoo publicly declared that they didn’t do cost per acquisition (CPA) deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. Design a product or service that you can sell. Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded.

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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! The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!, We lived together for seven years while at Yahoo! It was a typical storyline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Examples cited include biometrics, tool productivity, environmental control, social visibility, relationship data, and brand insight. This shrinking group is willing to share location, brand history, and tool productivity data, but is still reticent to share social, biometric, and environmental data. Reluctant consumers – 44 percent.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

One of the companies at that intersection of video and e-commerce is IPSY (www.ipsy.com), a subscription beauty products company which uses video as a core piece of its monthly beauty products business. Before that, I was heading up global consumer marketing for entertainment, sports, and video at Yahoo. delivering value.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I opened up an office for them, doing early stage selling, then I built a client services department for HotJobs, and then after Yahoo acquired them, I moved back into sales, in Sales Management, and I helped manage and rebuild a team in San Francisco. They got a bunch of investors, including some from Austin.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

As part of the funding, the firm said it has named Brad Cooper as Senior Vice President of Marketing and GM of Online Channels, and appointed Matt New as VP of Product, and Claude Ciocan as Vice President of Engineering. New was most recently at Ripple Networks, and also served at Yahoo. RealPractice is headed by Carey Ransom.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers.

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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. If you sell a product direct to a customer – in person or on the phone – you need to understand what their pain points are and position your product benefits against those pain points.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

We caught up with CEO Ian Miller to learn about the company and its NoSQL database, and its roots here in applications built for companies like Yahoo and CBS. That company had done a number of very large products for clients like Yahoo and CBS. What exactly is FatCloud? They can ask questions by turning up at our free clinic.

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MAY 13, 2013

And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! And they might give a premium if the team has been around a longer period of time, has built some hard-to-build proprietary technology or has some customer traction. You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! Does Yahoo! has now employed the same strategy.

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MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. 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 big is YP? Louis and Atlanta.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. portfolios. Do so at your peril.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

With nearly 25 million customers using Netflix it’s clear that everyone will have an opinion on this. He defines this as new products that are dramatically cheaper, lower quality, lower margin but larger markets. MapQuest was (and is) a much shittier product than Google Maps yet people used it for years. It defied logic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

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 maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. 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 big is YP.com? Louis and Atlanta.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Video production & distribution is becoming much more programatic. That would be like selling physical consumer products and deciding not to sell at Walmart. But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!,

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APRIL 17, 2010

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. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!,

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2014

The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Make your business name one that customers can pronounce and remember easily. Avoid unusual spellings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

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 maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis, the CEO and co-founder of the firm, is the former COO and CMO of NextMedium, was a VP at ValueClick, and has also served at Fastclick, Yahoo/Overture, and Earthlink, among other firms. John Ellis: I've got a pretty long track record of building product lines and business units for other companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. 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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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. What's also important, is that people are using the product. Our products include open source, as well as software-as-a-service, hosted products. We've grown a ton.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. 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

MARCH 3, 2018

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. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. 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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OCTOBER 16, 2008

Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of web page optimization tools, has lauched a new product for optimizing Google AdWords advertising, the firm announced today. magnify360 said it will be adding support for similar campaign tools for Yahoo, MSN, Comssion Junction, and Atlas this quarter.

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APRIL 25, 2013

We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about. Who are the customers for your technology? s began coding what eventually became the product you see today. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

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