Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2022
Design a product or service that you can sell. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. 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.
socalTECH
AUGUST 20, 2012
Greg Cohn: I spent the last five years at Yahoo, where I was leading strategy and business development on innovation efforts, mostly related to social and developer problems. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort. Were you here in LA with Yahoo? What's next big thing for you?
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!, So the goal should be to have some formats that require talent who have become large in their own right and can demand rev shares of 70-90%. I’m not advocating turning off YouTube. MSN & AOL. As have BigFrame and Machinima.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2019
Design a product or service that you can sell. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. 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.
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! They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. .&# Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 13, 2013
Design a product or service that you can sell. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. 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.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 15, 2017
Design a product or service that you can sell. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. 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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