Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! who gladly offered to sponsor the event and provide the venue at Yahoo!’s I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with well over two billion user accounts, all free. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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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. We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information. My degree is from USC in big data.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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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 help web publishers make more money out of advertising. Yahoo made the decision that they could not, or would not be able to make the level of investment required to keep up with Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

By definition, these are all really thinly disguised Internet search engines, provided by or competing against the 500 or more existing search engines already out there, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Web site generators have made it cheap and easy to launch a site, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to succeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. 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. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: The notion is that there are now two primary upstream providers of search, Google and Yahoo. Yahoo, for the most part, is ceding to Microsoft and Bing. What we're starting to see, is that there is professionalism from folks like Oversee and Demand Media, who have gotten bigger by being in the monetization business.

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Oversee.net Yahoo Startup Google 207

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than a billion user accounts, all free. Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Myspace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon crashed.

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Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than two billion user accounts, all free. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Competitors: Gowalla. a fbFund winner.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids. More and more, entertainment has transformed into a demand driven industry. We really help them understand what their audience is all about.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. I think we are coming to a world with enormous amounts of content available on demand. At first the big shakeup was the option to watch what you wanted, when you wanted it.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Adam Lieber: We make a web server called Jetty, which is our centerpiece, and after twelve or thirteen years of hard work is an overnight success. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. 1B+ Revenue.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . Richard Rosenblatt. Alex Quilici. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. The result is a 2Mbyte royalty free plug-in that is remarkably easy to integrate with other web-based applications.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Or leave the Web, respectively pay the publishers.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. 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! or the countless other successful startup firms.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Okay, thats AdSense.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. Is Assignmint national or a global web-system? You have Demand Media here. You even got Yahoo! This is where Assignmint comes in.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. WSJ Web Slice.

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