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MAY 28, 2013

According to a report from AllThingsD, Yahoo made the $600M to $800M bid for Hulu, depending on the licensing terms for the content acquired with the site.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Trenda was most recently VP Global Partnerships at AOL, and also served at Advertising.com, Yahoo, Overture and GoTo, among other firms. Matza was most recently VP of Product Management at Experian, and also has served at Yahoo, Q Interactive/CoolSavings, and AdForce. Demand, and Eric Matza as Director of Product Marketing.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

A report published Sunday by Variety says that Jason Kilar , the CEO of Los Angeles-based online video site Hulu , is set to cash out as much as $100M after the site's management buyout funded by Providence Equity Partners. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Los Angeles-based Hello Music , a new startup looking to help identify musicians and help them distribute their music, said Friday that it has raised $4M in a private equity funding. Tags: hello music distribution musician private equity venture capital funding. The funding came from KVG Partners. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2012

The company said it has tapped Brian Pike, former CTo of Ticketmaster to the CTO role, Victoria von Szeliski, former Ticketmaster Deputy General Counsel to the General Counsel position, and former Yahoo VP of Product Management John Slade as its SVP of Product Management. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Beverly Hills-based The Snowball Factory , the developer of Awe.sm , a URL shortener for domains, and tweetpo.st , software for updating Facebook from Twitter, has raised $562,600 in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. Product Manager at Yahoo! Source of the funding was not disclosed.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

For the tech/startup ecosystem in SoCal, I am looking forward to continued momentum in addressing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the workforce and support for emerging entrepreneurs. He previously held C-level roles at Overture Services/Yahoo!, So I am looking forward to the safe and gradual return to in-person gatherings.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Los Angeles-based Vicente Capital Partners said Wednesday that the investment fund has raised $150M for the firm's Growth Equity Fund. The firm said its new fund will invest between $5M and $15M in equity in expansion capital or buyout deals, to companies who have $2M to $25M in revenues and up to $5M in EBITDA.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

There was no monetary reward for those who participated (and Startup Boost does not take fees or equity from the companies that we help). Matt also previously held executive positions in integrated marketing and advertising at Yahoo and Apple, and has consulted with numerous companies on business growth and go-to-market strategy.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. million Raised. and Schlumberger. The post CapLinked Raise $1.6m

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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. . "Sweat "Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. As is true in comedy, timing is everything in business.

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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. We also know we''re not a startup, and don''t have equity to offer.

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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. We also know we''re not a startup, and don''t have equity to offer.

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JANUARY 20, 2014

WordPress, by way of $15M via North Bridge Growth Equity in WPEngine. And, while granted, I’m no Shawn Collins, founder of the Affiliate Summit , within a matter of months of his moving here (so, yes, add eCommerce’s affiliate industry to the list), I left my own history with Yahoo! Though, I’m glad that I did.

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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. We don't have any outside investors, venture capital, or private equity. What is Scour?

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AUGUST 13, 2012

A tweet by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on August 9th caused a stir in the tech scenes. 35+ Equity Partners on board. A new venture fund had been launched, not because it was her husband’s but it was a totally unique and different fund and a timely move. They say they have run Hadoop jobs and built VM farms.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

According to Yahoo Finance , less than a third of crowdfunding campaigns currently reach their goals, and the rest have to return anything they do collect. In fact, there are many types of crowdfunding, including donations, reward, pre-orders, loans, and equity. That exceeds the amounts contributed in the U.S.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Side note: LA seems to have had some success in mega deals led by private equity firms as evidenced by DemandMedia and Chris DeWolf’s latest company backed by more than $20 million in private equity. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. You don’t. Get over it.

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MAY 27, 2013

I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. Investors and board members who know your key talking points (simplified marketing messages) will help you penetrate the consciousness of even the most hard to reach individuals. One key board member knows Marissa.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

He wants a chance at changing life’s circumstances with building equity value that might free him and his family from the rat-race of 529 accounts, property taxes, summer-school tuitions and even spending some cash on aging parents. She joined Yahoo! He still has the dream. He has the hunger.

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MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo ! What I’m talking about is making tough decisions. As a leader you live in a world with limited resources. You can’t just overpay every person’s salary. Back to Chip.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

As an undergradudate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Dave McClure. . He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. Paul Grahm.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

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! When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. or the countless other successful startup firms.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Equity vs. Debt: What's Best for My Startup. Congratulations and welcome to the world of ren. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Entrepreneurship, start-ups, stealth. . Fostering Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Emerging Markets , Middle East, Social Entrepreneurship. .

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