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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Or at least diversify the future fortunes of their shareholders in the way that Yahoo! It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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How ScoreStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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And then we signed a deal with Gannett to power scores to their newspapers and TV and websites, and we also signed a deal with Yahoo's Rivals. Derrick Oien: I think the toughest part is figuring out the righ engagement framework. At the end of that season, we looked at it again, said--should we keep doing this?

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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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.

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How SportStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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And then we signed a deal with Gannett to power scores to their newspapers and TV and websites, and we also signed a deal with Yahoo's Rivals. Derrick Oien: I think the toughest part is figuring out the righ engagement framework. At the end of that season, we looked at it again, said--should we keep doing this?

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo! But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011.

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The eCommerce Game Goes to Austin

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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! Addison, Texas is home of The open source eCommerce framework Broadleaf. The industry of eCommerce is in Austin, TX.