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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources. Geni operates a Web 2.0 Geni operates a Web 2.0 READ MORE>>

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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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APRIL 21, 2009

The new program--similar to Google's AdSense program--links ReachLocal's ads into publisher web sites directly, rather than through Google or Yahoo's online ad networks. ReachLocal is venture backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures and Galleon Special Opportunities Partners Fund LP. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

According to FatTail, Ted Meisel, former CEO of Overture and president of Yahoo! Search Marketing also participated in the funding. FatTail develops software used to manage the sales of advertising on major publisher web sites, including managing RFPs and ad inventory. READ MORE>>

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

The firm said that Stewart will build a sales team to increase sales revenue of Demand's eHow, Trails.com, Cracked, Livestrong.com, and other web sites. Stewart joins from Next New Networks, and has also served at LAUNCH.COM and Yahoo! READ MORE>>

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The firm said its new offering, ReachDisplay, will help local advertisers place online visual display ads on multiple web sites. ReachLocal helps local businesses--who otherwise would not have the knowledge or time--to place ads on online ad programs such as Google's AdWords and Yahoo. The firm is backed by $67.9M READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, And because Delicious was bought by Yahoo! (a Excite, Netscape & MSN. was bought by AOL.

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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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APRIL 8, 2010

I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! Quora ( funding led by Benchmark at a crazy valuation: $86 million ). .&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. now (or ever). Crazy valuation. sites still dominate.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. I've always felt that financial vertical is the one vertical--with Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, and First Data--where Twitter should be involved in. So, they let me start StockTwits.

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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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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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JULY 11, 2012

In that network, we bring in content from all over the web. Unlike anywhere else on the web, you can then respond directly when you see that comment. Everywhere else where you can talk about the stock market is anonymous, like Yahoo's message board, or other forums online. Vinny Jindal: There are a couple of major differences.

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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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MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. LivingSocial.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He had spent many years at Yahoo! during the better days and we had lots of discussions / debates about Yahoo!’s We all know that many companies have tried to deliver targeted advertising on the web. We started by talking about this person’s background. ’s strategy and missteps. Sir, what do you actually do???

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AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there. They use those for school projects, and they feed data back to us, which we use in our content.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. We've used the profits from NeoHire for funding. What's the idea behind the site? Josh Stomel: My background is in the recruiting industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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JUNE 6, 2011

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

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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 give users something they don't get anywhere else, for something they do every day--searching the web.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. Everything we have built is web-based, and there isn't anything to download--you can access it from a computer anywhere. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how Finally, how are you funded?

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JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements.

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JULY 27, 2009

William Chow: What Mobophiles has developed is software that solves the two biggest problems the web space right now, which is slow page load--waiting on the web--and no offline access, which is if you don't have connectivity on the web. It's completely transparent to the web sites we are supporting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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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. and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook.

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MARCH 12, 2009

How is the company funded? John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year. Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. Any funding we do receive will be used for expansion initiatives.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. We're fortunate we've been able to fund that from SocialEngine. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. billion to Yahoo! Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM PLUS RELATED FUNDING …. In the interview we also covered: - How are VC funds structured: closed-funds vs. evergreen funds?

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APRIL 27, 2014

Web Summit. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Hedge funds, other public investors, corporates, etc. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Fortune Brainstorm.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. billion). . <Note:

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