socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider DataPop , the startup led by Jason Lehmbeck, announced this morning that it has launched a new semantic advertising product specifically aimed at Google Product Listing Ads (PLA). Pricing on the new platform were not announced by the company.

Advertising

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2021

Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter and bicycle company Bird has integrated its rentals with Google Maps, the company announced this morning>. According to Bird, anyone using Google Maps will be able to quickly locate nearby Bird scooters and bikes, as well as determine approximate trip duration, estimated price and optimized route.

Google

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

The two brothers previously headed up Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT), and the Steelbergs had founded dMarc Broadcasting, which the two sold to Google in 2006 for what, at the time, was a $1.2 billion price tag. READ MORE>>.

Pricing

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2019

A new, academic study--conducted by UC San Diego and Google --has jumped into the world of "hacking for profit", running a study on hacking-for-hire services and their charges and success in hacking into a set of Google Gmail accounts. The price for all that alleged hacking? READ MORE>>.

UCSD

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!”

CTO Coach

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2019

Blade, backed by Lerer Hippeau, Airbus, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and others, currently flies passengers around the New York City area, where it’s headquartered, offering the region’s wealthy $800 flights to the Hamptons, among other flights at various price points.

Van Nuys

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The firm, which did not disclose financial details of the investment, said the digital media fund established by Best Buy and Fuse Capital are backing its launch of a product information, pricing, and shopping mobile application. Tags: tecca best personal electronics shopping mobile venture capital google android itunes iphone.

Services

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

First, over time Salesforce.com’s technology got better and better yet the price didn’t shoot up dramatically relative to Siebel. They have existing customers who already paid big prices who would be seriously pissed off if the next guy bought the same thing for 10x less. They are radically lower in price.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What price? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” What kind of deals should I be doing?

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

Invest

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What price? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” What kind of deals should I be doing?

Venture Capital

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The service offers both sales and deal prices, as well as normal appointment booking Anderson is the former CEO of RedBeacon, and also has served at Google. MyTime said it is launching with over 500,000 open appointments, for such services as haircuts, massages, dental exams, and acupuncture.

Services

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won.

Entrepreneur

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. It pains me to see the typical (and predictable) responses on Twitter, “VCs want prices to drop!” ” “Sure, prices are dropping. What hogwash.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. The reason as consumers we buy repeatedly on Amazon.com is both price AND service.

Ideas

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product. Why the limitation?

Hulu

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

Google

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

This would be no different that Google’s having quality scoring. This can evolve over time but laying the foundation with clear pricing statements would help third-party developers plan better. For other developers there might be consumption-based pricing. Establish a clear policy of revenue sharing.

Advertising

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?”

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

If you’re an entrepreneur, all else equal you prefer convertible debt because the deal is priced at a later stage when you’re worth more. If you’re an angel investor you prefer a “priced&# rounds because you want to lock in a lower price given that you’re taking more risk up front.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But that doesn’t mean that people are paying rational prices as investors based on intrinsic value. Rational people can disagree and some may argue that today’s prices are rational and under-pinned by economic drivers. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. That’s fine.

Pricing

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

But if you raise the money at the big price (or any price) please go in with the expectation that you are going to build a large, long-term business. Which is why the mega valuations you read about are almost always by companies with enormous valuations and/or cash on hand: Google, Microsoft, Cisco, etc. Think about it.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

Even if group texting can be a really useful feature set, it’s hard for that to remain an independent, financially viable business because Facebook, Google, Apple and Skype see it as an important feature of their broader businesses. Google has Google Voice. (I reveal a lot of TextPlus’s data in the video ).

Company

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. But obviously Google won the war. That gave Google a huge cost advantage. Overture was sold to Yahoo!

Competition

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. This industry is so mature now that the cat-and-mouse game between companies and Google has gotten sophisticated.

Marketing

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! What if Google had paid attention to Dodgeball – would there be no FourSquare today? If I get a holiday bump I’ll raise a round at whatever price I like. not realizing it played king-maker or without Bill Gross inventing sponsored search?

Startup

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

our marketplace, you go to Fine Art America, join, and you get an online profile, much like a Facebook or Google Plus. Artists can control all the content, set the prices, and it's all fully automated with no need for a. The price to the buyer combines what you are charging, price of the frames and mattes, and Fine Art's markup.

Santa Monica

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Google had huge destination traffic. Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. Overture sold for $1.6

Venture Capital

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2014

in a seed funding round, from Redpoint Ventures, Google Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, Foundation Capital, BoxGroup, Slow Ventures, Data Collective, Eniac Ventures, Rothenberg Ventures, as well as others. Luxe said Thursday that it has raised $5.5M

Services

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

However, in the long run, entrepreneurs always benefit from delivering Maximum Utility for a fair price. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. WebEx’s predatory pricing made it vulnerable to a new entrant. Arbitrage Is Fleeting.

Entrepreneur

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2013

They''re currently having to purchase dental care without any price transparency or negotiating power. We''re leveraging group buying to get pricing which is comparable to those negotiated by the large insurers. You can price a procedure, check on a dentist''s reputation, and book online. We felt that was not disruptive enough.

Pricing

L.A. Business Journal

JULY 16, 2018

Netflix subscribers up, stock prices down; Google gets is cloud online in L.A.; Musk tweet could bring libel charge

Netflix

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2010

The firm did not release pricing on the new tool. Daoudi was previously in charge of web monitoring at DoubleClick, before its acquisition by Google. The additional capability comes on top of the firm's existing monitoring of web sites and applications from 26 U.S. READ MORE>>.

Tool

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Excite, MSN and eventually Google. If you’re negotiating with Samsung you can imagine they have Apple on their minds and if you’re negotiating with Twitter you can imagine they have eyes on Facebook, Google and even Snapchat. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!,

Outsource Development

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

It sure would put pressure on Google if they had Facebook competing on one side of them for share of users’ time and Amazon flanking them on the other side by providing search to every website out there that might threaten AdSense and even Google’s core search business. Not Google. Amazon changed our industry.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). We talked about Facebook.

Venture Capital