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AUGUST 20, 2012

Where'd the idea come from? The idea was that prominent people who might have a small following might post their availability to chat for 20, 40, or 60 minutes to Twitter of Facebook. So, we came that idea, and started working for six months polishing it up as its own product. Were you here in LA with Yahoo?

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OCTOBER 22, 2011

I sure wish the founders of Yahoo! But for years Yahoo! If you think you’re on to a really big idea and everybody else thinks so, too, then most likely it’s already conventional wisdom and you’re too late. If – and this is a big IF – you have other ideas. ” Hallelujah. understood that.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We will collaborate on ideas and projects and we created the Superfriends together, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Hello, Yahoo!?! (I I talked to an ex Yahoo! And you still have no idea if you will accidentally become Pinterest or if your $41 million will produce a Waterworld. Eventually other networks will emerge. They have to. senior exec about this more than a year ago. Interview here). You know you want to. It’s the future, guys.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We will collaborate on ideas and projects. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

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APRIL 8, 2010

I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! Gdgt (l ed by Spark, True Ventures ) – Love the idea. Also in the video: - Is it a good idea for VC’s to pay stratospheric prices? - But I’d love to be wrong and see them all make a ton of money. now (or ever). and much more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While the idea was great, they failed on execution. Yahoo has been an example of a company which expanded in all directions through 53 acquisitions, to the point where most customers were confused, and it was overtaken by Google as your main search engine. Strategic swelling – more features than any other.

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JULY 11, 2012

The two things that are mostly lacking from people's investment experience are the lack of a wide network of people to refine investment ideas with, and the best available content about companies they are considering investing in. There is no social network online which provides authentic ideas about the stock market.

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APRIL 14, 2011

First of all, what's the idea behind StockTwits, for people who haven't used the service? Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. It's fun, I guess.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money.

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InfoChachkie

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. " Yahoo could have purchased a variety of Internet based video companies when they acquired Mark’s venture. EVERYONE has ideas.

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MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis, the CEO and co-founder of the firm, is the former COO and CMO of NextMedium, was a VP at ValueClick, and has also served at Fastclick, Yahoo/Overture, and Earthlink, among other firms. Finally, I decided it was time to remove the safety net, and had an idea of my own to pursue, so I started by own company.

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JUNE 1, 2011

Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. I didn’t have any grand ambitions other than to write, share ideas and try to build awareness of who I am through my thoughts.

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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. Ali Khoshgozaran: It''s funny, as people have the idea that Twitter and Instagram are the fastest ways of getting good real time information.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The idea of entrepreneurship as a path and of technology as a change catalyst is taking root in cities and ecosystems all over the world. Earlier in his career, Cody held roles including Chief Product Officer of StumbleUpon, Vice President of Product Management at Yahoo, and Product Manager at The New York Times, Sprint, and NBC Internet.

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OCTOBER 17, 2010

Your new idea won’t resonate with people the way “check-ins&# does because they’ve never heard of it by definition. In my view almost all ideas are derivative. That’s too late. It’s the puck at your feet. Come up with your own novel thoughts. Most innovation comes from non-conventional views.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

And many short-termists will think it’s a bad idea. I argued ages ago that Yahoo! Imagine if Carol Bartz or the Yahoo! [most importantly] – It’s a great strategic decision. With nearly 25 million customers using Netflix it’s clear that everyone will have an opinion on this. A note for industry.

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MAY 28, 2013

I started by career at Yahoo, and also worked at Intermix. I''ve actually been tinkering with the name your own price idea for a long time. The reason for that is in that moms talk more about their experiences than any other demographic, and they''re always sharing ideas and products. That''s a perfect fit for baby products.

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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. The idea there is to grow our exchange in Japan, which is the second largest advertising market in the world. They are driving buyers and sellers into the exchange, which is pretty awesome.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm very curious to hear any reactions to this idea of a hot list. This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods. The social signals seem obvious in some cases, but not always clear to me in other cases.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

With Yahoo!, A healthy startup community needs to communicate and create new ideas together. Communication and growth will bring more capital and investors to start new businesses and ideas to create more opportunities, thus continuing the circle of startup life.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. April was really focused on locking down the business strategy an idea.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Earlier this month, Fullerton-based HipGeo (www.hipgeo.com) announced a $500,000 funding round from Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham. It does what Mint.com did for finance, for geolocation.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

What's the idea behind the site? I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. ResumeBucket hits the market with the idea and premise that simpler is better.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Last week I had two very contrasting presentations from entrepreneurs that gave me the idea for this post. He had spent many years at Yahoo! during the better days and we had lots of discussions / debates about Yahoo!’s A Tale of Two Pitches. It was a 1-on-1 meeting between the two of us. ’s strategy and missteps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The team fed me with great ideas. 245 people registered, Yahoo! Notes to self: Get to know the presenters, practice presentation, call Yahoo!, Not sure why, but it was funny at the time. The goal of the day was to listen and engage, learn and build new friendships, discuss issues and make the company a little better.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

What's the idea behind Orgoo? Michael Kantor: The idea behind Orgoo is to solve what is a very large problem out there, which is that communications is fragmented into many different services. We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. how do you compete?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. we’re engaged in reading and discussing the ideas of those that we respect, like or are interested in. There are also people like Clicker and OVGuide who are trying to capture the “video portal&# space where they can command referral revenues in the way that Yahoo!

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APRIL 8, 2014

Rami Rostami: One of the things about the new crowdfunding phenomenon, is that everyone is raising money, validating their ideas, and maybe raising $500,00, or $50,000, or $5 million. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. But, what do they do from there?

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APRIL 27, 2014

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!, I also love it when I see really big ideas that seem a little bit too outrageous but where the entrepreneur seems just crazy enough to possibly pull it off.

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APRIL 28, 2010

So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up. So what's the idea behind Bccthis? What's the idea behind the Twitter support? Once we get the Gmail application in place, we're going to start looking at expanding support for other platforms, such as Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail.

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JULY 13, 2013

Talk to us about when you got the idea for BuildOnline and how that came to be – how you finally got out of the job. We’ve got three months’ cash and I have no idea if we’re going to raise more money!” I’m an entrepreneur chasing an idea. And it’s going to be a $100 million idea, Mark. $100

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Rogers is the former GM of Yahoo Music, and sat down with us to talk about the company and his view of the music business and where it is going. What's the idea behind Topspin Media? You've gotten quite a bit of attention given your prior position at Yahoo -- why'd you leave Yahoo for a startup, and why Topspin?

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

While Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody. Social Networking goes Real Time.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? We developed films for half a million to a million for distribution to places like Hulu and Snagfilms, and Yahoo, that sort of things.

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