Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In addition, consumers have traditionally been reluctant to share personal information with any non-human entity, fearing some misuse or privacy invasion. Thus it’s both a challenge and a business opportunity for every entrepreneur to expand into new markets and grow their business. Norton, Ph.D., Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! Value Prop Twitter Style : DataPop simplifies the lives of marketers and gives them the tools they need to build ads that people love to click on. The Core team had worked together at Yahoo!

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. What is Tilofy about? My degree is from USC in big data.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. Despite winging it, his talk was both informative and delightful. Talking To Yahoo''s Jerry Yang. In His Dorm. I looked at it because it had.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

It''s a very trustworthy source of information. The company is actually relatively new to the LA market. I was at Overture, then Yahoo, and later People Media, which we sold to Match.com. The market for consumers online who want to save money, or find the best twenty or thirty deals on the Internet every day is huge.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

You need to segment your audience and find a way to get your highest quality customers over to O&O (owned & operated) inventory where you can get higher CPMs, sell merchandise and capture more customer information. Hello, Yahoo!?! (I I talked to an ex Yahoo! Eventually other networks will emerge. They have to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

In addition, consumers have traditionally been reluctant to share personal information with any non-human entity, fearing some misuse or privacy invasion. Thus it’s both a challenge and a business opportunity for every entrepreneur to expand into new markets and grow their business. Norton, Ph.D., Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2010

De Luca was most recently the company's Chief Technology Officer, and had previously served as Vice President and Chief Information Executive at Yahoo! In addition to De Luca, the company said it has appointed Rocky Hansler as Senior Vice President of Marketing, and Loree Lash-Valencia as Senior Vice President of Business Development.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Digital LA organizes mixers for professionals in online entertainment, marketing, and advertising. Stop on by for informal casual networking. Attendees work at Sony Pictures, FOX Interactive, MySpace, Google, Yahoo!, Join the Digital LA group if you haven't already to get our event updates!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

We caught up with CEO Ian Miller to learn about the company and its NoSQL database, and its roots here in applications built for companies like Yahoo and CBS. That company had done a number of very large products for clients like Yahoo and CBS. Over the last few months, we''ve been coming out to the market much more aggressively.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

There are lots of applicatoins for that, ranging from a straightforward utility, where you might need a number for Craigslist or for a dating site, to the times you might need to give out a phone number in context of shopping for a car, or to give a number to a salesperson or something that might involve marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and “connect&# on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could by synchronized with everybody’s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch. LinkedIn formed us into networks of networkers.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 6, 2010

Find out what kind of information is out there about you and what people can find out about you when looking you up. In addition, you need to be aware of the hundreds of online resources that contain information about you, some of which won’t be accurate and might be mixed with someone else’s information.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

What does social networking have to do with the stock market? There is no social network online which provides authentic ideas about the stock market. Everywhere else where you can talk about the stock market is anonymous, like Yahoo's message board, or other forums online. What is Stockr all about?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). 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!,

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? We keep track of movies from first rumor to theatrical release, and make it so that you don't miss any information that is important to you as a fan.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. If you have investors or board members that have wide relationships you can get significantly more value out of them by keeping them informed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!, We like sight, sound & motion.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. How will you go to market in a cost effective way to achieve similar margins as your competitors.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

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. Do you run into any issues with privacy of the information on the site?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

To answer these questions you begin reading multiple reviews for multiple businesses until you feel you have enough information to make a decision. This information is presented in the search results so you don’t have to waste time looking into restaurants you’re not interested in. Expansion plans?

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socalTECH

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. Dan Yomtobian: We haven't done much marketing yet, and most of our user base is really viral.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Yahoo – Merriam-Webster defines “Yahoo” as “a boorish, crass, or stupid person.” Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.” The term was first used by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels , in which he encountered a brutish race of hideous humans.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market. If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. I’m sure others have, too.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Those retailers give us information about what kind of offers they would or wouldn''t accept. I started by career at Yahoo, and also worked at Intermix. I owned and ran my own search marketing company, and started and ran a digital consulting company. Those are based on the numbers we have from retailers.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

Where do you organize and share all the information about your team's games? He saw the power of user generated content, and the power of building a passionate community online, which certainly led to a good thing with Yahoo. We're taking that understanding and matching that with fun experience that match up with a marketer's goals.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

marketing, and not enough of the traditional, software-and-algorithm intensive startups you'd expect to see in Silicon Valley. We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling. Jason Lehmbeck, the.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! 30% is the market opportunity.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7. An example is after the earthquake in Japan, you could see what people who follow the Japanese market were saying in real time, what are people trading those stocks saying right now.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

This blog post is for information purposes only and my only intention is to move forward. We met on Twitter, Seth David and I, during an event I hosted at Yahoo in Burbank. I had no issue with this and actually helped him by marketing his offerings. I will not respond or comment further. I was able to fully commit to SOB.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Its value proposition and market positioning morphed over several years, eventually coalescing around Internet broadcasting. 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. in 1999 in a $5.7

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

McDonald’s IPOed 46 years ago with a market cap today of over $100 billion, why? Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! Whether it be taking in information, learning, executing, or increasing our output, or investing it into relationships and health, this is the goal for the time we gained.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The fund will be located on campus, will focus on investing in companies that disrupt big markets that students have expertise in and will finance students based on their needs from between $10,000 – $20,000 to help them build and ship a minimum viable product out of the dorm room stage. The initial batch of eight students is on.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I received dozens of long emails each day with press releases, pitches, news and information. No one wants to wade through mounds of information. Sending emails with lots of information and no warm lead feels exactly as if I were at the desk I just described. Most emails were nothing short of a report. Obnoxious, right?

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