socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The firm's former CEO, former Yahoo VP Jeff Dossett, shows on his LinkedIn profile that he departed the firm sometime this month. AdventureLink had been attempting to build an online marketplace where consumers could purchase and book adventure travel trips, eco tours, and other travel. READ MORE>>.

Altadena 157

Altadena Yahoo Acquisition Los Angeles 157

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

Customers and clients are already on LinkedIn and Facebook, so it makes sense to go where they are, rather than limit your team at work to internal systems. The announcement by Yahoo way back in 2013, pulling home workers back into the office, triggered a debate on whether some new companies have gone too far.

Case Study 125

Case Study Platform Yahoo Social Media 125

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

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 Lewis is a former pro athlete and author of LinkedWorking , the and a true authority on LinkedIn. YouTube and many others.

Social Network 180

Social Network Networking Yahoo Social Media 180

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Talking To Yahoo''s Jerry Yang. He quickly realized the power of the Internet when he came across a relatively obscure site, called Yahoo! But there was this one site that somebody told me about or maybe I read about and it was called Yahoo! • LinkedIn • Facebook • Twitter. In His Dorm. Share and Enjoy.

Startup 223

Startup Yahoo Santa Barbara Slides 223

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

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 Lewis is a former pro athlete and author of LinkedWorking , and a true authority on LinkedIn. YouTube and many others.

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Customers and clients are already on LinkedIn and Facebook, so it makes sense to go where they are, rather than limit your team at work to internal systems. The announcement by Yahoo back in 2013, pulling home workers back into the office, triggered a debate on whether some new companies have gone too far.

Competition 127

Competition Case Study Platform Yahoo 127

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. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? Josh Stomel: I think all of the other sites--LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, and Monster--are really large destination sites.

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

Circa 2001, Yahoo publicly declared that they didn’t do cost per acquisition (CPA) deals. This was a no-lose relationship for me, as the average lifetime value of customers derived from the Yahoo was significantly more than the bounty I paid them. • LinkedIn • Facebook • Twitter. Share and Enjoy.

SaaS 100

SaaS Yahoo Advertising Customer 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

He was meeting with Yahoo! Ultimately Yahoo! Look at the corporate roles / boards occupied by Jim Breyer (Wal-Mart, Marvel, Dell), Marc Andreessen (Facebook, eBay, HP) or Reid Hoffman (Mozilla, Zynga & obviously LinkedIn). I agreed to help. One of her early-stage investors, Jeff Clavier, played a very active role.

Invest 280

Invest Angel Venture Capital Yahoo 280

InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. and Overture Services. Share and Enjoy.

Content 171

Content Platform Paid Search OpenX 171

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

We also only allow you to create an account using Facebook Connect or LinkedIn Connect. Everywhere else where you can talk about the stock market is anonymous, like Yahoo's message board, or other forums online. How is what you are doing different from what is out there? Vinny Jindal: There are a couple of major differences.

Social Network 239

Social Network Startup Content Networking 239

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

Customers and clients are already on LinkedIn and Facebook, so it makes sense to go where they are, rather than limit your team at work to internal systems. The announcement by Yahoo a while back, pulling home workers back into the office, triggered a debate on whether some new companies have gone too far.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Yammer Case Study Study 102

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2012

A tweet by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on August 9th caused a stir in the tech scenes. A new venture fund had been launched, not because it was her husband’s but it was a totally unique and different fund and a timely move. Doors open. The good news is Data Collective fund is now open to the public.

Technical Review 74

Technical Review Entrepreneur Oracle Software Review 74

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

Customers and clients are already on LinkedIn and Facebook, so it makes sense to go where they are, rather than limit your team at work to internal systems. The announcement by Yahoo back in 2013, pulling home workers back into the office, triggered a debate on whether some new companies have gone too far.

Startup 61

Startup Case Study Platform Yahoo 61

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

Customers and clients are already on LinkedIn and Facebook, so it makes sense to go where they are, rather than limit your team at work to internal systems. The announcement by Yahoo in 2013, pulling home workers back into the office, triggered a debate on whether some new companies have gone too far.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Yammer 104

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

LinkedIn formed us into networks of networkers. Friendster was the trailblazer in this category allowing people to create personal pages and connect to other people in a LinkedIn style but without the “business&# and with a little more interactivity. We all wanted intros. Modern Social Networking.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how how do you compete?

Email 113

Email Startup Yahoo Google 113

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.” • LinkedIn • Facebook • Twitter. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

Custom 100

Custom Customer Technical Review Software Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I just checked his LinkedIn profile and it’s not updated so I’m guessing he’s still in stealth mode so I can’t talk about what he’s doing. 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!

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! After rejuvenating from the exhausting sale of Quigo, Mike started a ‘boring site’ called Tracked.com that he thought would be a better version of Yahoo! were doing. How Hashable Has Evolved Since Beta Launching.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2017

Even with prominent breaches at Yahoo, LinkedIn, and others, how many consumers actually take the time to enable that second factor? The existing paradigm bothers the users, especially when you enable a second factor, when we ask you to prove you are you. That's where things are today. We as consumers don't want to take those steps.

IP 100

IP CIO Artificial Inteligence Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

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!, Twitter, LinkedIn, Salesforce not to mention Disney, Warner, GM, P&G.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I literally have been switching from my Blackberry, to my iPhone, to my PC, back to the iPhone and on and on it goes.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Santa Barbara Blogging Yammer 100

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I literally have been switching from my Blackberry, to my iPhone, to my PC, back to the iPhone and on and on it goes.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Santa Barbara Blogging Yammer 100

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. You don’t have a pool of thousands of Google engineers to hire when they’re ready to leave the mother ship. You don’t. Get over it. But we do have great technology developers.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday.Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site.Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.To

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

By 2008, I was only a couple years away from the brain damage I suffered at CallWave, after the executive team turned down acquisition overtures from Google and Yahoo (I'll write about this colossal mistake in a future confessional article). • LinkedIn • Facebook • Twitter. but that's another confession, altogether.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

If you happen to see him I’d really be grateful if you would mention how much you like our product / believe in our company / that you knew me well when we worked at Yahoo! (or If we’re connected on LinkedIn or Facebook – try a short ping there. He seemed to be interested. or whatever is appropriate).

Venture Capital 277

Venture Capital Startup Email News 277

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. Make a list of the journalists writing the articles, they’re easy to find on Linkedin and Facebook. Social Media. Online Partnerships / Distribution Deals. Refreshing Content. The Viral Loop / User Email. Solve a Personal Compelling Need.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Plaxo & LinkedIn. While Plaxo never figured out what to do with us once we were all connected online, LinkedIn did. And they encouraged us to part with a lot more data about ourselves making LinkedIn our virtual resume. History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). LinkedIn Sign in or register to comment.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

You have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!, You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! eBay and others. You just don’t. Get over it.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Jim Andersen, president of prolific Westside developer NMS Properties, says the firm is opening five more buildings not far from the offices of Google and Yahoo, among other tech firms. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44