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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And we wanted a head of global marketing. RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. I wanted them to have a market lead before others could try and build what Ethan was working on. We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

He's now hard at work at a new company, Kaleo, which is tackling the enterprise, knowledge sharing market�and already has an impressive list of Fortune 500 customers. He had 5,000, B-to-B marketers across various divisions of GE, and they really never were able to help each other. There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). He displayed a deep mastering of the power of the Internet, direct marketing and Twitter to manage his business. Mark Suster, QD3, Brian Solis, Chamillionaire, Ian Rogers, Brian Zisk.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. Not just in Silicon Valley but in LA, NY, Seattle and other major tech markets. The future certainly looks brighter to me.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. Established In 2010 By PayPal’s First Head of US marketing. million Raised. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

The best entrepreneurs get market feedback regularly and change their approach based on the latest information. Geni.com beget Yammer. It’s one thing to be tenacious but if you’re not listening to the market and changing things based on that feedback you’re dead. I could go on and on. Not so much.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

Its investors include Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), FF Angel, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Joe Lonsdale (founder of Palantir Technologies), David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), 7th Rig, and Wasabi Ventures. Founded in 2010 by Eric M.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jackson: I was the first Senior Director of Marketing at PayPal. We've had a class of people who have gone on to start fantastic companies, such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer. Let's talk about your experience at PayPal, as one of the first employees--for folks who haven't read your book?

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Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

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JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc).

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MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Tweetdeck and Yammer are always running in the background. So Thurs rolls around and I’m all about using my new found skills from the PP and Ashley’s from the 140 and meet with the team to discuss the next marketing step. It’s a little overwhelming at times, but I’m getting it down. I think she gets that.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

What was unique about Goldmine, was that it was a simple, yet powerful tool for individuals or teams, to manage relationships and keep track of top of the line marketing and track sales. Now, you don't have to go to Twitter to listen, LinkedIn to listen, your email inbox, find contacts in Google Contacts, or even Yammer or Hootsuite.

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Google Tool Email Sales 216

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 finally broke down and bought a Twitter marketing application that automatically adds followers for you.

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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 finally broke down and bought a Twitter marketing application that automatically adds followers for you.

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Technical Review Santa Barbara Blogging Yammer 100

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APRIL 21, 2010

This is the market that Wonga serves and they are killing it! Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Big market. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C. What I like?

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

” How can businesses not incorporate information into their marketing and sales funnels? and so on and we do private implementations with the likes of Yammer and others. Social Media Tech Market Analysis' should I go Audi or BMW?” Roger Ehrenberg. Rory O’Driscoll. Chris Smart. You’ve been marvelous.

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MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. Guy Kawasaki said it best (paraphrasing), “you can’t do great marketing with a bad product.&# Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000.

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MAY 22, 2010

Dig deeper and you see that they do: project management (like 37 Signals), share and store files online (like DropBox and Box.net), create and edit documents online (like Google Docs & Zoho), Wikis (like SocialText) and Discussions (like Yammer). Kevin Epstein, VP Marketing of CloudShare had Skyp’d in to our broadcast.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2013

To be clear I’m not saying don’t attend SXSW, just not to blow your marketing budget trying to stand out. If you were at TechCrunch 40 in the early days and you won: Mint, Yammer, RedBeacon – you were an instant darling. They will fail. In fact, I’m a very big proponent of SXSW as I wrote about here.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. I am often quoted as saying “70% of my investment decision is the people and 30% is the market” and there is a reason. Why Invest?

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Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

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JANUARY 28, 2011

Some investors are team focused, others market focused, others seems to look for product / market fit. Only then can I even care about product, market or their nebulous “fit.&#. Me: “I love your market. I wasn’t convinced about your go-to-market strategy back then, your new one is much better.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s true that I have a functional focus on three areas: Performance-based marketing, digital television and mobile computing. It’s the single most influential piece of work in determining my investment philosophy and how I think about markets. But beating free is hard, as is creating a two-sided market (chicken & egg problem).

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. But the cloud-based stuff that we use every day as consumers (websites, Twitter, Facebook, Zynga) or as businesses (dropbox, gmail, Yammer, GoToMeeting) all rely on business logic created by application companies. Same with university data. Healthcare data. Weather data.

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