socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2010

Padnos also has served at Yahoo! and University Netcasting, which became the CBS College Sports Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Thus even if unit sales keep increasing, revenues can lag due to the need for lower prices as the mainstream market takes over.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

It was a decade ago that I led the sale of Expertcity (creator of GoToMeeting) to Citrix. During the early 2000’s, my team grew the company to one of the largest SaaS businesses of its day, with sales of $70 million. Circa 2001, Yahoo publicly declared that they didn’t do cost per acquisition (CPA) deals. Sorry, that was me.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Once you put your offer in, you enter your credit card, and you commit to the sale. Once that offer is accepted, that make the sale, and the retailer handles the transaction just as if it happened on their own website. We take a commission on the sale, and everybody is happy. Retailers only pay us if the sale happens.

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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. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The process for raising money from a VC is a sales process and as such much of what is taught in enterprise sales can be applied. While this post is written about raising venture capital (which I always remind entrepreneurs IS a sales process) the lessons can be applied to any sale or biz dev deal. I disagree.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. It’s why many talent agencies or ad networks struggle to get scale advantages.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

Neal Weiss, Yahoo! Originals is Yahoo!’s TV Group, VP Sales Development (Ellen Degeneres Show, Extra, TMZ, KidsWB.com, TheWB.com). Check-In, Networking and light appetizers. 9:30-10p Networking. original series (EMHE Life With Confidence, Stars Go Green, etc.), davidbeebe. The Guild (Microsoft, etc.),

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now.

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socalTECH

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. John Ellis: PurePhoto is a social commerce network, for buying, sharing, and selling original photographic art.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Thus even if unit sales keep increasing, revenues can lag due to the need for lower prices as the mainstream market takes over.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Similar current buzz-meter terms include: geo-location, geo-fencing, local deals, local offers, flash sales, group sales, privates sales and augmented reality. Last year’s passé terms that even entrepreneurs cringe at (and the best are embarrassed to lead with) are social network, social media and social games.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. We''re now figuring out to take that to market and driving it through our sales channel.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. We''re now figuring out to take that to market and driving it through our sales channel.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

John Mudge: We launched IBN Sports in January of 2007, focused on creating an interactive, broadcast network for sports. We have our own site, IBNSports.com, and we also work with partners schools to create a presence on the network. What is IBN Sports? That's the first time it's ever been done in high school sports.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 21, 2012

Oversees the development, production, and programming of YouTube channels CuteWinFail and Petsami, the original series Ultimate Proposal/Ultimate Surprises with Cameron Mathison, Stunt Nation with Sal Masekela on Yahoo, Meet Cute with Ashley Tisdale, and the digital presence for America’s Funniest Home Videos. 9:30-10p Networking.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. I started writing, doing production, and wrote a winning student short, and also worked at Creative Artist in film distribution and sales. What is CreatorUp all about?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo! Garth Holsinger, VP of Global Sales and Business Development, Klout.

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socalTECH

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. For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

CapLinked says the round of funding and new appointment are an advancement in their move to displace the legacy left by Virtual Data Room (VDR) with their intuitive new product for coordinating on complex business deals such as asset sales, financings, and mergers and acquisitions. 25 Years of Writing Code. and Schlumberger.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. Additionally, we have all the different instant messaging networks available in Orgoo. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how They can come into your inbox, or come into separate folders. how do you compete?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! eBay and others.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

Having previously worked at notable companies including Myspace, PayPal, Yahoo!, Robyn Ward is the Director of Sales and Business Development at BetterWorks, which offers companies and their employees pre-negotiated perks in a simple, cost-saving platform. ROBYN WARD. KRISHNA SUBRAMANIAN.

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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. What is Scour? We use our own algorithm, as well as user votes.

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PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

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Pricing Cloud Computing Custom Customer 105

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. We have a licensing business with that.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Jason Spievak: At a high level, what we do, is enable affiliate networks to track calls like they do clicks. Jason Spievak: The way it works today, is if you were a publisher, and you wanted to promote a call-based campaign, you'd log in through your chosen affiliate network--such as Commission Junction. Explain your technology?

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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 AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). The secret to the software sales process. were doing. At the end, don’t miss these great short discussions….

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. You don’t. Get over it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Thus even if unit sales keep increasing, revenues can lag due to the need for lower prices as the mainstream market takes over.

Pricing 52

Pricing Cloud Computing Custom Customer 52

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Sales is all about knowing the key values of your buyer: What are they trying to achieve in working with you, why do they care about your solution and how will it help them economically? Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

(sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Their all new all electric car is set to be released for sale in limited quantities at the end of 2011.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

If we see products are trending, we reach out and strike a deal with the vendor and make it for sale on our platform. Prior to founding Tapiture, he spent quality time at big tech companies including Earthlink, Overture and Yahoo. “We went into this knowing how our users engage with content. I am drawn to it.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc.,

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

She joined Yahoo! Being a CEO begets the network to be a CEO. So it could be that a sale would yield you seven figures and you could move on to your next role but the CEO wants to “go big or go home” and sometimes go home is the outcome. For these people I have a solution or two.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. I became an angel investor after Overture was acquired by Yahoo. We're expanding our distribution network, adding tools and services for our suppliers, and beefing up operations.

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