socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Steve Curry: I had been at Yahoo managing their storage operations. After I left Yahoo, I spent a couple of years with Forsythe Solutions Group, as a liaison with account executives. We''re really excited to see the storage platform grow pretty substantially. It''s a very unique business model. What drove you to start MetaCloud?

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. You don’t.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

Eric Hovanec: We're a distribution and revenue platform for specialty lodging providers, including vacation rentals, condominium hotels--anything that isn't a hotel. We've got a software-as-a-service platform that handles all of that for them--all they have to do is hand the guest the key. Our platform allows that.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. The great NorCal vs. SoCal debate is a longstanding, undeniable rivalry between the stereotypical surfer dudes of the south and environmental geeks to the north. MYTH 1: SoCal’s nothing but beaches, Housewives, and Mickey Mouse.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. What do Silicon Valley investors know that we are missing?".

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation. Twitter started as a mini blogging platform, but now it also wants to become more of a media company.

Media 100

Media Blogging Hulu Invest 100

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

firm's co-founder and CEO, was VP Emerging Ad Products at Overture/Yahoo; co-founder John Zimmerman was Managing Director of. Commercial API Programs at Yahoo, in addition to running engineering teams at Overture Services and Amazon.com. Forum , says "New platforms are very interesting to CTOs. Jason Lehmbeck, the.

Southern California 66

Southern California Software Artificial Inteligence Company 66

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. It filed for an IPO on August 6th.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. We're in Santa Monica, and sometime people think we're a venue or rental space for events, but what we are, is a 100 percent software company.

Sales 100

Sales Santa Monica Startup Orange County 100

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. Resources Here are some related articles: The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect Update once to share with many on Yahoo! Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo! Example What do I mean?

Google 292

Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

While the focus perhaps should instead be on the conversations themselves and integrating them across whatever platforms within which they are taking place, the view today is instead still too much on individual tools and channels. This could also address some of the disconnect between older and newer social media platforms I outlined above.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

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).

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50