socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2015

We spoke with founder and CEO Tyler Francois to hear about his vision for making anyone an Internet radio DJ, and how the team--made up of former Yahoo! Tyler Francois: We have a fairly lean team right now, eight full time developers, three of whom previously worked for other, streaming music services, including Yahoo! What is urRadio?

Yahoo 100

Yahoo Social Media Content Media 100

Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

The companies said Monday they expect their “strategic partnership” to boost both businesses by strengthening their pitch to customers around the world who are interested in enhancing their physical operations with digital technologies. The news sent PTC’s stock (NASDAQ: PTC ) to a record high for the company, according to Yahoo Finance data.

Yahoo 45

Yahoo Writing News Pricing 45

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest. They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data.

Social Media 107

Social Media Tool Google Yahoo 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. In this age of technology, the advent of a better alternative is inevitable. Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Revenue and competitive position followed.

Startup 144

Startup Social Media Metrics Customer 144

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! Does Yahoo! has now employed the same strategy. And who cares, right? Chief Vesting Officers)?

Press 357

Press Startup Yahoo Venture Capital 357

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!, We lived together for seven years while at Yahoo! It was a typical storyline. ows are lower.

Yahoo 210

Yahoo Startup Advertising Summary 210

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest. They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data.

Social Media 131

Social Media Startup Tool Google 131

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. It is often LESS performant. So what did happen?

Startup 376

Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. In this age of technology, the advent of a better alternative is inevitable. Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Revenue and competitive position followed.

Social Media 87

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 87

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

Everywhere else where you can talk about the stock market is anonymous, like Yahoo's message board, or other forums online. What all those places share is they lack the social tools and technology that you would expect in a place like Facebook. There is no social network online which provides authentic ideas about the stock market.

Social Network 239

Social Network Startup Networking Content 239

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Good ones don’t care about the granular details in a startup but they do care about how big the market is, what share you’ll get and what assumptions you make about pricing over time and other market factors. Or do you need to raise prices?

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are striving to be the super-mega technology company that owns every layer of the value chain. To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Search is just another web application.

Google 92

Google Web .Net Yahoo 92

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

And even the best teams combined to create big innovations sometimes don’t time markets well, are surprised by unexpected technology breakthroughs by competitors or just don’t find the magic the leads to mass customer adoption. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! It will likely take time.

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. In this age of technology, the advent of a better alternative is inevitable. Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Revenue and competitive position followed.

Competition 65

Competition Social Media Metrics Customer 65

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

technology heavyweights Avamar (sold to EMC), and EchoSign (sold to Adobe)--among others. that out, by pulling together massive amounts of information from multiple sources and intelligently pricing and engaging. Commercial API Programs at Yahoo, in addition to running engineering teams at Overture Services and Amazon.com.

Southern California 66

Southern California Software Artificial Inteligence Company 66

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 5, 2011

In 1998, the newly christened Broadcast.com went public and set the record (since broken) for the largest single-day price appreciation, rising nearly 250%. Mark and his team sold Broadcast.com, to Yahoo! " Yahoo could have purchased a variety of Internet based video companies when they acquired Mark’s venture.

Tips 274

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Ideas 274

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Retail pricing intelligence provider Blacklocus ; who was picked up by Home Depot, making ATX the home of their innovation center. In my mind, having spent years working with Yahoo Shopping and hpshopping before launching several commerce ventures as a CMO and advisor, Austin is the home of eCommerce.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Their vision is to be the key technology provider to reduce global dependence on oil and the harmful social, economic and environmental consequences that follow.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. in Computer Science.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. This generally involves the BDC selling the startup’s technology under the BDC’s brand. As such, it will not be viewed by the market as an explicit validation of your technology.

Outsource Development 170

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 170

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! VCs have a seat at the table in deciding future investors. I will embrace my losses.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! VCs have a seat at the table in deciding future investors. I will embrace my losses.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. This generally involves the BDC selling the startup’s technology under the BDC’s brand. As such, it will not be viewed by the market as an explicit validation of your technology.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 124

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies. The question will be “at what price?&# And for investors, “at what valuation did they get in?&#. $10 Because GoTo.com was his idea. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

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. Billion Dollar Consolation Prize?

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! On the enterprise side, I know every buyer of technology in this industry. So I prefer to watch what works first and pay a higher price to get in when it’s proven.” According to Andy.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

Many large clients prefer stable technology and no changes – even sometimes when there are known security flaws. No matter how much large clients tell you they want transparency in pricing, they always seem to fall for the same old trick. I hear Silicon Valley firms bragging all the time about how often they release software.

Startup 151

Startup Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review 151

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

How to create a technology start-up inside a large organization - based on how we are doing it right. Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . Web and mobile technology have developed differently in Japan than any other country with hardware, Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, japan, Localization. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. She can anticipate reactions to price increases or product changes by customers and she can sustain competitive challenges because she knows the customer will stick by her. Back to Chip.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Dan Gould is the another founder of Chill and leads the technology team. Previously, he co-created Farmville, and was the CEO/co-founder of MyMiniLife, Inc.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Overture was sold to Yahoo! billion – not a bad result, hey?

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. History repeats itself.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. were doing. We can do better.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! LA and Seattle are in the second (or third) major wave of technology innovation.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317