socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! We were at Overture Services here in Pasadena, and ultimately worked at Yahoo. John Zimmerman, my cofounder, created the commercial API for Overture and Yahoo Search. Search Marketing. First off, what is Datapop?

Yahoo

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M DataPop was founded Jason Lehmbeck and John Zimmerman, both of whom have been at Overture and Yahoo! Tags: datapop venture capital search marketing advertising overture yahoo.

Yahoo

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2012

Pricing on the new product was not announced. HireRight said it has been providing similar services through millions of background checks each year, but that the new offering specifically is aimed at high profile positions to protect organizations from "potential embarrassment."

Yahoo

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!, If we got an offer to raise $25 million to grow would she take it or be too worried about exit price, dilution, valuation expectations, etc. Price matters.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

First, over time Salesforce.com’s technology got better and better yet the price didn’t shoot up dramatically relative to Siebel. They have existing customers who already paid big prices who would be seriously pissed off if the next guy bought the same thing for 10x less. They are radically lower in price.

Startup

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! In three weeks, I have a 300-order backlog, so I doubled the price again.".

Startup

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

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

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Pricing on the new Private Cloud offering from Metacloud was not announced. Metacloud is venture backed by Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Ventures, and is led by Sean Lynch and Steve Curry; the two had been at Yahoo and Ticketmaster previously. READ MORE>>. metacloud private cloud service enterprise'

Services

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The offer is roughly 29 percent more than RealD''s trading price as of Wednesday. Starboard is a well known, activist investor, and is the company which is urging Yahoo to merge with AOL. In a statement released to the press, REalD said it will "carefully review and consider" the unsolicited bid from Starboard. READ MORE>>.

Technical Review

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Goldstar offers up half-price tickets to local concerts, theaters, comedy clubs, sporting events, and much more through a weekly email newsletter. The firm's deals are only available to members--who sign up for free--and are used by ticket marketers to fill out venues. Goldstar says it now has more than 1.2 million members using its services.

Newsletter

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! Also in the video: - Is it a good idea for VC’s to pay stratospheric prices? - .&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. now (or ever). IPO market is back.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! If I get a holiday bump I’ll raise a round at whatever price I like. Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? It will likely take time.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Now I just have a 3x higher exit price if I want to sell one day. How can you wake up every day and process that decision. Five million? Upside scenarios. Downside scenarios. Raise a big VC round – yeah! At least I have more resources. How do you process your company’s biggest decisions? What is Plan B? was interested.

News

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? So he launched a company with exclusively paid search.

Competition

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, As a startup this is often the one true source of strong leverage in a negotiation to: Get a better price, get a longer-term commitment, get PR commitments and so forth. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

Outsource Development

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! We will white label the system, and not only that, we’ll allow you to set your own pricing.” 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!

Google

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2015

YP said the tool connects into such sites as Google+, Yahoo Local, Yelp, and Facebook. Pricing on the new tool was not announced. The new product, ypPresence Starter , helps business owners share content with consumers, engage in social media, and more from a central location. The tool runs on iOS and Android. READ MORE>>.

Product

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The company said the tool not only lists ads on its own properties, but also delivers those ads to Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Pricing on the new tool was not announced. YP said it has launched ypSearch , a new product aimed at small business owners, which both provides search ads on YP''s properties, as well as on major search engines.

Advertising

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

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!; Zag develops software used for configuring and pricing new and used automobiles, which it provides on a white-label basis to affinity buying programs.

Zag

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

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

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. Vinny Jindal: There are lots of examples of where someone says  I'm going to buy this stock here, and sell at this price. Vinny Jindal: There are a couple of major differences.

Social Network

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. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

Pricing

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. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

Startup

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. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! Ask them for a meeting to review your pricing strategy with you. Investors and board members who know your key talking points (simplified marketing messages) will help you penetrate the consciousness of even the most hard to reach individuals. One key board member knows Marissa.

Tips

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. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

Pricing

Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2022

Starting today, they're going on strike for a week in protest of the price change, which they say is just the latest in a series of decisions that have squeezed the small-business sellers who depend on the Etsy platform to survive. Starting Price. on each sale. Now, those sellers are responding. What to Know. ” Why Strike?

Platform

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

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! No matter how much large clients tell you they want transparency in pricing, they always seem to fall for the same old trick. I will embrace my losses.

Outsource Development

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

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! No matter how much large clients tell you they want transparency in pricing, they always seem to fall for the same old trick. I will embrace my losses.

Outsource Development

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. Zuckerberg had so much confidence and determination to stay independent that he turned down an early $1 billion offer from Yahoo. Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! 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. Overture sold for $1.6 But bill is a BIG idea guy.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Receivers such as Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo don't trust that number. That why we offer a price point where you own your own IP address, and you can control your own destiny. That pricing scales up with volume, and it's pennies per thousands of emails sent, a very low cost. What was the magic about scaling this up so quickly?

Email

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Continuing incidences of personal identity theft , as well major personal data breaches , including Capital One (2019), Marriott/Starwood (2018), and Yahoo (2014) still weigh heavily on their decision process.

Social Media

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.

Blogging