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>>.

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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."

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Yahoo Screening Organization Pricing 150

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>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Topspin said its new offering, called Label Pricing, will provide batched account upgrades for a single price. The firm said ten Topspin Enterprise accounts will cost $2,500, versus a normal pricing of $10,000. Topspin is headed by former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, and backed by Foundry Group and Redpoint Ventures.

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Redpoint Yahoo Pricing Commerce 177

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?

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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.

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Yahoo Paid Search GRP Partners SoCalTech 145

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'

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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.

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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?

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

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Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 123

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.".

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Charge the right prices for the right services – But as less people take the DVD service over time, there will be less revenue to cover the relatively high fixed cost structure of the mailer (Qwikster). So it wouldn’t be a surprise to see price increases in Qwikster in the future. kids movies priced as a separate package).

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Netflix Evite Pricing Hulu 329

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)?

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Press Startup Yahoo Venture Capital 357

Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

The news sent PTC’s stock (NASDAQ: PTC ) to a record high for the company, according to Yahoo Finance data. As of this writing, it was trading at nearly $92 per share, up more than 5 percent from Friday’s closing price. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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.

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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.

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Newsletter Yahoo Startup San Diego 157

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.

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Yahoo Startup Advertising Summary 210

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?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

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.

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Social Media Tool Google Yahoo 107

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.

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Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is over $900 billion.

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Platform Snapchat Startup Course 118

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.

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Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Customer 116

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.

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Social Media Startup Tool Google 131

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.

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Venture Capital Capital SEO Yahoo 232

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 105

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 105

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

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Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 52

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.

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Zag Arcturus GRP Partners Anthem 100

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.

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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. 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.

Social Media 87

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 87

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage. If you have several new investors looking at your company you’re likely to get higher price. I’m sure this happens, too.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Invest 265

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.

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News Venture Capital Yahoo .Net 405

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is around $400 billion.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

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!

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

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 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

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.

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Outsource Development Startup Customer Custom 150

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.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

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.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248