socalTECH
JULY 29, 2009
In a major deal, search portal provider Yahoo and software giant Microsoft said that the two companies are in a deal where Yahoo will replace its own search engine technology with that of Microsoft--with potentially huge repercussions to Yahoo's Southern California search engine marketing operations.
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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JUNE 14, 2016
The most obvious, is to drive sales. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. For us, the funding was because we have so much opportunity. It's a marketing experience. You change the conversation when you do that.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
My friend and fellow SoCal venture capitalist Peter Lee wrote a post about the different roles within a VC and spent much time on the role of an associate. 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. Some people have authority (A).
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. So it’s always a trade-off. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales. You don’t. Get over it.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. 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.
socalTECH
AUGUST 3, 2012
In addition, all of that content, those two thousand games, all feed back to our studios in Southern California, where we continue to slice and dice and enhance that content for further distribution. We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there.
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