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.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

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. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with almost three billion user accounts, all free. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Platform 118

Platform Snapchat Startup Course 118

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Similar current buzz-meter terms include: geo-location, geo-fencing, local deals, local offers, flash sales, group sales, privates sales and augmented reality. And Siebel on your desktop is not the same as Salesforce.com on the web. And of course – badges. Fawking badges. OK, I get it. Badges were an innovation.

Startup 296

Startup Evite Web Ideas 296

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

Neal Weiss, Yahoo! Originals is Yahoo!’s TV Group, VP Sales Development (Ellen Degeneres Show, Extra, TMZ, KidsWB.com, TheWB.com). At Agility Studios, closed Puma deal for integration into director Jon Chu’s LXD dance web series, now at Paramount Digital. davidbeebe. Originals, Head of Creative Development.

Entertainment 96

Entertainment Yahoo Electronic Arts Social Media 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

According to FatTail, Ted Meisel, former CEO of Overture and president of Yahoo! FatTail develops software used to manage the sales of advertising on major publisher web sites, including managing RFPs and ad inventory. Miller and former Fox Interactive Media's Ross Levinsohn. Search Marketing also participated in the funding.

Woodland Hills 100

Woodland Hills Yahoo Advertising Web 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Inverted Software

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

From Google Maps, Apple Maps, Facebook, Bing, Yahoo, Yelp and more, Yext lists your business for you and keeps your data accurate so you can be easily found by your customers. Considered to be the #1 landing page builder, Leadpages generates leads and sales for your business on the web, in emails, via text messaging, and on social media.

Software Review 44

Software Review Tool Software Marketing 44

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. Many people agreed and added that even the best sales meetings are also discussions and not pitches. He had spent many years at Yahoo! during the better days and we had lots of discussions / debates about Yahoo!’s

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Yahoo 288

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, He is known for being able to monetize the social web. He was raised and educated in London.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

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. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with well over two billion user accounts, all free. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Snapchat 74

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Tim is the former head of Yahoo's Global Advertising Marketplaces unit, overseeing Display, Search and Video, and was VP of Search at Overture. We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. Yahoo made the decision that they could not, or would not be able to make the level of investment required to keep up with Google.

OpenX 242

OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. Everything we have built is web-based, and there isn't anything to download--you can access it from a computer anywhere. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how They all now come with cameras.

Email 113

Email Yahoo Startup Google 113

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. We give users something they don't get anywhere else, for something they do every day--searching the web.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. further down the sales funnel from CPC advertising where you pay for a click but still need to convert on your own). But higher value product sales often require a phone call. Early evidence is good.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there. We've also got the partnership with Google/YouTube, the partnership with Yahoo Rivals, and we also partner with USA Today and Gannett on their digital properties.

Content 212

Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Spread through word-of-mouth as the company has no sales team, all engineers. Competitors: Gowalla.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. We have a licensing business with that.

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William Chow: What Mobophiles has developed is software that solves the two biggest problems the web space right now, which is slow page load--waiting on the web--and no offline access, which is if you don't have connectivity on the web. It's completely transparent to the web sites we are supporting.

SaaS 127

SaaS Web Google Sites 127

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids. So, the first thing we're recruiting for is a strong sales team, that has a trusted relationship with the studios in LA.

Startup 164

Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

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. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than a billion user accounts, all free. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Startup 96

Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

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. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than two billion user accounts, all free. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

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. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than a billion user accounts, all free. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Startup 93

Startup Course Yahoo Invest 93

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. wonder what that might be?

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than 750 million user accounts, all free. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Startup 97

Startup Course Yahoo Invest 97

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. I don't have a long sales cycle, because I'm talking to people who have already chosen Jetty.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with about 400 million user accounts, all free. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

Startup 91

Startup Course Invest Yahoo 91

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. I became an angel investor after Overture was acquired by Yahoo. Eric Hovanec: Web developers, operations folks, and we have openings in sales and account management.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

The way it works today, is a web site might have an affiliate link, people looking for a mortgage or refi will input their info, and hit submit. As technology people, we all live and breathe Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and AOL. 250 billion is spent to drive about 20 billion, inbound sales call to U.S. call centers every year.

Advertising 113

Advertising Networking Santa Barbara Startup 113

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Csathy was the former CEO of SightSpeed, which he sold to Logitech last year, and also served as COO of MusicMatch, which was sold to Yahoo in 2004. The talent we are looking for is across the board, it is certainly engineers, but also looking for marketing and sales. What is Sorenson Media about?

Media 100

Media San Diego Southern California Class 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

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.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! eBay and others.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities. He is currently CEO of ThisWeekIn.com , a web television network he co-founded with Jason Calacanis and comedian/actor Kevin Pollak. to the masses… This is how The Grilled Cheese Truck was born!

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo! Much of web video search is bad at finding “the good stuff&# including YouTube itself. It’s clear that when people watch movies now they Tweet about it when they get out and this has an impact on box office sales. Trying searching for something on Hulu.

Content 386

Content Google Media Hulu 386