socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Louis and Atlanta.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

To illustrate the extent to which a company’s name is largely irrelevant to its ultimate success, let’s examine the genesis of six successful technology companies’ names. Yahoo – Merriam-Webster defines “Yahoo” as “a boorish, crass, or stupid person.” Expertcity was a great name for that business.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

In a world where we promote technology as a means to make life easier by getting information quickly, communicating more efficiently and increasing productivity, we draw a thin line in becoming prisoners to the very tool built to set us free. I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Jod at the Los Angeles UX Meetup in the Yahoo!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

Out is the “cocktail only&# Twiistup and in is the new format of a conference that should take its rightful place on the national technology calendar. We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2017

I think what's different here, is there are technology to make all of this not only more secure, but provide a better user experience, and not bother the user. Even with prominent breaches at Yahoo, LinkedIn, and others, how many consumers actually take the time to enable that second factor? We are lazy. That's why things are changing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Technology innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In addition to currently being the Chief-of-Staff at Google and the Business Executive Partner of Eric Schmidt, she has also been the executive assistant to Marissa Meyer of Yahoo! Since securing funding for a wide range of companies for the firms disruptive technology division, she has become a staple of the investment community.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Stay on the radar – You need to find a very polite way to persistently be on the top of the radar screen of your VC. You’re just trying to stay on the radar screen. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital. So how to proceed? Read the following as a guide. ENTREPRENEUR NEXT STEPS.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words.

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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.

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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.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

Something happened and it was clear to me that this IE issues was just a smoke screen. Many large clients prefer stable technology and no changes – even sometimes when there are known security flaws. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. They stopped allowing us to contact them directly. The momentum had shifted.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo! But we do have great technology developers. eBay and others.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

And AOL stopped Yahoo! It was about freeing up content to be displayed on big screens regardless of the source or content type. And whenever you see closed systems all of the major players not invited inside the velvet rope will search for technology partners. Tell that to DropBox. Or Box.net. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

they’ll continue to look for independent technology partners. At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo! And I think the smartest hardware providers & MSOs are the ones that will sign unique and daring partnerships with startup technology firms. No prizes for guessing what the future holds for video.

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