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45 Articles match "Capital","Yahoo"
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. You Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All All the stereotypes and caricatures are overblown. And
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Monday, March 1, 2010
The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Sand Hill Road has so many venture capital firms and they are so large, and they have been around for so long and they are very closely coupled and tied with Stanford [University]. RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Jeff Kupietzky: The notion is that there are now two primary upstream providers of search, Google and Yahoo. Yahoo, for the most part, is ceding to Microsoft and Bing. Frankly, most people don't have the capital and management depth to be able to scale up and take advantage of the economy of size. It's been awhile since we caught up with the folks at Los Angeles-based Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), which has a very big businesses in the domain name area, so we thought we'd sit down and hear how things are going for the firm. We talked with Jeff Kupietzky, CEO of Oversee.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Dossett was most recently at Yahoo!, AdventureLink is venture funded by Anthem Venture Partners, The Mailroom Fund, and Allegis Capital. Tags: adventurelink travel executive booking yaho Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , a venture funded online adventure travel booking site, said Friday that it has appointed Jeff Dossett as the firm's Chief Executive Officer. where he was Senior Vice President of Audience Experiences for North America.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice .
and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me).
I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0
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Wednesday, 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. Yahoo and Microsoft said that Yahoo will use the technology behind Microsoft's Bing search engine to power all of the web search aspects of its web site, with Yahoo taking over premium search advertising sales for Microsoft. The two specifically said, in an oblique reference to Google, that the move would provide an alternative to advertisers, so that they no longer to have "rely on one company that dominates more than 70 percent of all search."
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
If you happen to see him I’d really be grateful if you would mention how much you like our product / believe in our company / that you knew me well when we worked at Yahoo! (or Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC .” 8221; Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. Some
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Los Angeles-based Vicente Capital Partners said Wednesday that the investment fund has raised $150M for the firm's Growth Equity Fund. The firm said its new fund will invest between $5M and $15M in equity in expansion capital or buyout deals, to companies who have $2M to $25M in revenues and up to $5M in EBITDA. Limited partners in the new fund include CalPERS, Fairview Capital, JP Morgan Asset Mgmt. & Affiliates, LACERS, LA Fire and Police Pensions, New Mexico ERB, New Mexico State Investment Council, New York Common and Teachers' Retirement System (IL). The fund's team,
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The firm said Studenmund also has served as PayMyBills.com and First Interstate Bank, in addition to her time at Overture Services and Yahoo. Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. Tags: passenger brand community online software executive overture yaho Los Angeles-based Passenger , which operates online communities for major brands, said today that it has named Jaynie Miller Studenmund to the firm's board of directors. Studenmund is an advisor focused on startups, rapid growth, turnaround, and merger and acquisition, and was
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
So we knew I’d go out and do some capital raising.
He didn’t want to see my investor deck, he just wanted to have a quick conversation with me about how I was going to protect his capital.
Google was the most expensive of our traffic buys, so we also bought ads on Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.
Have you noticed how some entrepreneurs look at getting funding as the ultimate sign of success? Not only is funding not the finish line, but the mistakes you make when you get investors can cost you when you finally do get to the finish line and are ready to sell your company.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Product Manager at Yahoo! Tags: snowball factory awesm tweetpost twitter facebook venture capital software saa Beverly Hills-based The Snowball Factory , the developer of Awe.sm , a URL shortener for domains, and tweetpo.st , software for updating Facebook from Twitter, has raised $562,600 in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. Source of the funding was not disclosed.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Aside from Sonnad, who was at thePlatform, the company includes executives from Shopzilla, Yahoo!, Tags: clearstone capital venture tmobile application mobile geodeli Santa Monica-based Geodelic announced today that the firm is shipping a new application for local discovery, along with T-Mobile USA. According to the venture backed firm, the new software for T-Mobile's myTouch 3G, learns a user's favorite locations and helps them find local retailers, restaurants, and attractions.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Interestingly enough, one of the firm’s local portfolio companies– AdventureLink , in Pasadena–just hired a new CEO from Yahoo, who has summitted Everest twice.
...Tags: Tags: Venture Capita It’s always interesting to me to watch the investment activity as summer swings into gear; it’s usually a telling indicator of how things will pan out for the remainder of the year. In busy years (the past two years, for example) — deal flow hardly paused at all, VCs were so busy they seemed to be around even during their traditional summer vacations,
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