Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. We once thought nobody could unseat Google since all inbound traffic to the web came from them. Laughable now. Of course not.

Technical Review 299

Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. The company was called Red Beacon. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. Nice sweep!

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.

Google 216

Google Tool Email Sales 216

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Geni.com beget Yammer. They had started to launch new products that helped web site owners better load applications from third-party vendors and they started experimenting with totally new ad models that drove the daily revenue up by 7x in less than 30 days. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform.

Entrepreneur 291

Entrepreneur Startup Google Yammer 291

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web.

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Yammer, Salesforce Chatter. If I were a number 3-5 players I’d be looking to exit early while there’s still a lot of enthusiasm for this hot market. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The only con with the web application is that it can’t be used offline. HootSuite (Social Networking): Application to consolidate all of your social networking into one place (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yammer, etc.). Yammer (Internal Communication): It’s like a private twitter for your company.

Tool 112

Tool Tips Yammer Organization 112

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. Tynt Multimedia “Online tool that allows content sites to control copy-paste activity on their web sites.&# For starters I LOVE the idea for this product. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. In business you spend your life in email. Enter Xobni.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Facebook was largely a web-based company and none of its revenues were generated on mobile, where many analysts were predicting it would be too hard to replicate the revenue potential of the larger real estate on desktop computers. Tact stated with a user-centric approach from Day 1.

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. Isn’t WebEx already dead man walking?

Screening 266

Screening Screencast Web Yammer 266

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

And then they decided they wanted to be the Internet retailer of computing services so they created Amazon Web Services. Of course I could go on and on including businesses like AirBnB, DropBox, Box.net, Yammer and so on. This generation’s Sears Catalog. So they kept cutting costs of everything they offered. All deflationary.

Startup 386

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 386

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. They have built algorithms that automatically crawl the web for the world’s best structured data and use heuristic techniques to ensure the quality of the data.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users. The mobile web will become what desktop Internet became in the 1990’s – the standard platform for anyone doing business.

Mobile 156

Mobile Commerce Software Review Yammer 156