socalTECH

JULY 31, 2009

West Hollywood-based Yammer , the corporate microblogging site inspired by Twitter, is moving from the Los Angeles area to Silicon Valley, according to founder David Sacks. Sacks said that Geni, which spun out Yammer, remains in West Hollywood. Sacks said that Geni, which spun out Yammer, remains in West Hollywood. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

Craig has recruited the co-creater of Zynga's Farmville game, Sizhao Yang, as well as George Ishii, who was co-founder of Geni.com and Yammer, as co-founders. BetterWorks said that it is focused on allowing business owners to "create rewarding work environments quickly, easily and affordably".

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

No reason for the downtime was given, however, the downtime at Geni paralleled a similar, more widely reported downtime issues at sister firm Yammer. Instant messaging service Yammer--which recently moved to the Bay Area--reported its services came down due to "hardware issue within the supervisory engine of a switch". READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

Craig's co-founders include Zao Yang, the creator of Farmville, and George Ishii, co-founder of Geni and Yammer. The firm--headed by Paige Craig--helps provide employee benefits and perks using web-based software and technology. BetterWorks did not give a timetable for opening up in New York and Boston. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2012

Microsoft in late June announced to have acquired social network for enterprises Yammer at $ 1.2 He says,” all closing conditions for Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer have been met, and the deal is completed”. He says,” all closing conditions for Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer have been met, and the deal is completed”.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2009

The new microblogging feature puts Central Desktop in competition with another local startup, Yammer, which has created its own enterprise and business focused take on Twitter. Tags: twitter microblogging desktop central saas software yammer. The new microblogging tool, like Twitter, also supports updates via mobile phones, using SMS.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2011

Geni has an interesting executive history, having moved a portion of its team--including Sacks and Yammer co-founder Adam Pisoni--to San Francisco to work on Yammer, which was originally a side project of the company. The firm was originally started by ex-Paypal COO David Sacks. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2011

Geni has an interesting executive history, having moved a portion of its team--including Sacks and Yammer co-founder Adam Pisoni--to San Francisco to work on Yammer, which was originally a side project of the company. The firm was originally started by ex-Paypal COO David Sacks. READ MORE>>.

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Geni Yammer West Hollywood Chief Technology Officer 133

socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2011

OneLogin said its single sign-on software is being used by such partners as Yammer, Colby Community College and Transwest. The firm was co-founded by Thomas and Christian Pederson. Thomas Pederson was formerly VP Business Development at Zendesk. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jason Calacanis , the Los Angeles angel investor, podcast host, speaker, conference organizer, and CEO of Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in employee feedback firm 15Five. READ MORE>>.

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Mahalo Yammer Conference Google 159

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2014

Cross Campus said the new location is owned by Rising Realty Partners (RRP) and technology entrepreneur David Sacks, who was the CEO of Yammer and was the COO of PayPal. Raymond, and is expected to open in the fall. The new, Pasadena location is actually larger than the Cross Campus space in Santa Monica, which is 13,500 square feet.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

David Schwartz, Vice President, Corporate Development of Yammer David Schwartz is the Vice President, Corporate Development, at Yammer Inc., He has performed this role since the company’s inception after Yammer was spun-out of Geni Inc. (a a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

GumGum''s advisory board also include David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer; Michael Jones, the former CEO of MySpace, and Vince Thompson, the Managing partner at Middleshift. GumGum said it has appointed Carl Fremont, the Global Chief Digital Officer at MEC, which it says is one of the world''s largest media agency networks, to its advisory board.

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Media Yammer Advertising Los Angeles 164

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

The firm, which provides virtual currency handling for Android game makers, is the startup of Ari Mir, who formerly co-founded GumGum, and Amos Elliston, who served as CTO at Geni and SVP of Engineering at Yammer. and Kamran Pourzanjani, who founded Pricegrabber.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

Jackson, and backed by such investors as Peter Thiel, David Sacks (Yammer), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir Technologies), and Dave McClure (500 Startups), as well as Hercules Technology Growth Fund, 7th Rig, and Wasabi Ventures. CapLinked is headed by Eric M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

Discoverly disclosed a seed round of funding worth $750,000 which included Salesforce.com, Bessemer Venture partners, Atlas Venture , Great Oaks Venture Capital, as well as Jim Patterson (Yammer), MJ Elmore, Howard Lindzon (Stocktwits), and Alchemist Accelerator.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2012

The round was led by TomorrowVentures, the personal investment fund of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, and also included David Hanna (CompuCredit) and Jim Patterson (Yammer).

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Manhattan Beach Yammer Google Services 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We''ve very much taken a play out of the Yammer playbook. Yammer used this to create lead generation from the top down. Yammer did that very adeptly, and I think that fits extremely well with our model. Another aspect we''ve included is the ability to self-provision your own network. That''s important in how we market.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Ebay+Soundcloud = us" and "FLIMBY=Yammer+Delicious+Gotomeeting.". Yammer for Education) & explanatory (e.g., "Better than Amazon''s customer experience for any brand" and "LinkedIn on Steroids.". Math Doesn''t Lie. Google x Facebook x Amazon) + (Universal Reviews). Explanatory. "A But For Nonprofits.

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Product Yammer Technical Review Google 208

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

After this was my panel (co-hosted by Christian Gammill who had to leave mid-way to race off to Hawaii to get engaged and by Tony Adam), with Mike Jones (COO of MySpace), David Sacks (founder of Geni and Yammer) and Jamie Montgomery (CEO of tech investment bank Montgomery & Co).

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2019

Craft Ventures is the investment firm run by former Yammer founder, David Sacks. READ MORE>>.

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Artificial Inteligence Yammer Tool Advertising 124

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2012

The firm's other investors include Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir Technologies), Stephan Paternot (co-founder of TheGlobe.com), David Anderson (managing partner of 7th Rig), 500 Startups, and Wasabi Ventures.

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Technical Review Software Review Yammer Funding 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

and so on and we do private implementations with the likes of Yammer and others. Already 2/3rds of our customers are ingesting 2 or more data sources including Facebook, Tumblr, WordPress, Bit.ly

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Social Media Yammer Invest Organization 358

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Santa Monica-based Crew32 , a stealth startup founded by Docstoc founder Jason Nazar, Betterworks, Geni, and Yammer co-founder George Ishii, and InvestedIn and MySpace co-founder Yadid Ramot, has raised $5.2M, as part of an ongoing $6.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm on Thursday.

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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. “In order to create a successful new company, you have to find an idea that. (1)

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Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

Frank Addante

MAY 11, 2009

Tags: rubicon project headquarters rubicast rubirewards office culture communication cultural values yammer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. The company was called Red Beacon. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Nice sweep!

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2016

Nazar was the founder of Docstoc, which he sold to Intuit; his co-founders include George Ishii (Yammer/Geni), Mike Sheridan (DebtMarket), and Yadid Ramot (Investedin). Comparably's website lets users see what people are getting paid for jobs, across different companies. READ MORE>>.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Yammer Geni Santa Monica 100

TechCrunch LA

MAY 8, 2019

The company has raised $11 million in financing from undisclosed strategic investors and Craft Ventures, the investment firm set up by former Yammer founder, David Sacks. “This idea was seeded within GumGum,” says Tanz. “I started the process of collecting dental x-rays over three years ago.”

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Yammer Los Angeles 200

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We've had a class of people who have gone on to start fantastic companies, such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer. Excellence was encouraged, and the management team there--Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and David Sacks--created a nurturing environment for becoming an entrepreneur. Finally, for CapLinked, how has the firm been funded?

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Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Geni.com beget Yammer. It was originally called Twttr and didn’t initially get rave reviews from TechCrunch or GigaOm. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. I could go on and on. Great entrepreneurs pivot. Evan Williams, Loic LeMeur and David Sacks are great entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Startup Google Yammer 291

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 24, 2012

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. Tips: I tend to have pockets of time to read and post. Download App: iPhone | Android.

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Tool Tips Yammer Organization 112

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

In the video we did a lengthy discussion on “the return of enterprise software&# talking about companies: Atlassian, Jive Software, KickApps, Yammer and SquareSpace. Anyway, it cover this at length in the video around minute 57. Most importantly we talked about my good friends at Okta who were financed by Andreesen Horowitz.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. . - Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. -

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. A great opportunity for more visible networking. I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Yammer, Salesforce Chatter. Those companies are already going to be crushed by Skype’s new screen sharing capabilities. I don’t like going against Google Docs or against 37Signals for project management. File sharing? Enterprise collaboration? I’m guessing if you compete across the board you will struggle to hit scale.

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