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Gmail offers surprising innovation lessons for the Fortune 500

Gmail offers surprising innovation lessons for the Fortune 500

By Hutch Carpenter on April 9, 2014

If you’re familiar with the story of Gmail, you know – for a fact – that it was a 20% time employee project by Paul Buchheit. A little bottom-up experimentation that grew into something big. Surprise! That story is wrong. It was a desire by Google, the company, to offer its own email. From Harry McCracken’s great piece How […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged gmail, google, hotmail, innovation, jobs to be done, jtbd, mba, Paul Buchheit, yahoo

10 examples of fabulously flawed product-first thinking

10 examples of fabulously flawed product-first thinking

By Hutch Carpenter on November 5, 2013

In talking about jobs-to-be-done here, I sometimes think that all I’m doing is stating the obvious. I mean, isn’t it obvious that you’d create something that helped fulfill a need or desire? What else would you do? But I’ve seen in my own work experience, and across a multitude of initiatives in other industries, cases […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged facebook, innovation, JC Penney, jeff bezos, jobs to be done, jtbd, mba, Product Management, Segway, steve jobs, yahoo

Innovation Through Logo Design

Innovation Through Logo Design

By Zoli Erdos on September 5, 2013

OK, I stole that title from Krish.  It’s a telling title, almost as good as this one from Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing. Oh, and I really don’t want to write about a logo.  Especially about a fugly one.  One that the entire world hates.  But what can I do, the world is abuzz with […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged google, humor, logo, yahoo | 2 Responses

Build a profitable business while spending as little as possible (the lesson of Xobni)

Build a profitable business while spending as little as possible (the lesson of Xobni)

By Chris Yeh on July 9, 2013

It’s not that complicated to build a success startup.  Just build a profitable business while spending as little as possible.  It’s not complicated, but it’s hard. I recently saw the news that Yahoo! had bought Xobni.  Xobni was a noble attempt to tackle the email overload problem (xobni = inbox backwards).  According to the stories […]

Posted in Business | Tagged bootstrapping, VC, vceconomics, venture capital, xobni, yahoo

If Tumblr is worth $1.1 Billion, is Pinterest worth $19 Billion

If Tumblr is worth $1.1 Billion, is Pinterest worth $19 Billion

By Chris Yeh on May 31, 2013

My friend Adam Rifkin, who runs the awesome PandaWhale (where I get a ton of my news), recently wrote about the Tumblr acquisition for AllThingsD.  It’s a smart and well-reasoned essay, which is well worth reading. His basic argument is that Tumble is valuable because it is a massive interest graph: “Tumblr is one of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged businessmodel, Pinterest, tumblr, valuation, yahoo

The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

By Mark Suster on May 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! has now employed the same strategy. And who cares, right? A couple of tech giants throw millions […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged acqui-hire, acquihire, Entrepreneurship, facebook, google, Startup Advice, startups, vc funding, venture capital, yahoo | 1 Response

Marissa Mayer and Yahoo's telecommuting policy: Right motivation, wrong execution

Marissa Mayer and Yahoo’s telecommuting policy: Right motivation, wrong execution

By Chris Yeh on March 5, 2013

When Yahoo! hired Marissa Mayer, I supported the move, believing that the board needed to shake things up, and that given the dismal state of the business, Mayer was probably a better candidate than they could ever have expected to attract.  I also supported the move on Mayer’s part; she wasn’t ever going to become […]

Posted in Business | Tagged leadership, management, Marissa Mayer, telecommuting, women, yahoo

Only Yahoos Work in an Office!?

Only Yahoos Work in an Office!?

By Adron Hall on February 28, 2013

Ok, so I think almost everybody has either slammed Marissa Mayer about the new Yahoo non-remote worker policy or said that it’s the medicine they have to swallow. Very few are actually pointing out however, that Yahoo was probably just really bad at managing their remote employees. In the end, I don’t care, that just […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Freedom, ideas, in office, individual, indvidual liberty, Marissa Mayer, office, office worker, rants, remote, remote work, remote workers, remote working, Scott Hanselman, telecommuting, yahoo

Why Did Yahoo! Ban Telecommuting for Employees?

Why Did Yahoo! Ban Telecommuting for Employees?

By Jacob Morgan on February 26, 2013

If you haven’t heard the recent news, Yahoo! decided to ban telecommuting and is now forcing all employees to physically come into the office to work and if they can’t or won’t then they can find a job elsewhere.  At first glance this seems a bit counter intuitive to what many other companies are doing. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, communication, Marissa Mayer, telecommuting, yahoo | 2 Responses

The Workday IPO and ‘F You Money

The Workday IPO and ‘F You Money

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 1, 2012

The other day, a VC asked me about a founder he was thinking of investing in.  He asked me if this founder had, quote, ‘F You Money.  {I learned how this was spelled when a Businessweek article this week used the term, btw}. I wasn’t really sure if he meant this as a negative, but […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship | Tagged google, ipo, larry ellison, Oracle, paypal, software as a service, workday, yahoo

Silicon Valley Has A Short Attention Span

Silicon Valley Has A Short Attention Span

By Chris Yeh on May 23, 2012

Sometimes people ask me why I’m always writing blog posts and speaking at events. “Simple,” I say. “Silicon Valley has a short attention span. If I don’t keep my name in front of people, they’ll forget who I am.” If they don’t believe me, I respond with what I like to call the Yahoo test. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Branding, Mark Zuckerberg, Netscape, siliconvalley, yahoo | 1 Response

Hadoop Looms Big After The Hadoop Summit

Hadoop Looms Big After The Hadoop Summit

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 1, 2011

Hadoop Summit 2011 was held this week at Santa Clara and it highlighted how Hadoop has matured in the past few years. Hadoop is an open source project under Apache Foundation which aims to solve the storage and processing of big data. Based on Google’s Map Reduce, Hadoop has emerged as a major platform in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2011, benchmark capital, big data, cloudera, hadoop, Hadoop summit, Hadoop summit 2011, hdfs, Hortonworks, insights, Mapr, mapreduce, open source, pervasive, pervasive software, yahoo

Open Source, my aaS ?

Open Source, my aaS ?

By Christian Reilly on February 27, 2011

On February 23rd, Infoworld blogger and cloud expert David Linthicum posted an article that, until today, I had been studiously trying to prevent from playing over and over like the proverbial stuck record in my rather inquisitive mind. My inquisition, and subsequently my inability to let this escape my attention, was not necessarily raised the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, infoworld, open source, rackspace, yahoo

The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

By Mark Suster on December 20, 2010

It surprises me how many really smart people I meet still doubt the power of Twitter. It seems the urge to be a naysayer of Twitter is really strong for some.  I think some of this stems from the early days of Twitter when it was presumed that it was a technology to tell people […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged news aggregator, rss, techmeme, twitter, xml, yahoo

Three Reasons Google Should Acquire Delicious from Yahoo

Three Reasons Google Should Acquire Delicious from Yahoo

By Hutch Carpenter on December 17, 2010

So the news is out. Yahoo plans to shutter Delicious, the largest social bookmarking site. Which is shocking, particularly among the tech savvy and socially oriented. Delicious is iconic for its application of social sharing and collective intelligence. Hard to believe Yahoo wants to shut it down. But wait…this doesn’t have to be the end. […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged del.icio.us, facebook, geek, google, hacker news, social bookmarking, yahoo | 2 Responses

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