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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Dave McClure: Startup Metrics For Pirates

Startup Metrics 4 Pirates (DogPatch Labs, Boston, March 2010) from Dave McClure

a faster clock speed of 2 GHz ..... Motorola’s battery life estimate for the Razr i is the same as the M: 40 percent more than Apple’s iPhone 4S with up to 20 hours of mixed use on a single charge. ..... Intel has a solid chance to make some headway in mobile market; something that appeared impossible back in 2010.

Is the RAZR i the fastest smartphone ever? Motorola says yes.

the smartest smartphone in existence .... a new Google-Motorola-Intel hybrid device .... the sleek black chassis, the 8-megapixel camera, and the 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen, which Motorola calls "edge-to-edge" ..... the Atom will allow the RAZR i to hit speeds of 2.0 GHz, the fastest ever on a smartphone ..... the camera app would launch in less than a second

What Yahoo Could Have Done With $4.3 Billion?

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 18: Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley speaks during the 2011 Web 2.0 Summit on October 18, 2011 in San Francisco, California. The 2011 Web 2.0 Summit features keynote addresses by Internet and Technology leaders and runs through Wednesday. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Bad Move For Yahoo

$1 billion -- Try to buy FourSquare. They will not be bought. But the noise would be good for Yahoo. Go buy someone else in the local space for $500 million or less.

$500 million -- Revamp Flickr. Make it mobile first. Make it free.

$500 million -- Revamp Yahoo Mail.

$1 billion -- Make another attempt at FourSquare six months later. They will not be bought. Go buy someone else for $300 million.

$500 million -- Hire some of the best of the best engineers in the Valley, like 100 of them. Make many small acquisitions just to get the talent.

$1 billion -- Keep in the bank, just in case.

Yahoo To Give Shareholders $3.65 Billion, Mayer Explains Why In Leaked Memo

Giving money back to shareholders makes no sense. I no longer see Yahoo getting the sexy back. Or at least it just made that task so much harder for itself. Why? But why?

Bad Move For Yahoo

This is the first time I am having doubts about Marissa Mayer as Yahoo CEO. That or the powers that be at Yahoo have undermined her. This was supposed to be Yahoo's turnaround money.

Now Marissa Mayer is supposed to rely on Yahoo's meager revenues to turn the ship around. That is a tall task.

I am in disbelief. $650 million is not a "meaningful amount" to turn around Yahoo. I guess Yahoo is headed for some same old, same old. It can now no longer do a major acquisition.

As Expected, Alibaba Closes $7.6 Billion Yahoo Deal
Yahoo To Give Shareholders $3.65 Billion, Mayer Explains Why In Leaked Memo

Giving a couple billion dollars back to Yahoo shareholders from this sale was the plan before Mayer took over Yahoo. A couple weeks after she joined, Mayer put out of an SEC filing saying she was reconsidering the move. ..... it will not leave Yahoo fundmanetally better off the way a smart investment in a new product or acquisition would.

Marissa Mayer Only Gave Google 30 Minutes Notice Before She Quit

Monday, September 17, 2012

Marissa Mayer: Biographical Details

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Marissa Mayer - Forbes
Dear Marissa Mayer

Rejecting Google's Money, Marissa Mayer Just Made A Risky, Billion-Dollar Bet

an expensive Christmas party she's planning ..... She put hundreds of millions of dollars—if not billions—at stake, having Yahoo's chief revenue officer, Michael Barrett, announce that Yahoo will not sell its ad-tech business, Right Media, as Yahoo had been planning to do before Mayer's arrival in July..... Mayer needs to focus on improving Yahoo's ad tech where it can be better than Google's. He suggested premium display and video ads