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January 12, 2006

Partnering with Yahoo!

Hi, I'm Joel Toledano. I was invited to speak on a panel at Caltech last month called Opportunities for Innovators: Venturing in Online Search, Advertising & Sales last month and met many great entrepreneurs at the event.

As these things sometimes go, the topic was perfectly timed in light of several recent acquisitions in the search arena (Brainboost acquired by Answers.com and Del.icio.us acquired by Yahoo!, to name just two in the last few weeks) and the heightened media coverage of search acquisitions in general.

I gave a presentation on how to properly position your company for a commercial partnership with a large company such as Yahoo!, which is often a great way for a small company to build their business. Several of you asked for a copy of the presentation, so here it is -- hopefully you enjoyed the panel discussion and the presentation's advice is helpful. Look forward to seeing you at the next panel!

Joel's Caltech/MIT Preso

Joel Toledano
Director, Business Development
Yahoo! Search

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Comments

This is a very interesting presentation - your thoughts are thoughtful and insightful. Thanks for posting this.

Posted by: Greg | January 12, 2006 06:38 PM

I have so many ideas regarding to many products to improve sales and advancement against competitor like in terms of packaging or new products that i see it very saleable or improvement to a certain product existing that can boost the sales.
How ,where, who shall i tell it too.
You can send to me any problem that you think i can share my ideas. No charge at all.
My motto is it is better to share my ideas that could help others than bring it with me that no one hear it.

Posted by: francis santos | January 20, 2006 06:25 AM

Hi francis,

i'm a founder of a fresh start-up, launch a beta software named Deskloops. We are surely hungry for great ideas :) I'll love to hear some.

itay

Posted by: itay katz | January 26, 2006 01:59 PM

Thank you Joel for a great presentation.

I have been looking for something like this presentation.

Now I am off to preparing my next generation idea for Yahoo! :)

Farhan

Posted by: Farhan Mashraqi | February 3, 2006 12:49 AM

I tried emailing the address in the powerpoint, toledano@yahoo-inc.com, but it didn't work. What's a better address?

Posted by: Arthur Keller | March 20, 2006 05:19 AM

In the presentation you are mentionning self service inquiries for Dennis Buscheim: what exactly do you mean by self service activity in Yahoo Search?

Thanks

Pascal

Posted by: Pascal | July 12, 2006 07:57 AM