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Yahoo 1995: First-Round Financing [pdf]
- ta1243 3y ago"However you have to realize that we’re still grad students, and we don’t even usually wake up by 10 a.m., so can you give us until noon" That line amused me, similar to the story of the whatsapp deal chronicled on flyertalk about how the entire deal hinged on a few frequent flyer miles https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/22387891-post72.html https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/22387891-post72.html
- gumby 3y agoWhat a great story!
- petesergeant 3y agoReward flights as a component to a BATNA, love it
- mtmail 3y agoInterviews with the investors for the Yahoo internal(?) 10 year anniversary DVD https://archive.org/details/Yahoo10Year/10_YEAR_PARTY_DVD1.ISO https://archive.org/details/Yahoo10Year/10_YEAR_PARTY_DVD1.I... You might have to click on chapter 2 (18min) It's shows the inside of their trailer 1995 on the Stanford campus. Michael Moritz (Sequoia) visited them "This is every mother's nightmare of a boy's bedroom come true and every cockroache's sheer delight" (around minute 5:00)
- thakoppno 3y agoIf I’m not mistaken, Yahoo’s current HQ is at the site where Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory once lived.
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- jnwatson 3y agoI still have in an old bookmarks file a link to yahoo.stanford.edu.
- TMWNN 3y agoThe original URL is <http://akebono.stanford.edu/~yahoo/ http://akebono.stanford.edu/~yahoo/>
- pedalpete 3y agoThe excerpts from the business plan look like an excellent format to use as a guide when defining a business. Though we have these "ideas" for our business, I haven't yet put it into a single solid and brief format as this. As an alternative to "pitch decks", do people find a brief business plan such as this is more useful? Or useful in different areas? Are there better templates to use than this one?