http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/06/21/buying-things-isnt-the-hard-part/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/06/21/buying-things-isnt-the-hard-part/comment-page-1/#comment-275061 Webomatica Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:15:55 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/06/21/buying-things-isnt-the-hard-part/#comment-275061 Agred. It might be worth revisiting what Steve Jobs had to do at Apple to get them back on their feet. It's easy to point at the new products but there was a lot of project-killing as in the Newton, stopping the clones, and winnowing down the products to a matrix. At the time many of those moves seemed dangerous and angered people (especially the employees whose projects were axed) but maybe some bold moves are in order at Yahoo!. I think, sadly, you know what I'm hinting at... Agred. It might be worth revisiting what Steve Jobs had to do at Apple to get them back on their feet. It’s easy to point at the new products but there was a lot of project-killing as in the Newton, stopping the clones, and winnowing down the products to a matrix. At the time many of those moves seemed dangerous and angered people (especially the employees whose projects were axed) but maybe some bold moves are in order at Yahoo!. I think, sadly, you know what I’m hinting at…

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/06/21/buying-things-isnt-the-hard-part/comment-page-1/#comment-275055 Butler Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:46:10 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/06/21/buying-things-isnt-the-hard-part/#comment-275055 Like you stated if the numberrs actually stand up the deal is great for Yahoo as long as they don't mess things up to much (real revenue-good stuff). The very focused audience is great for ad sales. They'll save some decent cash on the back-end tech costs since Yahoo should easily be able to incorporate that into their network. Like you stated if the numberrs actually stand up the deal is great for Yahoo as long as they don’t mess things up to much (real revenue-good stuff). The very focused audience is great for ad sales. They’ll save some decent cash on the back-end tech costs since Yahoo should easily be able to incorporate that into their network.

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