They are utterly 'irrelevant' i don't care if they make money or not. but they are barely relevant. and this is actually worse than dying. They are everywhere yet nowhere.
What exactly Yahoo is, can someone explain LIM5. and who their target customers are consumer or corporate???
I am not talking their subsidiaries, just Yahoo. Alibaba is cool, but that's not enough.
They are not even trying at anything. They are not even exploring anything.
Yahoo! Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries (“Yahoo,” the “Company,” “we,” or “us”), is a
guide to digital information discovery, focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining our users
through our search, communications, and digital content products. By creating highly personalized
experiences, we help users discover the information that matters most to them around the world—on
mobile or desktop.
We create value for advertisers with a streamlined, simple advertising technology stack that
leverages Yahoo’s data, content, and technology to connect advertisers with their target audiences.
Advertisers can build their businesses through advertisements targeted to audiences on our online
properties and services (“Yahoo Properties”) and a distribution network of third-party entities
(“Affiliates”) who integrate our advertising offerings into their websites or other offerings (“Affiliate
sites”). Our revenue is generated principally from display and search advertising.
We are proud of our rich history that has evolved with the Internet, beginning in 1994 when our
founders, Jerry Yang and David Filo, then graduate students at Stanford University, created Jerry and
Dave’s Guide to the World Wide Web, a simple directory of websites to help people navigate the
Internet. Yahoo was incorporated in 1995 and is a Delaware corporation. We completed our initial
public offering on April 12, 1996, and our stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under
the symbol “YHOO.” Yahoo is a global company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
> What exactly Yahoo is, can someone explain LIM5. and who their target customers are consumer or corporate???
Not commenting on the general sentiment of what you wrote but I think that's a tough question even in the context of a successful business like google.
Exactly, this kind of comment might as well have been written about Berkshire Hathaway. Who are they? What do they even do? Down with that false prophet Warren Buffett! /sarcasm
Ok there is a lesson for us too (startups)., when you are a small, and can not fight conventional war with bigger competitors, you have to be unconventional. or simply nuke your competitors don't compete them if you want to stand a chance
For Small business, growth even could kill their business. that's where wisdom comes in, sometime you have to slow the pedal of sales, to focus on customer retention. my current strategy has been to pile enough funds before the next stage growth., and dividing growth into stages, we deliberately don't sale, just to manage current customers. It's slow but for sure.
