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Work About Social Contact Menu View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize About I'm Ryan Spoon and I have had the privilege of working across many great companies and products in the sports, media, and consumer spaces: Yahoo, Sorare, BetMGM, ESPN , beRecruited and through SCN Ventures.I am President at Yahoo Media Group - home to Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports.
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High School Athlete Site beRecruited Secretly Acquired Last Year By Raine Group For $17M-$22M
beRecruited, the "LinkedIn for high school athletes" looking to be recruited by college teams, was secretly acquired by private equity firm The Raine Group, sources tell me and beRecruited now verifies. Sources with knowledge of the deal confirm Raine pai
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Google+ Interactive Ad Layer
I have written before about Google / Google Plus and their interactive, actionable ad units ( here is a great example from Google Offers and one for Google
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Apple's Passbook, Dunkin Donuts & Facebook Offers
An example of the potential power of Apple
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Pinterest's Clear Friendship Emails
I am sure other companies do this as well... but since the email arrived from Pinterest and caught my attention, I will credit Pinterest here and realize other examples will be forwarded my way! Many socially-enabled sites (ie Facebook Connect, Twitter Oa
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Jetsetter Navigation Panel - More UI and Design from Jetsetter.
Jetsetter is known for great design ( see here ) and here is a nice little UI treatment that we recently saw on The Verge (who uses it on mobile and web) . As you scroll through Jetsetter
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Facebook Homepage Ad Takeovers - eBay Example.
Facebook homepage ads have begun. They are effectively static full page takeovers with a Facebook module overlayed in the bottom right corner. In this example you see an ad unit for eBay
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Keys to Boostrapping Your Startup.
Earlier this week, I spoke on a panel about the keys to bootstrapping a startup. The audience was a mix of current and soon-to-be entrepreneurs; some bootstrapping by choice and others by necessity; some who see bootstrapping as the dream and others as a
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Google I/O by the Numbers... Theme: Scale
Browsing the headlines is a pretty powerful and interesting way to digest Google I/O as they are driven by big, important numbers: - Google Drive : 10m users and coming to iOS / Chrome OS ( TechCrunch ) - Gmail: 425m users ( TechCrunch ) - Google Apps: 5m
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