Dane Madsen
Consultant Dane Madsen
Dane Madsen is an advisor to interactive media and content companies ranging from mobile, podcasting, fixed line, and PC based local business directories and monetization plans and serves as a director to two such organizations.
Previously, Mr. Madsen was the Chief Executive Officer of Commoca, a start up fixed line screen phone platform media and content company. Prior to Commoca, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of YellowPages.com, which he co-founded in 1996 from July 2000 until its acquisition in November 2004 by a joint venture of SBC and Bell South.
From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Madsen was the Managing Director of Corporate Strategy for GlobalGate, an interactive venture incubator that had acquired a controlling interest in YellowPages.com in 1999, and developed and managed the Mergers & Acquisitions strategy and practice at GlobalGate. From 1981 through 1998 Madsen served in a number of roles at NYSE firms, including as an Allied Member of the NYSE from 1994-1996.
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| 2006 - present | Consultant Dane Madsen |
|---|---|
| 2005 - 2006 | Chief Executive Officer Commoca, Inc |
| 2000 - 2005 | President & CEO Www.yellowpages.com, Inc |
| 1999 - 2000 | Managing Director, Corporate Development GlobalGate, Inc. |
| 1996 - 1999 | FVP - Private Client Group Sutro & Co, Incorporated |
| 1994 - 1996 | SVP - Private Client Group Stifel, Nicolaus & Company Incorporated |
GLG Study Groups with Dane Madsen(?)
| Study Group Name | Members |
|---|---|
| Search Engine Experts (North America) | 177 |
| Print Advertising Market Experts | 211 |
| Online Travel Agency and Industry Experts (North America) | 163 |
| Online Advertising Experts (North America) | 344 |
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Dane Madsen(?)
• Google needs sales force to reach over 25 million US hyper-local businesses because self-provisioning has failed for the 1 millionth year in a row • Collecting data in this new program is not a sales force and will be a trail of tears • This program will have no success in developing...
1. Search is attempting to bring order from disorder 2. Humans do not live life in serial 3. Until more human interaction can be brought to the process, the machines will continue to be unable to process and index intuitively
Charging me a fee to sell me things is a bad model and always has been Success of this model is dependant on the systems powering the 30% of businesses that sell things – and will limit choice to those with huge IT budgets and sophisticated inventory management systems. The remaining 70% of business...
The only reason this is interesting is that we are all deal junkies. I simply do not see this making much sense because:1) Regardless of the protestation, interactive media is not Microsofts' core business strategy2) The weakness at Yahoo is systemic and will not be cured with a mismatch at another,...
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