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Salim Ismail to Lead Yahoo Incubator

Tags: Salim Ismail + Yahoo + Brickhouse

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Posted by Kevom 1 year 8 months ago; via salimismail.com/?p=56

Yahoo has decided to bring in an outsider to head-up its secretive internal incubator division.

Here’s what Ismail had to say on his blog:
Well, after a long hiatus from blogging, I have news. I have officially joined Yahoo!. We’ve been in talks for a while and it all came together recently.

At Yahoo, I’ll be running the Brickhouse, the program spearheaded and created by Caterina Fake, inside Bradley Horowitz’s Advanced Development Division (ADD). The Brickhouse is all about launching ground-breaking new product opportunities -...

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Yahoo Builds ‘Brickhouse’ To Encourage Start-Ups From Within

Tags: Yahoo + Brickhouse + Start-Up + VC + Incubator + Caterina Fake

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Posted by Kevom 1 year 9 months ago; via paidcontent.org/entry/419...

The yet-to-be-announced Brickhouse is designed to help the Internet giant keep up with cutting-edge startups and archrival Google.

Yahoo is trying to get back in touch with its “inner start-up,” BusinessWeek says, by targeting business development from within. The name for this effort is Brickhouse, a new unit within Yahoo that is scheduled to be officially unveiled in March and is intended to serve as a kind of in-house VC firm/incubator. Brickhouse is being led by Caterina Fake, who co-founded Flickr, which Yahoo acquired in March,...

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