Comments on: UserPlane Founder Peels Away From AOL To Found New Startup Tsavo

By: Get your News » Startups Smell Userplane Blood

Get your News » Startups Smell Userplane Blood — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:31:01 +0000

[...] as the company’s CEO. That’s remarkable, because Jones left the AOL executive team to pursue a new startup called Tsavo back in August 2008, and has since signed up as the new COO at [...]

By: Startups Smell Userplane Blood

Startups Smell Userplane Blood — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:41:08 +0000

[...] as the company’s CEO. That’s remarkable, because Jones left the AOL executive team to pursue a new startup called Tsavo back in August 2008, and has since signed up as the new COO at [...]

By: Userplane Founder Mike Jones Is New MySpace COO | Profuseness

Userplane Founder Mike Jones Is New MySpace COO | Profuseness — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:45:23 +0000

[...] selling Userplane to AOL in 2006 for around $40 million, Mike went on to found Tsavo, which is tasked with tailoring content to individuals based on their online actions and also [...]

By: Userplane Founder Mike Jones Is New MySpace COO

Userplane Founder Mike Jones Is New MySpace COO — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:34:04 +0000

[...] selling Userplane to AOL in 2006 for around $40 million, Mike went on to found Tsavo, which is tasked with tailoring content to individuals based on their online actions and also [...]

By: Confirmed: Former AOL Exec Mike Jones To Take COO Role At MySpace

Confirmed: Former AOL Exec Mike Jones To Take COO Role At MySpace — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:13:33 +0000

[...] is a well respected executive – he left AOL in 2008 to start a new company, Tsavo, which sources tell us is off to a very fast start. The company raised a substantial amount of [...]

By: Former AOL Exec Mike Jones May Become No. 2 At MySpace

Former AOL Exec Mike Jones May Become No. 2 At MySpace — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:36:29 +0000

[...] Van Natta, though, Jones already has a day job. He left AOL to start Tsavo in August 2008. Tsavo was in the news again this last [...]

By: Tsavo Strays From The Acquisition Model, Develops Three Lifestyle Blogs

Tsavo Strays From The Acquisition Model, Develops Three Lifestyle Blogs — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:52:13 +0000

[...] and the online marketing and search engine optimization firm Better. We speculated last year about how Tsavo and American Capital are good fit for each other in terms of implementing an expansion by acquisition [...]

By: Tsavo Strays From The Acquisition Model, Develops Three Lifestyle Blogs

Tsavo Strays From The Acquisition Model, Develops Three Lifestyle Blogs — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:20:58 +0000

By: Twithority - another Twitter Search Engine | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:04:02 +0000

[...] launch of a second authority-based Twitter search engine comes through. Twithority developed by Tsavo, works faster in returning results than it’s predecessor: Daymix (also launched by Tsavo). [...]

By: Second Authority-Based Twitter Search Engine Launches: Twithority | Fidicaro.net

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:48:27 +0000

[...] launched (although it appears to be down now). Today, it’s Twithority, by the same guys at Tsavo that created [...]

By: What’s Next, Tsavo - Sean Percival's Blog

What’s Next, Tsavo - Sean Percival's Blog — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:48:16 +0000

[...] TechCrunch [...]

By: Rob Cipriano

Rob Cipriano — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:19:29 +0000

Great job Michael ….. Content is King, Queen, Prince, and Princess … it should be handled with respect … glad to know you and the team are onboard ….

By: Ryan Born

Ryan Born — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:39:53 +0000

congrats to Mike….this is going to be very fun to watch….expect big things

By: RahulC

RahulC — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:14 +0000

Is this another indication of the fact that people are jumping off the sinking ship ?

Should learn from Yahoo; instead of acquiring start-ups should retain the BRAINS.

http://mydating...e.blogspot.com/

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:36:44 +0000

Cool Mike. I assume the name came from the Tsavo Sunbird???

I hope Geosigns has found a better way to drive traffic than simply arbitrage. The content sites they have could use a facelift as they are simply not very useful information wise minus the big fat, well placed Yahoo ads =P

Interesting…would be neat to see where this leads to. GL!

By: Moxy

Moxy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:16:22 +0000

So, is American Capital going to combine this with Moxy Media (fka Geosign)?

Oh, and Mike: the phrase “usually only invests in public companies” wrt American Capital should read “usually only invests in private companies.” Call Virginia in Palo Alto and ask her.

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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:07:32 +0000

[...] after AOL bought his previous text-voice-video chat software company, Userplane for about $40M. TechCrunch has more. American Airlines takes Wi-Fi to the skies — The airline has started rolling out its [...]

By: teerosie

teerosie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:43:32 +0000

Some of the smartest AND most genuine people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. There’s only one thing I’m surprised about knowing Mike: that the new name doesn’t contain an exclamation point Good luck guys.

By: Joseph H

Joseph H — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:48:57 +0000

Awesome. Congrats Mike!

By: Andy Triboletti

Andy Triboletti — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:09:07 +0000

Congrats to Mike Jones and userplane. A great company and glad to see he’s doing something new now.

By: Michael Broukhim

Michael Broukhim — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:22:00 +0000

Can’t wait to see what this team produces. Mike is one of the brightest people I’ve come across in the Web 2.0 space.

By: James

James — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:06:19 +0000

lovin it…congrats mike!

By: ImageCo

ImageCo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:45:03 +0000

You mean “Dopie” logo don’t you? You must because it looks like Walt Disney threw up on it.

By: Michael Jones

Michael Jones — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:32:38 +0000

Thanks everyone for the great comments! I hope to work with you all with this new venture!

By: Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:12:44 +0000

Congrats to Mike Jones. He a super smart guy. I wish him the best of the luck with his new startup.