4 posts and columns on Jake Winebaum

Brighter’s Jake Winebaum Talks About Tooth-Loving Start-Up (Video)

in Commerce on June 9, 2011 at 3:16 pm PT

One area of medical care has gotten little attention online has been — wait for it — dental care. But before you click away from this story to avoid thoughts of root canals, it’s the well-funded premise behind the latest start-up called Brighter from longtime online exec Jake Winebaum.

FamilyFinds: Discount Deals Site Aimed at Families Launches With $5.75 Million Funding

in News on December 1, 2010 at 4:30 am PT

Even as Groupon is poised to sell itself to Google for badillions of dollars, the attack of the social buying clones continues. Today, it is the launch of FamilyFinds, a Santa Monica, Calif., start-up aimed at offering daily deals to families, with $5.75 million in funding to help it get going.

Checking In With Business.com's Jake Winebaum–After the $345 Million Deal

in News on July 27, 2007 at 12:04 am PT

Was it only a week ago that we wrote a post about the sale prospects of Business.com and did a video interview with its CEO Jake Winebaum at its Santa Monica, Calif., offices? As it turned out–and I cannot say I was surprised–the deal was finally struck this past week for the highly targeted search-and-directory [...]

Kara Visits Business.com's Jake Winebaum

in News on July 23, 2007 at 4:25 am PT

I paid a visit to the Santa Monica, Calif., offices of Business.com recently to check in with its CEO, Jake Winebaum. Back in the day, I covered Winebaum closely, first during his stint as the go-to Internet guy at Disney and after he left there to strike out on his own with serial entrepreneur Sky [...]