Idiot's Guide to Fixing Yahoo

The great CEOs are always focused on products and product marketing. Three that come to mind: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt. The products are: Mac & iPod, Windows and Google Search. What’s Yahoo’s great product? What’s its marketing focus? … If I were one of the shareholders voting on the proxy, here’s a question I would ask: If Yahoo is going to remain independent, what kind of company is it going to be?

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  • http://blog.macb.net Mac Beach

    The crux of Yahoo’s problem is implementing things. The execs are all talk no action because Yahoo has shown itself relatively incapable of producting finished products.

    A kid entering high school when Yahoo promised to match Gmail capabilities would be half-way through college by now and still waiting. They simply can’t deliver, so they do what others who can’t deliver do: talk.

    The toast is done. No, it’s burning.

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