Despite their estimated 130 million U.S. visitors a month, Yahoo has been under a lot of fire recently. First, the continued success of Google in terms of business performance and in the stock market has got to hurt a little. Second, the whole "peanut butter manifesto" has rampaged through the blogosphere doing some damage to their brand. Third, the continued delay of Panama is definitely painful to the top and bottom lines.
Yesterday, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures chimed in with what he would do if he were running Yahoo.
His answer is to "deportalize" the company.
I think that there are lessons in his analysis for any web company. The deeper you can interweave yourself into the rest of the 'net the better.
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