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1:1 Interview with Conduit CMO Reena Jadhav

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 9, 2007 | Comments (1)

Conduit offers a communication channel in the form of a customizable dynamic toolbar. Using Conduit, publishers can create a customizable branded toolbar that takes the best of their site, their offers and community and puts it on the customers' browser. In this interview, Conduit’s CMO Reena Jadhav shares recent stats about the toolbar’s online permeation and the company’s user base. Reena also talks about Conduit's unique business model, different ways of using the toolbar, and how publishers like Vator.tv can use ...

Facebook first-mover off to build Qubescape

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 6, 2007 | Comments (2)

Aaron Greenspan made the front page of the NY Times business section recently. The story written by John Markoff said Aaron claimed to be "the one who created the original college social networking system," which eventually became Facebook. As Aaron tells me in this interview, he simply wants people to know that he and others had "influence" in the early days of building Facebook. Aaron also shares a little about his new venture called Qubescape, which he calls a "Facebook ...

1:1 Interview with Media River CEO Al Wasserberger

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 6, 2007 | Comments

Media River CEO Al Wasserberger talks about how the company’s ClickSurge content widget helps websites drive traffic by tapping into the blogosphere and other content providers. Al explains how the widget works using their client ‘The Motley Fool’ as an example. He also discusses the widget’s click through rate of 4-6%, and elaborates on how MediaRiver’s widget differs from Sphere’s which generates click through rates of about 1% (to see Bambi's interview with Sphere's CEO Tony Conrad click here). Al then ...

Vator Reports: The rapidly growing clean tech sector

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 3, 2007 | Comments (1)

The investment climate for clean tech companies is currently very favorable. In 2006 alone, $1.28 billion in VC money was invested in 140 companies. The amount invested in this sector was the highest since 2001 and was double that of 2005. In this episode, Bambi and Tony Perkins highlight some of the current trends in the clean tech field, and introduce some of the clean tech players on Vator.tv. Featured in this episode are the founders of Greener and Techtain. ...

Lessons Learned: How not to make Friendster-s

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 3, 2007 | Comments

We broke some news at Vator in August, at least according to one well-known Web 1.0 site. The fact that Wired Online found news in a video clip about Friendster that's been posted on Vator for many months was surprising to us, especially since Friendster's rollercoaster story is old news in Silicon Valley. Still, we appreciate that they are now looking to us for news on startup companies. Their one-sided take was a little different than ours, of course. Vator ...

Vator.tv/AlwaysOn Clean Technology winner: d.light design

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 30, 2007 | Comments (1)

We're pleased to announce that d.light design was chosen as the winner of the AlwaysOn Clean Technology competition. As the winner, Sam and his team will get to present their marketing strategies and story with hundreds at the GoingGreen conference Sept. 10-12 at the University of Davis in California. D.light is also one of the top 100 clean tech companies as selected by the AO selection committee.

1:1 interview with Visible Technologies' CEO Adam Selig

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 28, 2007 | Comments (1)

Visible Technologies provides online brand management solutions for companies and individuals in the new media environment. Adam Selig, the company's CEO, talks about how Visible Technologies helps companies understand the perception of their brands and reinforce their brand messages in the user generated media sphere. Adam uses the blogosphere's response to the release of the iPhone as an example which illustrates how the company's technology can analyze the tone of the online conversation about a specific brand/product, and then provide the information back ...

Conduit's long-tail toolbar strategy

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 28, 2007 | Comments

Two-year-old Conduit, which provides toolbars for large organizations, like Discovery Channel and Major League Baseball, down to blogs, like VentureBeat, just launched a new toolbar that combines some of the top bloggers in an all-in-one toolbar, called "allmyblogs." The bloggers include VentureBeat, GigaOm, TechCrunch, Mashable, and others, including Vator.tv, even though we're more than a blog, we're also a social network. The toolbar is actually pretty useful. Recently, I created one for Vator.tv. (Check out the Vator.tv toolbar), and I ...

Would you invest in a ninja?

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 28, 2007 | Comments

Many people have asked me what kind of ideas are on Vator.tv. Since Vator.tv launched in June 2007, we received a number of video pitches that reflect great ideas to silly ones, from old ideas to new ones. It's become a place where ideas collide and collectively create an inspiring, informative and entertaining environment, which we believe is cultivating fresh ideas that have legs.. or, at the very least, have tremendous entertainment value. To this end, I wanted to showcase ...

Lessons: Tony Perkins on entrepreneurship

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 26, 2007 | Comments

Tony Perkins, who founded the RedHerring magazine in 1993 and the Always On conference series in 2003, talks about why he decided to become an entpreneur. Tony then offers up his lessons on picking the right co-founders, on the dangers of business models without a clear strategy towards profitability, and on the importance of patience for building a successful business. Tony also addresses a failure he experienced in his career and the lessons he learned from running a company in times of a pending economic recession. Finally, Tony talks about ...

Lessons Learned: Serious Materials' Kevin Surace on passion, focus

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 23, 2007 | Comments

At Vator.tv, we value the lessons learned by the many entrepreneurs who are part of the Vator.tv community. In this video, Kevin Surace, founder and CEO of Serious Materials, offers up his lessons he's learned as an entrepreneur about five times over. His words are worth considering, since he appears to be doing something right. Serious Materials is one of the few companies addressing the $12 billion market for drywall. Now while that doesn't sound sexy, there is a significant ...

Bambi Interviews MEDgle Founder/CEO Ash Damle

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 21, 2007 | Comments

MEDgle is a medical information search engine striving to make medical information easily accessible. In this interview the company founder Ash Damle talks about the growth of the site and how to use the site. He also address how MEDgle is complimentary to Google's Health Co-op. Ash also discusses whether and how user search records are kept, the amount and kind of symptoms and diagnoses indexed, current number of pageviews and MEDgle's ad based business model. To see Ash's pitch for MEDgle click here.

Lessons from Entrepreneurial Legends on Vator.tv

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 19, 2007 | Comments (1)

Peter Thiel on how PayPal iterated countless times to get it right, plus other lessons

Being an entrepreneur is exciting, but also challenging. Advice from other entrepreneurs and innovators who have experienced the ups and downs of building an organization or developing an idea into a product can be helpful and inspiring for one's own venture. Thus, we decided to put the spotlight on some of the innovators who shared their lessons with the Vator community. In this episode of the ...

Truveo launches destination site, eyes Google strategy

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 15, 2007 | Comments

Truveo, the video search engine that's spent the last 18 months powering other sites, is set to unveil Thursday its new strategy to be a destination site for videos across the Web. While many companies opt to provide software and services as a third-party provider -- which is often the easier road to take given how difficult it is to gain traction as an online destination site - Truveo apparently sees the opportunity to dominate a space that has not ...

Bambi Interviews Buzzlogic Co-founder/Chief Product Officer Todd Parson

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 15, 2007 | Comments

BuzzLogic defines and measures influence in social media by surfacing the key influencers who are shaping and defining markets, issues and reputations. BuzzLogic's technology enables marketing and communications practitioners to engage with social media in order to manage their brands, reputations, products and customer relationships. In this interview, BuzzLogic's co-founder and Chief Product Officer Todd Parson talks about the influence of the blogosphere in the context of consumer purchasing decisions and how sites like Vator.tv could work with Buzzlogic and get ...

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