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Today's Entrepreneur: Jason Grunstra

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 22, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Not taking risks

Today's Entrepreneur is Jason Grunstra, founder of Plug.dj. According to his VEQ Jason is a thought leader and is good at technology design and product management. Plug.dj is an international community where people can enjoy music/videos together in a socially interactive environment. Our customers are brands seeking a highly integrated advertising channel, artists looking to reach a wider international demographic, ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Alex Reinlieb

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 13, 2013 | Comments

No.1 mistake: Unwillingness to pivot

Today's Entrepreneur is Alex Reinlieb, founder of Plug.dj. According to his VEQ Alex is a thought leader and is good at networking and product management. Plug.dj is an international community where people can enjoy music/videos together in a socially interactive environment. Our customers are brands seeking a highly integrated advertising channel, artists looking to reach a wider international demographic, and ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Gary Swart

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 6, 2013 | Comments

No.1 mistake: Assuming a product-market fit

Today's Entrepreneur is Gary Swart, CEO, of oDesk. According to his VEQ, Gary is good at sales execution, sales management and team motivation. Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion and follow their dreams. Our profiles allow members to express themselves by sharing their interests, lessons learned, as well as bits and pieces of their roller-coaster ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Nadav Wilf

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 29, 2013 | Comments

No.1 mistake: Quitting right when things look impossible

Today's Entrepreneur is Nadav Wilf, CEO of Enlightened.org. According to his VEQ Nadav is a thought leader and is good at team motivation and marketing management. Enlightened.org integrates philanthropy into your everyday life. Enlightened empowers people to shop 1,000's of their favorite stores and brands like Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Tory Burch and Diesel earn up to 10% to donate to philanthropies ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Vinny Jindal

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 17, 2013 | Comments

No.1 mistake: Operating without a clear sense of how or why their product could be habit-forming

Today's Entrepreneur is Vinny Jindal, co-founder of Stockr. According to his VEQ Vinny is good at networking, fundraising and team motivation. Stockr is a social media platform for the stock market. They aim to democratize the public markets by providing all investors the informational and networking tools previously avialable only to professoinals. (Stockr is one of the promising startups competing ...

Announcing the Splash LA judges, and Founders' Bundle

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 15, 2013 | Comments

Judges from Amplify, Idealab, Lowercase, Lightbank, Science, Rustic, Javelin, DFJ and more

Splash LA is just about six weeks away. That means there's just one month left to apply to the Splash LA competition and get in front of some esteemed judges, an audience of some 400 high-tech influencers, and win some cool prizes. Also, if you're a startup founder, we've got a special "bundle" called the Founders' Bundle. You can get ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Joe Genasci

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 10, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Failure to communicate emotional value toward your product

Today's Entrepreneur is Joe Genasci, president and CEO of GuidEd Fusion. GuidEd Fusion is transforming education by offering a new way to interact with students, a new way to provide a sense of belonging, and a new way to build relationships in a way students understand. (GuidEd Fusion is one of the promising startups competing to be one of the ...

Splash SF Feb 2013 Finalist - Learn27

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 3, 2013 | Comments

Check out Learn27's presentation at Splash SF Feb 2013

Splash SF Feb 2013 finalist Learn27 ignites the virtual classroom with a social learning experience like no other. Plan, schedule, conduct classes and reward your students. Here's a video of Ike Singh presenting at Vator Splash SF. Among the judges were Stewart Alsop (Alsop Louie), Josh Breinlinger (Sigma West), Keval Desai (InterWest Partners), Andres Fabris (Traxo.com), Deepak Gupta (BBVA Ventures), ...

Splash SF Feb 2013 Finalist - Delightfully

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 1, 2013 | Comments

Check out Delightfully's presentation at Splash SF Feb 2013

Splash SF Feb 2013 finalist Delightfully is an MIT startup that adds thoughtfulness to digital gifts. Through their web-service, gift givers can deliver gift cards, subscriptions, e-books, apps, games, and other digital gifts through interactive webpages made from their own content. Here's a video of Jason Shin presenting at Vator Splash SF. Among the judges were Stewart Alsop (Alsop Louie), Josh ...

Splash SF Feb 2013 Finalist - Super Gas Me

by Kristin Karaoglu, March 29, 2013 | Comments

Check out Super Gas Me's presentation at Splash SF Feb 2013

Splash SF Feb 2013 finalist Super Gas Me, delivers the best mobile payment service while disrupting the credit card companies by creating a new payment concept, and consequently taking away credit cards from people’s hands. Here's a video of Yonathan Faber presenting at Vator Splash SF. Among the judges were Stewart Alsop (Alsop Louie), Josh Breinlinger (Sigma West), Keval Desai (InterWest ...

Splash SF Feb 2013 Finalist - Recognize.Im

by Kristin Karaoglu, March 27, 2013 | Comments

Check out Recognize.Im's presentation at Splash SF Feb 2013

Splash SF Feb 2013 finalist Recognize.Im enables any mobile app to recognize photos. Simply, go to recognize.im, download a code, embded it into your mobile app. Now you mobile app can sell products through photo recognition. Recognize.im is an API platform which allows you to implement image recognition technology to any mobile or. Here's a video of Wojciech Radomski presenting at ...

Brightcove's Jeremy Allaire's lessons learned

by Kristin Karaoglu, March 27, 2013 | Comments

At Splash NY, CEO and founder gives tips on raising capital, a founder's vision, and more

Vator Splash is one of the few events where entrepreneurs can hear from seasoned and veteran entrepreneurs who've built successful businesses from the ground up. As Bambi Francisco noted, our Splash Keynotes are "Lessons worth sharing" much like TED talks are "Ideas worth spreading." All of our keynotes have founded their companies and either taken them through the IPO, exited ...

Splash SF Feb 2013 Finalist - Glyder

by Kristin Karaoglu, March 25, 2013 | Comments

Check out Glyder's presentation at Splash SF Feb 2013

Splash SF Feb 2013 finalist Glyder enables businesses to create and send messages to customers with no design, marketing or coding expertise. Glyder is already integrated with leading social networks, email and CRM platforms, including: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, email and SMS, Apple Passbook, MailChimp, Constant Contact, Salesforce, and Highrise. Here's a video of Alan Wells presenting at Vator Splash SF. ...

Splash SF Feb 2013 Finalist - Delicious Karma

by Kristin Karaoglu, March 22, 2013 | Comments

Check out Delicious Karma's presentation at Splash SF Feb 2013

Splash SF Feb 2013 finalist Delicious Karma is s a social shopping site that makes it fun and easy to discover, learn about, and buy exceptional artisanal and gourmet specialty foods, at great prices, while also supporting the community of artisanal food producers. Here's a video of Michelle Ritchie, Jim Ritchie presenting at Vator Splash SF. Among the judges were Stewart ...

Splash SF Feb 2013 Finalist - Younity

by Kristin Karaoglu, March 20, 2013 | Comments

Check out Younity's presentation at Splash SF Feb 2013

Splash SF Feb 2013 finalist younity creates a personal cloud for all your files, built from your devices and your online services, so that all your devices work as if they were a single device. With younity, you can grab whichever device is most convenient without ever thinking about where a file is.Here's a video of Erik Caso presenting at ...

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