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Today's Entrepreneur: Arnie Benn

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 25, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Over-estimating the size of their market and their potential market penetration

Today's Entrepreneur is Arnie Benn, Co-Founder and CEO of AllowanceTree. According to his VEQ (an entrepreneur assessment test) Arnie is a thought leader and is good at technology design and project development. AllowanceTree is one of the top contenders competing in the Splash LA competition. Check it out here. Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Robert Rice

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 23, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Building the wrong team

Today's Entrepreneur is Robert Rice, Founder and CEO of LocalSense. According to his VEQ Robert is a thought leader and is project development and technology design. LocalSense is one of the top contenders competing in the Splash LA competition. Check it out here. Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion and follow their dreams. Our profiles ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Nathalie Criou

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 21, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Not believing in a vision and not validating assumptions quickly and reasonably

Today's Entrepreneur is Nathalie Criou, CEO of RidePal. According to her VEQ (an entrepreneur assessment test) Nathalie is good at product management, technology design and team motivation. RidePal is one of the top contenders competing in the Splash LA competition. Check it out here. Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion and follow their dreams. Our ...

Today's Entrepreneur: MD Wong

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 18, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Not being able to respond properly to criticism and not removing dead weight partners

Today's Entrepreneur is MD Wong, CEO of MergeLocal. According to his VEQ MD is product management, sales execution and technology design. Wong's company MergeLocal is currently competing in Vator's Splash LA start-up competition. 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, ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Eman Talei

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 16, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Falling in love with their idea and jumping into it without research

Today's Entrepreneur is Eman Talei, CEO of Jeebster.com. According to his VEQ Eman is good at negotiation, networking, sales management. 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 journey. These profiles ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Domingo Guerra

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 11, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Getting a big head and thinking you know everything

Today's Entrepreneur is Domingo Guerra, President and Co-Founder of Appthority. According to his VEQ Domingo is good at team motivation, product management and marketing management. 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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Edward Agabs

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 9, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Going alone

Today's Entrepreneur is Edward Agabs, CEO of Vehiko. According to his VEQ Edward is good at good at product management, technology design and finance management. 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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Suchit Dash

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 7, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Believing that someone can beat them & saying "no"

Today's Entrepreneur is Suchit Dash, co-founder and VP of product at Ifeelgoods. Ifeelgoods makes online retail promotions more effective and less expensive by using relevant virtual goods and currencies from the most popular social games in place of traditional promotions such as discounts, coupon codes or gifts with purchase. Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion ...

Michael Wu's gamification deck at Vator Spark

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 4, 2012 | Comments

Lithium's chief scientist on the science of gamification

2012 05-01 vator tv -science of gamification v01b-slideshare View more presentations from Michael Wu PhD The first keynote speaker of the morning at the inaugural Vator Spark event was Michael Wu, chief scientist, from Lithium.com. Lithium is a business helping companies engage their social customers to be the best advocates they can. Also read Krystal Peak's write-up on Wu's presentation, Gamification is not alone a ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Rupa Tejura

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 4, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Letting fear consume you

Today's Entrepreneur is Rupa Tejura, founder of AdRoom. According to her VEQ Rupa is good at marketing management, fund raising and networking. 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 journey. ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Nathan Lands

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 2, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Finding the right co-founder

Today's Entrepreneur is Nathan Lands, CEO & Co-Founder of Gamify. 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 journey. These profiles give entrepreneurs an opportunity to showcase themselves and tell their ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Philippe Honigman

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 30, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Mismanaging work-life balance

Today's Entrepreneur is Philippe Honigman, Co-founder and CEO of SocialFolders. According to his VEQ Philippe is a thought leader and is good at product management and sales execution. 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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Bob Rogers

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 27, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Losing focus

Today's Entrepreneur is Bob Rogers, Co-founder & COO of DealAngel. According to his VEQ Bob is good at product management, negotiation and marketing management. 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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Cesar Castro

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 25, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Inability to pivot when the marketplace tells to do something different

Today's Entrepreneur is Cesar Castro, Founder and CEO of DiscoveryCast. Cesar will be speaking at our Vator Spark gamification conference: Get Game. Check out the agenda and register here. 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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Daniel Odio-Paez

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 23, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Spending money too quickly

Today's Entrepreneur is Daniel Odio-Paez, CEO of Socialize. Socialize puts app users to work boosting downloads and user re-engagement in an app by turning their social actions into new user installs. 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 ...

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