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Splash SF Feb 2013 People's Choice winner - Artkive

by Kristin Karaoglu, March 15, 2013 | Comments

Check out Artkive's winning pitch at the Splash SF Feb 2013 competition

Splash SF Feb 2013 People's Choice Award winner Artkive is the easiest and fastest way to take, tag, and chronologically store your child's art and school work - then turn it into a hard cover book with little more than the touch of a button. Watch CEO Jedd Gold present. Artkive competed against more than 100 companies at Vator Splash ...

Splash SF Feb 2013 Winner - PokitDok

by Kristin Karaoglu, March 13, 2013 | Comments

Check out PokitDok's presentation at Splash SF Feb 2013

At Vator Splash SF, PokitDok took home the gold. PokitDok is a price transparent health marketplace where consumers shop directly from providers for high value health services. Consumers can search by condition or specialty and request a price quote directly from providers. Here's a video of Lisa Maki presenting at Vator Splash SF. PokitDok competed against more than 100 companies at ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Jedd Gold

by Kristin Karaoglu, February 25, 2013 | Comments

	No. 1 mistake: Being too in love with their own idea Today's Entrepreneur is Jedd Gold, founder and CEO of The Kive Company, the People's Choice winner of Splash SF 2013. The Kive Company allows parents to take, tag, and chronologically store your child's art and school work - then turn it into a hard cover book with little more than the touch of a button. According to his VEQ, Jedd is ...
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Today's Entrepreneur: Tanya Maslach

by Kristin Karaoglu, February 8, 2013 | Comments

Focus and prioritization is everything

Today's Entrepreneur is Tanya Maslach, founder of GOTRIbal.GOTRIbal is connecting the millions of women endurance athletes to each other and brands they love. According to her VEQ, Tanya is a thought leader and is good at team motivation and networking. Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion and follow their dreams. Our profiles allow members to ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Michelle Ritchie

by Kristin Karaoglu, February 4, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Not planning for the long haul

Today's Entrepreneur is Michelle Ritchie, founder and CMO of Delicioius Karma. Delicious Karma is 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. According to her VEQ. Michelle is good at product management, marketing management ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Erik Caso

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 30, 2013 | Comments

	Launch, listen, iterate Today's Entrepreneur is Erik Caso, CEO of younity. 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. According to his VEQ. Erik is good at product management, technology design and negotiation. (younity is one of the promising startups competing ...
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Splash NY Dec 2012 Finalist - MatchPuppy

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 28, 2013 | Comments

Check out MatchPuppy's presentation at Splash NY Dec 2012

Splash NY Dec 2013 finalist MatchPuppy is brand new way for dog owners and their dogs to meet new friends in their neighborhoods. Here's a video of Michael Chiang presenting at Vator Splash NY. Even though success is not defined by how much money a company has raised, past Vator winners, such as Thumbtack, Getable, Grovo, Astrid, Udemy, and Geeklist have gone on ...

Splash NY Dec 2012 Finalist - Offerbus

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 23, 2013 | Comments

Check out Offerbus's presentation at Splash NY Dec 2012

Splash NY Dec 2013 finalist Offerbus provides a turnkey, easy to integrate engagement platform that combines notifications, virtual currency rewards and a digital goods redemption marketplace. Developers can use the platform to engage, incentivize, retain and, if needed, monetize users. See Plamen Petrov present on stage. Even though success is not defined by how much money a company has raised, past ...

Norwest promotes three new partners

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 23, 2013 | Comments

Matthew Howard, Jeff Crowe and Sonya Brown move up the ranks

Norwest Venture Partners announced Wednesday morning that it's promoted Matthew Howard and Jeff Crowe to Managing Partner, and Sonya Brown is now General Partner. The promotions come at a time NVP has been actively investing in growth-stage investments. In the last 12 months, NVP made 30 new venture investments and grew the firm to 80 employees around the world. The ...

Splash NY Dec 2012 Finalist - LessonWriter

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 18, 2013 | Comments

Check out LessonWriter's presentation at Splash NY Dec 2012

Splash NY Dec 2012 finalist LessonWriter automatically turns any digital text into high-quality dynamic literacy lessons for print, web, and moblie. Here's a video of Stephen Churchville presenting at Vator Splash NY. Even though success is not defined by how much money a company has raised, past Vator winners, such as Thumbtack, Getable, Grovo, Astrid, Udemy, and Geeklist have gone on to raise ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Robert Rodrigues

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 18, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Thinking you know what your customer wants

Today's Entrepreneur is Robert Rodrigues, CEO of SquaredOut. SquaredOut leverages the power of social media and online calendaring to create an event-broadcasting community. Event creators can publish an event and have it appear in an array of locations & formats. Their audience can view and share these events using the portal, device and social network of their choice. According to ...

Splash NY Dec 2012 Finalist - CreativeWorx

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 16, 2013 | Comments

Check out CreativeWorx's presentation at Splash NY Dec 2012

Splash NY Dec 2012 finalist CreativeWorx wants to solve the timesheet problem to increase revenue and accelerate invoicing. By making the capture of hard-to-obtain employee workflow data effortless, the CreativeWorx platform automatically generates business intelligence that helps organizations & individuals capture more revenue, reduce costs, streamline processes, and have better visibility of operations. Here's a video of Mark Hirsch presenting ...

Splash NY Dec 2012 Finalist - Silver Living

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 11, 2013 | Comments

Check out Silver Living's presentation at Splash NY Dec 2012

Splash NY Dec 2012 finalist Silver Living,provides critical independent research and rich media that guides families to the best senior living community for their loved one. Watch Michael Cirello present. Even though success is not defined by how much money a company has raised, past Vator winners, such as Thumbtack, Getable, Grovo, Astrid, Udemy, and Geeklist have gone on to raise millions of ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Melinda Wittstock

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 11, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Surrounding themselves with 'yes-men' and b-listers

Today's Entrepreneur is Melinda Wittstock, CEO and founder of NewsiT. NewsiT is a mobile ‘big data’ platform for real-time algorithmic validation of original crowd-sourced content for brands, campaigns, media seeking to attract and retain committed consumers. People connect around interests they share and people they trust to get more relevant and accurate information – and valuable conversations with other users. ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Mitch Fox

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 9, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Focusing too much on ideas, pitches, and product and not enough on users

Today's Entrepreneur is Mitch Fox, co-founder of GoodApril. GoodApril helps people make good financial decisions today, so that they're prepared for, and paying the least amount of taxes possible come April. According to his VEQ, Mitch is good at product management, marketing management and project development. Good April is competing in the Splash SF startup competition. Check out who's competing, ...

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