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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, ...

Splash NY Dec 2012 People's Choice Award - Thumbs Up

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 9, 2013 | Comments

Check out Thumbs Up's pitch at the Splash NY Dec 2012 Competition

Splash NY Dec 2012 People's Choice Award winner Thumb's Up is the magic button for TV. Through a plug-and-play API, TV shows integrate Thumbs Up into any second-screen app to let the audience vote, rate and share great moments of a show with one touch in real-time - enabling new, interactive TV experiences that increase viewer engagement, live viewership and ...

Pearl CEO Andy Kurtzig shares lessons learned

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 9, 2013 | Comments

Build a product and test with customers first; Mission and values matter

Quora may be getting tons of attention for the amount of money it's raised, but Pearl is also a service that let's people get answers to their questions. The difference between the two companies is that Pearl has raised a lot less money, but is generating a ton more (in the order of a $100 million gross revenue run-rate). Watch Andy ...

Splash NY Dec 2012 Winner - Traxo

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 7, 2013 | Comments

Check out Traxo's presentation at Splash NY Dec 2012

At Vator Splash SF, Traxo took home the gold. Traxo automatically detects and organizes ALL of your travel information (bookings, miles, points, and loyalty status) from 190+ sources, into a single centralized, dynamic travel dashboard -- essentially a next-gen Tripit or Mint.com for travel. Here's a video of Andres Fabris presenting at Vator Splash NY. Traxo competed against more than ...

Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo shares lessons learned

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 7, 2013 | Comments

Be authentic; build a corporate culture; think long term

Sheila Marcelo, CEO and founder of Care.com, is a dynamic speaker and one women entrepreneurs should view as a role model. At Vator Splash NY, Marcelo - straight from landing at the airport from a trip in the UK - gave her keynote speech about lessons starting and scaling her business, Care.com. Marcelo, who is a mother of two, has raised more ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Boone Bergsma

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 4, 2013 | Comments

	No. 1 mistake: Overthinking it Today's Entrepreneur is Boone Bergsma, CEO of WeThinkItMatters. According to his VEQ, Boone is good at product management, marketing management and networking. (WeThinkItMatters is one of the promising startups competing to be one of the top 10 finalists to present on stage at Vator Splash SF in February. If you want to see Boonr on stage, or another startup in ...
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