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Today's Entrepreneur: Laurence Tobin

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 27, 2012 | Comments

Everything takes longer than you expected and costs more than you planned

Today's Entrepreneur is Laurence Tobin, founder of MindGames. According to his VEQ Laurence is a thought leader and is good at product management and project development. 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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: James Citron

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 25, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Being afraid to tell the world about what you are doing

Today's Entrepreneur is James Citron, CEO of Mogreet. According to his VEQ James is good at team motivation, fund raising 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 and pieces of their roller-coaster ...

Today's Investor: Kate Mitchell

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 23, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Lacking patience

Today's Investor is Kate Mitchell, Kate is co-founder of Scale Venture Partners, a venture capital fund with over $900 million under management located in Silicon Valley, California. She leads investments in software bringing more than 25 years' experience in technology, finance and management to her portfolio. Mitchell, who was part of the group called the IPO Task Force that developed ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Rick Marini

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 18, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Under-estimate how tough this job is

Today's Entrepreneur is Rick Marini, Founder & CEO, BranchOut of BranchOut. BranchOut is the largest professional network on Facebook with over 30 million active users and over 500 million professional connections. Users leverage their existing friend network to identify all of their inside connections for jobs, recruiting, sales leads and career networking. (Marini will be speaking at Venture Shift, an ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Fredrick Nijm

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 16, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Waiting to long to launch their product

Today's Entrepreneur is Fredrick Nijm, CEO and co-founder of Addoway. According to his VEQ, Fredrick is good at product management and networking 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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Mehran Farimani

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 13, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Give up

Today's Entrepreneur is Mehran Farimani, founder of Percipo. According to his VEQ, Mehran is good at product management and thecnology design 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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Richard Rygg

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 11, 2012 | Comments

It is the hiring and firing process that makes or breaks a company

Today's Entrepreneur is Richard Rygg, co-founder and chief product guy at HipGeo. According to his VEQ, Richard is a thought leader and is good at product management and fund raising. 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 ...

Gamification has to move beyond badges

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 11, 2012 | Comments

Video of Johnny Shaw and Chethan Ramachandran at the Vator Spark conference on gamification

What are the personality types of gamers and how do you reach them? Engaging your customer or employee requires more than just giving them a badge. In fact, motivations depend on personality types. Are you a socialite? Or maybe you're a collectivist. You may even be a scientist, but act like a politician. Jonny Shaw, founder of NakedPlay.com, and Chethan Ramachandran, founder ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Ramana Rao

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 9, 2012 | Comments

Be careful on initial conditions of founding & funding & structure

Today's Entrepreneur is Ramana Rao, CEO and Founder of OwnTown. According to his VEQ, Ramana is a thought leader and is good at technology design and product 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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Karen Bantuveris

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 6, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Waiting too long to seek feedback

Today's Entrepreneur is Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot. VolunteerSpot, is the leading online coordination tool that helps busy moms, teachers and nonprofit leaders easily mobilize and organize volunteers in their communities and schools. 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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Ziv Eliraz

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 2, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Not listening

Today's Entrepreneur is Ziv Eliraz, Founder & CEO of Zao.com. According to his VEQ, Ziv is a thought leader and is good at sales execution and product 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 ...

Video: Late night with Raj Kapoor at Vator Splash

by Kristin Karaoglu, July 2, 2012 | Comments

	Mike Hirshland, Sharon Wienbar, Tim Chang, Michael Brown At Vator Splash, we like to shake things up a bit. We have a beer giveaway; we have a musician as our time keeper for our start-up presentations called The Mule; we have an all VC-entrepreneur boy band called Coverflow that plays at our afterparty; and, we have a late night VC panel unlike no other. It's called: Late Night. ...
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Today's Entrepreneur: Hardeep Walia

by Kristin Karaoglu, June 29, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Not fully understanding the sacrifices required of starting a company

Today's Entrepreneur is Hardeep Walia, Co-Founder and CEO of Motif Investing. According to his VEQ, Hardeep is good at product management, finance management and technology design. 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 ...

Victor White's gamification deck at Vator Spark

by Kristin Karaoglu, June 29, 2012 | Comments

Social + Gamification: Better User Experience, Better Engagement, Better Data

"Social + Gamification: Better User Experience, Better Engagement, Better Data" by Victor White View more presentations from Vator.tv Gigya.com's Victor White talks about Social + Gamification at Vator Spark. Gamification works best when users can compete with their friends. As businesses look to gamify their web properties, ensuring that social rewards are tied to to users' social graphs is paramount ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Scott Painter

by Kristin Karaoglu, June 27, 2012 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Understand the importance of financial reports, legal provisions...

Today's Entrepreneur is Scott Painter, founder and CEO of TrueCar. TrueCar is an online automotive information and communications platform focused on creating a better car buying experience for dealers and consumers. Scott Painter gave a keynote at Vator Splash LA in May 2012. For a great write-up of the keynote, check out Krystal Peak's TrueCar CEO: "The last six months ...

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