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Beatles mania; Google's subscription service

by Meliza Solan Surdi, September 12, 2009 | Comments (4)

What am I Missy Episode 34 - Beatles stuck in 20th century; Free vs paid; Smule's contest

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Smule, the creators of iPhone applications like Ocarina, has a cool "Feel the Love" contest running. Users who have Leaf Trombone can register to win $500 at http://www.smule.com/. You just need to sign-up, and get as much love from your friends as possible. They can listen to your registered performance, and send ...

Marvel's next super hit; Aloqa and white lies

by Meliza Solan Surdi, September 5, 2009 | Comments (2)

What am I Missy Episode 33 - Disney and Marvel; Aloqa's mobile discovery; Smule's contest

AOL milks the cow; plus Amazon vs. Sony

by Meliza Solan Surdi, August 29, 2009 | Comments (3)

What am I Missy, Episode 32 - AOL, the Kindle vs e-Reader, Smule's competition

Bill Gurley declares IPO market open

by Meliza Solan Surdi, August 22, 2009 | Comments (4)

What am I Missy, Episode 31 - VCs predict Zynga, LinkedIn will IPO soon and Smule competition

Jigsaw - the Wikipedia for business cards

by Meliza Solan Surdi, August 17, 2009 | Comments

Co-founder and CEO Jim Fowler on rebuilding the database for business information

In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Jim Fowler, co-founder and CEO of Jigsaw, a leading provider of business card and company data services that leverages user-generated content contributed by its community of some one million members. BF: Your company is a user-generated business directory and you're really trying to how improve business contacts are maintained. Please elaborate on that. Is ...

FriendFeed now called Friendbook

by Meliza Solan Surdi, August 15, 2009 | Comments (11)

What am I Missy Episode 30 - NYTimes should keep Boston Globe, Friendfeed and Smule competition

Cash-strapped New York Times Company has an offer for the Boston Globe. California Private Equity is bidding $35 million dollars and the assumption of $59 million in liabilities. It really doesn't sound so bad only when you consider the Times bought the Globe for a billion back in 1993. With that low-ball offer, the Times should just walk away. Imagine what ...

Hitler upset about Facebook buying FriendFeed

by Meliza Solan Surdi, August 11, 2009 | Comments

	Why is Hitler so mad about the acquisition? One of the more entertaining pieces of coverage on the Facebook acquisition of FriendFeed.
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What am I Missy, Episode 29

by Meliza Solan Surdi, August 8, 2009 | Comments (4)

Twitter patent infringement; Palm Pre's advertising; Smule's competition

This segment was brought to you by Smule, the popular iPhone app maker. Smule, the creators of awesome iPhone apps like Ocarina, has a cool "Feel the Love" contest running. Users who have Leaf Trombone can register to win $500 at Smule. You just need to sign up, and get as much love from your friends as possible. They can ...

Team, proximity, slow & steady wins the race

by Meliza Solan Surdi, August 7, 2009 | Comments

Smule co-founder and CEO Jeff Smith says, 'Put zero distance between the code and the customer'

In this segment of Lessons Learned for entrepreneurs, Bambi Francisco interviewed Jeff Smith, co-founder of Smule, a maker of popular iPhone apps, such as the Ocarina, which recently eclipsed one million users, and Leaf Trombone to take a look. Smith was also the founder of Tumbleweed, which he brought public in 1999. BF: With all of your experience, I am ...

Why search engines are far from smart

by Meliza Solan Surdi, August 5, 2009 | Comments (1)

Tomasz Imielinski of Ask.com says search engines should be able to say, 'I don't know the answer'

In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Tomasz Imielinski, executive vice president of Global Search and Answers for Ask.com. BF: What's the marginal gain semantic technology is bringing to the search experience? TI: Ideally, it would be the shorter distance between the query and the answer. Today, you often have to re-phrase your query. The choice of keyword or order is ...

What Am I Missy? Episode 28

by Meliza Solan Surdi, August 1, 2009 | Comments (5)

Distress brings opportunity; Stick to what you're good at; Be cool and use Smule

During times of distress, great startups often emerge. Hewlett-Packard rose up at the end of the depression and FedEx was born during the oil crisis. Recently, tiny Airbnb came to be. During the "no-money-to-pay-the-rent crisis, the founders started renting out extra space to travelers on a budget. The big lesson learned is that difficult times often lead to opportunity. See:Travel the world with Airbnb So ...

John Battelle on conversational marketing

by Meliza Solan Surdi, July 31, 2009 | Comments

Founder of Federated Media gives insight into how advertising and publishing models are evolving

In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed John Batelle, founder and CEO of Federated Media. They discussed how the Internet is changing the publishing landscape. BF: John, if you had to write a headline and lead graph about what's happening in Internet advertising today, what would that be? JB: The return of the brand. For 50 years, brand marketers have figured out ...

Trent Reznor, MySpace and addiction

by Meliza Solan Surdi, July 25, 2009 | Comments (4)

	What am I Missy, Episode 27 Musician Trent Reznor has three big simple words for unknown artists: “GIVE IT AWAY.” Reznor, in a post on the Nine Inch Nails forums, gave aspiring musicians two options to succeed today. Number one is for those aiming to be pop superstars, go ahead and sign up with a major record label and give up your rights to your music. ...
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John Battelle: Sell as little as possible

by Meliza Solan Surdi, July 24, 2009 | Comments

Founder of Federated Media and The Industry Standard shares lessons as an entrepreneur

John Battelle, CEO and founder of Federated Media, a leading advertising network, talks to Bambi Francisco about his experience as an entrepreneur and shares a few lessons he learned after more than 15 years building media businesses. In the Internet boom years, Battelle founded The Industry Standard, a leading magazine about innovation and technology. In this interview, Battelle looked back ...

How Siri assistant plans to make money

by Meliza Solan Surdi, July 15, 2009 | Comments (1)

Free service plans to take fees from partners for delivering services to users

In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Tom Gruber, co-founder and CTO of Siri, a company that recently came out of stealth mode, and is a virtual assitant on the iPhone. BF: We were going to talk about the business model. It's a great application as soon as it launches. It's going to be a free application but you have to ...

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