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Bill Lee: Angels produce better returns...

Angel investor Bill Lee on bubbles, returns and why social gaming, mobile commerce are hot sectors

by Bambi Francisco Roizen - January 11, 2012
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Online video advertising revenue to surge

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 9, 2012 | Comments

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LongTail Video founder and CEO Dave Otten on video ads work, and how CPMs can go up

Advertising is expected to increase 20% to $31 billion in 2011, according to eMarketer. But online video is expected to grow more than twice as fast, or 52%. Given the fast-growing segment, the questions for both marketers, publishers and content producers - all three constituents that benefit from video advertising - which ad units are most effective and when can ...

Angel investor Bill Lee interview with Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 3, 2012 | Comments

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Investor in Tesla Motors, Zaarly, Hootsuite, Tweetdeck talks about what he looks to invest in

Bill Lee has become one of the angel investors to watch, and one who's managed to get into some pretty hot deals that are getting seemingly rich valuations. This month, he plans on investing in a start-up that's being valued at $1 billion. The well-connected-entrepreneur-turned-investor has invested in about 30 companies, such as Tesla Motors (Lee made his investment back ...

Top 10 interviews on VatorNews in 2011

by Kristin Karaoglu, December 30, 2011 | Comments

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Kiip, Gilt Groupe, Google Ventures, Airbnb make the top 10 most popular interviews in 2011

Did you make the list? Here are the top 10 most-viewed interviews on VatorNews in 2011. Brian Wong explains how Kiip will make money In a continuation of my interview with Brian Wong, Wong explains that the key to Kiip's business model is how it will leverage the uniquely addictive quality of mobile gaming to keep people hooked and interacting ...

Lessons from Turntable.fm's pivot away from StickyBits

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 20, 2011 | Comments

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Co-founder Seth Goldstein on pivots, and why Social Media's reliance on Facebook was a bad mistake

As most entrepreneurs and investors know, it takes a dozen iterations, pivots and sometimes re-starts before a company gets its stride. Often it's one small feature that takes off inside a company that becomes the main product. In some cases, it's an entirely new idea altogether. That's the case with Turntable.fm, one of the hottest music start-ups to hit the ...

Box revenue tripling year-over-year

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 19, 2011 | Comments

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CEO and founder Aaron Levi on growth, marketing strategy, and attracting 100,000 new users each week

Box.net is adding more than 100,000 new users each week and is seeing a tripling in revenue from last year. It's no wonder the company just raised $81 million, and reportedly turned down a $500 million acquisition offer. Today, six-year-old Box.net eight million users and more than 100,000 companies using its service. In this interview, the second part of a ...

Closer look at a CEO: Piston Cloud's Joshua McKenty

by Krystal Peak, December 15, 2011 | Comments

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The ex-NASA engineer says 'entrepreneurship is the only cure for apathy'

Joshua McKenty is the CEO of an ambitious young tech start-up in San Francisco called Piston Cloud Computing. Founded earlier this year, Piston aims to be the service that ties together the businesses and communities using OpenStack services and the open source community that evolves the system. McKenty was one of the creators of OpenStack, a cloud platform focused on ...

Betterworks' Paige Craig interview with Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 14, 2011 | Comments

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The provider of perks to small businesses continues to attract vendors in droves

Betterworks, which launched its formal product in June to help small- to medium-sized businesses manage and offer affordable perks to employees, has been growing like gangbusters. Every month, the company is adding about 500 to 800 vendors, that want to reach Betterworks' growing pool of employees, according to Paige Craig, co-founder and CEO, in a recent interview with Bambi Francisco. ...

Aaron Levie on Box's competitive edge

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 2, 2011 | Comments

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CEO and founder talks about Box vs. Google, Microsoft, Oracle and the Box Innovation Network

In 2005, Box co-founder Dylan Smith used his online poker winnings to start a company to help store data for consumers. Along with co-founder Aaron Levie, they worked out of a garage and in a couple years started focusing on large corporations. Fast forward six years from those days in the garage, and Box.net is one of the leading providers ...

Adchemy seeks to ignite keyword-search marketing

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 1, 2011 | Comments

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Murthy Nukala, Adchemy CEO and founder, sits down with Bambi Francisco

Since Google made search-marketing mainstream, an entire ecosystem has been built on helping companies and advetisers reach potential customers via search. Billions of keywords are purchased on Google and Microsoft in an effort to find people searching for a specific item, say "baby bugaboo," right at the moment they care to find it and maybe, just maybe - buy ...

Doug Mack on where flash sales are headed

by Faith Merino, November 30, 2011 | Comments

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The CEO of One Kings Lane talks about lessons learned and the future of the flash sales industry

One Kings Lane has raised $67 million in financing and is doing more than $100 million in annual sales, so it’s safe to say that CEO Doug Mack knows a thing or two about how to run a successful company. As so many other business veterans point out, most of a company’s success hinges on the team. But Mack also ...

Eliot Van Buskirk on the future of digital music

by Faith Merino, November 30, 2011 | Comments

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The Editor-in-Chief of Evolver.fm weighs in on the major players and who to watch out for

So we have Spotify, we have Turntable.fm, we have Shazam, Rhapsody, iTunes, and everything in between, but what lies ahead for the digital music industry? Eliot Van Buskirk’s forecast: cross-compatibility. All of those digital music platforms need to hook up. “Let’s say you subscribe to rhapsody, I subscribe to spotify, our friend doesn’t subscribe to any of that stuff…the next ...

Gilt Groupe CEO Kevin Ryan on the evolution of commerce

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 25, 2011 | Comments

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From a search paradigm to discovery; from gadgets and books to gourmet food and men's suits

The other day, my five-year-old-iPad-loving son tried to swipe the computer screen in front of his seat on the plane flight home from New York. By the time he's in his 20's, ordering made-to-wear clothing online may be as quick and easy as ordering a pizza. How times have changed. While online commerce started off with electronics and books, today ...

High valuations not much of a concern for this VC

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 23, 2011 | Comments

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Alex Rosen of IDG Ventures says good companies will do just fine

Some folks are predicting tough times ahead for venture capital fundraising in 2012 or 2013, including yours truly, and more recently by Mark Suster, outspoken entrepreneur-turned VC, whose keynote speech at Vator and Bullpen Capital's last Venture Shift event in NY, was a bit alarming. But not everyone sees the world with dark sunglasses. In my interview with Alex Rosen, partner ...

Turntable eyes virtual goods and record label deals

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 17, 2011 | Comments

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Co-founder Seth Goldstein on how Turntable plans to make money and why record labels are key

It's no secret that it's tough to make money in the music business, especially if you're a start-up trying to get consumers to pay a subscription to your service. In recent years, only Pandora has emerged successful at generating significant sums of revenue across the services that provide music-discovery (a la radio stations) or on-demand music services. And, most of ...

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