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Pearl's Andy Kurtzig interview with Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 6, 2012 | Comments

	Why Pearl's experts give it credibility and make this service stand out If you're an Apple fan, you know how much of a convenience it is to be able to just pick up the phone and get Apple Support. Imagine if you could pay a relatively minimal fee to ask questions about a number of topics, from legal, medical, mechanical, financial and so on. Wouldn't it be great if there were a ...
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Motif's Hardeep Walia interview with Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 31, 2012 | Comments

	Founder and CEO the new online broker for individual investors Last year, we shared news with our readers about the $20 million raised by Motif, a retail brokerage startup. This past June, the startup came out of stealth mode and has been open for business. Recently, I caught up with Hardeep Walia, founder and CEO, to learn more about how Motif. Motif is a new type of online retail broker. ...
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Interview with Mike Volpi of Index Ventures

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 16, 2012 | Comments

What does Index look to invest in? Does Path compete with Facebook?

Index Ventures recently announced that it raised its sixth fund, called Index VI. The global VC firm, which focuses mainly on early-stage and seed financings, has invested in notable companies, such as Flipboard, Etsy, Skype, Playfish, MySQL (sold for $1 billion to Sun Microsystems, before Sun was acquired by Oracle), Lastfm, and Facebook, which recently went public. I caught up with ...

Social will be the beneficiary of brand dollars in 2012

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 13, 2012 | Comments

Dachis Group Jeff Dachis says brands are stepping up to embrace social

This year will be the year where businesses commit meaningful dollars in social engagement marketing and those dollars will come from brand budgets, not search, predicted Jeff Dachis, founder and CEO of Dachis Group. In this interview, Dachis shares his view on why brands are starting to embrace social marketing as they seek to connect with their fans. Not only ...

Big Fish Games Paul Thelen talks to Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 1, 2012 | Comments

Thelen shares his thoughts on the gaming company's acquisitions, and future

Big Fish Games, a developer and publisher of casual downloadable games founded in 2002, recently acquired mobile social game developer Self Aware Games and its parent company, Social Concepts, which makes Card Ace: Casino, which was currently the No. 1 grossing app on the iPad, and the No. 4 grossing app on the iPhone. Paul Thelen, founder and Chief Strategy ...

The importance of pivoting and market timing

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 31, 2012 | Comments

Catch Chairman Steve Brown shares his lessons learned about entrepreneurship

Solving a problem, like enabling a person to organize his/her unstructured personal information - whether it's photos, notes, documents - is not an easy task, especially when it comes to determining which is the best way to onboard them to your service. For Steve Brown, co-founder and CEO of Catch, an app that wants to organize your personal stuff via ...

The content that's working for YouTube's $100M bet

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 23, 2012 | Comments

Head of original programming, Tom Sly, on YouTube's original programming strategy

Just this week, Google led a $35 million investment in Machinima, one of the more popular video producers on YouTube. Earlier this week, Hulu announced its original content summer lineup. Original programming by YouTube, Hulu, Amazon, Netflix is exploding. How will YouTube compete and what's working for the media company as part of its $100 million effort to build up ...

YouTube's $100M bet is about viewership, not return

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 14, 2012 | Comments

Head of original programming, Tom Sly, on YouTube's original programming strategy

YouTube currently generates all of its revenue from advertising, but is considering adding a subscription component, a feature requested by many of its users. That's just one of the many tidbits I got from Tom Sly, head of original programming at Google's YouTube, who sat down with me recently. Sly also talks about YouTube's original programming strategy, which was announced ...

How big companies engage the social marketplace

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 7, 2012 | Comments

Jeff Dachis, founder and CEO of Dachis Group, talks to Bambi Francisco

The Dachis Group helps companies connect and engage with their customers by helping them understand who their advocates are and how their brand is being perceived across social media. Recently, Bambi Francisco sat down with founder Jeff Dachis to find out how he helps companies engage the social marketplace. In the interview, Dachis talks about ways to identify the most loyal and ...

Resist the urge: Do not just game-wash your pitches

by Krystal Peak, May 2, 2012 | Comments

Just as most companies have recently added social layers, gamification is now another building tool

While most of the day was focused on how to take gamification elements and fold them into any business dealing with human interaction, we couldn't close out the event without hearing from VCs that help fund these companies. So just before we called it a badge-tastic day, Vator Spark invited three VCs to share their insight on gamification and what ...

Morgenthaler's Rebecca Lynn talks to Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 18, 2012 | Comments

VC partner taking venture investing in stride; sees Facebook IPO closer to $100B than $50B

In the last year, venture capitalists poured $28.4 billion into 3,673 deals, up 22% in dollar terms from the prior year. It was the third highest amount deployed in the last 10 years. Internet-specific companies saw a 68% jump in investments to $6.9 billion in 997 deals. It was the highest level of Internet investment over the last decade, according ...

How to get funded by August Capital's David Hornik

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 16, 2012 | Comments

	Calling all 'awesome' entrepreneurs with original ideas in the 'awesome' space David Hornik, a partner at August Capital, is one of those likeable guys with an uncanny ability to say what's on his mind and get away with it. That's why we love having him as our Late Night host during our Splash events. Even though David could be the first VC to turn in his term sheets for scripts and ...
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Mobile app links fun and finance together

by Ane Howard, April 12, 2012 | Comments

Toshl Finance helps you regain control of your finance with the help of "Monsters"

Following my own frustrating experience with my mobile bank app this past week, I was quite intrigued this morning when Toshl, a Slovenia-based startup with an office in Mountain View released Thursday the latest version of the financial app Toshl Finance. With every financial institution in the country releasing its own version of a mobile app, what makes Toshl Finance intriguing ...

How to get funded by Morgenthaler's Rebecca Lynn

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 11, 2012 | Comments

	VC partner sits down with Bambi Francisco to share her investment philosophy There are very few venture partners in Silicon Valley who are women, making Rebecca Lynn, a partner at Morgenthaler, a rare breed. Recently, I got to sit down with Lynn to talk about her investment philosophy and the types of companies she invests in.
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