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Evernote CEO talks about building Evernote and where he sees the company going

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David Hornik predicts no big bubble bursting in VC land

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 10, 2012 | Comments

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Why it's all about having 'realistic' expectations; why Facebook will IPO at closer to $100B vs $50B

I've been through the Internet bubble and know what a stomach-turner that time was. In late 1999, you could almost sense it was coming too, given the investment-banking-pumping machine that kept spitting IPOs out as though they were on some sort of assembly line, and the day-trading, mom-and-pop lemmings who grabbed them as quickly as they came off because, well, ...

SendGrid CEO sees 10x growth in emails in two years

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 2, 2012 | Comments

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Jim Franklin talks to Bambi Francisco about growth opportunities and why he loves Pinterest

SendGrid, a leading cloud-based provider of email services, has a goal to send one billion emails per day. That's 10x the100 million emails already sent out daily, or 1300 per second. One way to reach that goal is to be everywhere developers are, said Jim Franklin, CEO of SendGrid, in our interview. And, the timing of that goal? Franklin predicts ...

SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin talks to Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 29, 2012 | Comments

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Jim Franklin says international sales should be at parity in three years

SendGrid, a leading cloud-based provider of email services, recently raised a $21 million Series B round of funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners this past January. Part of those funds will go toward hiring and international expansion. In my interview with CEO Jim Franklin, the second in a two-part series, Franklin talks about where SendGrid plans to grow overseas. The ...

Foundation Capital's plan to find the next Zuckerberg

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 29, 2012 | Comments

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Partner Paul Holland talks to Bambi Francisco about the Young Entrepreneurs Program

When Vator launched in 2007, our thesis was that there would be more entrepreneurs and more investors looking at the private market as a viable asset class to invest in. Fueling this rise in entrepreneurship is this entrepreneurial spirit and mindset sweeping through colleges, fertile ground to find some of the best ideas and tomorrow's leaders. I was one of ...

Catch Chairman Steve Brown speaks with Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 28, 2012 | Comments

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Catch is a way to capture and collaborate on your ideas

If you're like most people (and me), managing photos, personal notes about life situations or events takes everything from Word documents, various photo and personal-management applications and post-it notes. Yes, I still use those. One company that can handle this management is Catch, a start-up founded in 2008. Today, Catch has half a million monthly users and 230,000 daily active ...

Behind AmEx's digital commerce start-up initiative

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 22, 2012 | Comments

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Managing Partner Harshul Sanghi sits down with Bambi Francisco

It's been about 4-1/2 months since American Express launched its Digital Commerce initiative, a new program designed to invest $100 million in start-ups focused on digital commerce. I recently sat down with Harshul Sanghi, Managing Partner at American Express Ventures, who heads up the Enterprise Growth Group, a new unit to expand mobile and online payment services beyond the credit-card ...

Unruly reveals secrets to socializing video on the Web

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 1, 2012 | Comments

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Interview with CEO and founder Scott Button

We last wrote about Unruly back in January, when the social video advertising startup raised $25 million in venture financing. Recently, I caught up with founder and CEO Scott Button. As I had written, Unruly has been behind some of the hottest viral videos, such as the “Roller Babies" campaign, which Unruly created for Evian, which was No. 1 on YouTube and ...

What does DFJ Frontier look to invest in?

by Reena A Jadhav, February 25, 2012 | Comments

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Reena Jadhav speaks to VC David Cremin at Vator Splash LA

Reena Jadhav interviews David Cremin at Vator Splash on where he sees the opportunity for transformation. DFJ Frontier focuses on the earliest stages of a company's formation process. Typically, DFJ Frontier will invest $50,000 to $1 million. So, if you're looking for early rounds of funding, check out this interview with David Cremin Founder and Managing Director, DFJ Frontier, at Vator ...

Clarizen adding 100 customers a month

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 16, 2012 | Comments

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Interview with CEO and founder Avinoam Nowogrodski

Clarizen has raised some $37 million in venture funding to do to project management what Salesforce did to CRM (customer relationship management). Here's an interviw with Avinoam Nowogrodski, the CEO and founder of Clarizen, which provides project management solutions to companies that have between 500 and 5,000 employees and that pay a median amount of $10,000 to $15,000 a year. ...

FileTrek raises $10M to track files everywhere

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 15, 2012 | Comments

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Interview with new CEO Dale Quayle on how FileTrek transformed to focus on data sprawl

After being in stealth mode for about six months, FileTrek announced Wednesday that it's raised $10 million in new funding, led by Anthem Venture Partners, to enter the cloud-file sharing services companies, such as Box and DropBox, which are growing like gangbusters. "With DropBox and Box, you can access data from multiple points and different devices," said Dale Quayle, the ...

Turntable.fm's Seth Goldstein on the evolution of music

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 15, 2012 | Comments

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How music consumption is going back to its roots

Turntable.fm has brought social into digital music, bringing the entire music-listening experience back to its roots. "It [music] was always a social experience," said Seth Goldstein, co-founder and Chairman of the popular music service, Turntable.fm. Then came the advent of Walkmans, MP3 players, and iPods. Pretty soon, people were enjoying music on their own. Turntable.fm brings us back to the ...

Apply to Women Innovate Mobile, get $18k, mentorship

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 14, 2012 | Comments

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Interview with co-founder Deborah Jacks on the benefits of this NY-based accelerator for women

It seems there's an incubator or accelerator launching every month across the country. But there's only one accelerator, that I've seen of late, that is focused specifically on women-founded start-ups focused on mobile technology. It's called Women Innovate Mobile. Talk about specific! I caught up with Deborah Jackson, an investor and entrepreneur, who co-founded the program with two other women ...

How to get funded by IDG's Alex Rosen

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 14, 2012 | Comments

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Rosen's job is to sift through a field of 700 to 800 start-ups a year and find gems

Alex Rosen is a partner at IDG Venturs, an early-stage venture capital firm. In this interview, you can learn about Rosen's and IDG's investment philosophy. IDG typically looks at 700 tp 800 start-ups a year and invests between four and 10. These figures are similar to the more established firms (e.g. Morgenthaler has five VC partners and invests in about ...

How Kaggle plans on making money

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 24, 2012 | Comments

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Interview with founders Anthony Goldbloom and Jeremy Howard

Here's the second part of my interview with the founders of Kaggle, a recently-launched start-up with $11 million in Series A funding from Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, as well as Stanford University's endownment, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, Google's chief economist Hal Varian and now Google Adsense co-founder Gil Elbaz. Kaggle is solving real-world problems through competitions among the world's biggest brains. Kaggle brings together super smart data ...

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