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MyWaves CEO Rajeev Raman talks with Vator.tv's Bambi Francisco

by John Shinal, February 18, 2008 | Comments

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MyWaves is an upstart mobile phone content provider that is looking to build a business outside the wireless carrier's proprietary platforms, using the Web to aggregate video content.As we've reported before, more VCs are looking to back companies that can build a customer base on the Web and exist outside the carriers' decks. Those closed platforms made it very difficult for startups to make money as independent content producers.Now the Internet, with it's inexpensive distribution costs, is evening the odds ...

Drew Lipsher of Greycroft Partners says ad dollars will find an audience online

by John Shinal, February 14, 2008 | Comments

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Andrew (Drew) Lipsher, a veteran media-industry executive and now a venture investor with Greycroft Partners, says ad money will follow online shows that can build an audience.When we caught up with him at the OnMedia conference in NYC, he had just raised some eyebrows by stating something during a panel session that was not obvious to everyone in the audience at the Mandarin Oriental conference room:The perceived economic value of online video and music content among a younger generation of ...

Matt Ridenour and Momentum Venture Management looking to help pre-Series A startups

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 13, 2008 | Comments

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Like a lot of new venture capital firms, Momentum Venture Management is looking for a niche in an industry that is awash in both VCs and money.Founding partner and managing director Matt Ridenour says he sees a disconnect between small, lean startups that don't need much funding to expand and traditional early-stage VC firms that have raised large funds. The profit model of those firms requires them to make investments between $2 million and $5 million, he says. In this ...

Mohr Davidow's Bryan Stolle on how to recognize an Enterprise 2.0 bubble

by John Shinal, February 7, 2008 | Comments

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Finding ways to take the friction out of the enterprise sales model is something that an increasing number of entrepreneurs and investors are looking to do.We first told you about it back in September.More recently, we heard about the state of the "Enterprise 2.0" investing from Bryan Stolle, a partner with the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures.When he first started looking at the market for in early 2006, Stolle says there would be maybe five VCs trolling ...

VC Cafe shining a spotlight on Israeli startups

by Ezra Roizen, February 4, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Israel has the highest ratio of startup companies per capita, according to Ezequiel (Eze) Vidra, who founded the Web site VC Cafe to help shine a spotlight on that nation's entrepreneurs. It's not that high-quality startups there haven't gotten the attention of investors or strategic buyers like AOL, which bought Quigo and its online ad network last year for $300 million. Still, while Israeli entrepreneurs are heavy on technical know-how, they often lack the marketing skills to bring their ...

Clupedia CEO David Saad: AlwaysOn 100 pick is "big surprise"

by John Shinal, February 1, 2008 | Comments (1)

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One of the cool things about watching Vator.tv every day is seeing startup companies grow after they become members of our community. Some, like 222do, develop from a mere idea in a Vator.tv pitch into an actual business before our eyes. When founder Ellen Leanse first put her pitch on the site, she was just getting the company off the ground. By the time we brought the former Apple executive in for an interview, the company's list application had been ...

KickApps CEO Alex Blum on new social-media tools and services

by Ezra Roizen, January 31, 2008 | Comments

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KickApps gives online publishers the ability to quickly and easily add social-networking features to their Web sites.The company provides a suite of hosted services and offers tools for developers to customize their own sites with things like chat, messaging and rich-media features like video uploads and sharing.In this interview with Vator.tv, KickApps CEO Alex Blum tells Ezra Roizen that the platform is so easy to use that a small team of developers can create a custom site "in a matter ...

Beet.TV's Andy Plesser says there's a big opportunity to monetize content

by John Shinal, January 29, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Beet.TV is built on a simple premise, according to founder and CEO Andy Plesser. "People in the business world like to watch other business people on video," says Plesser, a former public relations and media executive with more than two decades experience in the world of big media. Plesser says his approach is like that of Charlie Rose, but without an interviewer with a powerful presence. Beet.TV's philosophy is to "let people speak for themselves," he says That's a philosophy ...

Tim Draper talks about a new VC model for new media investing

by John Shinal, January 29, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Tim Draper, founding partner with the venture firm Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson, told an audience at the OnMedia conference in New York this week that the emergence of new media is "a typhoon" that will tear apart the revenue model of the traditional media industry and force companies to re-think their industry. At the same time, the trend presents a huge opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors in online media. During a presentation and a panel discussion, Draper, who previously backed fast-growing ...

Working to help ad dollars catch up to eyeballs

by John Shinal, January 29, 2008 | Comments

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It’s been the lament heard often during the last few years from anyone who’s watched the surge in consumers' Web use -- especially as online video viewing skyrockets: when will ad spending dollars catch up to those eyeballs? It was the question on the minds of many of the startup company executives attending the opening night reception of the OnMedia New York City event hosted by the AlwaysOn Network. AlwaysOn founder and former Red Herring magazine editor Tony Perkins laid ...

Mashable's Pete Cashmore shares more details on the site redesign

by John Shinal, January 28, 2008 | Comments

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As we told you last week, Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore is readying a big overhaul of the social-networking news site. In that post, we let Cashmore tell you about Mashable 2.0 in his own words. In this segment, Vator.tv's Bambi Francisco grills him on the site's numbers, including how many visitors, registered users and employees Mashable has. Ultimately, the most important number is the one on the bottom line, and for Mashable, the news there is good. "We're ...

Rocketboom's Andrew Baron tells VCTV: build the audience, then write the biz plan

by John Shinal, January 25, 2008 | Comments

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At Vator.tv, when we say that we're an online NETWORK for innovators, we mean that word in every way. Like a business network, our site is a great place to meet other startup entrepreneurs -- or find talented people who want to work for a young company. And like a traditional media network, we give content creators a chance to distribute their shows to a wider audience. Given the mad rush to create the next big thing for digital Hollywood, ...

SimulScribe settles suit, works to free voice mail from "prison"

by John Shinal, January 23, 2008 | Comments

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More than 1 billion phone messages are sent to home, business and cell phones every day in the U.S. and Canada, according to SimulScribe CEO James Siminoff.The problem for people on the receiving end is that there's no way to tell which ones are important without actually listening to them. And given that a lot of people only check their voice mail a few times a day, an urgent communication that could change your business or personal life might be sitting ...

Robert Simon's Ariva Ventures is a cross between venture and angel investing

by John Shinal, January 20, 2008 | Comments

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Robert Simon's Ariva Ventures is looking to make early-stage investments in startups that are attacking one of the following five markets: networking, semiconductors, mobile applications, medical devices and enterprise software and services.The firm's structure is a bit unusual because it has only two general partners, instead of the usual five or six, and another five professionals that Simon calls industry partners, each of whom have expertise in Ariva's areas of investment focus. In a typical venture firm, according to Simon, ...

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