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Zipidee's Henry Wong wants to help self-help experts

by John Shinal, January 18, 2008 | Comments

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Every consumer-facing startup with a chance of success should be solving a problem that's shared by a critical mass of people.Zipidee founder and CEO Henry Wong says his digital-goods marketplace is doing just that for anyone who's ever created or sold an educational or instructional video or audiotape.In the past, "self-help experts would have to get an agent, who would have to get a publisher, who would have to get a distributor," Wong says. Months later, the creator would finally ...

Kirstin Falk on the New Progressive Coalition and "political mutual funds"

by John Shinal, January 17, 2008 | Comments (1)

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CEO Kirstin Falk and the New Progressive Coalition have an ambitious goal: to bring efficiency to the wild and woolly world of political giving. Just as another San Francisco-based upstart, Charles Schwab & Co., once helped transform the brokerage industry by giving retail investors access to research and low-cost mutual funds, NPC plans to use a financial-services model to "help people target their political giving more effectively," says Falk.Given the company name and Falk's background -- she formerly worked for ...

Ellen Leanse of 222do looking for lovers of lists on social networks

by John Shinal, January 15, 2008 | Comments

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People who love lists will love 222do, a new startup that's built a Facebook application that allows the social networking site's users to build and share lists."There's real utility in it," says company co-founder and CEO Ellen Leanse.Launched in early December, the application had more than 500 users a few days later, when this interview was filmed.The company's technology and business plan were good enough to make it one of the winners of the SDForum business plan competition we hosted ...

NowLive.com CEO Kevin Bromber on live interactive Webcasting

by John Shinal, January 14, 2008 | Comments

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No other startup on Vator.tv has sparked as much debate about its business model among our community as NowLive.com.The company, which was launched in March, 2007, has already signed up 60,000 users who use its technology platform to broadcast their own live shows via the Web.The NowLive.com community, which includes LA Weekly columnist and entertainment news blogger Nicky Fink and America's Top Model winner Adrianne Curry, is producing about 10,000 shows per month.We first wrote about the company as an ...

EveryZing CEO Tom Wilde: "we're the inverse of video search sites"

by John Shinal, January 11, 2008 | Comments

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As traditional media companies rush to get their content onto the Web so they can sell ads alongside it, they face a serious problem -- how to help Internet users find their audio files and video clips.Enter EveryZing, a company that inherited sophisticated speech-to-text translation technology from BBN, its former parent and a decades-old research firm that works with U.S. national security agencies.Formerly known as Podzinger, the Cambridge, Mass.-based startup found some success indexing podcasts so they could be searched ...

Plaxo now cash flow positive as it morphs into social network. Is a sale next?

by John Shinal, January 7, 2008 | Comments

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Plaxo has come a long way since the days when it was known most widely for the irritating emails it automatically sent to all the people on the contact list of Plaxo users who updated their information. While some people on the receiving end of those spam messages have memories like elephants, millions more have forgiven the company and have in fact embraced it as an online address-book manager. As CEO Ben Golub tells Vator.tv in this interview, the service ...

"Pick up the phone" for a liquidity event: M&A still outpacing IPO as exit strategy

by John Shinal, January 4, 2008 | Comments

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The year-end numbers on initial public offerings and acquisitions confirm what investors have known for several years now: while the number of IPOs is rising steadily, M&A continues to be the main exit route for an overwhelming percentage of venture-backed startups.More than 87% of the total dollar amount of startup liquidity events came in the form of mergers or acquisitions, according to the latest figures from Dow Jones VentureSource. Although the number of M&A deals fells slightly to 398 from ...

Best of VatorTV 2007: Investor interviews -- Ross Levinsohn, Jeremy Liew and Tony Conrad

by John Shinal, December 26, 2007 | Comments (1)

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Welcome to the second installment of our Vator.tv Best of 2007 interview series. Today we'll point you to the investors whose interviews were the most-watched in our newsroom during the past year. The investor interview that received the most page views was our sit-down with Ross Levinsohn, the former Fox Interactive president who was at the helm when News Corp. bought MySpace for $580 million. That acquisition looks like a steal now that MySpace and Facebook are both valued well north ...

Best of VatorTV 2007: Executive interviews - Dance Jam, Visible Tech, Turn Here

by John Shinal, December 24, 2007 | Comments

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This is the first in our week-long series that will highlight the most popular stories in the Vator.tv newsroom this past year, based on the combined text and video views for each story.First up is the top stories from our bread-and-butter category -- the startup executive interview. Later this holiday week we'll share the best from our conversations with investors, news makers and for our Lessons Learned series with veteran entrepreneurs. We interviewed scores of startup CEOs during Vator.tv's first full ...

Ron Conway says don't panic about a recession

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 20, 2007 | Comments

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For most people in Silicon Valley, the first high-profile angel investor who comes to mind is Ron Conway. Ron has invested in 40 startups this year, about 140 in the last two years and more than 500 in the last 15. (Watch a separate "lessons and advice" video on his Vator profile). His notable investments include Google (worth $215 bln), Ask Jeeves (now Ask and acquired by IAC for nearly $2 bln), PayPal (sold to eBay for $1.5 bln), Good ...

Clean Power Finance wants to bring solar power to mass consumer market

by Ezra Roizen, December 19, 2007 | Comments

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Without the financing that auto makers provide to both car dealers and consumers, the new-car market would be out of reach for a significant number of buyers. Clean Power Finance wants to use that same financing model to help consumers afford the high cost of solar power. The average residential solar installation is between $30,000 and $40,000, so getting consumers over sticker shock is a big hurdle for contractors who install solar power, Clean Power chief marketing officer Eric King ...

YourTrumanShow wants to make everyone a Web video star

by John Shinal, December 17, 2007 | Comments

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Unless you've been sleeping in a cave for the last two years, you know that YouTube is the primary Web site used by ordinary people to distribute their favorite videos online. But while its massive number of videos and page views attest to its success, YouTube's sheer size has made it difficult to get a clip noticed or locate one that doesn't make one of the most-viewed lists. That problem is being attacked by several startups, and YourTrumanShow is among ...

Southern California angel investors proclaim: "content is no longer king"

by John Shinal, December 14, 2007 | Comments (1)

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When NBC said in late August it would pull its TV shows off of Apple's iTunes site over a pricing dispute, it brought the war between the tech industry and the entertainment industry back into the spotlight. The war between producers of content and the owners of online distribution channels had first flared up when Viacom sued Google for $1 billion over the posting of its video clips to YouTube. The argument over who will have the upper hand in ...

Poker site Ujogo seeding market as it works around online gambling ban

by John Shinal, December 14, 2007 | Comments

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Eric Gonzales, co-founder and CEO of poker-playing site Ujogo, has to walk a fine line when it comes to product development. On the one hand, Ujogo wants to create a user experience that's more realistic than that offered by hundreds of other free poker sites. The idea is to avoid the boring play of sites where players repeatedly bet all their chips, or go "all in," in Hold'em lingo, because nothing real is at stake. But while Ujogo wants its poker ...

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