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Bambi Interviews Digital Chocolate Founder Trip Hawkins - Part IV

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 4, 2007 | Comments

	In this part of the interview with Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins, Trip talks about the future of Digital Chocolate, about assessing the right time for a company to go public, the currently active M&A climate, acquistions that Digital Chocolate made in Europe and India, and Digital Chocolate's competitors among large media companies, such as Disney and Vivendi.
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Bambi Interviews Digital Chocolate Founder Trip Hawkins - Part III

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 1, 2007 | Comments

In this segment of this four-part interview with Electronic Arts and Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins, Trip elaborates on Digital Chocolate's business model and discusses how web communities and products that choose simplicity and convenience over other factors have inspired Digital Chocolate's strategy. Trip also talks about what Jamdat and Glu Mobile did right. Jamdat was acquired by Electronic Arts for nearly $700 million. Glu Mobile (ticker: GLUU) went public in March 2007, raising $84 million.

Bambi Interviews Digital Chocolate Founder Trip Hawkins - Part II

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 31, 2007 | Comments

In this second part of Bambi's interview with Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins, Trip talks about some of Digital Chocolate's games, such as the Cafe games series and why one million downloads of a video game is a good benchmark for what constitutes a hit video game. Trip also talks about how he's integrated Starbucks into some of Digital Chocolate's games in the hopes of forming a partnership with Starbucks. In this interview, Trip offers insight into a commerce model around ...

Bambi Interviews Digital Chocolate Founder Trip Hawkins - Part I

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 30, 2007 | Comments

Electronic Arts was founded in 1982 by Silicon Valley legend Trip Hawkins. EA, which was a pioneer in video game publishing and has become a leading game developer for computers, eventually went public and now has a market cap of $15 billion. In the first quarter of 2007, EA generated $613 million in revenue. In 2003, Trip founded Digital Chocolate - another video game publisher, but this time for mobile devices. The company offers many of the world's most popular games ...

SecondSpace launches 'uber' lifestyles marketplace

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 23, 2007 | Comments

Most great businesses are created to fix a problem. For Alok Sinha, who spent 17 years at Microsoft, a challenge for him was finding a vacation home. He said it took three years to find the perfect "second" home, which doesn't surprise me. It takes that much time to find a first home in some cases. To address this challenge of finding that perfect second space, Sinha, along with Anil Pereira, former Verisign and Classmates.com executive, started SecondSpace. "SecondSpace is ...

Bambi Interviews Spotplex founder & CEO Doyon Kim

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 18, 2007 | Comments

	Spotplex is an online content aggregation service that dynamically provides an instant, impartial ranking of popular Web content. With Spotplex, Internet users are not required to change their behavior to generate content rankings. By eliminating tagging (del.icio.us) and voting (digg), Spotplex more accurately reflects what people read most today.... http://youtu.be/j8N75ByAmIQ
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Behind the Wallstrip sale to CBS

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 16, 2007 | Comments

Howard Lindzon started a site called Wallstrip, and eight months later sold it to CBS for $5 million. Who's behind Wallstrip, besides Lindzon? I caught up with Lindsay Campbell (host of the Wallstrip shows) and Adam Elend (producer) in New York recently. Here's what they told me about the sale to CBS. Be sure to check out Wallstrip's Vator pitch too! Here Adam give his pitch in a "sitting elevator" with only 10 floors to sell it.

Bambi Interviews ClipBlast Founder & CEO Gary Baker

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 11, 2007 | Comments

Gary Baker, CEO of ClipBlast, a video-search engine, talks to Bambi about the evolutionary behavior of the online audience as they begin to watch content on the Web rather than read it. ClipBlast, which has crawled three million professionally-produced and five million user-submitted videos, is vying to be the Web portal for video. Watch Baker explain the company's competitive advantage over other video-search engines, such as Pixsy, Dabble, Truveo, Blinkx, and others.

Bambi Interviews OpenBottles Founder Sagi Solomon

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 4, 2007 | Comments

	OpenBottles is a wine social network that features information and member-contributed reviews about more than 19,000 wines and 2,200 wineries. Sagi Solomon who founded the site in 2004 explains how his site is different from other social networks around wine....
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Bambi Interviews TurnHere Inc. CEO Brad Inman

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 25, 2007 | Comments (1)

	This is the inaugural interview of our new series of weekly Vator.tv interviews in which Bambi will sit down with innovators we find on Vator.tv to talk about their businesses as well as about their inspirations. If you're interested in being interviewed, please send us an email at [email protected]
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BizzFlip wants to be "the entrepreneur's Craigslist"

by John Shinal, November 10, 0002 | Comments (3)

	On a recent busy afternoon at the Vator.tv studios, BizzFlip co-founders Forrest Kolb and Joseph Paone stopped by to tell us their plan for turning the site into "the entrepreneur's Craigslist." The site allows users to buy and sell businesses and seek venture capital funding through classified listings.
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With end of strike, networks must find way to stay relevant

by John Shinal, August 17, 0002 | Comments

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Now that the writers' strike is over, we wanted to share with you some insights about the dynamics behind it from Kevin Bromber, CEO of the social Webcasting site NowLive. com. Since the beginning of the strike, Writers Guild members have used the NowLive.com platform to broadcast a live call-in show three times a week. The show features writers in the studio, as well as reports from the picket lines. The mood among the writers "initially was very upbeat on ...

Career Hero wants to give kids mentoring and encouragement

by John Shinal, August 8, 0002 | Comments

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Career Hero founder Reena Jadhav wants to create a social networking site for students that will provide them with everything from advice to salary information to videos that show a typical day in the life of a professional. Such a "virtual job-shadowing experience," as she calls it, would give aspiring doctors the chance to see what it's like to be a radiologist, for example. While Career Hero will eventually provide mentoring and career guidance to younger kids, the first version ...

Independent Comedy Network launches to online laughs

by John Shinal, May 9, 0002 | Comments

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As we've written many times over these last few months, the low-cost economics of online production is creating a slew of opportunities for companies that want to distribute video over the Web. This week comes another startup seeking to take advantage of it. The Independent Comedy Network plans to produce and distribute "comedy for the reasonably intelligent," CEO Marc Campbell tells us in this Vator.tv pitch. He says the company makes good comedy "easier" for everyone -- from comedians to ...

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