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How Walmart will leverage social commerce

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 28, 2011 | Comments

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Venky Harinaryan, founder of Kosmix, talks about why Walmart bought his company for $300 million

I recently caught up with veteran e-commerce entrepreneur Venky Harinarayan, who this past April sold sold his company Kosmix, which raised $55 million in venture financing, to Walmart for $300 million, resulting in the creation of @Walmart Labs. In this interview, Venky talks about Walmart's social strategy through @Walmart Labs, and the reason why Walmart purchased them. In other words, ...

YL Ventures' unique method to early-stage investing

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 13, 2011 | Comments

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Invest in startups that can be sold in three years; Shop around before the investment

Update: 3/29/2013 - I recently caught up with Yoav to discuss an update to YL's strategy. Check it out here: YL Ventures tweaks strategy to allow for homerunsIn this new era of early-stage investing, we're seeing all sorts of models. There's Dave McClure's model of investing in 100 startups annually, in hopes that 20 to 30% will be base hits, ...

Clara Shih on how Hearsay differs from competitors

by Faith Merino, July 8, 2011 | Comments

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In the fast-growing social marketing space, how is Hearsay stacking up against its competitors?

With so many startups scrambling into the social marketing space, how is Hearsay Corporation setting itself apart from the crowd? In this interview, Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Corporation and author of “The Facebook Era,” outlines a few key points that differentiates Hearsay from its competitors. First and foremost—the company has a CEO who has written a book about social ...

Google Ventures Joe Kraus on how VC is changing

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 1, 2011 | Comments

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Entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist on bubbles, M&A, diversification and secondary markets

This is the second part of my interview with Joe Kraus, partner at Google Ventures. Given the latest deals, such as the recent $100 million investment in 18-month-old Square, at a $1 billion valuation, or Living Social's potential IPO at a $15 billion valuation, up from $3 billion two months ago, it sure feels like a bubble. What better question ...

Google Ventures plans on 80 seed deals a year

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 24, 2011 | Comments

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Partner Joe Kraus on Kabam, mobile gaming, local, and Google Ventures investment thesis

Google Ventures has been one of the more active Silicon Valley investment firms, having made some 50 investments since 2009. It also has a pretty good exit under its belt with ngmoco, a gaming startup that sold for $400 million at the end of 2010, months after Google Ventures invested. More recently, the VC led an $85 million investment in ...

Airbnb growing 30% to 50% monthly

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 13, 2011 | Comments

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Startup CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb is adding 1000 home and room listings every day

Airbnb is quickly becoming "the" startup darling to watch, thanks to recent press coverage about its efforts to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. I recently caught up with Brian Chesky, the San Francisco-based startup's confidant founder and CEO. In this interview, we talk mainly about Airbnb's business model, which has been the same since day one. Airbnb ...

Brian Chesky on Airbnb's rapid growth

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 31, 2011 | Comments

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Founder and CEO talks about how the room-rental service expands to sublets and vacation rentals

I recently sat down with Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, a room-rental service that is reportedly raising $100 million for a $1 billion valuation. One source says the stories are simply just "rumor." But the company is raising funds, and is certainly growing like gangbusters. In one of our interviews, Brian says that the company had already booked ...

Q&A with ReachLocal co-founder Zorik Gordon

by Ronny Kerr, May 20, 2011 | Comments

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SMBs need to go online because their customers are going online, but they're going to need help

Zorik Gordon is a busy man. You're seeing some fascinating visions if you ever imagine that the co-founder and CEO of a company as successful as ReachLocal, which foreshadowed the now-booming IPO market with its own public offering, could eventually take a little time for rest and relaxation. Not so with Gordon. In spite of that, we found some time ...

Q&A with Demand Media co-founder Shawn Colo

by Faith Merino, May 17, 2011 | Comments

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Shawn Colo dishes on Demand's content strategy, its M&A forecast, and how it's responding to Panda

Vator Splash LA is coming up next week, and to get ready for it, I struck up a chat with one of our keynote speakers, Demand Media co-founder and EVP of M&A Shawn Colo. Demand Media has seen some huge changes in the last few months--it's gone public, it's partnered with several celebrities and launched new channels and websites, and ...

Marketers' best practices on Facebook

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 16, 2011 | Comments

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Buddy Media Mike Lazerow: 'A Facebook fan can be worth sub-$1 to upwards of $100'

Two years, Facebook had 200 million members. Today, Facebook counts some 700 million people around the world as users of its social network. No doubt, much like Google, Facebook has become a distribution platform and ecosystem of its own, upon which millions of companies are being built. One company, Manhattan-based Buddy Media, which helps companies market and advertise on Facebook, ...

The business of curating and creating content

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 9, 2011 | Comments

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FindTheBest CEO Kevin O'Connor talks about he's curating and creating content for his startup

This is the second part of my interview series with Kevin O'Connor, founder and CEO of FindTheBest, which was recently backed by Kleiner Perkins' sFund, launched in August of 2010. In this interview, Kevin, who founded DoubleClick (now part of Google) in the mid-90's, talks about the challenges of curating and creating content. The new service is a place to ...

Kids and startups: nothing a mom can't handle

by Ronny Kerr, May 8, 2011 | Comments

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For this Mother's Day, I interviewed five momtrepreneurs

Happy Mother’s Day!At Vator, we like to highlight the awesomeness of entrepreneurs, those fascinating and unique human beings that have devoted their lives to an idea and business, no matter the adversity. You might have never thought about it, but entrepreneurs have a lot in common with moms, those ultra-fascinating and unique human beings that devote their entire lives to ...

Clara Shih on the social marketing boom

by Faith Merino, May 5, 2011 | Comments

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CEO of Hearsay Corporation and author of The Facebook Era, Shih discusses the social marketing space

Why is social marketing exploding right now? Because the Internet is evolving, according to Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Corporation and the author of the best-selling book “The Facebook Era.” “Communication is evolving. People are sharing more information about themselves online than they ever have,” she explained. “Tweets, status updates…the fact that we all have Facebook profiles, sharing some pretty ...

How the venture industry is pivoting, Part 3

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 25, 2011 | Comments

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Eghosa Omoigui, angel investor, shares his views at AngelPad's Demo Day

At AngelPad's recent Demo Day, I caught up with Eghosa Omoigui, former-Intel-Capital-VC-turned-angel investor, who's in the process of closing a $11 million fund. We talked about the AngelPad class of startups. He gave a shout out to Stickery, Cloudbox, Hopscotch and Splash. He also talked about why he thinks there's not enough angel investors, or at least investors focused on ...

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