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Lessons Learned: Conde.net's Kourosh Karimkhany on what makes a strong startup team

by John Shinal, March 4, 2008 | Comments

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Kourosh Karimkhany, head of corporate development at Conde.net, tells Vator.tv's Bambi Francisco in this interview that a startup CEO shouldn't be afraid to surround themselves with people who are at least as smart as they are."What's important is that they not be afraid to delegate decision-making to these people," says Karimkhany, who in this earlier interview handicapped the state of the acquisition market for online media properties.

Campus Correspondent: Stanford University's Seelig says find a problem you can marry

by John Shinal, February 27, 2008 | Comments

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Tina Seelig, executive director of Stanford University's technology ventures program, has a close-up view of the students who make the leap of faith to start their own businesses.A scientist, author and former management consultant, Seelig also is a successful entrepreneur.After publishing a book, she started, built and later sold a company that sold a multimedia kiosk system that helped match bookstore customers with titles of interest. To hear Seelig talk about Stanford's Entrepreneur Week, check out this other interview by ...

Lessons Learned: Sajjad Jaffer of 222do on "simplicity"

by John Shinal, February 26, 2008 | Comments

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Sajjad Jaffer, a veteran product manager, marketer and business development executive who's worked at Microsoft, Akamai Technologies and Infosys, is now working as co-founder of 222do, a startup that's building a list application for users of Facebook and other social networking sites.In this interview with Vator.tv managing editor John Shinal, Jaffer shares some advice for entrepreneurs regarding simplicity.It's hard for a young entrepreneur to try and figure out what the next thing will be, Jaffer says. One way around the ...

Campus Correspondent: Stanford University's Tina Seelig on entrepreneurship

by Theresa Johnson, February 21, 2008 | Comments

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Tina Seelig, executive director of Stanford University's technology ventures program, sat down with Vator.tv campus correspondent Theresa Johnson to discuss upcoming events for Stanford's Entrepreneurship Week. The E-Week event features panel discussions, workshops and other gatherings to help entrepreneur-minded students network and gain insight into what it takes to be an entrepreneur. "Entrepreneurship is about doing stuff, it's not just about planning and thinking about it," Seelig says. The event will also feature the screening of the documentary "Imagine It," which chronicles ...

Lessons Learned: Mashable's Pete Cashmore's says "don't take advice"

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 21, 2008 | Comments

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Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore talks with passion, conviction and frankness about being an entrepreneur in this interview with Vator.tv's Bambi Francisco. "Don't take advice, make your own mistakes," says Cashmore, 22, who founded his social-networking news site while still a teenager. "Everyone is different, and everyone finds different ways to be successful...Do what you love... if you try to be someone else, it's not going to be sustainable in the long term." "Entrepreneur's are people who don't take ...

Lessons Learned: Everyzing CEO Thomas Wilde

by John Shinal, February 19, 2008 | Comments

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It starts with great customer experience

Thomas Wilde, CEO of Everyzing, the company formerly known as Podzinger, tells Vator.tv's John Shinal about what he's learned in a decade as an Internet executive and entrepreneur.Everyzing, which began as a podcast search company, now is focused on selling its speech-to-text online platform to big media companies that want to port existing content to the Web. A good company ...

Lessons Learned: Momentum Venture Management's Matt Ridenour

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 18, 2008 | Comments

	Matt Ridenour of Momentum Venture Management shares his lessons, both as an entrepreneur and an investor, with Vator.tv's Bambi Francisco.
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Lessons Learned: Eze Vidra of VC Cafe says non-U.S. entrepreneurs should "think big"

by Ezra Roizen, February 15, 2008 | Comments

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Helping entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley get access to the capital and networking opportunities available to valley startups is part of our core mission here at Vator.tv.But we're not the only ones trying to help overseas innovators.As we told you when we posted our first interview with Ezequiel (Eze) Vidra, his VC Cafe is devoted to shining a spotlight on Israeli-based startups. In this second part of his interview with Vator.tv contributing editor Ezra Roizen, Vidra says that cracking the U.S. ...

Lessons Learned: HotOrNot's James Hong says, "Eat the ramen"

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 12, 2008 | Comments

	Be scrappy; have fun; know your market HotOrNot, a dating site that generated $5 million in earnings and $7 million in sales at its peak and recently sold for a reported $20 million, is an example of how a hobby can become a successful venture. James Hong and Jim Young started the popular site eight years ago as a way for people to submit their pictures for ...
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Lessons Learned: Google's IPO architect shares advice on exits

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 12, 2008 | Comments

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Former investment banker, venture capitalist and analyst, Lise Buyer, is no stranger to controversial IPOs. About five years ago, she was a key architect of Google's unconventional, auction-styled initial offering. It was a formative time for her and the experience helped shape her new role as a consultant to companies that need guidance through the IPO process. I caught up with Lise at the Citibank media conference in Arizona recently. She gave me her video pitch for her new consulting ...

Lessons Learned: SimulScribe CEO James Siminoff on raising too much money

by John Shinal, February 6, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Shortly after SimulScribe CEO James (Jamie) Siminoff co-founded his company, an article in the New York Times gained the voice-mail transcription startup a lot of attention.While many startup execs would kill for that situation, Siminoff explains in this interview with Vator.tv's Bambi Francisco how it led to SimulScribe accepting more angel investor money -- $4 million -- than it needed at the time."You take money when you can get it," Siminoff says, while adding that the large amount of cash ...

Lessons Learned: NowLive.com CEO Kevin Bromber on gut checks

by John Shinal, February 5, 2008 | Comments

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All startup entrepreneurs need to believe passionately in what they do. But according to NowLive.com CEO Kevin Bromber, they also have to "be real enough to do a gut check" to make sure that the direction they're going is the right one.Bromber has been an executive at two companies that were eventually acquired. One he co-founded was bought by toy giant Mattel in 1999.With his current company, Bromber and his team spent many months refining their technology, with the help ...

Lessons Learned: Ellen Leanse of 222do believes in "extreme listening"

by John Shinal, January 29, 2008 | Comments

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Ellen Leanse learned a few things during her many years as an Apple Computer executive and, later, as a consultant to tech firms.She's now putting those lessons to work as founder and CEO of 222do, a company whose application lets social network users build and share lists easily. Click here to see our previous interview with Ellen where she explains 222do. Ellen was formerly Apple's User Evangelist, a position which gave her a sharp focus on the importance of a ...

Lessons Learned: Eric King says all the warnings are true

by Ezra Roizen, January 24, 2008 | Comments

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Eric King, the chief marketing officer of Clean Power Finance, doesn't sugarcoat his advice for startup entrepreneurs. "When you hear that it's going to take twice as much time and twice as much money as you thought to get to profitability -- (it's) all true," says King, who is also a managing director at the merchant bank Arena Group LLC. And where do all those unforeseen expenses come from? "People tend to underestimate salary costs or, conversely, they hire too ...

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