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Head of original programming, Tom Sly, on YouTube's original programming strategy

by Bambi Francisco Roizen - May 23, 2012
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YouTube's $100M bet is about viewership, not return

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 14, 2012 | Comments

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Head of original programming, Tom Sly, on YouTube's original programming strategy

YouTube currently generates all of its revenue from advertising, but is considering adding a subscription component, a feature requested by many of its users. That's just one of the many tidbits I got from Tom Sly, head of original programming at Google's YouTube, who sat down with me recently. Sly also talks about YouTube's original programming strategy, which was announced ...

How big companies engage the social marketplace

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 7, 2012 | Comments

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Jeff Dachis, founder and CEO of Dachis Group, talks to Bambi Francisco

The Dachis Group helps companies connect and engage with their customers by helping them understand who their advocates are and how their brand is being perceived across social media. Recently, Bambi Francisco sat down with founder Jeff Dachis to find out how he helps companies engage the social marketplace. In the interview, Dachis talks about ways to identify the most loyal and ...

Mobile app links fun and finance together

by Ane Howard, April 12, 2012 | Comments

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Toshl Finance helps you regain control of your finance with the help of "Monsters"

Following my own frustrating experience with my mobile bank app this past week, I was quite intrigued this morning when Toshl, a Slovenia-based startup with an office in Mountain View released Thursday the latest version of the financial app Toshl Finance. With every financial institution in the country releasing its own version of a mobile app, what makes Toshl Finance intriguing ...

SendGrid CEO sees 10x growth in emails in two years

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 2, 2012 | Comments

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Jim Franklin talks to Bambi Francisco about growth opportunities and why he loves Pinterest

SendGrid, a leading cloud-based provider of email services, has a goal to send one billion emails per day. That's 10x the100 million emails already sent out daily, or 1300 per second. One way to reach that goal is to be everywhere developers are, said Jim Franklin, CEO of SendGrid, in our interview. And, the timing of that goal? Franklin predicts ...

SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin talks to Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 29, 2012 | Comments

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Jim Franklin says international sales should be at parity in three years

SendGrid, a leading cloud-based provider of email services, recently raised a $21 million Series B round of funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners this past January. Part of those funds will go toward hiring and international expansion. In my interview with CEO Jim Franklin, the second in a two-part series, Franklin talks about where SendGrid plans to grow overseas. The ...

Catch Chairman Steve Brown speaks with Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 28, 2012 | Comments

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Catch is a way to capture and collaborate on your ideas

If you're like most people (and me), managing photos, personal notes about life situations or events takes everything from Word documents, various photo and personal-management applications and post-it notes. Yes, I still use those. One company that can handle this management is Catch, a start-up founded in 2008. Today, Catch has half a million monthly users and 230,000 daily active ...

Clarizen adding 100 customers a month

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 16, 2012 | Comments

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Interview with CEO and founder Avinoam Nowogrodski

Clarizen has raised some $37 million in venture funding to do to project management what Salesforce did to CRM (customer relationship management). Here's an interviw with Avinoam Nowogrodski, the CEO and founder of Clarizen, which provides project management solutions to companies that have between 500 and 5,000 employees and that pay a median amount of $10,000 to $15,000 a year. ...

FileTrek raises $10M to track files everywhere

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 15, 2012 | Comments

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Interview with new CEO Dale Quayle on how FileTrek transformed to focus on data sprawl

After being in stealth mode for about six months, FileTrek announced Wednesday that it's raised $10 million in new funding, led by Anthem Venture Partners, to enter the cloud-file sharing services companies, such as Box and DropBox, which are growing like gangbusters. "With DropBox and Box, you can access data from multiple points and different devices," said Dale Quayle, the ...

Turntable.fm's Seth Goldstein on the evolution of music

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 15, 2012 | Comments

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How music consumption is going back to its roots

Turntable.fm has brought social into digital music, bringing the entire music-listening experience back to its roots. "It [music] was always a social experience," said Seth Goldstein, co-founder and Chairman of the popular music service, Turntable.fm. Then came the advent of Walkmans, MP3 players, and iPods. Pretty soon, people were enjoying music on their own. Turntable.fm brings us back to the ...

How Kaggle plans on making money

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 24, 2012 | Comments

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Interview with founders Anthony Goldbloom and Jeremy Howard

Here's the second part of my interview with the founders of Kaggle, a recently-launched start-up with $11 million in Series A funding from Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, as well as Stanford University's endownment, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, Google's chief economist Hal Varian and now Google Adsense co-founder Gil Elbaz. Kaggle is solving real-world problems through competitions among the world's biggest brains. Kaggle brings together super smart data ...

Online video advertising revenue to surge

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 9, 2012 | Comments

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LongTail Video founder and CEO Dave Otten on video ads work, and how CPMs can go up

Advertising is expected to increase 20% to $31 billion in 2011, according to eMarketer. But online video is expected to grow more than twice as fast, or 52%. Given the fast-growing segment, the questions for both marketers, publishers and content producers - all three constituents that benefit from video advertising - which ad units are most effective and when can ...

Angel investor Bill Lee interview with Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 3, 2012 | Comments

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Investor in Tesla Motors, Zaarly, Hootsuite, Tweetdeck talks about what he looks to invest in

Bill Lee has become one of the angel investors to watch, and one who's managed to get into some pretty hot deals that are getting seemingly rich valuations. This month, he plans on investing in a start-up that's being valued at $1 billion. The well-connected-entrepreneur-turned-investor has invested in about 30 companies, such as Tesla Motors (Lee made his investment back ...

Top 10 interviews on VatorNews in 2011

by Kristin Karaoglu, December 30, 2011 | Comments

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Kiip, Gilt Groupe, Google Ventures, Airbnb make the top 10 most popular interviews in 2011

Did you make the list? Here are the top 10 most-viewed interviews on VatorNews in 2011. Brian Wong explains how Kiip will make money In a continuation of my interview with Brian Wong, Wong explains that the key to Kiip's business model is how it will leverage the uniquely addictive quality of mobile gaming to keep people hooked and interacting ...

Lessons from Turntable.fm's pivot away from StickyBits

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 20, 2011 | Comments

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Co-founder Seth Goldstein on pivots, and why Social Media's reliance on Facebook was a bad mistake

As most entrepreneurs and investors know, it takes a dozen iterations, pivots and sometimes re-starts before a company gets its stride. Often it's one small feature that takes off inside a company that becomes the main product. In some cases, it's an entirely new idea altogether. That's the case with Turntable.fm, one of the hottest music start-ups to hit the ...

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