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Doug Mack on One Kings Lane's hyper-growth

by Faith Merino, November 15, 2011 | Comments

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CEO Doug Mack discusses One Kings Lane's crazy growth since 2009 and where it's headed

One King’s Lane is doing pretty well for itself these days. The company is now exceeding $100 million in yearly revenues after experiencing an “explosive 2010” in which annual sales jumped more than 500%, with 75% of those sales coming from repeat customers. Who is driving those sales? Women. One Kings Lane CEO Doug Mack hung out with me for ...

Keving Ryan on Gilt Groupe's M&A strategy, and IPO

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 7, 2011 | Comments

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Founder and CEO of Gilt also talks about the plethora of daily deal sites, and their business models

Now that Groupon shares debuted to a very welcoming and clearly hungry investment public, the question is: When will Gilt Groupe make it's way to the IPO scene? It's in the cards, suggested Kevin Ryan, founder and CEO of Gilt Groupe, in an interview with me recently, without really giving away his hand. The first course of action before an offering, however, ...

Engine Yard CEO John Dillon talks expansion

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 4, 2011 | Comments

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Cloud-computing platform for developers goes from Ruby on Rails, to PHP and then to...

Engine Yard, which provides a development environment on top of services like Amazon Web Services for engineers to quickly build and deploy applications, is expanding beyond its origins to service Ruby on Rails developers. The company recently acquired Orchestra to support the even larger market of PHP developers. For every Ruby developer, there are two to three developing on PHP, ...

Eliot Van Buskirk on digital music's legal woes

by Faith Merino, October 17, 2011 | Comments

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The Editor-in-Chief of Evolver.fm explains how startups are dealing with archaic copyright laws

Anyone who has ever downloaded music online is at least vaguely aware of the legal challenges that digital music services have run into over the years. Pandora was nearly wiped off the map in 2007 when the Copyright Royalty Board hiked the performance royalty rates for Internet radio by more than 100%. Spotify had a few legal hurdles of its ...

CEO Todd Vernon on Lijit (just bought by FM)

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, October 5, 2011 | Comments

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Why did Federated Media buy Lijit? Hear Todd Vernon explain Lijit's business

This week, Federated Media Publishing scooped up Lijit Networks, which just raised $10 million this past April. The acquisition could be seen as great timing for Lijit, whose revenue has been growing 50% month over month over the last six months. This year, sales are expected to be $12 million, then $20 million in 2012. I caught up with CEO Todd Vernon just before the ...

Is now the right time for Personal Capital?

by Faith Merino, September 28, 2011 | Comments

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Bill Harris explains why Personal Capital is relevant now and where personal finance is heading

Bill Harris has called Personal Capital the "culmination" of his career, but is now the right time for it? The personal finance service is a marked departure from those offered by Mint.com and Pageonce in that 1) it's more than a financial service, it's a financial institution, and 2) it's uniquely tailored to people with complex financial lives--people with high ...

Bill Harris unveils Personal Capital

by Faith Merino, September 20, 2011 | Comments

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The former CEO of Intuit and PayPal tells VatorNews about his latest project, Personal Capital

Personal finance services are all the rage these days. Could it be because everyone's broke and trying to sit on their money like Scrooge McDuck? Could be. But that's not why Bill Harris, former CEO of Intuit and PayPal, created Personal Capital. Personal Capital bears a couple of key differences from other personal finance services, like Mint and Pageonce. For ...

Kevin Ryan on Gilt City vs Gilt Groupe

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 22, 2011 | Comments

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CEO and founder of Gilt says national will likely remain larger than local

On my last trip to Long Island, I almost attended the latest soiree at Gilt City's Hampton House, which launched this past July. I couldn't attend because I was held up in traffic (as many New Yorkers experience). I totally mised out on the dinner put on by Scott Conant (of Scarpetta). But these weekened parties go on for another ...

Kevin Ryan on Gilt Groupe's hockey-stick growth

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 17, 2011 | Comments

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CEO and founder explains expansion moves from excess inventory outlet to full-blown retailer

I recently caught up with Kevin Ryan, CEO and founder of Gilt Groupe, one of the fastest growing startups, as measured by revenue. Gilt Groupe, founded at the end of 2007, generated $500 million in revenue in its fiscal year that just ended in July. And, its full-priced businesses, now offered in its travel (Jetsetter), gourmet food (Gilt Taste) and ...

Dave Otten on LongTail Video's syndication strategy

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 17, 2011 | Comments

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LongTail's pursuit to match millions of video content with the long tail of Web publishers

I recently caught up with David Otten, founder and CEO of LongTail Video, a full-service video technology and advertising solutions company. LongTail Video is a lower-cost solution to services, such as Ooyala and Brightcove, that allow publishers to showcase their video. In this interview, David talks about LongTail Video's new service that allows content producers to syndicate millions of bite-sized ...

How e-commerce evolved from search to feeds

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 8, 2011 | Comments

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Venky Harinaryan on how commerce has evolved, and why fashion could be the next big opportunity

The other day, I received Square's pocket-sized credit card reader that attaches to my iPhone. The slick gadget is one of the newer, and more sophisticated and elegant innovations I've seen around commerce in the past 15 years that I've been covering Internet trends. But throughout those years, many changes and developments took place for us to get to where ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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