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Q&A with ReachLocal co-founder Zorik Gordon

by Ronny Kerr, May 20, 2011 | Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Evernote driving $1 million a month in sales

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 15, 2011 | Comments

Interview with Phil Libin, Evernote CEO and founder, and Gary Little, partner at Morgenthaler

In the old days, I used to organize my address book. But when search in email came along (years ago), I didn't bother since I could easily just search for someone's name in my inbox, and find their information. Now, I'm doing the same thing with more than just addresses. The other day, I became one of the 26,000 people ...

FindTheBest - a next-gen comparison engine

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 11, 2011 | Comments

Doubleclick co-founder Kevin O'Connor talks about taking Kayak's approach to 500 other categories

FindTheBest, which was recently backed by Kleiner Perkins' sFund, launched in August of 2010 and is now attracting 1.5 million monthly visitors, according to Kevin O'Connor, who founded DoubleClick in the mid-90's, and recently sat down with me for a four-part interview. The new service is a place to compare a multitude of attributes across 500 categories, from venture capitalists, ...

Making sense of social-media marketing

by Ronny Kerr, March 3, 2011 | Comments

It seems like a new social marketing company gets funded every week, so I spoke with the CEO of one

Engage121. Extole. Lithium Technologies. Mass Relevance. ObjectiveMarketer. Radian6. Shoutlet. Spredfast. Sprout Social. Syncapse. TwitHawk. Vitrue. Sometimes it seems that for every million users Facebook or Twitter added in 2010, a new company emerged to help other businesses and brands harness the power of social. Indeed, alongside location-based apps and daily deals sites, social marketing and social media management sometimes seem ...

The four C's disrupting businesses

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 22, 2011 | Comments

Larry Kramer, C-Scape author: Don't make the mistake the railroad industry made

This is the second interview with Larry Kramer, founder and former CEO of MarketWatch, which he took public in 1999, and sold to Dow Jones in 2005 for $500 million. In this interview series, we're taking a look at Larry's book "C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today," which is a carefully thought-out account of what has been plaguing the ...

Larry Kramer on the changing face of media

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 21, 2011 | Comments

Author of C-Scape, and founder of MarketWatch, says every company is in the media business

Larry Kramer is one of the Internet pioneers of digital media. He founded MarketWatch, took it public in 1999, and sold it Dow Jones in 2005 for $500 million. Larry is also my former boss and mentor who hired me in 1999 to become Internet editor. Since selling his media company, Larry has been teaching at the Newhouse School at ...

Danny Shader outlines PayNearMe's demographic

by Faith Merino, February 18, 2011 | Comments

The cash payment solution targets the unbanked, but Danny points out that others are using it too

Danny Shader's newest project, PayNearMe, has an ambitious demographic: the quarter of the U.S. population without bank accounts or credit cards. His new cash-payment solution allows users to make remote transactions (for an Amazon purchase or Facebook credits, for example) by starting the transaction online and then taking a printed receipt to a nearby 7-11 to complete the exchange by ...

Naval Ravikant on the disappearing A round

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 10, 2011 | Comments

AngelList co-founder says entrepreneurs have an a la carte choice of control, money, advice

On AngelList, startups are getting funded in as quickly as two weeks, according to Naval Ravikant, co-founder of the online service that allows startups to post their ideas and be seen by some 450 angel investors (the current number aggregated on the site). One would think this lightning-fast fundraising process would help drive prices up for seed-stage rounds even more. ...

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue's lessons learned

by Faith Merino, January 29, 2011 | Comments

	Be aware of newest trends; Pick a business model with legs; Find a big market Startups today, said Mike McCue, are very different than what they used to be when he was the CEO of TellMe, a company that he sold to Microsoft for just under $1 billion in 2007. It used to be that if you were the chief executive of a Web startup, you had to raise vast sums of money just to ...
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