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Bambi Francisco's fireside chat with Kate Mitchell

by Kristin Karaoglu, October 22, 2012 | Comments

Mitchell on why the IPO on-ramp provision and crowdfunding are good for Silicon Valley

If you missed Bambi Francisco's fireside chat with Kate Mitchell, co-founder and managing director of Scale Venture Partners, here it is. Mitchell has been on the front lines of Capitol Hill to get the JOBS Act passed so that young companies have an easier time raising money from retail investors, and for entrepreneurs to tap into crowdfunding. Mitchell shared, with Vator ...

Video: Michael Wu on the science of gamification

by Kristin Karaoglu, June 25, 2012 | Comments

Chief Scientist of Lithium on motivation, trigger and gamification

Vator brought together thought leaders in gamification with various VCs and entrepreneurs to share insights on how gamification can benefit any business when thoughtfully executed. The first keynote speaker at our inaugural Vator Spark event was Michael Wu, chief scientist, from Lithium.com. Wu says that gamification is a psychologically driven science. There are three factors that are behind all human behavior: Motivation (a ...

First-time entrepreneur, Ben McKean's fundraising tips

by Kristin Karaoglu, March 31, 2012 | Comments

Savored CEO and founder on navigating the VC landscape

Ben McKean, CEO and founder of Savored, shared his lessons about raising venture financing at Venture Shift, hosted by Vator and Bullpen. He shares four key aspects to fundraising: Momentum, Market Size, Management team, Money. Watch McKean's presentation. (Editor's note: Vator and Bullpen will be holding its next Venture Shift event on July 26, 2012 in San Francisco.)

Turntable's Billy Chasen: Starting over with $400,000

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 21, 2012 | Comments

Raising money went from rejection, craziness to a lot easier...

I hear so many start-ups unwilling to make a drastic change to their operations, even if they're running out of money. They seem so hell bent on making their original idea succeed, they forget the saying: Fail fast. Or maybe, they just want to keep their cushy salaries until they ultimately die. But one start-up that made the brave move ...

Barry Silbert on the value of second markets

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 16, 2012 | Comments

SecondMarket CEO and founder on why the public markets are broken

Barry Silbert, CEO and founder of SecondMarket, opened up his keynote presentation at Vator and BullPen's Venture Shift NY event with a CNBC video of commentators talking about the Flash Crash on May 6, 2010, when the Dow fell 1000 points (about 9%), and then recovered in a few minutes. Who wants their stock to deal with that kind of ...

Mark Suster video: The bubble bursts in 2012, '13

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 13, 2012 | Comments

Partner at GRP shares bold proclamation at Bullpen and Vator's Venture Shift NY

Mark Suster, prolific blogger and partner at GRP, is not one to mince words. At Vator and Bullpen's Venture Shift event in New York last November, where Suster gave a keynote, his point was essentially: I'm not funding you. And, 2012 (maybe 2013) will be an ugly year as funds dry up. In 2012 or maybe 2013, "fund flows slow down," he ...

Peter Thiel: To be contrarian... is just to think

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 29, 2011 | Comments

Venture Shift keynote on out-of-the-box investment philosophies

Here's the video of Peter Thiel, founder of Clarium Capital and Founders Fund. Thiel, well known as the first investor in Facebook, took the stage at the first-ever VentureShift, delivering yet another one of his thought-provoking keynote speeches. "The contrarian thing is not to be with the crowd, or fashionably against the crowd, but to think,” said Thiel. For a ...

Curious, a learning marketplace, launches with $7.5M

by Bambi Francisco Roizen
Laplanche: Innovation isn't an idea from scratch

by Bambi Francisco Roizen
Startup timing: From impossible to just really hard

by Bambi Francisco Roizen
YL Ventures tweaks strategy to allow for homeruns

by Bambi Francisco Roizen
Splash SF Feb 2013 Winner - PokitDok

by Kristin Karaoglu
Marketplaces, mobile are big VC themes in 2013

by Bambi Francisco Roizen
Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo shares lessons learned

by Kristin Karaoglu
Dave Samuel on Freestyle's funding philosophy

by Kristin Karaoglu

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