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Laplanche: Innovation isn't an idea from scratch

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 17, 2013 | Comments

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Lending Club CEO and founder Renaud Laplanche shares his lessons in his Splash Keynote

Vinod Khosla, Silicon Valley VC and entrepreneur luminary, once said "Vision is bumbling around." And, I add, vision is also the art of taking someone's idea and making it better. We see that tons! Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of Lending Club, gave everyone a similar reality check during his Vator Splash keynote, the talks where founders and leading executives share ...

Startup timing: From impossible to just really hard

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 1, 2013 | Comments

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Evernote CEO and founder Phil Libin shares his lessons learned at Splash

They say that timing is everything, and that goes for when to launch a startup too. One of the best pieces of advice that Evernote CEO and founder Phil Libin shared at Splash SF was when to start a company. "The right timing is you wait until the world changes, so that a really important problem moves from being impossible ...

Brightcove's Jeremy Allaire's lessons learned

by Kristin Karaoglu, March 27, 2013 | Comments

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At Splash NY, CEO and founder gives tips on raising capital, a founder's vision, and more

Vator Splash is one of the few events where entrepreneurs can hear from seasoned and veteran entrepreneurs who've built successful businesses from the ground up. As Bambi Francisco noted, our Splash Keynotes are "Lessons worth sharing" much like TED talks are "Ideas worth spreading." All of our keynotes have founded their companies and either taken them through the IPO, exited ...

Pearl CEO Andy Kurtzig shares lessons learned

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 9, 2013 | Comments

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Build a product and test with customers first; Mission and values matter

Quora may be getting tons of attention for the amount of money it's raised, but Pearl is also a service that let's people get answers to their questions. The difference between the two companies is that Pearl has raised a lot less money, but is generating a ton more (in the order of a $100 million gross revenue run-rate). Watch Andy ...

Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo shares lessons learned

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 7, 2013 | Comments

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Be authentic; build a corporate culture; think long term

Sheila Marcelo, CEO and founder of Care.com, is a dynamic speaker and one women entrepreneurs should view as a role model. At Vator Splash NY, Marcelo - straight from landing at the airport from a trip in the UK - gave her keynote speech about lessons starting and scaling her business, Care.com. Marcelo, who is a mother of two, has raised more ...

Splash LA Video: How TrueCar went into a tailspin

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 3, 2012 | Comments

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Scott Painter, founder and CEO of TrueCar, on hard choices in the face of adversity

It's not often the case that founders and CEOs of high-profile companies make appearances when things aren't going so well. But fortunately for the attendees at Vator Splash LA, the audience was in for a rare treat: A CEO who would humble himself by admitting his failures and struggles, even as he was navigating through some challenging times. Here's the ...

Pearl's Kurtzig: building to $100M the old fashion way

by Steven Loeb, September 28, 2012 | Comments

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Andy Kurtzig CEO of Pearl shares lessons: you don't have to raise outside financing, have a mission

Co-founder and CEO of Pearl.com, a website dedicated to connecting people with professionals in hundreds of different categories, Andy Kurtzig took the stage at Vator Splash SF Thursday night to tell us the three most important things he has learned to start a business. Unlike the prior speaker, Samir Arora, founder and CEO of Glam Media, Kurtzig waited about seven years ...

Samir Arora's top 10 secrets on how to build startups

by Faith Merino, September 27, 2012 | Comments

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The CEO of Glam Media goes through the top 10 lessons he learned on building startups

It’s a cool, balmy day in San Francisco, and Vator Splash is well underway. (Open bar! Woot!) Samir Arora, Chairman and CEO of Glam Media (which is rumored to be eyeing an IPO at a $1 billion valuation), just took the stage to talk about the top 10 secrets he learned on how to build startups. He broke it down ...

Matt Coffin: What is a failed business model?

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 10, 2012 | Comments

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Founder of LowerMyBills give his lessons learned about building a business

Matt Coffin, founder and president of LowerMyBills.com, which sold for $330 million in 2005 to Experian, shared his lessons learned at Splash LA 2012. In addition to founding LowerMyBills.com, Coffin was a member of the Board of Directors for Business.com and has invested in start-ups such as Demand Media, Docstoc, Machinima ShowDazzle and Ecomom. Watch Coffin's pithy and inspiring presentation about ...

Stubhub's Jeff Fluhr: Nearly running out of money

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 17, 2012 | Comments

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Co-founder and former CEO shares lessons on building Stubhub before its successful exit to eBay

Stories about near-death experiences... OK that's too dramatic. Stories about successful companies that survived by making tough decisions after having a couple months of cash to keep going are always inspiring. They motivate us entrepreneurs. Pandora's Tim Westergren's keynote about maxing out 12 credit cards and not paying employees for a couple years is probably the topmost example of a ...

Box's Aaron Levie: Pivoting from consumer to enterprise

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 5, 2012 | Comments

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Lessons from building Box from a college idea, to a 'spork,' to a multi-million-dollar business

"Do you have any coffee?" Aaron Levie, the indefatigable co-founder and CEO of Box, asked me around 6 pm on the evening of Splash SF in February. If you know Levie, this question is quite comical given that the college-drop-out-turned start-up extraordinaire always seems to have just chugged half a dozen Red Bulls and a pot of coffee. Levie, who ...

Jim Lanzone's lessons starting, running media companies

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 12, 2011 | Comments

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CBS Interactive president shares his thoughts on entrepreneur lessons and the future of media

Jim Lanzone, President of CBS Interactive and former CEO of Clicker (which was acquired by CBS), was one of the keynotes at Vator Splash SF. Jim was introduced by Redpoint Ventures' Geoff Yang, who was on the board of Clicker. Watch the keynote interview to learn more about Jim's lessons as an entrepreneur, his lessons leading Ask.com, selling his startup Clicker ...

HomeAway's Brian Sharples on building a startup

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, October 24, 2011 | Comments

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CEO and founder gives tips on leadership, fundraising, and management for startups

Vator Splash is one of the few events entrepreneurs can hear from seasoned and veteran entrepreneurs who've built successful businesses. In our September event, we were lucky enough to have Brian Sharples, CEO and founder of HomeAway, give a keynote. Watch Brian for his motivating and inspirational speech on fundraising, leadership, management and building companies to last. Woody Marshall, partner ...

Next phase of local is more Amazon than Google

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 29, 2011 | Comments

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ReachLocal CEO Zorik Gordon shares lessons and the future of local at Splash LA

Zorik Gordon, CEO and co-founder of ReachLocal, gave one of the keynote speeches at Splash LA. Zorik started ReachLocal with three other partners in Encino seven years ago. Today, it is a publicly-traded entity with 1500 employees. In its most recent quarter, ReachLocal, which helps local businesses with their marketing and advertising, generated $84 million in sales, up 32% from ...

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