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Today's Entrepreneur by Kristin Karaoglu

What's the no.1 mistake entrepreneurs make?

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Today's Entrepreneur: Alex Reinlieb

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 13, 2013 | Comments

No.1 mistake: Unwillingness to pivot

Today's Entrepreneur is Alex Reinlieb, founder of Plug.dj. According to his VEQ Alex is a thought leader and is good at networking and product management. Plug.dj is an international community where people can enjoy music/videos together in a socially interactive environment. Our customers are brands seeking a highly integrated advertising channel, artists looking to reach a wider international demographic, and ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Gary Swart

by Kristin Karaoglu, May 6, 2013 | Comments

No.1 mistake: Assuming a product-market fit

Today's Entrepreneur is Gary Swart, CEO, of oDesk. According to his VEQ, Gary is good at sales execution, sales management and team motivation. Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion and follow their dreams. Our profiles allow members to express themselves by sharing their interests, lessons learned, as well as bits and pieces of their roller-coaster ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Nadav Wilf

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 29, 2013 | Comments

No.1 mistake: Quitting right when things look impossible

Today's Entrepreneur is Nadav Wilf, CEO of Enlightened.org. According to his VEQ Nadav is a thought leader and is good at team motivation and marketing management. Enlightened.org integrates philanthropy into your everyday life. Enlightened empowers people to shop 1,000's of their favorite stores and brands like Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Tory Burch and Diesel earn up to 10% to donate to philanthropies ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Vinny Jindal

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 17, 2013 | Comments

No.1 mistake: Operating without a clear sense of how or why their product could be habit-forming

Today's Entrepreneur is Vinny Jindal, co-founder of Stockr. According to his VEQ Vinny is good at networking, fundraising and team motivation. Stockr is a social media platform for the stock market. They aim to democratize the public markets by providing all investors the informational and networking tools previously avialable only to professoinals. (Stockr is one of the promising startups competing ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Joe Genasci

by Kristin Karaoglu, April 10, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Failure to communicate emotional value toward your product

Today's Entrepreneur is Joe Genasci, president and CEO of GuidEd Fusion. GuidEd Fusion is transforming education by offering a new way to interact with students, a new way to provide a sense of belonging, and a new way to build relationships in a way students understand. (GuidEd Fusion is one of the promising startups competing to be one of the ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Jedd Gold

by Kristin Karaoglu, February 25, 2013 | Comments

	No. 1 mistake: Being too in love with their own idea Today's Entrepreneur is Jedd Gold, founder and CEO of The Kive Company, the People's Choice winner of Splash SF 2013. The Kive Company allows parents to take, tag, and chronologically store your child's art and school work - then turn it into a hard cover book with little more than the touch of a button. According to his VEQ, Jedd is ...
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Today's Entrepreneur: Tanya Maslach

by Kristin Karaoglu, February 8, 2013 | Comments

Focus and prioritization is everything

Today's Entrepreneur is Tanya Maslach, founder of GOTRIbal.GOTRIbal is connecting the millions of women endurance athletes to each other and brands they love. According to her VEQ, Tanya is a thought leader and is good at team motivation and networking. Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion and follow their dreams. Our profiles allow members to ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Michelle Ritchie

by Kristin Karaoglu, February 4, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Not planning for the long haul

Today's Entrepreneur is Michelle Ritchie, founder and CMO of Delicioius Karma. Delicious Karma is a social shopping site that makes it fun and easy to discover, learn about, and buy exceptional artisanal and gourmet specialty foods, at great prices, while also supporting the community of artisanal food producers. According to her VEQ. Michelle is good at product management, marketing management ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Erik Caso

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 30, 2013 | Comments

	Launch, listen, iterate Today's Entrepreneur is Erik Caso, CEO of younity. Younity creates a personal cloud for all your files, built from your devices and your online services, so that all your devices work as if they were a single device. According to his VEQ. Erik is good at product management, technology design and negotiation. (younity is one of the promising startups competing ...
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Today's Entrepreneur: Robert Rodrigues

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 18, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Thinking you know what your customer wants

Today's Entrepreneur is Robert Rodrigues, CEO of SquaredOut. SquaredOut leverages the power of social media and online calendaring to create an event-broadcasting community. Event creators can publish an event and have it appear in an array of locations & formats. Their audience can view and share these events using the portal, device and social network of their choice. According to ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Melinda Wittstock

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 11, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Surrounding themselves with 'yes-men' and b-listers

Today's Entrepreneur is Melinda Wittstock, CEO and founder of NewsiT. NewsiT is a mobile ‘big data’ platform for real-time algorithmic validation of original crowd-sourced content for brands, campaigns, media seeking to attract and retain committed consumers. People connect around interests they share and people they trust to get more relevant and accurate information – and valuable conversations with other users. ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Mitch Fox

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 9, 2013 | Comments

No. 1 mistake: Focusing too much on ideas, pitches, and product and not enough on users

Today's Entrepreneur is Mitch Fox, co-founder of GoodApril. GoodApril helps people make good financial decisions today, so that they're prepared for, and paying the least amount of taxes possible come April. According to his VEQ, Mitch is good at product management, marketing management and project development. Good April is competing in the Splash SF startup competition. Check out who's competing, ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Boone Bergsma

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 4, 2013 | Comments

	No. 1 mistake: Overthinking it Today's Entrepreneur is Boone Bergsma, CEO of WeThinkItMatters. According to his VEQ, Boone is good at product management, marketing management and networking. (WeThinkItMatters is one of the promising startups competing to be one of the top 10 finalists to present on stage at Vator Splash SF in February. If you want to see Boonr on stage, or another startup in ...
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