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Vator's version of Siskel & Ebert meets American Idol. Each week, host Bambi Francisco, VB regular, Ezra Roizen, and a guest host, rate entrepreneur pitches.

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The business of project planning

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 16, 2009 | Comments (3)

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Would Emergence Capital's Jason Green invest in LiquidPlanner, a project-management software?

This week, we look at LiquidPlanner, an online project management software tool that helps companies work more efficiently on projects. The software as a service (SaaS) includes shared work spaces, Twitter-like short-messaging functionality (or what Liquid Planner calls workplace chatter, and the ability to manage multiple projects. To analyze this project management tool, we brought in Jason Green, a venture ...

Google vs discovery engines, Kosmix

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 9, 2009 | Comments

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Chris Shipley of Guidewire helps us review a magazine approach to searching topics

Chris Shipley, co-founder of startup research and consulting firm, Guidewire, has spent more than a decade advising and mentoring startups. She's responsible for bringing about 1,500 startups to the DEMO (a leading conference for emerging tech startups) stage. On Vator Box, our version of Siskel & Ebert meets American Idol for startups, we try to find people or experts in ...

Will group dating appeal to those over 30?

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 2, 2009 | Comments (1)

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Ignighter is in the hot seat with Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra as our Vator Box guest host

In this Vator Box segment, we take a look at group dating site, Ignighter. Since the service is completely free, unlike many dating sites out there, we asked Richard Jalichandra to be our guest host once again. Jalichandra is CEO of Technorati, an advertising network. So, he clearly has a good idea of what’s happening with advertising rates and budgets. ...

What young males want online

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 23, 2009 | Comments (1)

	We evaluate Cavallere, an advice site for young men In this Vator Box segment, we take a look at a content site for young males. Richard Jalichandra was our guest host, once again. While at IGN, Jalichandra was integral in the acquisition of AskMen. So, we thought Cavallere, a site offering tutorials and advice for young males, would be a great site for Jalichandra to evaluate. With me as ...
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Social apps as ads? We look at Buddy Media

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 15, 2009 | Comments

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Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra is our guest host evaluating social applications as ads

In this segment, we brought in Richard Jalichandra, CEO of Technorati, an advertising network for mid-tail sites. This week, we looked at Buddy Media, a provider of advertising and marketing applications across social networks. Manhattan-based Buddy Media raised $8.3 million from high-profile investors, such as Greycroft, Softbank, Bay Partners and European Founders Fund. The startup provides a new economic model ...

Crispy Gamer and online gaming reviewed

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 9, 2009 | Comments

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Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra is our guest host evaluating online gaming

Sponsored by: The online gaming industry is a booming business, with PC gamers playing on average three hours per day, and new upstarts, like online game app maker Zynga, already generating millions of dollars annually. Another startup hoping to capitalize on the online gaming boom, and hoping to be a leading provider of news, information and community site for serious ...

WidgetBucks and Mpire reviewed on the Box

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 2, 2009 | Comments

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EBay's Erik Stuart evaluates comparison shopping and shopping widgets

Sponsored by: As online advertising rates decline, publishers are seeking other ways to make more money from their pages. That's why startups like WidgetBucks are becoming an intriguing alternative to Google's AdSense or other forms of monetization. WidgetBucks, which launched in October 2007 as a spin-out of shopping site Mpire, aggregates products from a number of shopping sites, including Shopping.com ...

ChannelAdvisor reviewed by eBay's Erik Stuart

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 27, 2009 | Comments (1)

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What does eBay think of this valuable driver of sales to its marketplace?

Sponsored by: ChannelAdvisor, which helps merchants determine where to sell their wares across marketplaces, search engines and shopping sites, is the largest providers of seller tools to eBay's biggest sellers. Some 20% to 30% of the largest merchants using its service. It's a SaaS (software as a service) startup that's raised some $80 million since it began earlier this decade. ...

ThisNext reviewed by Erik Stuart of eBay

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 20, 2009 | Comments (1)

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Will eBay incorporate social shopping into its fold?

Sponsored by: Startups have been creating social shopping experiences for several years. Some have had successful exits, such as Kaboodle, which sold to Hearst for $30 million in 2007. But have any really hit the ball out of the park? Erik Stuart, director of corporate strategy at eBay, scours the startup landscape as part of his job to find the ...

Wigix - reviewed by Erik Stuart of eBay

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 12, 2009 | Comments (4)

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Is this eBay alternative something that's caught the eye of eBay's director of strategy?

Sponsored by: How do you get into the door at eBay? One way to do so is through Erik Stuart, director of corporate strategy at eBay, whose job is to vet startups and propose which ones should be ideal candidates for mergers and acquisitions or business development deals. He initiated and championed eBay's acquisition of StumbleUpon. Who better then to ...

Is there scale to an Appssavvy?

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 4, 2009 | Comments

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Google's Marissa Mayer helps us evaluate the social media business of Appssavvy

Sponsored by: With the popularity of applications and widgets made by companies, such as RockYou and Slide, we're seeing the emergence of startups solely focused on creating advertising solutions for app makers. Is there a big business in creating advertising and marketing solutions for widget and app providers? Or are widgets and apps advertisements in and of themselves? We explored that ...

Vator Box highlights in 2008

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 24, 2008 | Comments

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Esther Dyson, Google's Marissa Mayer, Venrock Brian Ascher, Guy Kawasaki, and more

In 2008, we launched a show called Vator Box, our poor version of Siskel & Ebert meets American Idol. It's the show where we invite guest hosts to evaluate startups based on their Vator video pitch and company profile. We've provided analysis for over 50 companies since the start of this year. At times, we even got the analysis just ...

Viewdle reviewed by Google's Marissa Mayer

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 22, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Search expert joins Vator Box team to evaluate the facial-recognition technology startup

Viewdle, which recently won the Le Web pitch competition in early December, was in the spotlight for this week's Vator Box. Viewdle is a facial-recognition technology startup that was founded in 2006. Who better to evaluate technology to help us find things across the Web in an automated fashion than Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search experience. Overall, Mayer, Ezra ...

Google vs visual search, Searchme

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 15, 2008 | Comments (5)

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Google's Marissa Mayer is our guest host evaluating a new experience and model applied to search

This episode is brought to you by Liquid Scenarios. We're in the early innings of search, and there's much innovation to be done. At 10 years old, Google has defined the way people find information. Type in a keyword and receive a list of results. It's in those results that they try to convey as much information as they can, ...

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