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Matt Bowman
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Current:Reporter, Venture Capital and Finance, VatorNews. Private Company Editor, AlwaysOn.

Past: Teach For America Corp '02.

Future: Would love to see technology solve the education problem in the U.S. and flatten the global playing field for students.

Pet projects: Figuring out what the hell we're all doing here, tracking the vc world.

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1998 - 2002 UC Berkeley , BA , History

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Bambi Francisco Roizen	CEO and Founder, Vator, Inc.
David Saad	Chairman & CEO, Clupedia Corporation
Cyril Brignone	Co-founder, Vator, Inc.
Cosme Sevestre	Head of Engineering, Vator, Inc.
Meliza Solan	Producer, VatorNews
Chris Caceres	Reporter & Video Producer, VatorNews
Matthew Olivieri	Co-Founder & CEO, AdSemble
Craig J. Stadler	CEO, buddyfetch
Ronny Kerr	Reporter, Vator.tv
Peter Gorski	Founder, LinkedNow.com

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Matt's comments (36)

Glad you find it helpful. There's a notion in the venture capital world that to get virality, you have to appeal to at least one of the seven deadly sins. That of course is meant tongue-in-cheek, but there's a lot of truth to it. Another reason to be glad that more venture capital is moving away from media and consumer plays and towards healthcare and greentech.
on How to manufacture game addiction (March 17, 2010)
Gary--another good one to awaken teen boys to the corporate machines that shape their tastes is the Frontline documentary "Merchants of Cool." I know of one kid who marched to his bedroom after watching it and threw out all of his CDs. May need a bit of editing (esp the MTV Spring Break scenes), but I can't recommend it highly enough.
on How to manufacture game addiction (March 16, 2010)
At your service.
on Battery Ventures raises $750 million (March 11, 2010)
Dave, online shopping is not "outperforming" brick and mortar at all. It is growing faster, which is inevitable given that it's a brand new market, but it's still only 5% of retail sales, compared to 95% in-store. That is not outperforming.
on Milo, the anti-Amazon, spurns online shopping (March 11, 2010)
I agree re: Holidays--shopping then is about checking names off the list. If I need to get something for some more immediate, acute need, though, I'd much rather know the best price locally.
on Milo, the anti-Amazon, spurns online shopping (March 11, 2010)

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