MyLocator.com 's comments

The chosen business domain name can make or break "any" startup. It's getting harder for startups to get "adopted" in a flooded me too market.. Appreciate you for coming out and sharing your experience. Best of skill.
on On fundraising: Don't settle for any investor

a friend of a friend to bring a vc a game changing startup is like waiting to get hit by lightning. this may explain why the valley is full of funded garbage startups and their failure rate is as high as 80%. you need a "broad view" and "open mind" as to where tech is going and postition your investments to capitalize on the ever changing landscape. keeping windows of opportunity closed and waiting for a friend to knock on your door with a game changer startup is wishful thinking.
on How to get funded by Howard Hartenbaum

how bout' a talent scout academy course taught by the entrepreneurs? :)
on Announcing VatorAcademy

the mobile stategy? i understand it requires the creation of mobile location based services for user engagement, user attention and retention. seems the best place to stategize, position and leverage long tail bite size premium content.
on Demand Media's IPO ambitions

headline should read "BusinessWeek fails at business." a supernova? with a miniscule valuation?...this comany went out with barely a spark.
on Bye Bye BusinessWeek, hello Bloomberg

rozen hit on something. key word required on Google to compete "own that spot". no one will ever own that spot on google. they may cpc lease but never own. what if you were to own pianolocator.com. its niche, its natural language, its top level, its universal, its location based. give businesses custom offerings such as paloalto.pianolocator.com, you@pianolocator.com. this is an example of the type of strategic niche offerings small business and search engines would gravitate to naturally. self propelled natural language location based niche offerings. whomever creates the greatest strategic multichannel niche offerings will win the local game.
on Thumbtack (People's Choice) on Juice Box

Congradulations Thumbtack. nice to see a company attempt to harness small business that is 70% of the economy and is undominated by any major player. the answer to the question is probably not. thumbtack will be competing with companies like mylocator that are a network of 1200 self propelled natural language distribution channels specializing in small business. offering niche email, niche subsites, niche top level natural language location. the real race is who will win local mobile search. location, location, location, niche, niche, niche, offerings, offerings, offerings. whom ever does this the best will have the greatest capacity to evolve and dominate local online and mobile search. Best of Skill
on Can Thumbtack evolve service listings?

wisdom of crowds does not work. http://www.forbes... vators "phantom" rating system does not work either.
on Juice Pitcher leaderboard

some of the best location based commentary we have heard in a long time. searchwars are over, let the locationwars begin.
on The difference between Aloqa and Loopt

the future is location, personalization and integration.
on Aloqa - a new mobile recommendation engine

Vator your embed for this take is not working.
on Aloqa - a new mobile recommendation engine

i recommend they change their name. natural language location based social channels make alot of sense.
on Aloqa - a new mobile recommendation engine

vator works very well and i appreciate all that they have shared with the community. could you include a twitter bookmark?
on Vator opens up micro-blogging to public beta

would love to see the Vator50. vators top 50 websites. with a transparent rating system. where raters have to put there name where there rate is. nice interview.
on Chris Shipley on the merits of DEMO

the before homepage was better. once im logged in the site reverts the old navigation style which i find much more efficient. you missed toys.com selling for 5 million.
on What Am I Missy? Episode 10

the biggest company in payments spends a billion dollars on a pay extension plan makes no sense. put a button on paypal that says PayStretch and finance the purchases themselves. with the failure of stumbleupon and skype will billmelater be ebays strike three?
on What kind of startups is eBay interested in?

im not seeing the game changer atributes. must have been the pitch that wooed Vator and the AO judges.:) wisdom of crowds is a myth. wisdom of a 5-10 experts is the only recomendation anyone will ever need.
on Wize.com

starting with structured organized categories........who knew? where is the social aspect? personalization? custom niche email? custom niche subsites? premium location? they are on the right track but until they can offer custom strategic niche personalization offerings i dont see kozmic being a serious G contender. are they gonna offer email at joe2009@kozmix.com, not helpful. cosmic with a K is gonna have to be spelled out when spoken. 99% of people wont know what your talking about or how to spell the domain. the cure for search begins with communication and understanding aka natural language. http://www.killer... Best of skill and thanks for sharing. your insights positively reinforce mine.
on Kosmix browse vs Google search

nice candid interview. failure is an entrepreneurs tuition.
on Avoid politics and trust your instincts

why name your business a domain nobody can understand. communication is important in marketing. smatto sounds like a spaghetti sauce.
on Be the Muhammad Ali of innovation

Entrepreneurial skill is in the eye of the beholder. the ignorant confuse skill with luck.
on Is effort a myth?

thanks Nat for sharing the candid insight and reiterating my startup's premise hook line and sinker. perfect timing. the mylocator platform has never been there before. its something everyone needs, and everyone will naturally want. Cheers to the Game Changers
on Are you the next billionaire?

a company that has 40 million invested is not a startup. they are already a successful business. searchme is a neat system with lots of potential. i would love to hear vator box's opinion on the "potential" of game changer startup MyLocator.com. nice to see google rep's making rounds discussing search and sharing candid commentary.
on Google vs visual search, Searchme

"Natural Language Location" is the future of internet discovery. Watch my video.
on Google's Marissa Mayer on search evolution

product and service placement boils down to product and service location. Location is everything for user and business online success. Always has been and nothings changed even before the internet. Got Location? If not it could be time to find yourself.
on Conway: the next billion-dollar market online

What are you working on? is the thesis for the company. is this big brother in a cubicle. from my experience people dont like to be disturbed or followed while they work. Imagine the Messages: get busy, where are you, may i use the restroom, no you may not, sit in your chair, what are you doing, listen to me, i am your boss, your fired. I can see it now, this will ignite legislaters to make it illegal to poke someone while they are working.:)
on Yammer sees surge in sign-ups

thanks david for putting things in proper perspective. RealityLocator.com
on How to Rick Roll a venture capital firm

TV is not the main meal. maybe if you like baloney. TV mainstream media is on its way out. Your gonna be allright as long as you have a keyboard wired to your hdtv screens connected to the greatest platform in history of media. A diminished capacity can be a sign of watching too much oneway tv. Chow down on the net.
on The platform is the message

The Bubble Crunch- stuff tech bubble spinners dont want you to know. too many apps too many startups too many websites too many corny domain names too many developers too many search results too many url extentions too many social sites Look at techcrunch and 99% of all you see is a bunch of mumbo jumbo articles about nothing. The End of Digital Innovation 2020. Strategic Multichannel Social Simplicity became King. There are only so many things people want to do on a computer or mobile phone. Its not rocket science.
on Part I: Bridging Hollywood and Silicon Valley

Money is Only as "Good" as What You Do with It. Time for the money squatters to share the wealth. Money not moving is dead in the water. Hoarding wealth hurts the fish down stream.
on Corporate venture capital