At last night’s Vator Splash SF, we were honored to have Evernote CEO Phil Libin come on stage and Read More
Phil Libin: the who, where and why of entrepreneurship
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Jeremy Allaire’s keys to building great companies
Vator brought its popular Splash to Manhattan this week. Kicking off Vator Splash NY on Wedneday night was Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire, Read More
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Care.com’s Sheila Marcelo on women, business & funding
Our third Vator Splash NY is coming up on December 5, and we’re honored to have Care.com CEO Read More
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Samir Arora’s top 10 secrets on how to build startups
It’s a cool, balmy day in San Francisco, and Vator Splash is well underway. (Open bar! Woot!) Samir Read More
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Vision versus hallucination
A founder’s skill is knowing how to recognize new patterns and to pivot on a dime. At times Read More
In 1995, Jeff Dachis founded Razorfish, a pioneer in online advertising, which Dachis eventually led through a public Read More
A few years ago (back when I used an AOL email account over a dial-up connection) I stumbled Read More
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How do you replicate Silicon Valley entrepreneurship?
“This country can’t be knocked out with one punch,” said Clint Eastwood, during the Super Bowl halftime, in Read More
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LIVE Spreecast – Jeff Fluhr Keynote Speech Vator Splash
Watch Jeff Fluhr, Founder and CEO of recently launched social video platform Spreecast, deliver his keynote speech at Read More
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Today’s Entrepreneur: Leandro Lemos
Today’s entrepreneur is Leandro Lemos, co-founder of Timezpot, a social network which links sources like Facebook, Twitter, news Read More
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Are You Cut Out to Be a Franchisee?
For many Americans, owning a small business is a life-long dream. However, building a business from the ground Read More
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This week in Greenstart – Week 3
Greenstart is a cleantech accelerator program providing a fast runway to success for entrepreneurs addressing the energy challenge. Greenstart provides Read More
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The Helsinki Spring
I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup Read More
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Bill Harris’ lessons learned from Intuit and PayPal
In this interview, Personal Capital CEO Bill Harris outlines what he learned from running Intuit and PayPal and Read More
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Entrepreneur Tips: Yonatan Maor, Shaker
Yonatan Maor is the CEO and Co-Founder of Shaker, whose Facebook app for interacting and meeting in virtual Read More