Today's Entrepreneur is Pete Sheinbaum, founder & CEO of LinkSmart. Sheinbaum is also the former CEO of DailyCandy, which he sold to Comcast Interactive Media in 2008.
According to his VEQ, Pete is a thought leader and is good at fund raising and technology design.
Pete is also an angel investor and some of his investments include HotelTonight, Sendgrid, Intense Debate, TechStars.
His typical investment size is between $25,000 and $50,000 in four deals a year. His categories of interest are: Digital media E-commerce Web services.
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I am a(n):
Entrepreneur
Companies I've founded or co-founded:
LinkSmart, Inc.
Startups I worked for:
E! Online, AlexBlake.com, DailyCandy.com, LinkSmart.com
If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I want to invent something cool.
My favorite startups:
Instagram, HotelTonight, Strava, FlipBoard
What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
Putting people to work and solving problems are definitely the most rewarding things about entrepreneurship.
What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
Losing focus.
What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?
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LinkSmart is a provider of text linking optimization solutions for web publishers. Its cloud-based Total Link Management Solution analyzes, manages and dynamically optimizes text-linked keywords. LinkSmart’s TLM solution provides end-to-end functionality that reveals actionable insights into how readers navigate through websites and gives publishers the power to direct readers to valuable areas by leveraging text links currently in place, or dynamically adding new ones, acting as an extension of publishers’ content and traffic management systems.
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Pete Sheinbaum is the Founder & CEO of LinkSmart, Inc. a Foundry Group and Sutter Hill Ventures backed startup based in Boulder, Colorado. Pete is also the former CEO of DailyCandy, Inc.
