From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, May 26 2009 7:30 PM

Don Dodge of emerging tech team at Microsoft says buyers and sellers are far apart For a company that’s pretty acquisitive, making one acquisition this year is indicative of how difficult the M&A environment is. Microsoft has only made one acquisition this year, after 15 in 2008 and a typical ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, May 26 2009 7:30 PM

What am I Missy, Episode 20 Facebook’s FB fund 2009 this week announced its 25 finalists. The selected will be mentored and guided by Facebook engineers and executives, along with successful entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists including Accel Partners, Facebook and First Ro...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, May 26 2009 7:30 PM

Highland Capital founder Paul Maeder points to: a broken model; the end of an innovation cycle If you hang around enough technology conferences with bankers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, you’ll hear a lot of grumbling about the state of the venture capital industry and how it's ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, May 26 2009 7:30 PM

CEO Joe Kennedy on monetization of personalized radio on the Web Even though Pandora recently introduced a $36 annual subscription service called Pandora One to augment its advertising revenue, the Emeryville, Calif.-based company expects sales to rocket in the current quarter and double this ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, May 20 2009 4:23 PM

An inside look at how technology is changing the music industry This week, more than 650 entrepreneurs, indie artists, music enthusiasts, investors, and technology developers gathered at Hotel Kabuki for the San Fran Music Tech Summit. And, as you’d expect from a music conference, there was a ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, May 20 2009 2:14 PM

Technology is changing the music industry This week, more than 650 entrepreneurs, indie artists, music enthusiasts, investors, and technology developers gathered at Hotel Kabuki for the San Fran Music Tech Summit. And, as you’d expect from a music conference, there was a musical performance. T...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, May 20 2009 11:58 AM

Now here’s a CEO who knows how to have fun We know many CEOs have a sense of humor. But this is one video in which this particular CEO - Chris Cunningham of appssavvy - shined.  In this video, Cunningham roams the streets to provide assistance (as all good CEOs do) and engage with the average ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, May 20 2009 11:07 AM

Charlene Li helps us evaluate Watercooler, a site for sports and TV fans This week, we take a look at Watercooler, which brings fans of popular shows, such as 24, 30 Rock and Seinfeld, and sports teams, such as the LA Lakers and Oakland A’s, together across major social networks, such as Face...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, May 19 2009 11:19 AM

Yoav Leitersdorf of YL Ventures says keep expectations low, and accept failure European entrepreneurs have a tough time accepting failure. That’s what I learned while attending the Innovate!Europe conference, held in Zaragoza, Spain recently. One dominant and recurring theme was the idea that ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, May 18 2009 10:35 AM

LinkedIn Groups, CNBC, revenue and a future IPO I had a chance to sit down with Reid Hoffman, CEO and LinkedIn at the TiE Conference this weekend, where Hoffman was a keynote interview. The professional network is one of the early pioneers of social networks, even though LinkedIn has always be...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, May 16 2009 12:39 PM

What am I Missy, Episode 19 It’s easier than ever to get the scoop on your company. Vator just launched a cool micro-blogging tool that lets you give status updates about your company. It’s been a hit with our private beta users, such as Kosmix which has nearly 900 followers in a few months. S...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, May 15 2009 6:03 PM

Former MySQL CEO Marten Mikos on faith over optimism Marten Mickos was brought into MySQL when the open-source icon had 12 people in 2001. He grew the company to over 400 people and eventually sold the company to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion in January 2008.In this segment, Mickos advises ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, May 15 2009 6:03 PM

Angel investor Conway says Twitter doesn’t need a business model this year On Thursday, I spoke with Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway, who's invested in about 500 startups over the past 15 years, including some high-profile ones like Twitter, Facebook, Google and Digg, to name a f...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, May 14 2009 10:52 AM

Entrepreneur Ali Pincus says focus, stay motivated, and always ask questions from experts In this segment of Lessons Learned for Entrepreneurs, Alison Gelb Pincus, co-founder of One Kings Lane, an online shopping destination which features world-renowned decor for the home, shares her lessons ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, May 13 2009 12:19 PM

Zynga’s Mark Pincus helps us evaluate online gaming company Raptr We took Vator Box on the road and visited Mark Pincus, CEO and founder of Zynga, the leading social gaming company with 45 million unique monthly visitors. Lyla, Zynga's mascot also joined us. Pincus was our guest host, joi...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, May 12 2009 3:36 AM

Former MySQL CEO Marten Mikos on faith over optimism Marten Mickos was brought into MySQL when the open-source icon had 12 people in 2001. He grew the company to over 400 people and eventually sold the company to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion in January 2008.In this segment, Mickos advises ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, May 11 2009 11:13 AM

Personalized travel guide will be offered as part of online ticket purchase In this segment, which takes place in Zaragoza, Spain, I caught up with San Francisco-based David Sifry, a five-time entrepreneur and founder of Technorati, a blog-search-engine-turned-advertising network. There’s noth...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, May 08 2009 2:37 PM

Head of Microsoft’s developer community builds on his experience as a bartender in college Jeff Sandquist, Senior Director of Evangelism at Microsoft, has been running Microsoft's developer community at Channel 9 (channel9.msdn.com) for the past five years. How did he become such a good ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, May 08 2009 10:35 AM

Arimaz has created a cute little robot which connects to your favorite RSS feeds and even Facebook French-based startup, Arimaz has a neat little product in the works called, Mydeskfriend.  The little penguin looking robot is quite intelligent.  Apparently it can connect to your favo...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, May 07 2009 2:24 PM

Marten Mickos, shares some words of wisdom on how he grew MySQL from 12 people to a global company Throughout the history of humanity, people have worked alone.  Whether it was a fisherman or a hunter, this breed of people basically worked on their own, without set schedules or breaks. In the ...