From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Mar 16 2009 7:18 PM

Would Emergence Capital’s Jason Green invest in LiquidPlanner, a project-management software? This week, we look at LiquidPlanner, an online project management software tool that helps companies work more efficiently on projects. The software as a service (SaaS) includes shared work spaces, Tw...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, Mar 14 2009 12:46 PM

What are the key ROI differences between pre-roll and in-video advertising? Schuyler Cullen, CEO and co-founder of Keystream, an in-video ad technology company, says the objective of online advertising is to give marketers measurable and high ROI in their advertising by giving viewers content ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, Mar 14 2009 12:46 PM

What am I Missy; Episode 12 Meehive, a personalized online newspaper, just launched this week. Stories are shown based on your chosen categories, such as business or sports, and your nano interests, like dancing, skydiving, or baking. Meehive then culls information from millions of sources and...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Mar 13 2009 3:49 PM

Founder of CarsDirect and Zag shares his lessons on disrupting the car industry twice in a decade In this segment of "Lessons for Entrepreneurs," Bambi Francisco interviews Scott Painter, who founded CarsDirect in 1998 and founded Zag in 2005.  BF:How has the online car industry changed i...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Mar 13 2009 10:35 AM

Interview with co-founder Paul Gauthier on his plans to monetize and grow his lifestyle site In this interview, Bambi Francisco continues her discussion with Paul Gauthier, co-founder of Diddit, a site that lets users share life experiences and stories about their favorite things they’ve accom...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Mar 12 2009 4:27 AM

Angel investor Hamid Rezepour speaks with Reena Jadhav Angel investor Hamin Rezepour shares with nuResume founder Reena Jadhav his top industry picks for investing in 2009 along with a tip for entrepreneurs. He believes that 2009 is going to offer opportunities in Real estate and Green Tech. Af...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Mar 11 2009 3:16 AM

Kosmix unveils a new news aggregator with a personalized and social touch Meehive isn’t your father's newspaper. In fact, no two newspapers are alike with this service. Meehive is a newspaper publisher that allows anyone to have their own news formatted and delivered in a way that's...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Mar 10 2009 5:07 AM

A site for finding the 'pulse' of the Web Social search engines haven’t exactly taken off. But that's not stopping OneRiot to apply this concept to video search.OneRiot, a social search engine launched in November 2008, plans to launch Tuesday a video "social" search engine.The ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Mar 09 2009 12:57 PM

Chris Shipley of Guidewire helps us review a magazine approach to searching topics Chris Shipley, co-founder of startup research and consulting firm, Guidewire, has spent more than a decade advising and mentoring startups. She’s responsible for bringing about 1,500 startups to the DEMO (a lead...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, Mar 07 2009 12:34 AM

What am I Missy; Episode 11 So who’s God? Facebook is launching a new home page. And, with it, a new message saying it wants to be news and information central. Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will be a place to "consume" and "participate"in the stream of news and information that people provide...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Mar 06 2009 12:31 PM

Series A capital is tough to come by, but Emergence’s Jason Green is making those investments In this segment Bambi Francisco interviews Jason Green, co-founder of Emergence Capital, a venture capital firm in the Silicon Valley. Green has experience in the venture capital business as a General...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Mar 05 2009 10:17 AM

CEO Tim Musgrove gives us a sneak preview of his search destination for power searchers There’s always more room for search innovation. In this interview, Bambi Francisco interviews Tim Musgrove, founder and CEO of Digger. The San Jose, California-based startup is developing advanced semantic ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Mar 04 2009 12:14 PM

Wells Fargo recently faced a PR dust up and turned to its blog to quickly respond The crisis began when the Associated Press reported on February 3, 2009, that Wells Fargo was taking its home mortgage executives to Las Vegas for an internal sales recognition event. Although the event had been ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Mar 03 2009 12:54 PM

Cinequest co-founder Halfdan Hussey explains the state of the industries On February 28, 2009 Halfdan Hussey (Co-Founder & Director, Cinequest) introduced a panel discussion entitled "The Marriage of TV and the Internet"  at the Cinequest Independent Film Festival. His introduction was compell...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Mar 03 2009 12:54 PM

VC Minute: Bill Reichert, Garage Technology Ventures on opportunities and the broken VC model Seed and early-stage funding is NOT dead.  As Bill Reichert, venture capitalist at Garage Technology Ventures, explains in this edition of VC Minute, there’s no lack of money in the investment communi...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Mar 02 2009 6:56 PM

Ignighter is in the hot seat with Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra as our Vator Box guest host In this Vator Box segment, we take a look at group dating site, Ignighter.  Since the service is completely free, unlike many dating sites out there, we asked Richard Jalichandra to be our guest h...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Mar 02 2009 6:56 PM

EveryZing launches MediaCloud - a Web-based service to tag, transcribe and title video EveryZing is set to announce Monday a new Web service to help media companies transcribe, tag, title and categorize their video to create hundreds of metadata around the content, thereby making it discoverab...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Mar 02 2009 1:39 AM

EveryZing launches MediaCloud - a Web-based service to tag, transcribe and title video EveryZing is set to announce Monday a new Web service to help media companies transcribe, tag, title and categorize their video to create hundreds of metadata around the content, thereby making it discoverab...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Feb 27 2009 2:19 PM

Diddit co-founder Paul Gauthier shares lessons about building a startup In this segment of Lessons Learned for entrepreneurs, Bambi Francisco interviews  Paul Gauthier, co-founder of Diddit, a site for people to discover and share life experiences. Gauthier also co-founded Inktomi, a pioneerin...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Feb 26 2009 11:05 AM

Joost Selects Ooyala’s Backlot platform technology for content management and video uploading Joost, a popular online web video site, is betting that back-end technology developed by Ooyala, a video platform provider, will enable the company to focus on offering a better viewing experience for...