From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Apr 20 2010 12:46 PM

COO Alfred Lin on his lessons as an entrepreneur on the road to a $1B exit to Amazon Earlier this month, Alfred Lin, said he was leaving his COO/CFO post at Zappos to become a VC at Sequoia Capital, starting in 2011. His reasoning resonated with me because Alfred, whose wife is pregnant, said ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Apr 14 2010 12:14 PM

Interview with CEO and founder Jim Lanzone, former CEO of Ask.com I’m not much of a TV show junkie. I like Seinfeld and Battlestar Galactica. But I own all the episodes on DVD and can watch them anytime. And, because there's so much content available these days, I prefer not to care about...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Apr 08 2010 11:52 AM

Lessons and advice for entrepreneurs from the wise venture capitalist, Howard Hartenbaum In this segment of Lessons Learned, Howard Hartenbaum, a venture capitalist at August Capital shares his three pieces of advice for entrepreneurs.  A little bit about Howard - he’s well known as the invest...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Apr 07 2010 10:59 AM

Vator’s Startup Sessions takes you into the creative startup culture of iPhone app developer, Smule I've been a fan of Smule since the company launched Ocarina for the iPhone.  In case you're not familiar with the app, basically it makes use of the iPhone's touchscreen and micr...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Apr 06 2010 12:09 PM

Interview two with gWallet’s Gurbaksh Chahal on monetizing the audience playing social games In this second part of my three-part interview with Gurbaksh Chahal, CEO of gWallet, we continue the discussion on monetizing social networks. GWallet is a monetization platform for social gaming which...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Mar 30 2010 10:40 AM

Interview with Crowdflower CEO and co-founder Lukas Biewald on providing jobs Even though the economy is looking up, jobs are still tough to find. And, for companies, particularly startups, hiring full-time workers, particularly for simple tasks, is a tough proposition. What’s a startup or the...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Mar 24 2010 11:37 AM

Pat McGovern, chairman of IDG, on the evolution of media as it gets turned on its head Over the weekend, I enjoyed a celebratory dinner with my husband’s clients. They just sold their company. The dinner discussion revolved around lessons learned about entrepreneurship. One lesson discussed wa...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Mar 22 2010 2:04 PM

SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert on why his exchange’s popularity is a secular shift in investing How active can a secondary exchange for private company shares be when the IPO market opens up? In January, Tesla Motors, which filed for an IPO this year, accounted for 29% of the completed transac...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Mar 22 2010 11:59 AM

Gina Bianchini shares her experience and advice as former CEO of Ning Gina Bianchini recently stepped down as CEO of Ning. Right before she left her post, however, she sat down with me to share her experience as a first-time entrepreneur. Gina founded Ning, along with Marc Andreessen, and then...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Mar 16 2010 11:30 AM

Former CEO Gina Bianchini sits down for an interview before she steps down from the helm I recently got a chance to interview Gina Bianchini, co-founder of Ning, a social networking publishing platform. When I asked her what her dream exit would be. it was pretty clear what she hoped for Ning....

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Mar 15 2010 8:47 AM

'Amazon bought Zappos partly because there was little overlap in customers,' said Lin It was in November that Amazon closed its $1.2 billion (at Amazon’s current stock price) acquisition of mega shoe e-tailer Zappos. The three months may seem like ages ago, but the two companies are ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Mar 11 2010 2:31 PM

Citi Research analyst Mark Mahaney talks about growth areas across the Internet this year If you haven’t caught Cit Research analyst  Mark Mahaney's report on the Internet growth drivers, check out my interview with him. In this segment, of my three-part interview with Mark, we talk about...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Mar 08 2010 12:22 PM

Angel investor Jeff Clavier analyzes the opportunities for a calendar service for colleges With Facebook sporting a potential $40 billion valuation, the idea of starting a service focused solely on colleges sounds like a smart starting point. After all, Facebook got its start by serving only s...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Mar 05 2010 11:40 AM

Top Silicon Valley angel investor Clavier says M&A is clearly in the air When Google snapped up Aardvark for $50 million at the start of the year, it was just another sign that the big "supertankers" of the Internet were continuing to be acquisitive. This acquisition follows attempts by Google...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Mar 02 2010 1:30 PM

Aloqa CEO Sanjeev Agrawal shares his lessons about raising capital, the right team, and goals In this segment of Lessons for entrepreneurs,  Sanjeev Agrawal, CEO of Aloqa and formerly head of Google’s product marketing, shares his experience as an entrepreneur and his advice to fellow inn...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Feb 23 2010 3:41 PM

Exclusive: Interview with CEO Barry Silbert on plans for the marketplace, including M&A and hiring SecondMarket, a leading marketplace for illiquid assets, such as private company shares - Facebook, Zynga, and Tesla Motors - on Tuesday announced it’s raised $15 million in new funding, giving t...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Feb 23 2010 3:41 PM

Exclusive: Interview with CEO Barry Silbert on plans for the marketplace, including M&A and hiring SecondMarket, a leading marketplace for illiquid assets, such as private company shares - Facebook, Zynga, and Tesla Motors - on Tuesday announced it’s raised $15 million in new funding, giving t...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Feb 19 2010 3:59 PM

Prolific tech blogger predicts war between Google and Facebook, touts Siri At Vator.tv’s first-ever Vator Splash event on Thursday, February 4 at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, Reena Jadhav, founder and CEO of NuAlerts caught up with prolific tech blogger Robert Scoble. Scoble, who was a...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Feb 19 2010 3:59 PM

Interview (4) with CEO and co-founder Richard Rosenblatt on publishing the world’s content This is the fourth part of my interview with Richard Rosenblatt, CEO and co-founder of Demand Media, a new media company whose goal is to publish the world's commercial content. In the first three i...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Feb 16 2010 1:55 PM

Arjun Arora CEO ReTargeter talks to Reena Jadhav about how he keeps costs down Reena Jadhav, CEO of nuAlerts, interviews Arjun Arora, CEO of ReTargeter on lessons learned while bootstrapping. ReTargeter is an online solution that allows you to show display ads to people who have just left your...