From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, Aug 15 2009 9:56 AM

What am I Missy Episode 30 - NYTimes should keep Boston Globe, Friendfeed and Smule competition Cash-strapped New York Times Company has an offer for the Boston Globe. California Private Equity is bidding $35 million dollars and the assumption of $59 million in liabilities. It really does...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Aug 10 2009 12:30 PM

CTO and co-founder: 'Let’s get used to insane over-achievement'

Everyone entrepreneur is driven by something - either a sense of passion, a sense of determination, a sense of a new world. At Siri, CTO and co-founder Tom Gruber, is driven by a sense of "insane over-ach...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, Aug 08 2009 12:50 PM

With Twitter getting the hack kicked out of them, who’s next and what can you do about it?

I recently had a chance to sit down with Bryan Costello, CEO of Costello and Sons, an insurer who covers the tech industry and its venture capitalists. The interview with Bryan on "Hacker...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, Aug 08 2009 12:50 PM

Twitter patent infringement; Palm Pre’s advertising; Smule's competition

This segment was brought to you by Smule, the popular iPhone app maker.Smule, the creators of awesome iPhone apps like Ocarina, has a cool "Feel the Love" contest running. Users who have Leaf Trombone...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Aug 06 2009 1:36 PM

The CTO of the United States is looking for healthcare, smartgrid, and education technologies. On Tuesday night, Chief Technology Officer of the United States Aneesh Chopra told a group of Silicon Valley thought leaders how the federal government plans to work with the high-growth tec...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Aug 05 2009 11:40 AM

Tomasz Imielinski of Ask.com says search engines should be able to say, 'I don’t know the answer' In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Tomasz Imielinski, executive vice president of Global Search and Answers for Ask.com. BF: What's the marginal gain semantic technology i...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Aug 04 2009 3:32 PM

PE firm Conjoin Group targets underperforming VC-funded companies The VC industry is poised for consolidation. A Kauffman Foundation study last month found that the industry must shrink to half its current size to become efficient—that figure has become common knowledge in VC circles. LPs coffe...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, Aug 01 2009 7:14 PM

Distress brings opportunity; Stick to what you’re good at; Be cool and use Smule During times of distress, great startups often emerge. Hewlett-Packard rose up at the end of the depression and FedEx was born during the oil crisis. Recently, tiny Airbnb came to be. During the "no-money-to-pay-t...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Jul 31 2009 12:04 PM

Founder of Federated Media gives insight into how advertising and publishing models are evolving In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed John Batelle, founder and CEO of Federated Media. They discussed how the Internet is changing the publishing landscape. BF: John, if you had to write a ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Jul 30 2009 5:44 PM

From the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford, Marissa Mayer of Google shares an old company story Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience at Google, sat on a panel at the AlwaysOn Summit over at Stanford University yesterday.  The theme of the panel was centered on the growing pains o...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Jul 30 2009 3:41 PM

Josh Hannah - open but leery about investing in companies on Facebook platform Later today, I will be moderating a panel at AlwaysOn’s Stanford Summit. The panel is called: Beyond Facebook and Twitter. One of the questions I plan to ask each panelist is, "What are the risks of depending and re...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Jul 30 2009 1:36 PM

Lightspeed venture partner Jeremy Liew explains rationale behind accepting a $750 mln valuation "It’s a simple story, we liked the team.. we liked the opportunity," said Jeremy Liew, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. "This opportunity for white-label social networks is actually a very co...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Jul 27 2009 11:24 AM

Nimbuzz has $25 mln invested; it’s a top social networking iPhone app; but what's its exit? On this week's Vator Box, we look at Nimbuzz, one of the top 20 free social networking apps on the iPhone.  Netherlands-based Nimbuzz allows consumers to access their social networks and insta...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, Jul 25 2009 3:59 PM

What am I Missy, Episode 27 Musician Trent Reznor has three big simple words for unknown artists: “GIVE IT AWAY.” Reznor, in a post on the Nine Inch Nails forums, gave aspiring musicians two options to succeed today. Number one is for those aiming to be pop superstars, go ahead and sign up wit...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jul 15 2009 11:58 AM

Free service plans to take fees from partners for delivering services to users In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Tom Gruber, co-founder and CTO of Siri, a company that recently came out of stealth mode, and is a virtual assitant on the iPhone. BF: We were going to talk about the bus...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Jul 10 2009 2:39 PM

China’s great Firewall; Stoned Biz; Tips from Gruber What does “GFWed” stand for? It means the “The Great Firewall in China”. Yes, China this week put up a firewall to block its citizens from accessing sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The move, as you can imagine, caused a fury ac...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Jul 09 2009 3:49 PM

An evening focused on engendering change in Silicon Valley draws crowd and shares studies You can’t deny that when attending tech events – most of the time, you’ll find a good portion of the audience to be male.  Last night was a different story when checking out Pascale Diaine’s, Women in Tec...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Jul 09 2009 9:42 AM

Co-founder AJ Asver shares fundraising tips and why Y Combinator is a good home for startups

Scoopler is a graduate of the Y Combinator program in Silicon Valley. The real-time search engine, which came together in 2008, has just closed its seed round of funding. In this segmen...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jul 08 2009 3:23 PM

"Our goal is not just to build a publishing platform but to build a personal media platform." In part two of my interview with Ooyala CEO and Co-founder Bismarck Lepe, he talks in more detail about how his company is expanding their offering within the online video platform market with a key f...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jul 08 2009 11:16 AM

Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy shares a history lesson about radio, and current subscription models In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Joe Kennedy, CEO of Pandora, a personalized radio station that creates music stations based on personal preferences. BF: You’ve been the...