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Head of original programming, Tom Sly, on YouTube's original programming strategy

by Bambi Francisco Roizen - May 23, 2012
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YouTube's $100M bet is about viewership, not return

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 14, 2012 | Comments

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Head of original programming, Tom Sly, on YouTube's original programming strategy

YouTube currently generates all of its revenue from advertising, but is considering adding a subscription component, a feature requested by many of its users. That's just one of the many tidbits I got from Tom Sly, head of original programming at Google's YouTube, who sat down with me recently. Sly also talks about YouTube's original programming strategy, which was announced ...

How big companies engage the social marketplace

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 7, 2012 | Comments

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Jeff Dachis, founder and CEO of Dachis Group, talks to Bambi Francisco

The Dachis Group helps companies connect and engage with their customers by helping them understand who their advocates are and how their brand is being perceived across social media. Recently, Bambi Francisco sat down with founder Jeff Dachis to find out how he helps companies engage the social marketplace. In the interview, Dachis talks about ways to identify the most loyal and ...

Resist the urge: Do not just game-wash your pitches

by Krystal Peak, May 2, 2012 | Comments

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Just as most companies have recently added social layers, gamification is now another building tool

While most of the day was focused on how to take gamification elements and fold them into any business dealing with human interaction, we couldn't close out the event without hearing from VCs that help fund these companies. So just before we called it a badge-tastic day, Vator Spark invited three VCs to share their insight on gamification and what ...

Morgenthaler's Rebecca Lynn talks to Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 18, 2012 | Comments

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VC partner taking venture investing in stride; sees Facebook IPO closer to $100B than $50B

In the last year, venture capitalists poured $28.4 billion into 3,673 deals, up 22% in dollar terms from the prior year. It was the third highest amount deployed in the last 10 years. Internet-specific companies saw a 68% jump in investments to $6.9 billion in 997 deals. It was the highest level of Internet investment over the last decade, according ...

How to get funded by August Capital's David Hornik

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 16, 2012 | Comments

	Calling all 'awesome' entrepreneurs with original ideas in the 'awesome' space David Hornik, a partner at August Capital, is one of those likeable guys with an uncanny ability to say what's on his mind and get away with it. That's why we love having him as our Late Night host during our Splash events. Even though David could be the first VC to turn in his term sheets for scripts and ...
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Mobile app links fun and finance together

by Ane Howard, April 12, 2012 | Comments

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Toshl Finance helps you regain control of your finance with the help of "Monsters"

Following my own frustrating experience with my mobile bank app this past week, I was quite intrigued this morning when Toshl, a Slovenia-based startup with an office in Mountain View released Thursday the latest version of the financial app Toshl Finance. With every financial institution in the country releasing its own version of a mobile app, what makes Toshl Finance intriguing ...

How to get funded by Morgenthaler's Rebecca Lynn

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 11, 2012 | Comments

	VC partner sits down with Bambi Francisco to share her investment philosophy There are very few venture partners in Silicon Valley who are women, making Rebecca Lynn, a partner at Morgenthaler, a rare breed. Recently, I got to sit down with Lynn to talk about her investment philosophy and the types of companies she invests in.
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David Hornik predicts no big bubble bursting in VC land

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 10, 2012 | Comments

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Why it's all about having 'realistic' expectations; why Facebook will IPO at closer to $100B vs $50B

I've been through the Internet bubble and know what a stomach-turner that time was. In late 1999, you could almost sense it was coming too, given the investment-banking-pumping machine that kept spitting IPOs out as though they were on some sort of assembly line, and the day-trading, mom-and-pop lemmings who grabbed them as quickly as they came off because, well, ...

SendGrid CEO sees 10x growth in emails in two years

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 2, 2012 | Comments

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Jim Franklin talks to Bambi Francisco about growth opportunities and why he loves Pinterest

SendGrid, a leading cloud-based provider of email services, has a goal to send one billion emails per day. That's 10x the100 million emails already sent out daily, or 1300 per second. One way to reach that goal is to be everywhere developers are, said Jim Franklin, CEO of SendGrid, in our interview. And, the timing of that goal? Franklin predicts ...

SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin talks to Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 29, 2012 | Comments

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Jim Franklin says international sales should be at parity in three years

SendGrid, a leading cloud-based provider of email services, recently raised a $21 million Series B round of funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners this past January. Part of those funds will go toward hiring and international expansion. In my interview with CEO Jim Franklin, the second in a two-part series, Franklin talks about where SendGrid plans to grow overseas. The ...

Foundation Capital's plan to find the next Zuckerberg

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 29, 2012 | Comments

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Partner Paul Holland talks to Bambi Francisco about the Young Entrepreneurs Program

When Vator launched in 2007, our thesis was that there would be more entrepreneurs and more investors looking at the private market as a viable asset class to invest in. Fueling this rise in entrepreneurship is this entrepreneurial spirit and mindset sweeping through colleges, fertile ground to find some of the best ideas and tomorrow's leaders. I was one of ...

Catch Chairman Steve Brown speaks with Bambi Francisco

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 28, 2012 | Comments

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Catch is a way to capture and collaborate on your ideas

If you're like most people (and me), managing photos, personal notes about life situations or events takes everything from Word documents, various photo and personal-management applications and post-it notes. Yes, I still use those. One company that can handle this management is Catch, a start-up founded in 2008. Today, Catch has half a million monthly users and 230,000 daily active ...

Behind AmEx's digital commerce start-up initiative

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 22, 2012 | Comments

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Managing Partner Harshul Sanghi sits down with Bambi Francisco

It's been about 4-1/2 months since American Express launched its Digital Commerce initiative, a new program designed to invest $100 million in start-ups focused on digital commerce. I recently sat down with Harshul Sanghi, Managing Partner at American Express Ventures, who heads up the Enterprise Growth Group, a new unit to expand mobile and online payment services beyond the credit-card ...

What does DFJ Frontier look to invest in?

by Reena A Jadhav, February 25, 2012 | Comments

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Reena Jadhav speaks to VC David Cremin at Vator Splash LA

Reena Jadhav interviews David Cremin at Vator Splash on where he sees the opportunity for transformation. DFJ Frontier focuses on the earliest stages of a company's formation process. Typically, DFJ Frontier will invest $50,000 to $1 million. So, if you're looking for early rounds of funding, check out this interview with David Cremin Founder and Managing Director, DFJ Frontier, at Vator ...

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