Vator.tv in the news

Zynga IPO: Three Things to Keep in Mind

Kristin Karaoglu — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:41:00 -0700

If Zynga's recent push to go public is any indication, scaling up a business quickly -- and successfully -- is an art. Zynga, the fast-growing maker of wildly-popular online video games such as FarmVille and CityVille, filed for an initial ... [Read more]

After Maxing Out A Dozen Credit Cards,

Kristin Karaoglu — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:22:00 -0800

Tim Westergren, the founder of online radio network Pandora, wouldn’t discuss his company’s plans for a potential $100 million IPO, which Reuters reported last month is imminent, but he offered plenty of lessons for startups that are struggling to make ... [Read more]

VatorSplash:

Kristin Karaoglu — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:15:00 -0800

Last night, some 400 Silicon Valley venture capitalists and entrepreneurs gathered in San Francisco’s Café du Nord for the always exciting VatorSplash competition, offering ten tech startups (six of which were local to the Bay Area) the chance of a ... [Read more]

EBSCO Publishing Introduces

Kristin Karaoglu — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:21:00 -0800

Entrepreneurial Studies Source offers users full text for more than 120 key magazines and journals, 139 books & monographs, 1,000 case studies & business cases and more than 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar ... [Read more]

VCs Are Hot For Mental Health Startup

Kristin Karaoglu — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:24:13 -0700

Breakthrough.com, a mental health provider of online counseling and therapy services, won the Vator Splash pitch competition last week. Since then, investors have descended on the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup.

Broadcast Yourself

Kristin Karaoglu — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:06:00 -0700

Vator Splash: From screen to stage Vator.tv, which gives entrepreneurs and innovators the opportunity to pitch business ideas via video and connect with venture capitalists online, recently stepped outside of the ether to launch its Vator Splash competition. Ten companies ... [Read more]

Vator TV is the YouTube for entrepreneurs

Kristin Karaoglu — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:45:00 -0700

Vator Tv lets startups share news, follow their favorite companies, and contribute to tech news. Bambi Francisco Roizen runs an impressive shop, no doubt. The entrepreneurial channel began in 2007 as “a little garage project.” For the full story, read ... [Read more]

57 Ways to Market your Video

Kristin Karaoglu — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:50:00 -0700

How to use video for marketing: I recently made 3 videos about my company using industry standard editing software. I posted the video to both Crunchbase and Vator.TV. The video messaging has worked great on Vator.TV as I am generating ... [Read more]

Using Vator.tv to host your competition

Kristin Karaoglu — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:23:00 -0700

Here’s an intriguing and easy way for an organizer to promote and even conduct a business plan competition: stage it on Vator.tv. That’s what the organizers of the UC Irvine Business Plan Competition at The Paul Merage School of Business are ... [Read more]

Dot-com fallout still plagues IPOs/startups

Kristin Karaoglu — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:17:00 -0800

Zuckerberg echoed a sentiment heard in early February from Mark Pincus, the founder and CEO of Zynga Game Network Inc. in San Francisco, the developer of the most popular game on Facebook called Farmville. Pincus, who spoke at a Vator.tv ... [Read more]

Grow VC: Crowd-funding for Social Enterprise

Kristin Karaoglu — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:29:00 -0800

Grow VC, which formed in 2008 and has been fine-tuning its model since, isn't the only crowdsourced funding platform; TheFunded, vator.tv, Sprouter.com and others also aim to tap online communities for micro-funding as a way to end-run the dearth of ... [Read more]

How to Get an Event Panel

Kristin Karaoglu — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:25:00 -0800

One of the best ways to become an industry influencer is to get involved in industry events. They’re a great way to surround yourself with respected colleagues and they offer your the opportunity to network with others who share your ... [Read more]

Five free tech PR tools you should know: CNet

Meliza Solan Surdi — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:24:00 -0800

Vator describes itself as "the place for emerging companies to showcase and market themselves." While I hadn't heard too much over the last year, the traffic numbers on Vator seem to have exploded, and a few tech companies told me ... [Read more]

Vator Event: ReadWriteWeb

Meliza Solan Surdi — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:58:00 -0700

Rather than creating an advisory board to decide who would address top tier VC firms, TheFunded and tech TV group VatorNews looked to the public to choose presenters. In anticipation of yesterday's JuicePitcher event, hundreds of companies uploaded profiles to ... [Read more]

Thumbtack Awarded the Gold Medal

Meliza Solan Surdi — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:39:00 -0700

var partnerID=506122; var _hb=1; window.onerror=function(){clickURL=document.location.href;return true;} if(!self.clickURL) clickURL=parent.location.href; SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thumbtack (www.Thumbtack.com), the trusted online marketplace for local services, was awarded the Gold Medal at last night's inaugural Juice Pitcher event by an open ballot of ... [Read more]

Vator and TheFunded's JuicePitcher:Techcrunch

Meliza Solan Surdi — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:13:00 -0700

Let’s say you have an idea for a startup. How do you begin the process of finding cofounders and employees, creating a corporation, handing investors, growing the company, etc.? There are lots of details about building a startyp that are ... [Read more]

Vator and TheFunded's Juice Pitcher: CNet

Meliza Solan Surdi — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:10:00 -0700

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The month of September was jam-packed with the launch of more than 100 new start-ups and services at high-profile conferences like Demo Fall and TechCrunch50. In a much smaller gathering Tuesday night at Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus, just ... [Read more]

Company update launch: CNET

Kedric Van de Carr — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:49:00 -0800

Vator.tv, the "YouTube for start-ups" has a new feature going live on Tuesday morning that lets companies post short updates to their Vator.tv-hosted information pages. Similar to Twitter, the messages are limited to just a few hundred characters and other ... [Read more]

Company update launch: Venturebeat

Kedric Van de Carr — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:40:00 -0800

Vator.tv, the site best-known for allowing entrepreneurs to record “elevator pitch” videos, has been testing a new way for entrepreneurs to promote their companies — a micro-blogging news feed. I’m not sure if this feature adds much to services that ... [Read more]

Company updates launch: Read Write Web

Kedric Van de Carr — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:27:00 -0800

Vator.tv, a social media site for entrepreneurs, announced a micro-blogging service for startups today that allows these companies to update their followers about the latest developments at their companies. This micro-blogging service works similar to Twitter, though the character limit ... [Read more]

USA Today: Top female executives in Tech

Kedric Van de Carr — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:15:00 -0700

With the departures of former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz, there has risen a new crop of accomplished female CEOs... Fueling the growing ranks of C-level executives (CEO, chief ... [Read more]

Vator.tv lands licensing deal with ProQuest

Kedric Van de Carr — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:18:00 -0700

Tech start-up networking site Vator.tv may be getting its content into college classrooms.Vator.tv has signed a deal with ProQuest, a company that creates microfilm presentations for educational institutions. ProQuest will send out some of Vator.tv’s interviews with entrepreneurs to various ... [Read more]

Vator.tv mentioned in the Wall Street Journal

Kedric Van de Carr — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:38:00 -0700

The Internet offers plenty of resources as well. Social-networking sites for entrepreneurs, such as ClubENetwork.com, Vator.tv, Entrepreneur.Meetup.com and PartnerUp.com, allow people to swap business ideas and provide feedback to each other.

Vator.tv draws more funding

Meliza Solan Surdi — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:54:00 -0700

Vator.tv must have made its own successful elevator pitch. Venture capital company Venture Farm has invested in the start-up, which helps other start-ups make presentations to potential investors via online video.The amount was not disclosed in a statement released ... [Read more]

Web Video Interviews Marketing Shift

Kristin Karaoglu — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:36:56 -0800

Video has been touted as the next great online marketing vehicle, and interviews with experts will likely be a big a significant part of the mix...Vator.tv is another site driven largely by the interview process, including shows that rate startups ... [Read more]

Are you the best "new media" company? Consider the Vator.tv competition

Kristin Karaoglu — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:19:00 -0800

VentureBeat is partnering with Vator.tv to help judge an entrepreneur pitch competition for best "new media" start-up. The winner gets to fly down to meet with the mergers and acquisitions team at investment company, Demand Media, as well meet Demand's ... [Read more]

What Would Simon Cowell Say?

Kristin Karaoglu — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:03:00 -0800

Entrepreneurs might learn a lot from watching “American Idol.” At an Elevator Pitch Roundtable put on by VC Taskforce recently in Palo Alto, about a dozen entrepreneurs got 90 seconds to pitch their idea to a panel of top Silicon ... [Read more]

Internet TV: 57,000 Channels, So Something's On

Kristin Karaoglu — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:18:00 -0800

The nature of the content is different. Videos can be shorter, and there's more focus on the depth of the dialog than television, which prioritizes inane imagery and broad appeal. For example, Vator.tv features lively in-depth discussions on innovations without ... [Read more]

Submit Your Startup and Win Big Prizes with Vator.tv & Demand Media

Kristin Karaoglu — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:17:00 -0800

As we previously announced, Mashable is helping to judge the Vator.TV / Demand Media Challenge, a contest to determine the best new media-related startup. The first round of submissions is still under way, and anyone with a "New Media" company ... [Read more]

Vator.tv Announces Winners - "Tech Behind Digital Media"- Competition to Find Best New-Media Company

Cyril Brignone — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:16:00 -0800

Vator.tv, a professional network and marketplace for ideas and businesses, along with SDForum, a leading Silicon Valley not-for-profit organization providing an unbiased source of information and insight to the technology community for the past 23 years, sought out to find ... [Read more]