Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneur’

Many startups on the path of fundraising will endure a fair share of comedy and pain. Some investors will seem incredible savvy and others will tout themselves as “internet investors” specializing in Consumer Web – then ask you what SEO is. Some will say your cap is too high and others won’t understand your business [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Six years ago, at age 15, Catherine Cook and her brother Dave came up with the idea for myYearbook—a new way to meet classmates at her new high school. Today Catherine is 21 years old, recently graduated from Georgetown and just sold her company for $100 million! I had the opportunity to ask Catherine a few questions about myYearbook, her success, and the advantage and disadvantages that young entrepreneurs have to deal with.

The latest pitching season has just ended at KAYWEB Angels, during which we invited approximately 30 of 200-plus funding applicants to present their ideas in person. We allowed these individuals and groups 20 minutes to go through their prepared presentations, before firing away with questions from our board members for another 30-40 minutes. While we [...]

A key lesson for web startups has emerged from the recent bad press and hostility directed at the online movie rentals powerhouse, Netflix. Netflix provides on-demand movies and shows streamed online to subscribers, as well as a mail-order DVDs delivered by post at a flat rate to customers. The company has over 24 million subscribers [...]

What happens when you put leading thinkers and founders together on a boat? You get sunburnt and realize the possibilities are endless…

In a smart pivot, Sprouter, a well-designed social network dedicated to entrepreneurs, has pivoted to refocus on the question/answer element of their site. Undoubtedly affected by the success of Quora, Sprouter has elevated itself into a new class with a smart redesign and promises to be a smart way to ask entrepreneurship questions.

–JENNIFER PULLINGER

Michelle Madhok, founder and CEO of SheFinds Media, started the online media company with the launch of a single site in 2004, big on ideas and low on outside funding (read: none). Thanks to her scalable business model, SheFinds added a second property, MomFinds, and continues to grow. Ahead of her talk on starting a new media business at the Mediabistro Career Circus August 4, she tells writer Jennifer Pullinger the No. 1 thing she wished she knew when she started her own media business.

“I wish I’d known how vital SEO was to getting traffic to the site. Targeted SEO to pages where we promote products is how we make a great deal of our income. There are so many tools out there to optimize the pages, I wish I’d known about them when I started the business and built the initial site.”

Michelle Madhok shares tips on starting your own media business in her upcoming panel discussion at Mediabistro Career Circus on August 4 in New York.

User Generated Content Conference & Expo

Adeo Resi of TheFunded.com shared his unique perspective on
fundraising with UGC focused entrepreneurs during an after hours,
impromptu session at User Generated Content Conference & Expo. Adeo packed a session room at the end of the day and held the
audience spellbound while he gestured with a Bud Light. Adeo advanced an agenda of recommending people move away from the venture capital investment model, citing the current economic crisis. Please see @BetterPath for live tweats,
and here are the highlights:

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