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Venture Voice What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the answers by calling entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and their friends and foes. This podcast features our conversations. Login to Add this to your Playlist Format : Business PodcastDirectory.com's listings of the Venture Voice Podcasts
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VV Show #60 - Larry Kramer of MarketWatch Updated: 2009-09-27 23:53:58 Description: Download the MP3. Today's media executives plotting to charge for their content would do well to hear how Larry Kramer beat Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com by resisting pressure to put most content behind a pay wall while not relying entirely on adve...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #59 - Barry Silbert of SecondMarket Updated: 2009-08-19 16:13:45 Description: Download the MP3. Any shareholder in a startup can tell you there's a big difference between paper wealth and cash. Short of an IPO or outright acquisition, there are few options to cash out for the shareholders of even the most thriving private...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #58 - Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser of Grasshopper Updated: 2009-05-20 21:45:20 Description: Download the MP3. "Dial 1 for sales, dial 2 for support..." Ten years ago it cost over $10,000 to get a phone system with the advanced options we're used to hearing when we call big companies. Having a professional-sounding phone system was a s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #57 - Fabrice Grinda of OLX Updated: 2009-04-27 23:41:40 Description: Download the MP3.Craigslist seems unbeatable. It's often blamed (or celebrated) for destroying the classifieds business that helped keep American newspapers afloat. Now second-time Venture Voice guest Fabrice Grinda is seeking to dominate online clas...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #56 - Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software Updated: 2009-04-13 16:32:48 Description: Download the MP3. Joel Spolsky first came on Venture Voice over three years ago to discuss his company which he launched in a very different way from most entrepreneurs. Rather than start with the big idea and pay lip service to building a great...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #55 - Graham Hill of TreeHugger Updated: 2009-03-23 16:24:56 Description: Download the MP3. Graham Hill started the blog TreeHugger to cover green issues in 2003. After a steady climb in traffic and advertising, Graham sold the company to Discovery Communications in 2007 for $10 million. Since launch and even after th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #54 - Tim Westergren of Pandora Updated: 2009-03-09 20:05:41 Description: Download the MP3. It takes only a few seconds to customize a radio station on Pandora. Its founder Tim Westergren has been struggling for almost a decade to make it that way. Pandora was five years in the making before it streamed a single song ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #53 - David Cohen of TechStars Updated: 2009-01-28 19:06:52 Description: Download the MP3. The title financier conjures images of mahogany desks and million dollar checks for most. But for anyone pitching to David Cohen's TechStars, the outcome is getting accepted to what's essentially a summer camp for entrepreneurs...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #52 - Sam Wyly of Maverick Capital, Green Mountain Energy, Michaels Stores and Sterling Software Updated: 2008-12-03 14:52:08 Description: Download the MP3. Not to be called a one trick pony, Sam Wyly's turned himself into a billionaire by starting and growing companies in technology, oil, retail and even in the restaurant industry. Coming from a modest upbringing, Sam worked in sa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #51 - Jeff Stewart of Mimeo, Monitor110 and Urgent Career Updated: 2008-11-10 15:22:55 Description: Download the MP3. Jeff Stewart needed that done yesterday. Jeff became an entrepreneur when he founded the web consultancy Square Earth in 1995. Only three years later he became a serial entrepreneur by starting Mimeo, a service that lets you se...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #50 - Derek Sivers of CD Baby and Muckwork Updated: 2008-10-23 16:55:28 Description: Download the MP3. Last time Derek Sivers was on Venture Voice three years ago he told us he had to "whack 'em [investors] off with a stick". Now we know why. Derek announces on our show for the first time the amount he sold his company for this ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #49 - Rafat Ali of paidContent and contentNext Updated: 2008-07-23 16:37:03 Description: Download the MP3. Attention entrepreneurs dealing with the current economic downturn: This interview is for you. After working as a journalist for Jason Calacanis at Silicon Alley Reporter, Rafat Ali ended up broke in a market with a dearth of e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #32 - David Sifry of Technorati Updated: 2006-04-27 05:24:37 Description: Download the MP3. Starting a service aimed at the blogging community is like jumping into a pressure cooker – all of the users are critics and have bullhorns. Good thing David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, has a thick skin he’s built after f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #33 – Announcing the Venture Voice Startup Workshop Updated: 2006-05-12 03:57:23 Description: Download the MP3. Venture Voice has been illuminating entrepreneurship through the podcast for just short of a year. Now, at the Venture Voice Startup Workshop on June 26 in New York, you can interact with top entrepreneurs and venture capitalists...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #34 - David O. Sacks, Co-Founder of PayPal and Producer of Thank You For Smoking Updated: 2006-05-25 21:01:27 Description: Download the MP3. What do you do after building and selling a business for $1.5 billion in the course of only a few years? That’s the question David O. Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, faced after eBay bought his company. It didn’t take ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #35 - Sharelle Klaus of Dry Soda Updated: 2006-06-15 04:15:50 Description: Download the MP3. While many restaurants offer dozens of wines, beers and mixed drinks, there are few non-alcoholic options on the menu. Former dot-com entrepreneur and self-described foodie Sharelle Klaus was fed up with her lack of beverage op...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #36 - Venture Voice Startup Workshop Coverage (part 1) Updated: 2006-07-26 06:17:23 Description: Download the MP3. If there are best practices in entrepreneurship, you’ll hear the secrets to them in this coverage of the first half of the recent Venture Voice Startup Workshop in New York City. If there are in fact no best practices for entre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #37 - Jay Adelson of Digg Updated: 2006-08-11 06:14:34 Description: Download the MP3. Digg, the news website that uses its own readers rather than editors to decide what stories are most important, has been growing with a fury. While founder Kevin Rose has gotten a lot of attention including a recent cover of Bu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #38 - Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc., Netscape and AOL Updated: 2006-08-25 21:09:11 Description: Download the MP3. There are not many entrepreneurs who have spent their entire 10-year careers starting new ventures in online media, but Jason Calacanis just can’t help himself. Jason rode the dot com wave in New York by starting Silicon Alley ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #39 - Guy Kawasaki of Garage Technology Ventures Updated: 2006-10-16 17:20:45 Description: Download the MP3. If technology entrepreneurs have a guru, it surely must be Guy Kawasaki. For about two decades, Guy’s been advising entrepreneurs in one way or another. First as an evangelist for Apple, he courted software entrepreneurs and de...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #40 - Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn Updated: 2006-11-03 16:30:52 Description: Download the MP3. Real business networking takes place in the country club, at the chamber of commerce and on the golf course. After all, the Internet is just for friending strangers on MySpace and poking friends on Facebook. If you said all tha...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #48 - Frank Addante of The Rubicon Project Updated: 2008-04-07 12:00:00 Description: Download the MP3. Whether working with market trends or against them, Frank Addante has found entrepreneurial success. Before he was 29 years old, one of Frank's companies went public and two were acquired. At his worse, he returned capital to i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #47 - Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins Updated: 2007-12-12 21:44:34 Description: Download the MP3. The name Tom Perkins is now almost synonymous with venture capital, but it's clear that he cut his teeth as an entrepreneur. Educated at MIT and Harvard, Perkins first made his mark by managing the initial growth of Hewlett-Pac...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #43 - Fred Seibert of Frederator Studios and Next New Networks Updated: 2007-01-29 06:50:58 Description: Download the MP3. Before the rise of the Internet, cable TV was the new form of distribution remaking the entertainment business. Life-long entrepreneur and former jazz producer Fred Seibert pioneered that field, and is known in the industry for...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #46 - Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp Updated: 2007-06-25 00:23:23 Description: Download the MP3. Jeremy Stoppelman is the co-founder and CEO of Yelp, a site where users can write and share reviews of local businesses. Everyone's now a restaurant critic. However, local reviews were not the original focus, but just one of se...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #42 - Simon Daniel of USBcell Updated: 2007-01-12 07:31:17 Description: Download the MP3. The battery is an afterthought for most inventors. All the fun seems to be in developing a device, not in powering it. But when was the last time you cursed your phone, camera or podcast player because it ran out of batteries? ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #45 - Kevin Ryan of Panther Express, ShopWiki and Music Nation Updated: 2007-04-27 17:56:44 Description: Download the MP3. Not many entrepreneurs have a motor like Kevin Ryan's. Kevin is best known for his work as CEO at the on-line advertising firm DoubleClick, which he grew from a 20 person start-up to the largest Internet company in New York at ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #44 - Venture Voice Startup Workshop Coverage (part 2) Updated: 2007-03-09 07:39:17 Description: Download the MP3.Marketing a startup is tricky business. Every entrepreneur faces the dilemma between allocating time to improving the product and marketing the product. If the two can be mixed just right, then perhaps sterile marketing can go viral....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #41 - Premal Shah of Kiva Updated: 2006-11-28 01:28:50 Description: Download the MP3.Premal Shah believes your last name doesn't need to be Gates or Rockefeller in order to make a real dent in global poverty. After leaving his job as a Principal Product Manager at PayPal, it has taken Premal less then a year to make ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #21 - Fabrice Grinda of Zingy Updated: 2005-12-08 17:05:33 Description: Download the MP3. If you think the ringtone business is for kids, then Fabrice Grinda has a $130 million lesson to teach you. After starting the eBays of Europe and Latin America, Fabrice brought the ringtone business concept to America by startin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show #17 - Jason Fried of 37signals Updated: 2005-10-18 03:00:00 Description: Download the MP3. The business world seems to keep getting more complicated, but Jason Fried is all about keeping things simple. When founding 37signals, Jason and his two partners staked their careers on simplicity. They wrote a manifesto to conv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VV Show # 6 - Scott Heiferman of Meetup Updated: 2005-07-22 14:31:34 Description: Download the MP3. Entrepreneurs need community. This entrepreneur makes communities. An Illinois native, Scott Heiferman came to New York while working for Sony in 1994. He quickly joined the avant-garde of the Silicon Alley community while growin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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