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Newest Episode: Thu April 01, 2010. 05:34 PM
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.
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Thu April 01, 2010. 05:34 PM
Today, I was bestowed a great honor by Microsoft's own Trixie. I was named one of the 10 cutest boys in video games.
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Wed March 31, 2010. 11:45 PM
As I mentioned on our last episode, our friends Desz and Juice from TQ Cast have invited me to join them on their podcast this evening. The best part is that it will be live and you can join in the fun as it happens.
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Tue March 30, 2010. 12:13 AM
In this episode, we talk about the Nintendo 3DS, Where and When Call of Duty 7 May Take Place, Halo: Reach's Player Customization, Natal's Coming Out Party, UFC 111, We Answer Your Listener Mail and More!
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Thu March 25, 2010. 01:50 PM
In this special bonus episode, Jonathan of the Target Demographic and Mike of The Fanboys join Paul to talk about the Best Console to Have in 2010, If Heavy Rain Can Spawn a Genre, Video Game Remakes, Our E3 Wishes and More!
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Mon March 22, 2010. 10:47 PM
In this episode, we talk about Halo: Reach, Modern Warfare 2's Double XP Weekend, Jack Tretton Promising Killzone 3, Reggie Talking Game Controls, We Answer Your Listener Mail and More!
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Wed March 17, 2010. 12:41 AM
In this episode, we talk about the February NPD Numbers, PlayStation Move, Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Curing Mapathy, Nintendo Not Considering a New Console, We Answer Your Listener Mail and More!
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Tue March 09, 2010. 01:46 AM
In this episode, we talk about the Halo: Reach Beta Trailer, Infinity Ward Drama, Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack, Parting Gift for Halo 2 Players, Portal 2, We Answer Your Listener Mail and More!
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Wed March 03, 2010. 12:33 AM
In this episode, we talk about the PS3 Metldown, Nintendo's 2010 Plans, Heavy Rain Becoming a Real Movie, Battlefield Bad Company 2's Day One DLC, We Answer Your Listener Mail and More!
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Tue February 23, 2010. 06:21 AM
In this episode, we talk about X10, Uncharted 2's Multiplayer DLC, In this episode, we talk about X10, Uncharted 2's Multiplayer DLC, Call of Duty 7, the Newest World Warriors in Super Street Fighter IV, Heavy Rain, We Answer Your Listener Mail and More!
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Sun February 21, 2010. 08:06 AM
Here is Davide showing everyone how the One Man Army perk can easily turn into 1 tactical nuke and an easy victory for your team.
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Sun September 27, 2009. 01:53 PM
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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 advertising. To the average consumer, MarketWatch.com seemed to have come out of nowhere during the late 1990s to quickly establish itself as one of the leading sources of online financial information. For MarketWatch founder Larry Kramer, it represented the last chapter of his 15 year journey as a first-time entrepreneur. Larry started his career as a journalist, going from reporter to the top editor of the San Francisco Examiner in just 10 years with stops at the Washington Post and Trenton Times along the way. Larry founded DataSport Inc. (the company that would eventually morph into MarketWatch though a series of mergers and partnerships) with $500,000 from friends and family. He almost ran out of money early on. After a wild ride on the public market, Larry sold MarketWatch to Dow Jones for over $500 million in 2004 and went on to become the president of CBS Digital Media until 2006. Hear how Larry lived though two different careers and what he's planning next.
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Wed August 19, 2009. 06:13 AM
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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 for the shareholders of even the most thriving private companies. Barry Silbert is determined to change that with his company Second Market -- an exchange like the NASDAQ for private stock and other illiquid assets. He founded the company in 2004 focused on restricted stock, and quickly reached profitability with only $350,000 in angel funding. The road to this point was not without challenges; Barry's business partner was diagnosed with cancer and passed away as they were establishing the company. In 2008, Second Market made $20 million in revenue. Barry's success has not tempered his ambition as he's spent 2009 aggressively moving into new asset classes such as private companies (Facebook stock is already being traded on his platform), limited partner interest in venture capital firms and even California IOUs. Hear how this former bankruptcy banker did it and why he believes "The sky's the limit" for his business.
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Wed May 20, 2009. 11:45 AM
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"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 surprisingly big challenge for small businesses short on cash. Enter Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser who launched GotVMail to offer that service at rates starting at only $10 per month in 2003 as they were graduating college. They launched their business with under $200,000 in capital and never raised any more money. They bootstrapped their way to profitability quickly, and are now driving over $10 million in annual revenue. Despite their success, Siamak and David don't believe what's gotten them this far will take them to the next level. So they've just rebranded their company Grasshopper and are getting ready to launch some new products.
Show sponsor: FreshBooks - an easy online invoicing provider used by Venture Voice
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Wed May 13, 2009. 03:02 AM
I cofounded a company called Sawhorse Media that's making sense of Twitter (Twitter was founded by past Venture Voice guest Ev Williams).
We decided to launch a new site called Venture Maven to make it easy to follow what VCs and angels are tweeting about. For example, if you were pitching Spark Capital, you could have checked Venture Maven yesterday to see one partner was at the dentist and a principal just got off painkillers after a knee surgery. Better open the meeting with a good joke.
Please let me know your feedback. We're also thinking of launching a similar site for founders and CEOs.
You can find Venture Voice on Twitter at @VentureVoice and me personally at @Gregory.
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Mon April 27, 2009. 01:41 PM
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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 classifieds with OLX, his latest venture. Unlike Craigslist, OLX is translated into many languages and has a global focus. OLX is completely ad supported so there are no fees for job or real estate listings as there are on Craigslist. Still, it sounds crazy to compete with Craigslist. If anyone can do it, it may be Fabrice. When we interviewed him in December, 2005, it was on his last day working as CEO at Zingy, a ring tone provider that he founded and sold for $80 million against all odds. OLX already has 125 employees and 60 million unique visitors per month, but with $28.5 million is venture capital it has a lot of growth ahead of it before it's a success. Hear how Fabrice plans on getting there.
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Mon April 13, 2009. 06:32 AM
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Joel Spolsky first came on Venture Voice over three years ago and discussed his company in a very different way than most entrepreneurs. Rather than start with the big idea and pay lip service to building a great team, Joel focused on getting great programmers first. The ideas came second. Good thing because his big idea, a content management system called City Desk, never took off. Rather it was his small idea, software to track bugs in other software called FogBugz , that became a cash cow for his company Fog Creek Software. This small idea has provided the funding for his company to expand into three other product lines, all with just $50,000 of seed capital from Joel's savings account invested as Fog Creek was started. Since we last caught up with Joel, he's moved into a new office in Lower Manhattan that sports closed offices for all of his programmers and a large area where free lunch is served every day (eat your heart out Google). Listen to how Joel's expanded his business.
Show sponsor: FreshBooks - an easy online invoicing provider used by Venture Voice
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Mon March 23, 2009. 06:24 AM
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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 the acquisition, Graham ran his business virtually. Graham lived in different cities from New York to Barcelona while working many hours to grow his company. His team of writers, ad sales people and developers chatted over Skype, got paid through PayPal and used Google documents to collaborate. Simultaneously, Graham launched a ceramic version of the iconic New York paper coffee cup (video below). Listen to how Graham built his businesses without an office or home town.
Show sponsor: FreshBooks - an easy online invoicing provider used by Venture Voice
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Mon March 09, 2009. 10:05 AM
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It takes only a few seconds to customize a radio station on Pandora. It’s 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 to a user. For over two of those years the company was completely broke. While Tim convinced employees to defer over $1 million in salaries, Pandora underwent several changes in name, product and revenue models. Now Pandora is a leading online radio destination that’s starting to bring in sizable ad revenue. Tim is still battling with the record industry for its survival.
Show sponsor: FreshBooks - an easy online invoicing provider used by Venture Voice
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Wed January 28, 2009. 09:06 AM
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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 in Colorado and being offered a check of $18,000 or less in exchange for 6% of the startup. This two year old program is part of a new trend in structured angel investing and mentoring that was started by Paul Graham's Y Combinator. Two companies founded at TechStars have already been acquired: socialthing! was sold to AOL and Intense Debate was sold to Automattic (the makers of WordPress). David tells his own stories of success and failure as an entrepreneur, and his transiton to becoming an angel investor.
Show sponsor: FreshBooks - an easy online invoicing provider used by Venture Voice
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Wed December 03, 2008. 04:52 AM
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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 sales at IBM and Honeywell before founding University Computing in 1963 at age 29 with just "$1,000 and an idea" as he puts it in his book of that title. The company IPOed and grew to over 5,000 people. Sam hired CEOs and stayed an entrepreneur. He's founded and acquired numerous companies including Bonanza Steakhouse (grew to 600 restaurants), Earth Resources Company, Sterling Software (sold for $3.3 billion), Sterling Commerce (sold for $4 billion), arts-and-crafts chain Michaels (sold for $6 billion), Maverick Capital (a hedge fund with over $10 billion under management) and clean-energy producer Green Mountain Energy. Despite being soft-spoken, Sam's fought and won several high profile proxy fights. Sam's been undeterred as several of his ventures have had visible failures over the years and he's lost audacious bids to take over Western Union and Computer Associates. On the whole, Sam's created a huge amount of value that's put him on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people. Hear how he does it.
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