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Forrest Kolb of EcoFlip.org just used vator.tv to get exposure to the people who can help grow his business, including his new lead investor! 

Richard Rosenblatt, why Vator.tv is great for entrepreneurs.

     

Why Vator is a great place for investors?

Andrew Weyrich CEO of Hailcab gives a Testimonial about Vator.tv

"VatorTV helped our company at many stages of its early life. As a brand-new concept, with little more than a pitch and an alpha product to show our direction, Vator gave us a platform to share our vision with a broader audience. We’re sure that this brought us new users as well as a community that offered ideas, partnership recommendations, and a sounding board for testing our direction. As we evolved our product, Vator brought us a higher level of visibility and even brought us into the limelight at SD Forum, thanks to a competition we won on the Vator site. As our story continued to take shape, Vator’s media professionals helped us extend our message through interviews, updates on their news board, and at the many gatherings where Vator has a presence. Bambi, Meliza, John and the rest of the Vator team truly helped broaden our horizons and extend our reach. Innovators looking to increase their Web presence and connect with an online community should get to know the Vator concept. Vator definitely helped us establish traction as we launched our business."

"Working with Vator.tv should be a requirement for anyone serious about their message and serious about spreading it. VC's, employees, financial folk and the like will find it and watch it. So for a CEO, there is no better way today to clearly articulate your companies value proposition than this outlet. Combining that with the AlwaysOn competitions allows not only VC's, employees and partners to hear your message from you, but also allows the judges to get a feeling about how you present your company. This can work for you or against you...but if you are good...you want to be here. Period. If not...well...take some classes and then post."

"The exposure and market validation we've received from our vator interview and competition videos have been a huge benefit to our startup. The feedback from the platform has taught us a lot about our market, and has also helped us generate significant sales leads over 18 months ahead of product availability."

 

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 operating officer, chief information officer ) are more engineering and computer science graduates. The number of female engineering graduates in 2005, the last year for which statistics are available, was nearly 13,200, up 8% from 2000. The number of female computer-science college graduates rose 7%, to 11,235, in the same time frame, according to the National Science Foundation.

Venture funding for tech companies, meanwhile, has steadily grown, to an average of $6 billion to $8 billion per quarter today from $4 billion to $6 billion during 2003-2005, says the National Venture Capital Association. Not that funding is essential to a company's success.

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 universities around America. The interviews focus on starting and managing online businesses and handling the accompanying funding concerns.

 

 

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.

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 looking for venture capital. It is engaging and a great audience builder.

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 CEO Richard Rosenblatt. Since launching mid-November, 61 companies have participated; we've got a month to go.
The winner will also get blog exposure with profiles on VentureBeat,
Mashable and Andy Plesser's Beet.TV. Vator has a leaderboard featuring the
leading contestants so far. We list the top-ten below. Of the leaders we
haven't covered, Mixmonsta is worth a look.

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 Valley venture capitalists. They were asked to perform much like they would on the Fox television show: Get to the point, show stage presence, and know your material cold. And please, don’t ham it up or try to score brownie points.

Last week Mashable founder Pete Cashmore popped in to Vator.tv, Bambi Francisco’s “elevator pitch” startup, to discuss Mashable 2.0, an overhaul of the Mashable site that doesn’t look like this.

To play the Mashable drinking game, take a swig every time Pete says “kinda.” Bonus points for adding new rules in the comments.

The shift is nearly completion: every publisher and every topic will soon have its own Internet TV channel. Video is to 2008 what social networks was in 2007. Robert Scoble is moving his technology webcasts to FastCompany.TV backed by FastCompany and Inc (where I've contributed previously) parent Mansuetto Ventures. There are also new channels by the striking writers, the BBC and USA Today, plus channels on surfing, swimming, and even one for babies (can you get a toddler sized keyboard?)."

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 should submit their video ASAP to start making your way up to the top of the voting ranks.

Right now, the top 4 are:

1. NowLive - Live Internet Broadcasting 

2. CluPedia - Clues from Crowds

3. Zipidee - Online Marketplace for Educational Content 

4. WooMe - 1 Minute Web Video Conversations 

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 top digital media companies with exceptional technologies driving new media.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - November 8, 2007) - Vator.tv, the social media site for entrepreneurs and innovators, announces the Demand Media/Vator.tv Challenge -- to find the best new media companies with niche audiences, fast-growing user bases that include a community of dedicated users, and a cool idea with legs. Demand Media has already snapped up dozens of startups like ExpertVillage.com, HillClimb Media, Answerbag.com, eHow.com, Airliners.net and more.