http://beta.razoo.com/blog/show/21854 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:26 GMT Latest posts from Startup Studio's community blog http://beta.razoo.com/blog_post/5853/show <p>“The more you can utilize a $20 million jet, the better” says XOJet founder Paul Touw who is my guest today. He shares with us how he has built successful companies by eliminating operational inefficiencies. <br />In 1996, Paul founded Ariba (ARBA) with the idea of eliminating procurement inefficiency through an online marketplace. Today, [...]</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:26 GMT http://beta.razoo.com/blog/rss/22434 Startup Studio http://beta.razoo.com/blog_post/5852/show <p>David Hornik is a partner at August Capital and sits on the board of directors of DoneRight, Nomis Solutions, PayCycle, Six Apart, Splunk Technology and VideoEgg. He previously served on the board of Evite which was acquired by Ticketmaster and he was a board observer with Tickle, which was later acquired by Monster. He has [...]</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:26 GMT http://beta.razoo.com/blog/rss/22434 Startup Studio http://beta.razoo.com/blog_post/5851/show <p>If you filled up your car’s gas tank with printer ink instead of gas, it would cost $100,000. Hayden Hamilton knew the high cost of all the wasted printed pages that sat by the print station at his office. He searched for a solution and couldn’t find one, so he founded GreenPrint. The company offers [...]</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:26 GMT http://beta.razoo.com/blog/rss/22434 Startup Studio http://beta.razoo.com/blog_post/5850/show <p>Today my guest is serial entrepreneur David Samuel, the co-founder of Spinner Networks, Grouper, and Brondell. In 1996, two years after graduating from MIT, David pioneered Internet radio with the creation of Spinner Networks. The company was acquired three years later by AOL (AOL) for $320 million. David’s most recent venture, Grouper Networks, which specializes [...]</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:26 GMT http://beta.razoo.com/blog/rss/22434 Startup Studio http://beta.razoo.com/blog_post/5849/show <p>My guest is Jon Gavenman, shareholder at Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group, one of the premier emerging technology law firms in the country and a recognized leader in structuring and negotiating venture capital financings. Last Year, Heller Ehrman’s clients included 22 of Red Herring magazine’s top 100 private companies. The firm has strong relationships with [...]</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:25 GMT http://beta.razoo.com/blog/rss/22434 Startup Studio http://beta.razoo.com/blog_post/5848/show <p>Today my guest is Jonathan Cobb, the founder and CEO of Kiptronic. The company helps online media publishers generate revenue by providing an easy-to-use ad insertion technology platform. Last year, ad spending totaled $80 million for podcasts and $1.5 billion for online video. By 2011, those numbers are expected to grow to $400 million and [...]</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:25 GMT http://beta.razoo.com/blog/rss/22434 Startup Studio http://beta.razoo.com/blog_post/5847/show <p>Joe Markham’s dog Fritz liked to chew rocks. That’s right — rocks. Out of desperation to saves his dog’s teeth, Joe created the Kong, one of the most unique, successful and useful dog toys of all time. But building the Kong Company wasn’t easy. When he first pitched his idea to pet store owners, they [...]</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:25 GMT http://beta.razoo.com/blog/rss/22434 Startup Studio http://beta.razoo.com/blog_post/5846/show <p>In July 2006 Mignon Fogarty launched “Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing,” a podcast that highlights common grammar mistakes. Since then, in under ten months, she’s been a guest on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and the topic of articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BusinessWeek and CNN.com. On iTunes, [...]</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:25 GMT http://beta.razoo.com/blog/rss/22434 Startup Studio http://beta.razoo.com/blog_post/5845/show <p>Blip.tv is the video sharing website that focuses on TV style shows that are broadcast in serialized episodes. In addition to being named in Business 2.0’s list of the 25 startups to watch, Walt Mossberg wrote that it is his favorite website for original content episodic TV shows online. “WallStrip“, “Alive in Baghdad“ and “the [...]</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:25 GMT http://beta.razoo.com/blog/rss/22434 Startup Studio http://beta.razoo.com/blog_post/5844/show <p>Scott Kucirek is the co-founder of ZipRealty (ZIPR), the online real estate brokerage company founded in 1999. Scott and his partner Juan met on their first day of business school at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. The pair ended up starting four businesses together and although the first three failed, they all evolved into [...]</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:25 GMT http://beta.razoo.com/blog/rss/22434 Startup Studio