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MeetInnovators™
by Adrian Bye
Adrian Bye interviews the CEOs you read about on MeetInnovators.com. And now you can access them easily via iTunes. Learn what the world's top internet CEOs do when they want to get to the next level.
Episodes
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Interview with Charlie O'Donnell from First Round Capital
Learn About How VCs Raise Money By Someone Who Was Pitched by Fred Wilson
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Interview with Chris Knight from Ezine Articles
Learn How EzineArticles gets 30M uniques/month and delivers 200,000 clicks/day to its members
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Interview with Paul Romer from Stanford
How The Dominican Republic Could Have A Brand New City As Powerful As NYC Within 10 Years
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Interview with Jeff Ma from The MIT Blackjack Team
Learn The Inside Story From One Of The Members Of The MIT Blackjack Card Counting Team
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Interview with David Moore from 24/7 RealMedia
Did You Know 24/7 Real Media Is An $800M Advertising Business In NYC?
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Interview with Brad Feld from Foundry Group
Learn How Venture Capitalist Brad Feld Thinks About YCombinator And The Angel Business
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Interview with Roger Ehrenberg from Information Arbitrage
Find Out How A Wall Street Veteran Successfully Became A NYC Startup Investor. Learn How To Raise Money From A NYC Angel/VC Investor. Find Out How Roger Ehrenberg Has One Of The Strongest Investment Strategies I Have Heard
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Interview with David Kidder from Clickable
Why David Kidder Is Building His Third Company In New York City. How Clickable Is Borrowing From Apple's Philosophy In Building Its Company. The Difference Between "Cheap" Money And "Expensive" Money When Raising Capital.
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Interview with David S Rose from Rose Tech Ventures
Learn from one of the top angels in NYC – David S Rose. Hear What David S Rose Thinks About Jason Calacanis’s Anti-Angel Payment Rants. Find Out How David S Rose Got His Start As An Angel Investor
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Interview with Charles Best from Donorschoose.org
Find Out About A Non Profit Which Has A Very Scalable Affiliate Program. Learn How You Can Help US Schools In A Way Which Is Very Personal To You. Why Are The Top Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Supporting This Non Profit?
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Interview with Derek Sivers from CD Baby
Derek Sivers from CD Baby sold his company, as sole owner, for $22 million. His company was running fully automated and generating $4 million a year in profits. He shares his business philosophy and the unusual strategies he took after his big payday.
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Interview with Tony Bacigalupo from New Work City
How Guys Like Tony Bacigalupo Are Figuring Out How Work From Home Should Really Work. The New Trend: Communual Workspaces – How Tony Bacigalupo Is Doing It In New York City. The Cheap Way To Get Your Startup Running – Coworkspaces – Learn From The Guys Who Make It Happen.
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Interview with Sarah Bunting from TomatoNation.com
Learn The Secrets Of Winning the DonorsChoose Social Media Challenge. Read How To Dramatically Increase Your Fundraising Online. Discover How Sarah Bunting From Tomato Nation Has Massive User Engagement & Monetization With A Small Amount Of Traffic
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Interview with Jonathan Shapiro from MediaWhiz
Learn How NYC Based MediaWhiz Competes Effectively With Cheap Marketing Companies Worldwide. Find Out What The CEO Of MediaWhiz Thinks Will Happen To Regulation In The Online Marketing Industry. Read How MediaWhiz Evaluates Potential Acquisitions.
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Interview with Jon Williams from New York CTO Club
Learn How A Leading NYC CTO Went From Being An Isolated Tech Introvert To Managing 100+ People. Find Out How To Qualify For The Private Invite-Only NYC CTO Club. Discover How Jon Williams (ex CTO iVilliage) Stays Current With Technology.
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Interview with Chris Dixon from Hunch
Learn About Chris's New Project, Hunch.com, cofounded with Caterina Fake of Flickr. Find Out How Chris Does Angel Investing In The NYC Area. Read How Chris, Cofounder of SiteAdvisor.com Sold To McAfee
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Interview with Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures
Find out how to raise money from Fred's VC firm. Learn about the investor who may be becoming the #1 VC In The World. Listen to Fred's Opinions On The Startup Scene In The NYC Area.
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Interview with Nick Yang from KongZhong Corporation
Learn how Nick started with nothing (his family grew up in China during the cultural revolution) and founded 2 successful companies. Find out how he plans on competing with Google in China -- and also worldwide. Read about the management structure he borrowed from the swiss government -- which is...
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Interview with Kevin Li from Ku6
Learn from the youtube of China - with 250 million daily pageviews. Find out how they are monetizing video content. Read about how they handle government relations and not being shut down.
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Interview with Chen Yu from YeePay
Find out how YeePay processes US$6B in online payments in China annually. Learn which business models in china have the most processing. See how payments and trust is handled in a country famous for generating online fraud.
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Interview with Michael Jenkins from Market Leverage
Learn where Michael Jenkins thinks the affiliate industry is going (hint: its the tip of the iceberg). Find out how Market Leverage handles fraud and international affiliates. See how they handle FTC issues.
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Interview with Dan Brody from 360quan
Meet Dan Brody, a former American Google guy running a Chinese incubator. See photos of one of the most spectacular offices I saw in China. Find out about how they are building some of the top kids social networking sites.
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Interview with Chi Yu from kaixin001
A rare interview with China's fastest growing social network. Read about Kaixin001, in their first ever english language interview. Get a feel for how competitive copying is inside the online market in China.
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Interview with Marc van der Chijs from Spil Games Asia
Meet one of the few successful foreign entrepreneurs in China. Find out about how he cofounded Tudou, China's version of Youtube. Learn about casual gaming, one of the major growing online markets and the business model behind it. Play one of their most popular games (scroll to the end of the...
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Interview with James Hong from HotOrNot.com
HotOrNot.com has inspired thousands of startups. They bootstrapped entirely, built everything themselves, and had a nice sale when they were tired of running the business. While I knew they did well, I didn't know the specifics until this interview - they were making around $7M/year (mostly...
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Interview with Vincent Tao from PPLive
Vincent is a superstar US technology executive who has moved back to China to lead one of the biggest up and coming startups -- PPLive. PPLive is a p2p TV service -- basically like Joost, except that it works! It has 120M installs, with 30M active users every month. They gave me a demo of PPLive…
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Interview with Tao Zhang from Dianping.com
This week kicks off a special series of interviews with Chinese entrepreneurs. With the help of Georg Godula from http://www.web2asia.com/, I've been getting interviews with some of the very top guys in China (ie those websites you've seen in Alexa's top 100 listing, but never had any clue what...
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Interview with Shuji Honjo from Honjo International
Shuji Honjo, our guest this week has a lot of experience with international companies in Japan, helping major companies like etrade enter japan. He's also a visiting professor at one of the universities and has written a couple of books on entrepreneurship. We talked in depth about how a…
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Interview with Dave McClure from Founders Fund
I met Dave about 10 years ago when I lived in Silicon Valley. He's now with the Founders Fund, a VC fund put together by some of the top entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. In this interview we talk about paypal, the paypal mafia, VC investing, internet marketing in Silicon Valley and how you can...
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Interview with Jeff Walker from Product Launch Formula
Jeff Walker is going to tell us about the Product Launch Formula that is used to launch and re-launch products online. Jeff's a guy that can consistently get $1000 ECPM from his lists and now he'll tell you how he does it. :-) I'm quite familiar with Jeff's Product Launch Formula. I know it…
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Interview with Scott Tilton from Loop'd Network
Scott Tilton, the CEO of Loop'd Network is very much into action sports. And he has found a way to combine social media with sponsorships within the action sports world. Its a pretty interesting model, the best way of monetizing social networking sites I've ever heard of. He gets ECPM's in the...
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Interview with Jason Nazar from Docstoc
Jason Nazar from Docstoc has created a site where any type of document can be uploaded or downloaded for free. You've probably seen the docstoc viewer on techcrunch. It sounds kind of uninteresting until you realise that the documents get a lot of search traffic (eg people looking for mortgage...
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Interview with Jon Praed from Internet Law Group
Jon Praed is a total stud! He spends his time tracking down hard-core black-hat spammers. The kind that run illegal viagra, casino, porn and phishing spam. A lot of guys have made money in "grey" areas of internet marketing. Jon explains how gradually people are being forced to choose sides and...
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Interview with Renata Hesse from WSGR
Renata Hesse from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) is with me for this interview about US antitrust law. Renata is a high-powered antitrust attorney who has been in the middle of some of the biggest antitrust cases in US history including the massive Microsoft antitrust case of the 1990's.…
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Interview with Alfred Lin, Zappos Chairman and COO
Alfred Lin from Zappos is with us for this interview. Alfred is the Zappos Chairman and COO - he's Tony Hsieh, the CEO's right hand man when it comes to handling finance and operations for Zappos. I wanted to interview Alfred to get his perspective as being the key guy working with Tony. I wanted...
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Interview with Eben Pagan from Hot Topic Media
Eben Pagan from Hot Topic Media is with me for this interview. You might be more familiar with him by the name David DeAngelo and Double Your Dating. He has helped a lot of guys who are lost when it comes to getting a date. I thought we would cover marketing, split-testing, and Double Your…
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Interview with Andy Sorcini - Mr Babyman from Digg
This interview is one I've been waiting to do for quite a while. This guy is one of the most financially unsuccessful internet guys I know. At the same time he drives absolutely monster traffic and has a huge amount of influence in the internet world. For millions of people he is an absolute...
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Interview with Barry Judge from Best Buy
Have you ever wondered how the fortune 500 use direct response marketing? This week's interview is with the Chief Marketing Officer of Best Buy, Barry Judge (Fortune 500 rank: 72). Barry has a $500M annual advertising spend at his disposal. Most of their marketing online is direct response…
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Interview with Anne Mitchell from SuretyMail
Anne Mitchell of SuretyMail can help you get your mail delivered if you want to handle your own e-mail deliverability. I have known Anne for a number of years and have learned a lot from her. She has a long history of working with Internet and e-mail. She even helped author part of CAN-SPAM…
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Interview with Tony Hsieh from Zappos
Tony Hsieh is the CEO of Zappos. They're on track to do $1 billion dollars this year, all online. Tony previously founded LinkExchange which he sold for $265M to Microsoft in 1998. While Zappos started by selling shoes, Tony shares how Zappos' focus is really on the customer experience and…
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Interview with Matt Moog from Viewpoints Network
Matt Moog was previously the CEO of CoolSavings and before that did presentations with Bill Gates at Microsoft. Matt talks about his time at CoolSavings (the original coupon site on the web), which included taking the company public and then back to being private. He also talks about how…
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Interview with Abed Abusaleh from Euro RSCG
Abed Abusaleh from Euro RSCG is one of the very top media buyers from one of the top TV agencies so this was a pretty rare insight to get. Some Internet guys will be saying this is a pointless interview - but actually many direct response techniques we use to sell on the web came from TV. And…
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Interview with Hamlet Batista from RankSense
Hamlet Batista is the best SEO I've ever met. He cut his teeth by being at the top of Google for keywords like Viagra and Phentermine. You can't always tell who is good and who isn't in SEO. But I saw Hamlet on the front page of Google for the keyword Phentermine for at least 6 months. Hamlet has...
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Interview with David Weekly from PBwiki
The nerd level of David Weekly from PBwiki is rather high since he proudly informed me during the interview that he started programming at the age of five. I've been watching David from a distance for a couple of years. He hasn't made his fortune yet, but he will. He's from the same mold as the...
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Interview with Matt Hill from Shopit.com
Matt Hill is the CEO of Shopit.com. Shopit is like eBay for social networking sites. According to Matt, Shopit is now the fastest growing e-commerce application on Facebook. EBay has had a lot of fraud problems, and a lot of people don't like using it anymore. After interviewing Matt, I wrote…
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Interview with Patrick Byrne from Overstock.com
Patrick Byrne from Overstock.com and his company made headlines for suing the state of New York over the issue of affiliate taxes. This issue doesn't just affect New York, as it could soon be the same nationwide. From my previous general knowledge about Patrick, I thought he was a bit of a...
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Interview with Jason Fried from 37signals
Jason Fried from 37signals joins me for this interview. 37signals builds Web-based software and service products for small businesses. They're pretty famous in the web2.0 crowd for being easy to use. They are a relatively tiny company - typical of today's best startups, with a small team who are...
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Interview with Joe Abrams from The Software Toolworks
Joe Abrams from The Software Toolworks was the key investor in the company that built MySpace - Intermix. He's extremely low profile, and it was something of a miracle to get this interview. Joe's made it through two boom periods - in the 90's he ran Software Toolworks, which was sold for around...
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Interview with Chris Young from Digital Broadcasting Group
This interview is with Chris Young, who founded Klipmart, which he sold to DoubleClick. He recently started the Digital Broadcasting Group. His businesses have focused on online video, advertising, sponsorship, and promotion. Chris has worked on some really interesting things in the online world…
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Interview with Mark Kahn from TRAFFIQ Inc
This interview is with Mark Kahn of TRAFFIQ.com, which is a marketplace for branded traffic inventory a bit like eBay. Publishers put their inventory on it, and media buyers can buy it. Traffiq is an unusual company for our interviews since it's raised quite a bit of VC capital. But they have a...
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Adrian Bye interviews the CEOs you read about on MeetInnovators.com. And now you can access them easily via iTunes. Learn what the world's top internet CEOs do when they want to get to the next level.
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