As Co-Founder and Chairman of Techstars, David Cohen has spent nearly his entire career focused on helping entrepreneurs succeed. Aspiring...
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Originally from Denmark and now living in the US, Henrik Werdelin has been recognized as one of the “Top 100...
Fabrice Grinda is one of the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors, with over 150 exits on 500 angel investments....
Guy Kawasaki’s name has become almost synonymous with tech entrepreneurship and evangelism. Over the past 25 years, he’s had a...
CD Baby founder Derek Sivers made two appearances on Venture Voice in the early days of this podcast. In our...
Born into a family of entrepreneurs, LivePerson founder and CEO Robert LoCascio always had the entrepreneurial spirit, going back to...
For this episode, we’re revisiting my 2007 interview with Tom Perkins, who was one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture...
Jon Oringer is not a professional photographer. But when he needed images to market his growing internet business, the traditional...
Fred Turner was only 16 when he built his first PCR machine, a tool used to amplify small segments of...
How do you start a whole new category of beverage — without any experience in the beverage industry? This week, we...
It was a real treat to interview Food52 CEO and co-founder Amanda Hesser, who’s an old friend going back to...
Highlights from this episode Sometimes, a big mistake can trigger a big idea. In 2003, Mike McDerment was running a...
We’re heading back to the archives, this time revisiting my 2006 interview with Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. Steve’s...
Like most successful entrepreneurs, Mark Wilson, CEO of Chime Solutions, is an ambitious and savvy business person who’s driven by...
Today, Evan Williams is most well-known for being the billionaire co-founder of Twitter, Medium and Blogger. But back in 2005...
It’s a special holiday edition of Venture Voice, and the holiday we’re celebrating is Festivus. You may know it from...
Jessica Lessin is founder, CEO, editor-in-chief and sole owner of The Information, the influential subscription-only tech publication that was launched...
“It’s the entrepreneurial spirit of success, not for the sake of the fruits of success, but for the sake of...
Todd McKinnon is the founder and CEO of Okta, a $25 billion publicly traded software company that you may never...
“The very first time you're doing startups, it’s like, oh my God, drinking from a firehose is too tame of...
Mark Cuban has built and sold more than one company and invested in plenty of others, but you might be...
Today's media executives plotting to charge for their content would do well to hear how Larry Kramer beat Jim Cramer's...
Any shareholder in a startup can tell you there's a big difference between paper wealth and cash. Short of an...
"Dial 1 for sales, dial 2 for support..." Ten years ago it cost over $10,000 to get a phone system...
I cofounded a company called Sawhorse Media that's making sense of Twitter (Twitter was founded by past Venture Voice guest Ev Williams). We...
Craigslist seems unbeatable. It's often blamed (or celebrated) for destroying the classifieds business that helped keep American newspapers afloat. Now...
Joel Spolsky first came on Venture Voice over three years ago to discuss his company which he launched in a...
Graham Hill started the blog TreeHugger to cover green issues in 2003. After a steady climb in traffic and advertising,...
It takes only a few seconds to customize a radio station on Pandora. Its founder Tim Westergren has been struggling...
The title financier conjures images of mahogany desks and million dollar checks for most. But for anyone pitching to David...
Not to be called a one trick pony, Sam Wyly’s turned himself into a billionaire by starting and growing companies...
Jeff Stewart needed that done yesterday. Jeff became an entrepreneur when he founded the web consultancy Square Earth in 1995....
Last time Derek Sivers was on Venture Voice three years ago he told us he had to “whack ’em off...
It's great to hear stories like the one where Andy Bechtolsheim handed the Google founders a $100,000 check before they...
Attention entrepreneurs dealing with the current economic downturn: This interview is for you. After working as a journalist for Jason...
In our last round of questions on this blog, we asked each former guest about his or her first time (raising...
We’ve come a long way since we first started this podcast nine months ago. When I used to go to...
This is part of a series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a simple...
This is part of a series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a simple...
This is part of a series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a simple...
This is part of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a...
This is part of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a...
This is part of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests a...
This is the first of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of past show guests...
Whether working with market trends or against them, Frank Addante has found entrepreneurial success. Before he was 29 years old,...
Over at Silicon Alley Insider, Hank Williams is arguing that VCs are supporting free services that ought to be paid for on...
The name Tom Perkins is now almost synonymous with venture capital, but it's clear that he cut his teeth as...
We just received this e-mail from Sydney Mfuniselwa who gave us permission to post it: My name is Sydney from...
Silicon Alley Insider asked me to write about my trip to the West Coast (DEMO in San Diego, Podcast Expo in...
We took off for the summer from Venture Voice. E-mails like these from loyal fans made it a painful experence:Great...
I had the pleasure of being in the very first Facebook generation. My college was one of the first 13...
I usually don't like to give hints about who's coming up on Venture Voice, but I can't resist breaking news:...
I was reminded of how immigration policy affects all parts of the economy while reading Fare is Fair, one of my...
Jeremy Stoppelman is the co-founder and CEO of Yelp, a site where users can write and share reviews of local...
Bill Gates gave a very provocative Harvard Commencement speech. I was struck by this passage: But I also want to be...
Anyone who's worked with venture capitalists knows that they have a language of their own -- and for the most...
The social news site Digg (whose CEO is a past Venture Voice guest) recently had a user revolt after it gave in to the...
After mistaking me for an expert, people often ask me what I read. Sure, as you can tell from numerous...
Not many entrepreneurs have a motor like Kevin Ryan's. Kevin is best known for his work as CEO at the...
How would you like to be the first person to hear the next episode of Venture Voice and even make...
As I mentioned in my last post, we do our best to cover how business gets done on both coasts, and...
I had the pleasure of moderating a panel of excellent entrepreneurs for MBAs at NYU's Stern School of Business. The...
Marketing a startup is tricky business. Every entrepreneur faces the dilemma between allocating time to improving the product and marketing...
On the cover it would seem entrepreneurs and politicians have little in common. One creates value in the economy, the...
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then we must have been dead on in our list of the Top...
Ever listen to Venture Voice and wish you could say something back to our guests? You can. Pop onto our...
Last Saturday, Venture Voice show producer Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell dropped in on the Community Next: The Present and Future of Online Communities conference...
Before the rise of the Internet, cable TV was the new form of distribution remaking the entertainment business. Life-long entrepreneur...
Past Venture Voice guest David O. Sacks launched Geni today, as TechCrunch reports, which aims to be the ultimate family tree. Many have tried in this...
The battery is an afterthought for most inventors. All the fun seems to be in developing a device, not in...
Jazz has undergone the ultimate irony. Born in New Orleans, Jazz was once deplored by the music establishment and academia...
I'm not sure that there's any correlation between entrepreneurship and fitness, but there seems to be a lot in common...
Nothing like A Podcast Carol to change one's outlook on podcasting for 2007. How are you keeping in touch with your clients...
The government pays a lot of lip service risk-taking, entrepreneurship and small business. In fact, many believe that it can...
Setting off a barrage of cutesy opening lines by bloggers, Time Magazine designated "You" as the person of the year. Bloggers responded...
With so much change going on in media, it's hard to tell who's your friend or your enemy. Having a...
We've covered the ongoing debate over "teaching" entrepreneurship. Now we have a report from the front lines.Ravi Mishra, a University of...
Would be law students have their LSAT, medical schoolers have their MCAT, and MBAs have their GMAT. Why should aspiring...
Premal Shah believes your last name doesn't need to be Gates or Rockefeller in order to make a real dent...
While VCs rightly demand that their portfolio companies have great marketing, they generally have awful marketing themselves. If you've ever...
As many guests have said on this show, there's little value in an idea that's not executed. The Onion illustrates this concept...
Real business networking takes place in the country club, at the chamber of commerce and on the golf course. After...
How do you become a great entrepreneur? According to Fortune, the answer is practice, practice, practice. The article specifically addresses how...
If technology entrepreneurs have a guru, it surely must be Guy Kawasaki. For about two decades, Guy’s been advising entrepreneurs...
The Wall Street Journal's reporting that Facebook's in acquisition talks with Yahoo! This isn't the first time there's been such speculation.The WSJ repeats...
Margaret Atwood has been quoted as saying "wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting...
In July 2005, Ev Williams broke the news on our show that he closed a round of venture capital for his podcasting...
One of the most frequent compliments we get about Venture Voice is that we let the guests speak for most...
A web-based calendar startup called Kiko put all of its assets up on eBay a little over a week ago as its founder explained...
There are not many entrepreneurs who have spent their entire 10-year careers starting new ventures in online media, but Jason...
If there are three words an entrepreneur dreads hearing in the summer, perhaps it's "after Labor Day". People such as...
While there's no standard education to become an entrepreneur, almost every entrepreneur gets an early education in the lemonade business. The kids...
Digg, the news website that uses its own readers rather than editors to decide what stories are most important, has...
If there are best practices in entrepreneurship, you’ll hear the secrets to them in this coverage of the first half...
Jeff Cornwall, a professor of entrepreneurship, reminds us that "entrepreneur" is just a noun. A farmer can farm, but we can't simply...
Green can mean a lot of things to an entrepreneur. You can have a "green thumb" which means any business...
"How can I top this?" was perhaps the only big question left on Bill Gates's mind after his tremendous success...
The first ever Venture Voice Startup Workshop was a huge success. We've already received unprompted thank you notes from half of the...
Past guest, venture capitalist and former entrepreneur Brad Feld observes in his blog that "I’ve noticed a pattern in many of the VC and...
We've added David S. Rose, the founder and chairman of the New York Angels, to the Venture Voice Startup Workshop speakers roster. He...
