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The personalized radio station is estimated to top $100m in revenue this year This analysis is the latest installment from Steve Carpenter, an Internet entrepreneur, who’s one of the few providers of financial insight about the high-profile yet opaque private company sector. This week, we take a look at Pandora, the popular personalized radio station. In our interview, Steve predicts Pandora will more than double its revenue to $125 million this year, due to its popularity on the iPhone and its ability to extract more money from advertisers, thanks to its skyrocketing subscriber base. Steve estimates that Pandora will have more than 100 million registered users this year. But while Pandora is undoubtedly the biggest personalized radio station that exists today, it could face stiff competition from Apple down the road. Yes, Pandora ...   [ Read more ]
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September 02, 2010
Former CEO of Gaia Online shares his view on the evolution of gaming and what’s in store for Gaia This summer, I caught up with Craig Sherman, formerly CEO of Gaia Oline, an online hangout/virtual world primarily for teenage girls. This interview was taken before Craig stepped down as CEO. ...
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August 31, 2010
Startup attracts 11 angel investors, including Keith Rabois, Russ Fradin, Dave McClure and more Empowering people with an ability to make connections and the tools to attract an audience is what the Internet is all about. And, Udemy hopes its new round of financing will help them do that for ...
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August 27, 2010
Vator’s Startup Sessions takes you into the creative startup culture of iPhone app developer, Smule (Note: This mini-documentary was originally posted in April 2010. But we wanted to highlight it again because we thought it was so cool.) I've been a fan of Smule since the company ...
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August 23, 2010
Craig Sherman, former CEO of Gaia, talks about continuous deployment and listening to the user Given the popularity of online communities, it’s always useful to hear from those experienced at building them talk about their failures and the lessons they learned from them. One of my favorites ...
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August 23, 2010
Profitable and growing, SideReel is becoming the place to track TV shows Despite the many number of video-tracking and video-search engines that have emerged and gone bust, SideReel continues to grow like gangbusters and become profitable. All this on just a relatively little amount of ...
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