Once known as the “Queen” of Twitter, Laura Fitton is the co-author of Twitter for Dummies and the Founder of oneforty.com – A Social Business Software Hub.
Laura is credited with explaining Twitter’s business value to Guy Kawasaki, at a Google TechTalk, at top business schools and to thousands of others tech leaders. She’s been speaking professionally about the business use of Twitter since October 2007.
She even launched the first Twitter for Business consultancy in 2008 and began working on oneforty while writing Twitter for Dummies. With her consulting clients consisting of top corporate companies including IBM, Ford and Johnson & Johnson, she has been quoted in more than 100 national publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, and BusinessWeek. Laura believes that everyone can benefit – dramatically – from Twitter because of its power to overcome isolation. Read More…
Todd Garland, a designer by passion and an entrepreneur by profession, is the sole brain behind BuySellAds, a game changer in online banner advertising. Prior to starting up with BSA, Todd owned couple of websites on web design and was simultaneously working as a lead designer and SEO specialist at HubSpot. Later, Todd launched BuySellAds, and pretty soon, it became a hot favorite for both advertisers and publishers.
As a matter of fact, with some of the most popular blogs as publishers, BuySellAds today serves up to 3 billion ad impressions per month. Todd, who started all alone, tell his startup story and shares his learning with us. Read On….
Aliza Sherman needs absolutely no introduction when it comes promoting women entrepreneurship and social media. Voted among the most influential women in technology in Bloggers category by Fast Company and 100 most powerful women on Twitter, Aliza began her online entrepreneurial journey way back in the year 1995 with Cybergrrl, Inc and later founded the first global networking organization for women, Webgrrls International. She presently co-owns Conversify, a social media consulting company and helps web companies in their SMM endeavours. She is also a social media strategist, public speaker, author and a greatly respected women’s issues activist in technology.
Aliza, in spite of her busy schedule, was humble enough to take some time out for Foundora and in this interview, she gives her insights about women entrepreneurship, social media marketing, her “very-interesting” story behind getting into entrepreneurship and more. Read On…
Arjun Dev Arora, the founder and CEO of ReTargeter, is trying to take conversion to the next level with his rapidly-growing venture. Yes, that’s right! ReTargeter is all about getting the “gone-visitors” back to your website by following-up with them across the web.
Being a third-generation-entrepreneur, it did not take much time for Arjun to understand entrepreneurship and how a simple idea can be evolved into a great business. However, before getting on board with his own venture – ReTargeter, Arjun lead the Business Development for Yahoo! Real Estate and has also been a consultant to many M&A deals and IPOs for a lot of technology companies. Being an adviser to many silicon valley companies just adds more experience to his resume and makes him someone who can be considered to be highly credible when it comes to learning from.
In this interview with Foundora, Arjun gives out his insights about the advantages of lean startup, leveraging on interns, being scrappy and speaks exclusively about ReTargeter.
SuperFeedr is proving to be one of the game changers in the feed industry. With it’s real-time Feed updates, Julien Genestoux is trying to change the way RSS works. In fact, if you have not heard of it yet, but unknowingly you may also be using it when you use Google Reader, Tumblr, Posterous, FriendFeed, etc. In spite of the fact that the company was started by a sole individual, Julien, it has earned quite a lot of accolades and appreciation from the tech world. And, is being considered to be the future of RSS by many.
Julien, today, takes a moment to answer our questions and let us know about his entrepreneurial journey, how the idea of “real-time” struck his mind, how he attracted big clients like Google, Postereous and a lot more.
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If you are a regular WordPress user, then WooThemes need no introduction. The start-up was successfully co-founded by a young entrepreneur, Adriaan Pienaar – who is popularly known as Adii Rockstar. Besides being a passionate entrepreneur, Adii – who hails from South Africa, is a web designer and a developer. His entrepreneurial skills have helped him accomplish success that a lot of people today on the web aspire.
At a very young age of just 25, Adii, along with his partners, grew WooThemes to $2 million in revenues in just a couple of years. He has turned his focus to writing lately, and his first book Rockstar Business is soon to be launched. In this interview with Foundora, Adii talks a bit about the importance of web design, his entrepreneurial journey, what aspiring entrepreneurs should do, and of course, WooThemes.
If you are a regular WordPress user, then WooThemes need no introduction. The start-up was successfully co-founded by a young entrepreneur, Adriaan Pienaar – who is popularly known as Adii Rockstar. Besides being a passionate entrepreneur, Adii – who hails from South Africa, is a web designer and a developer. His entrepreneurial skills have helped […]
Peter Cooper, the founder of Feed Digest, began his entrepreneurial journey with Code Snippets, which was acquired by DZone.com. Since then, Peter has been continually working on innovative technologies. After gaining interest in feed manipulation and syndication, he soon came up with a service called Feed Digest (earlier known as RSS Digest) and just like many other startups, Feed Digest also went through the ups and downs initially. However, over a period of time, Peter took it to a level where it was serving around 250 million requests per month. After about 2 years in business – in 2007, Peter sold Feed Digest to Vicman Technologies.
Today, although he has some regrets with the exit, he is greatly satisfied with the overall experience. Peter Cooper is now engaged with his latest startup, Coder.io. In this interview, Peter speaks about his lessons learned with Feed Digest and Coder.io.
Peter Cooper, the founder of Feed Digest, began his entrepreneurial journey with Code Snippets, which was acquired by DZone.com. Since then, Peter has been continually working on innovative technologies. After gaining interest in feed manipulation and syndication, he soon came up with a service called Feed Digest (earlier known as RSS Digest) and just like […]