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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

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In the early days of your companies, what techniques do you use to separate entrepreneurs from Wantrepreneurs (those who think they want to be an entrepreneur but do not have the innate skills, drive, risk profile, etc.)? If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

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Company : FindTheBest. Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). If you don’t possess all of those things, it will suck and you will be fired. Clearly FTB is a major undertaking.

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Interview with Kevin Kent, Inspired Instruments

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When we started discussing the idea behind the company, Guitar Hero and Rock Band were the talk of the town. Prior to that, I had worked for a company that had invented digital sampling, which is how much of the music today is created. I also worked for the company which invented the MIDI protocol.