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Interview with Vitrium: enhance your PDFs with DRM, tracking, and analytics

kristin@talktech.tv (Kristin White) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:05:08 +0000

To mix things up a little and expand beyond the Silicon Valley startup world, this week’s episode features a Canadian startup called Vitrium Systems. Vitrium has two key product offerings: Protectedpdf, a digital rights management solution for preventing illegal redistribution of electronic content; and their latest product, Docmetrics, a tool for electronic document [...]

Interview with Polaris Wireless: software-based positioning for your mobile phone

kristin@talktech.tv (Kristin White) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:43:55 +0000

In this interview, I had the opportunity to speak with Manlio Allegra, Co-Founder & CEO of Polaris Wireless, a startup company that provides a software-based location system for mobile phones. Their technology is fundamentally different from GPS, which requires hardware, and doesn’t work well indoors or in dense urban areas where satellite line-of-sight is difficult [...]

Interview with Replay, Part 2: Secure VC Funding in this Economy

kristin@talktech.tv (Kristin White) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:26:44 +0000

In Part 2 of this series on Replay Solutions, Jonathan Lindo first covers his tips for funding a startup, which involve starting with angel investors, networking extensively, and ultimately closing a round of venture capital funding. He mentions that in today’s economic climate, it’s crucial to be able to demonstrate an exceptionally unique technology, a [...]

Interview with Replay, Part 1: TiVo for Software Debugging

kristin@talktech.tv (Kristin White) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:24:10 +0000

Replay Solutions has created a debugging tool that allows developers to record and replay any type of software execution, regardless of complexity, and effectively reproduce any issue that occurs. In this interview, I had the opportunity to speak with the Co-Founder & CEO of Replay, Jonathan Lindo, who describes their product as “like TiVo for [...]

Top Tips for VC Negotiations: 7 Startup Founders & Execs Share Their Strategies

kristin@talktech.tv (Kristin White) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:35:00 +0000

Since TalkTech.TV began last May, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with many startup founders & executives who have successfully raised millions in venture capital funding. In each of those interviews, I asked them to share some advice for successful VC negotiations, and have compiled the highlights in this video, showcasing the responses of [...]

Interview with Disqus, Part 2: The Y Combinator Experience

kristin@talktech.tv (Kristin White) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:55:18 +0000

In 2007, Disqus received funding from Y Combinator, a prestigious seed-stage startup funding firm. Y Combinator is unique in that they not only provide seed money, but they offer an entire 3-month experience that includes technical, business, and legal advice, as well as introductions to key investors and tech executives. In Part 2 of this [...]

Interview with Disqus, Part 1: Enhance the Discussion with Comment Management

kristin@talktech.tv (Kristin White) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:11:49 +0000

Disqus provides an online service for managing comments and enhancing the discussion on blogs, websites, and applications. The system provides bloggers and publishers with a threaded conversation and a more defined discussion community, and also provides moderation and spam filtering tools. On the flip side, readers and commenters can track, manage, and verify their comments [...]

Interview with Untangle: Open Source (and free) Network Gateway Applications for SMBs

kristin@talktech.tv (Kristin White) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:54:05 +0000

In this interview, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dirk Morris, Co-Founder & CTO of Untangle. Untangle provides an open source, integrated network gateway solution for small businesses, which includes spam and spyware blocking, web filtering, anti-virus protection, firewall, VPN, and numerous other features. These applications are critical for small businesses, [...]

Interview with Egnyte: File Storage, Sharing, & Backup in the Cloud… No Hardware Required

kristin@talktech.tv (Kristin White) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:17:20 +0000

These days, internet connections are fast, storage is cheap, and on-demand applications (think Gmail) are everywhere…meanwhile, local hardware requires cash, maintenance, and overhead…so why not store everything in the cloud? This is what Egnyte provides: an online server that enables simple and secure file storage, sharing, and backup, for a fraction of the [...]

Interview with RingCentral

kristin@talktech.tv (Kristin White) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:57:50 +0000

Many startup companies in the “garage operation” stage want to appear larger and more professional when interacting with customers by phone, but they do not have the money to invest in the hardware required for a conventional PBX phone system. Other startups have distributed operations, with employees working on cell phones from home or on [...]