nPost.com Interview Postings

nPost.com Interview with Dave Rice of Dipiti

Dave Rice, CEO of Dipiti shares his insights into the power of information and its availability.

nPost.com Interview with Jonathan Sposato of Picnik

Jonathan Sposato, CEO and co-founder of Picnik talks about Picnik and the migrations of applications from the desktop to online.

nPost.com Interview with Charles Seybold of LiquidPlanner

Charles Seybold, co-Founder and CEO of LiquidPlanner shares his insights into building and coordinating large projects within teams.

nPost.com Interview with Christian Chabot of Tableau Software

Christian Chabot, CEO of Tableau Software on the ability for users to interact with and to understand their data and how Tableau Software is allowing them to leverage their data in all new ways.

nPost.com Interview with James Siminoff of SimulScribe

James Siminoff, co-founder of SimulScribe, is changing the way people interact with their voicemail.

nPost.com Interview with Mark Mader of SmartSheet

Mark Mader, CEO of SmartSheet talks about building a online service for use by teams to coordinate projects and initiatives. He also addresses the balance between online services and desktop applications.

nPost.com Interview with Julia Johnston & Ariel McNichol of mEgo

Julia Johnston and Ariel McNichol are co-founders of mEgo, an rich application avatar that personalizes your activity online.

nPost.com Interview with Vipin Jain of Retrevo

Vipin Jain, CEO of Retrevo has created a destination site focused on consumer electronics.

nPost.com Interview with Tony Wong of ZiiTrend

Tony Wong, co-founder of ZiiTrend shares his insights into creating an online prediction market.

nPost.com Interview with Ron Yekutiel of Kaltura

Ron Yekutiel, on creating a platform for the next generation of interactive media.

nPost.com Interview with Steven Goh of Mig33

Steven Goh, co-founder of Mig33 on the emergence of third party services within the mobile market. Photo is of Steven Goh and co-founder, Mei Lin Ng.

nPost.com Interview with Guillaume Cohen of Veodia

Guillaume Cohen, has created a video platform for enterprises with Veodia. Consumer video has taken off. Will enterprise be the next space?

nPost.com Interview with Daniel Bernstein of Sandlot Games

Daniel Bernstein, Founder of Sandlot games talks about the history of the casual gaming market as well as where it is headed.

nPost.com Interview with Gregg Brockway of TripIt

Gregg Brockway, is the co-founder of TripIt. As the co-founder of Hotwire, Gregg is serial entrepreneur with key insights into what it takes to be a success.

nPost.com Interview with Daniel Ha of Disqus

Daniel Ha, co-founder of Disqus, is looking to merge blogs and social networks to create a system of leveraging deeper content and add accountability online.

nPost.com Interview with Anish Kapoor of Yuuguu

Anish Kapoor, CEO and co-Founder of Yuuguu is targeting the collaboration and remote working marketplace.

nPost.com Interview with Andrew Weinreich of MeetMoi

Andrew Weinreich, CEO and Founder of MeetMoi is looking to create a paradigm shift in online dating by making it mobile. He has a history of shaking things up, first with the launch of SixDegrees in 1996 and has been a serial entrepreneur since.

nPost.com Interview with Lars Hinrichs of Xing

Lars Hinrichs is the founder and CEO of Xing, a social networking startup that focuses on business professionals. He is looking to expand to the United States.

nPost.com Interview with Alex Algard of WhitePages.com

Alex Algard is the founder and CEO of WhitePages.com. His focus is on providing information online that hasn't been available previously and he has been able to build profitable advertising based businesses doing so.

nPost.com Interview with Mark Britton of Avvo

Mark Britton, CEO and Founder of Avvo tells how his startup is looking to bring visibility to the legal marketplace by taking the guesswork out of finding the right lawyer.

nPost.com Interview with Renaud Laplanche of LendingClub

Renaud Laplanche, CEO and founder of LendingClub shares how they are targeting the peer-to-peer loan market.

nPost.com Interview with Tim Norton of PlanHQ

Tim Norton of PlanHQ has created a service that allows startup business plans to grow with their business.

nPost.com Interview with Lionel David of CrowdSpirit

Lionel David, CEO of CrowdSpirit talks about the emergence of crowd-sourcing and how he expects to leverage this new platform to enable the creation of new consumer electronic devices.

nPost.com Interview with David Steinberg of MyQuire

David Steinberg, Founder and CEO of MyQuire is looking to tackle the project management market by targeting small and medium-sized businesses.

nPost.com Interview with Cyrus Massoumi of ZocDoc

Cyrus Massoumi, is the CEO and co-founder of ZocDoc, a startup that allows patients to reserve appoints with medical practitioners. They are currently focused on the Manhattan market, and have a unique approach to expanding to other areas.

nPost.com Interview with Jaideep Singh of Spock

Jaideep Singh, co-founder of Spock is creating a vertical search engine focused on finding people.

nPost.com Interview with Matt Brezina of Xobni

Matt Brezina, co-founder of Xobni (a YCombinator company). He shares about the experience of deciding to move to San Francisco and jumping fully into running a startup.

nPost.com Interview with Michael Sha of Wikinvest

Michael Sha, co-founder of Wikinvest is bringing user generated content via a Wiki to the financial investment and management space.

nPost.com Interview with Jeff Herman of Fuser

Jeff Herman, the COO of Fuser is attempting to unify communications online. Fuser combines email and social networking applications that allows users to communicate with clarity and ownership over their experience. It is a free service that will be supported by advertising.

nPost.com Interview with David Norris of OnRequest Images

This is our second interview with David Norris, CEO and Founder of OnRequest Images. They restructured their business to sell directly to Fortune 500 companies. He shares his experience and insights into realigning a startup.

nPost.com Interview with Derek Preston of SNAPforSeniors

Derek Preston, CEO and Founder of SNAPforSeniors, has started four companies and sold three. He shares his thoughts on how to react to the market and building a strategy for exit strategies.

nPost.com Interview with Teresa Phillips of Graspr

Teresa Phillips, founder of Graspr plans to scale information sharing. Graspr is a platform for knowledge to be shared not just from person to person from with larger community.

nPost.com Interview with Calvin Tang of Newsvine

Calvin Tang, co-founder of Newsvine tells about the recent acquisition by MSNBC and how to gauge whether to pursue being acquired versus raising more capital. As he says, "'Additional funds' would have just raised the bar for us to a really high level... it would have essentially priced us out of the market..."

nPost.com Interview with Meetul Shah of Knouen

Meetul Shah, co-founder of Knouen Systems is building a CRM business that increases the efficiency of sales teams and he plans to go after the Siebel market.

nPost.com Interview with Shaun Ryan of SLI Systems

Shaun Ryan, CEO of SLI Systems, tells about specialized search engines that learn on the fly from customer experiences and actions. He also explains why specialization is key to success. SLI Systems is located in Cupertino, but Shaun lives in New Zealand.

nPost.com Interview with Jessie Jones of PopShops

PopShops, CEO and Founder, Jessie Jones on starting her own company after stints at Microsoft and Expedia, and the importance of creating valuable products and services.

nPost.com Interview with Bob Lewis of SNAPin

SNAPin, a mobile service that allows carriers to mitigate their service costs (which are huge) and sell additional data services is run by Bob Lewis, who as the CEO has worked at McCaw Cellular, AT&T Wireless and others.

nPost.com Interview with Daryn Nakhuda of EyeJot

Daryn Nakhuda, co-Founder of EyeJot with David Geller, tells about their new startup and how they are trying to make video as easy to use as email.

nPost.com Interview with Brian Mulloy of Swivel

Interview with Brian Mulloy, co-founder of Swivel. Brian goes into detail about the future of data, how it is used, what can be learned, and how Swivel plans to serve this market.

nPost.com Interview with Josh Herst of TripHub

Interview with Josh Herst, founder of TripHub, explains how TripHub is looking to build collaborative tools for the travel industry. He brings his experience from working Expedia and the Madrona Venture Group to his current entrepreneurial venture.

nPost.com Interview with David Niu of BuddyTV

David Niu, co-founder of BuddyTV talks about the keys to successful serial entrepreneurship; focus on the business, not the finances, learn to sell, and the essentials for hiring the right team as the company grows.

nPost.com Interview with Kabir Shahani of Appature

Appature co-founder Kabir Shahani shares his insights into starting a profitable enterprise CRM company that targets the healthcare industry.

nPost.com Interview with Ben Elowitz of Wetpaint

Ben Elowitz, serial entrepreneur shares how Wetpaint, his latest venture, has reached over 450,000 user created sites and the secret to his success (hint: focus on the customer).

nPost.com Interview with David Cantu of CozyBug

David Cantu, is the Founder and CEO of CozyBug, a site that is trying to tackle the mid market between eBay and Craigslist.

nPost.com Interview with John Londono of radiusIM

John Londono, co-Founder of radiusIM and serial entrepreneur shares his insights and plans to build location based web services.

nPost.com Interview with Dan McComb of Biznik

Biznik, a social networking site targets indie business people was co-founded byDan McComb and has been growing steadily. With the launch of their new site, they are looking to expand to additional cities outside of their base in Seattle, WA.

nPost.com Interview with Curt Blake of GotVoice

Curt Blake, CEO and co-Founder of GotVoice, is bringing tools and options to voicemail. He discusses the pros and cons associated with selling directly to consumers, to businesses, or with OEM partners.

nPost.com Interview with David Richardson of Illumita

David Richardson, is co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Illumita. They are a Seattle based startup in stealth mode. This interview will be followed up by another after they launch to gain a before and after perspective on the startup process.

nPost.com Interview with Phil Yerkes of Movaya

Phil Yerkes, a first time entrepreneur, founded Movaya as a way to market mobile games to a much larger audience by working with game creators (publishers), online merchants, and the carriers. As CEO of Movaya he is attempting to expand mobile games sales outside of the traditional carrier network.

nPost.com Interview with Michael Wilson of There.com

There.com CEO, Michael Wilson explains how virtual worlds, will become a new form of communication, and how to build a successful model around this type of service.

nPost.com Interview with Oleg Tscheltzoff of Fotolia

Interview with Oleg Tscheltzoff, CEO and Founder of Fotolia. Oleg is a serial entrepreneur and shares his experience from starting a number of different startups.

nPost.com Interview with Amit Chowdhry of Pulse 2.0

Amit Chowdhry, CEO and founder of the Pulse 2.0 blog talks about the competitive aspects of creating a blog and how the secret is simply creating interesting and insightful comment.

nPost.com Interview with Seth Sternberg of Meebo

Seth Sternber, CEO and co-founder of Meebo shares his insights into entrepreneurship, being a co-founder, and the options for monetizing a consumer service.

nPost.com Interview with Rajesh Setty of Suggestica

Interview with Rajesh Setty, co-Founder of Suggestica. They are a human powered recommendation service that is looking to leverage the skill and expertise of their experts.

nPost.com Interview with Dick Costolo of FeedBurner

Dick Costolo, CEO and co-founder of FeedBurner talks about barriers to entry, building a scalable business, creating an advertising network, and his insights on co-founder relationships.

nPost.com Interview with Dave Roberts of PopCap Games

Dave Roberts, CEO of PopCap games shares his insights on channel distribution, transitioning from the original founders to a CEO, and much more.

nPost.com Interview with James Sun of Zoodango

James Sun, CEO and Founder of Zoodango shares his insights on starting Zoodango, the importance of branding, and being on ABC's "The Apprentice".

nPost.com Interview with Josh Hug of Shelfari

Josh Hug, co-founded Shelfari as a way for people to share their favorite books via blogs, websites, etc. Josh has great insights into entrepreneurship, starting as an intrapreneur at Real Networks prior to funding Shelfari.

nPost.com Interview with David Sacks of Geni

David Sacks, CEO and co-founder of Geni.com discusses the three steps to success; aquisition, retention and monetization. He believes that Geni, a family tree / social networking service targeting families will allow people to connect with close and extended family members.

nPost.com Interview with Galen Ward of ShackPrices

Galen Ward, a first time entrepreneur describes ShackPrices, a new real estate search engine that focuses not just on individual homes, but the local neighborhoods as well. He talks about differentiation in a crowded market space, boot-strapping a startup, and the importance in building a startup with a partner.

nPost.com Interview with Don MacAskill of SmugMug

Don MacAskill, a serial entrepreneur created SmugMug after earlier plans changed and has created a successful premium photo site.

nPost.com Interview with Matthew Dunn of MusicIP

The music industry has two key issues; recovery and discovery. Matthew Dunn, CEO of MusicIP illustrates how they are looking to solve the issues.

nPost.com Interview with Boris van Zanten of Fleck.com

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, founder of Fleck.com shares his experiences.

nPost.com Interview with Brian Magierski of Kalivo

Brian Magierski, CEO and co-Founder of Kalivo, shares his insights on company/consumer interaction online.

nPost.com Interview with Peter Secor of Allmydata.com

Peter Secor, CEO of Allmydata.com shares his plans for launching a grid network storage company.

nPost.com Interview with Sean Ryan of Meez

Sean Ryan, CEO and Founder of meez.com speak about online personalization with 3D avatars, monetizing new models, key lessons for seeking funding and how to build a strong team.

nPost.com Interview with Tim Westergren of Pandora

Tim Westergren, CEO and Founder of Pandora (and the Music Genome Project) tells of his plans to open up the music industry to new and indie bands. Pandora has a recommendation engine based upon detailed analysis of songs over a 5 year period.

nPost.com Interview with Jared Cosulich of CommunityWalk

Jared Cosulich, CEO and founder of CommunityWalk in leveraging the power of mash-ups to build a community that enables people to add locations with their insights and perspectives.

nPost.com Interview with Taylor McKnight of PodBop.org

Podbop.org, a site devoted to music and bands offers a unique way to find new bands by associating bands with MP3 of their songs for preview. It was co-founded by Taylor McKnight, who started it as a way to make finding new bands much easier. He is a first time entrepreneur and has some unique insights.

nPost.com Interview with Aaron Levie of Box.net

Aaron Levie, CEO and co-Founder of Box.net shares his insights into online storage and his plans to differentiate by developing a platform that developers can leverage in offering their own services.

nPost.com Interview with Peter Pezaris of Multiply.com

Peter Pezaris, co-founder of Multiply, shares his thoughts on demographic targeting within the social networking space and the need to differentiate.

nPost.com Interview with Scott Converse of ClickCaster

Scott Converse, CEO and Founder of ClickCaster shares his insights into intrapreneurship, transitioning to entrepreneurship, as well as motivating teams. ClickCaster provides a framework for individuals and enterprises to manage their audio and video podcasts.

nPost.com Interview with Jordan Mitchell of Others Online

Others Online approach to Social Networking is activity based, which allows users who have downloaded a toolbar to connect with others that have a similar, keyword based browsing experience. Jordan Mitchell, Founder and CEO, shares his plans to partner with Social Networking sites to provide a more comprehensive user experience for their members.

nPost.com Interview with Dick Hardt of Sxip

Dick Hardt, CEO and Founder of Sxip share his goals and objectives within online identity. He is attempting to create an protocol for establishing identity online, and shares the issues and opportunity within this space.

nPost.com Interview with Jay Shirley of ToEat.com

Jay Shirley, CEO and Founder of ToEat.com talks about mashups, building a central database for restaurants, and competition within the marketplace.

nPost.com Interview with Jeff Payne of Grid Networks

Jeff Payne's, CEO of Grid Networks, goal is to create a system that allows high quality media to be distributed over the internet in a peer-to-peer system.

nPost.com Interview with Kevin Gilroy of OnForce.com

Kevin Gilroy is the former CEO of OnForce.com who transitioned from HP to a small startup targeting on-site IT services. How did he handle leaving a company with a wealth of resources to one where everyone wears a lot of hats and why did he do it? What was the opportunity that he saw in this small startup?

nPost.com Interview with Di-Ann Eisnor of Platial

Di-Ann Eisnor, co-founder of Platial, a geographic tagging services discusses collaborative entrepreneurship, the future of Mash-Ups, and potential revenue models for this type of business.

nPost.com Interview with Leonard Brody of NowPublic

Leonard Brody, CEO and Founder of NowPublic talks about his latest startup, the evolution of citizen journalism, potential revenue models, the difference that sets entrepreneurs apart.

nPost.com Interview with Roman Scharf of Jajah

Roman Scharf, co-founder of Jajah shares his unique approach to Voice Over IP service and how Jajah plans to open this cost saving technology to a broader audience than other services.

nPost.com Interview with Jeff Reifman of NewsCloud

Jeff Reifman, founder of NewsCloud shares his thoughts on bootstrapping, the evolution of startups, and where the online news industry is heading.

nPost.com Interview with Kyle Mashima of FilmLoop

Kyle Mashima, cofounder of FilmLoop discusses his plans to create a broadcast network, and the pro and cons of going it alone versus being acquired by a large company.

nPost.com Interview with Michael Birch of Bebo

Michael Birch, CEO and co-Founder of Bebo talks about building a stand alone social networking site that can compete against MySpace and FaceBook.

nPost.com Interview with Jeff Landers of Offices2Share.com

Jeff Landers, founder of Offices2Share.com explains the origin of Offices2Share.com and how he has grown the service from an original startup to a successful business.

nPost.com Interview with Mohit Srivastava of BlueDot

Mohit Srivastava, co-founder of BlueDot shares his goals and plans for this social bookmarking site. We spoke about his plans for differentiating his service within this space and how expects to build a sustainable revenue model.

nPost.com Interview with Gautam Godhwani of SimplyHired

Gautam Godhwani, CEo and founder of SimplyHired shares his thoughts on the evolution of search to the proliferation of the vertical search markets. He explains the SimpyHired business model and his insights into entrpreneurship.

nPost.com Interview with Paul Forster of Indeed

Paul Forster, CEO and Founder of Indeed.com talks about the long term goals of Indeed to become the worlds top job search engine. His insights into entrepreneurship and the growth of vertical search engines are a must read.

nPost.com Interview with Julia Miller of iBloks

Julia Miller, CEO of iBloks shares her thoughts on digital media, how they are converging, and ultimately people want to personalize how they are communicating with friends, family and co-workers.

nPost.com Interview with Vajid Jafri of cFares.com

Vajid Jafri, CEO and Founder of cFares shares how is company is taking on the large travel sites, and how the fundamentally differ from these other sites and can save the airlines and customers money.

nPost.com Interview with Bob Rosenschein of Answers.com

Bob Rosenschein, CEO and Founder of Answers.com shares his insights into how a name affects a business, changing from a subscription to a free model, how necessity drives entrepreneurship, and what truly drives users online.

nPost.com Interview with Greg Boesel of Swaptree

Greg Boesel, co-Founder & CEO of Swaptree share the origin of the company, and hoow the Swaptree trading system differentiates from other services. He shares his insights on what it takes to reach a critical mass of users in order for his business to be successful.

nPost.com Interview with Peter Flint of Trulia.com

Pete Flint co-founded Trulia.com in 2005 as a residential search engine. This vertical search engine allows for targeted searches of hundreds of thousands of listed properties. Currently available in select markets, Trulia is looking to be nationwide by the end of the year.

nPost.com Interview with Lloyd Frink of Zillow.com

Zillow.com, a Real Estate information web site launched in February 2006 was founded by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink. Lloyd shares the Zillow.com business plan and his thoughts on why the site has seen such phenomenal growth. These are key insights for any entrepreneur looking to launch a new service.

nPost.com Interview with Scott Milener of Browster

Scott Milener of Browster has quite a bit of entrepreneurial experience that he brings to his new endeavor. Browster provides enhanced browsing capabilities for web users. He talks about monetizing a free product, incorporating user feedback, and building a strong and experienced team.

nPost.com Interview with Michael Tanne of wink

Michael Tanne of Wink shares his thoughts on the future of search; algorithmic and people based (social) search, entrepreneurship and being successful in the new marketplace.

nPost.com Interview with Arun Kumar of Kerika

Arun Kumar, CEO of Kerika provides insights into their new software which facilitates collaboration amongst diverse teams.

nPost.com Interview with Ted Rheingold of Dogster.com

Ted Rheingold, San Franscisco entrepreneur founded Dogster.com & Catster.com to connect dog and cat owners. Focusing on his user base, integrating advertising within the site, and controlling costs have allowed Ted to build a successful and profitable start-up.

nPost.com Interview with Michael Yang of Become.com

Michael Yang, founder of Become.com and mySimon.com. He is an experienced entrepreneur and shares how search has changed and where he believes it is going.

nPost.com Interview with Manish Chandra of Kaboodle

Manish Chandra of Kabooble, shares the Kaboodle story and how an idea for a community based interaction service went from and idea to a public service. His insights into entrepreneurship are key lessons for all entrepreneurs.

nPost.com Interview with Sunny Gupta of iConclude

Sunny Gupta shares the insights that led to the founding of iConclude and the experiences into entrepreneurship that directs his leadership.

nPost.com Interview with Toby Padilla of MusicMobs.com

Toby Padilla of Musicmobs has created a tool that synchronizes with iTunes and user's iPods to provide for shared playlists and allows users to track what they have listened to. He is new to entrepreneurship and has some very good insights.

nPost.com Interview with Laurel Touby of mediabistro.com

Laurel Touby, founder and CEO of mediabistro.com, shares her insights into running a successful online community.

nPost.com Interview with Stephen Light of Flow Corp

Stephen Light of Flow Corp shares his insights on reinforcing a culture of innovation, how to manage risk, the importance of cash flow to a business, and how to bring back a company from the brink of bankruptcy.

nPost.com Interview with Sandro Gvelesiani of IntellectSpace

Sandro Gvelesiani of IntellectSpace, a Seattle company, provides visual qualitative analytics for the finance industry.

nPost.com Interview with Steve Wood of Dategrity

Dategrity, parent company of VoteHere (www.votehere.com), is looking to create a system for individuals to manage and control their personal individuals. Security and privacy issues are one of the key issues facing corporations. Learn how Dategrity plans to target this need. Steve Wood, shares his insights into entrepreneurship and what he brings from previous experiences to Dategrity.

nPost.com Interview with Mark Silverman of Bocada

Mark Silverman joined Bocada in 2000 because he saw the beginnings of a company that could offer world class services to some of the largest businesses in the world. Learn how he focused the business and created a culture of success.

nPost.com Interview with T.A. McCann of HelpShare

T.A. McCann of HelpShare has an interesting perspective on entrepreneurship. He has started his own company and works with a venture capital firm and provides an insiders perspective starting a successful business.

nPost.com Interview with Todd Humphrey of CleverSet

CleverSet is a Seattle-based company that is transforming the online shopping experience. Founded in 2000, it is transitioning a new generation of intelligent technologies targeting small and medium-size eCommerce players.

nPost.com Interview with Jory Bell of OQO

OQO has brought to market a fully functional Windows-based computer that can fit in your pocket. Leveraging experience from Apple and IBM allowed Jory and and co-founder, Jonathan Betts-LaCroix, to build a device with the aesthetics and capabilities to be used in Antartica or by any traveling executive.

nPost.com Interview with Bob Parsons of GoDaddy.com

GoDaddy.com founder and CEO, Bob Parsons, shares his insights into entrepreneurship, the future of online media, and the power of risk taking.

nPost.com Interview with Andy Sack of Judy's Book

Judy's Book is combining the value of social networking and directory services, into a new form of local yellow pages.

nPost.com Interview with Munjal Shah of Riya

Riya is looking to make digital photos searchable, like all other content available online. Their proprietary technology identifies individuals and text within photos that enables users search their list of photos.

nPost.com Interview with Grant Ryan of Eurekster

Eurekster is looking to provide custome search engines to small and large content sites. Enabling both Eurekster and its partners to monetize the search results.

nPost.com Interview with Billy McNair of PeerFlix

PeerFlix is leveraging a peer-to-peer network to facilitate DVD trades. Learn how their focus on the DVD market is key to their success.

nPost.com Interview with Jimmy Wales of WikiPedia

Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia, the worlds largest free online encyclopedia and in the process created a community of volunteers who have published over 800,000 articles.

nPost.com Interview with Vikas Srivastava of eDirection

eDirection has combined social networking, classifieds, auction and other services all within one site. Learn how they plan to take on the large players.

nPost.com Interview with Mathieu Nouzareth of Boonty.com

Mathieu Nouzareth shares his insights into the the digital distribution of content, and how Boonty is facilitating the legal downloading of games via the Internet. Boonty is a multi-national corporation with office in Paris, New York, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai- learn how he coordinates a staff across 3 different continents.

nPost.com Interview with Joe Kraus of Jotspot.com

As a co-founder of Excite.com, Joe Kraus brings his experience, insights and lessons learned to the world of Wikis.

nPost.com Interview with Jonathan Schreiber of Xingtones.com

Xingtones.com has created a system where users can personalize their mobile phones as they want. Jonathan shares his insights into entrepreneurship, targeting a nascent industry, the need to listen to customers, and the key to hiring a strong team.

nPost.com Interview with Chris Hills of D3Data

D3Data develops software that enables organizations to effectively manage and control the security cameras. Chris talks at length about the growth of the security market, what is driving that growth, as well as privacy issues and how they impact both businesses and individuals.

nPost.com Interview with David Geller of WhatCounts.com

David Geller of WhatCounts.com has quite a lot of experience in the email space. He shares his thoughts on industry versus goverment regulation of email marketing, expanding to new opportunities and how to differentiate in a crowded market.

nPost.com Interview with Jeremy Jaech of Trumba.com

Trumba brings together Visio co-founders Jeremy Jaech and Ted Johnson with Visio CTO Peter Mullen. The group co-founded Trumba (formerly known as The Graw Group) in late 2003. Trumba provides a subscription based collaborative calendaring service.

nPost.com Interview with David Eraker of Redfin.com

Redfin offers a unique graphical user interface which identifies homes and condos for sale in aerial and satellite photos. David Eraker shares insights into the revenue model, which is based upon charging fees for users to feature their home on the site as well as providing qualified leads to local real estate agents.

Update (06/14/07): Glenn Kelman is now the CEO of Redfin. Please visit www.redfin.com to see how the company's focus and strategy has evolved since this interview was conducted.

nPost.com Interview with Doug Colbeck of Trails.com

Trails.com is one of the rare online content sites that has been successful in charging a subscription for access to their content. Doug Colbeck provides some great insight into how to make this type of model work.

nPost.com Interview with Mazin Ramadan of Picostation

Picostation is attempting to define the market for Moblogging, enabling users to share text, photos, audio and video files with each other.

nPost.com Interview with Sridhar Balaji of SourceSentry

SourceSentry provides companies the ability to track, measure and act on issues that arise out of business outsourcing. It is a growing and complex area that opens companies up to regulatory commitments that require them to have a full and complete understanding of what their outsourcing providers are doing with their data.

nPost.com Interview with Jason Curtis of PeerConnect

Outsourcing all non-core functions has allowed PeerConnect to focus on the key opportunities before it selling a new data transfer system that is secure and utilizes the public Internet.

nPost.com Interview with Prakash Chakravarthi of EKA Systems

EKA Systems develops wireless mesh networks that delivers media across self-installing and managing systems.

nPost.com Interview with John Suryan of OfficeSpace.com

OfficeSpace.com has been successful by growing in a controlled way that enables it to scale to its customers needs and expand as new markets open up.

nPost.com Interview with Paul Sarena of iTools.com

Paul grew iTools from a personal site to a sustainable business by focusing on the customer and developing a strong community following.

nPost.com Interview with Lance Ayrault of Flexcar

Flexcar provides car sharing services through-out the United States.

nPost.com Interview with Frank Artale of HP Consera

Consera focused on developing credibility within the industry prior to shipping their first product. Also, Frank shares his thoughts on how Consera's acquisition by Hewlett-Packard changes his approach to the business.

nPost.com Interview with Dave Panos of Pluck

Scalability is the key to leveraging the strengths of the Pluck software. Once that scale is reached then incorporating one revenue model will follow.

nPost.com Interview with Bud Michael of Biz360

Biz360 leveraged business and industry leaders to gain credibility for a business solution that allowes companies to measure the effectiveness of their PR campaigns and how they compare in the overall marketplace.

nPost.com Interview with Dan Byrne of Byrne Specialty Gases

Dan has grown, Byrne Specialty Gas, a very cost intensive business by focusing on customers, developing the brand, and building a team that works towards the company's goals.

nPost.com Interview with Sky Kruse of LightningCD

LightningCD is looking to introduce a new digital music distribution model.

nPost.com Interview with Rich Skrenta of Topix.net

Topix.net is taking on the large news aggregators with their concept driven search engine that features over 150,000 subjects. Their localization service is concept versus keyword driven.

nPost.com Interview with David Rose of Ambient Devices

Ambient Devices manufactures the Orb, a device for tracking the changes in any data flow with subtle changes in color. They are changing the way that people monitor their data.

nPost.com Interview with Steve Abernethy of SquareTrade

SquareTrade certifies the authenticity of sellers on eBay, Yahoo (via Overture), and other online marketplaces.

nPost.com Interview with Perry Solomon of PepperCoin

PepperCoin facilitates transactions for small and micro payments.

nPost.com Interview with Scott Heiferman of Meetup.com

Meetup has been extremely successful by targeting the community aspect of the Internet and focusing on services that people need in order to connect.

nPost.com Interview with Siamak Farah of InfoStreet.com

Siamak shares his thoughts on what has led to InfoStreet's success, the future of Application Service Providers and how it will impact the Desktop Operating System.

nPost.com Interview with Rodrigo Sales of Vendio

Vendio has been successful by creating customer specific solutions that enable it to provide services to a wide range of small businesses. Rodrigo also shares his throughts on using customers to market products and the network effects impact on eBay.

nPost.com Interview with Gene McCubbin of WebXites

WebXites has been successful in targeting their key market, by knowing exactly how to reach and message their potential customers.

nPost.com Interview with Roy de Souza of Zedo

Learn how Internet advertising changed over the past 5 years from Roy de Souza of Zedo and where will it go in the future.

nPost.com Interview with Jim Crabbe of Konnects

Konnects is a fee based business networking service that is profitable and targets the market much differently than the sites that use the six degrees of separation model.

nPost.com Interview with Glenn Walker of WhiteTie

Glenn of WhiteTie shares how focusing on providing high level services instead of price can lead to success.

nPost.com Interview with Mark Gustafson of iPads.com

Mark of iPads.com shares his insights about converting from a direct marketing model to partnering with different companies to significantly increase distribution of this products and services.

nPost.com Interview with Rick Faulk of Intranets.com

Intranets.com provides a hosted suite of collaboration services and plans to greatly expand its offerings through acquisitions.

nPost.com Interview with Richard Locke of DataWeb

DataWeb provides turnkey business solutionos for small businesses that are looking too launch database driven websites. Richard Locke shares the key to business success, which is to think creatively, communicate clearly, have fun, and have successful reference accounts.

nPost.com Interview with Pete Findley of Giant Campus

Giant Campus has successfully targeted the online education market by growing slowly with a focus and passion on their goals.

nPost.com Interview with Chip Anderson of StockCharts.com

StockCharts.com successfully transitioned from Free to Fee with a clear communication plan, and the unique scalability of it's content model.

nPost.com Interview with Villette Nolon of NetReflector

Villette Nolon of NetReflector shares her experience in selling to large organizations and the need to focus on service, product quality, and your customers to be successful.

nPost.com Interview with Michael Yavondite of Quigo

Michael of Quigo shares his thoughts on the future of search, the deep web, competition in the search arena, and the impact of $5 million in funding.

nPost.com Interview with Chris Gabrys of Arete Power

Chris Gabrys of Arete Power shares his thoughts on the future of Flywheel power supplies and how Intellectual Property secures a company's position.

nPost.com Interview with Evan Goldberg of NetSuite

NetSuite, majority owned by Lawrence Ellison of Oracle is an Applicaiton Service Provider targeting integrated management functions.

nPost.com Interview with Mark Fletcher of Bloglines

Mark of Bloglines talks about the advent of Blogs and RSS newsfeeds and the ability to monetize a content aggregation service.

nPost.com Interview with Kurt Huang of BitPass

Kurt Huang of BitPass shares his insights on transitioning from free to fee and how content providers can begin to monetize their sites.

nPost.com Interview with Sean Muller of Wedding Tracker

Wedding Tracker provides web management services with personal domain names that allows couples to provide a forum for guests and events.

nPost.com Interview with Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn

Ried speaks about the growth in Online Networking, how his company was affected by $4.7 Million in VC Funding, and the keys to successful entrepreneurship.

nPost.com Interview with Rajesh Navar of LiveDeal

Rajesh of LiveDeal discusses the issues and opportunities caused by hyper growth, and how to focus on the core business.

nPost.com Interview with Jordan Pollack of Thinmail

Jordan of ThinMail shares his thoughts on the explosion of communication devices and the affect of bandwidth capabilities on their interoperability.

nPost.com Interview with J. Thomas Ranken of VizX Labs

VizX Labs is targeting the biotech Microarray market with the GeneSifter software.

nPost.com Interview with David Gardner of Advantage Comm. Group

David of Advantage Communication Group speaks about the telecom industry and the impact of new technologies on business solutions.

nPost.com Interview with David Pulaski of IM-Age

David of IM-Age speaks about the issues and opportunities that companies face with the rapid explosion of Instant Messaging services in the work place

nPost.com Interview with Jas Dhillon of ZeroDegrees

Jas shares his thoughts on the value of online networking solutions, and how ZeroDegrees differentiates itself from the other players.

nPost.com Interview with Narendra Rocherolle of Webshots

Narendra speaks about growing Webshots into one of the largest media properties on the web, as well as the entrepreneurial experience and key lessons learned.

nPost.com Interview with Craig Newmark of Craigslist.org

Craig Newmark grew his small email list into Craiglist, a community site serving over 30 cities.

nPost.com Interview with Rosalind Resnick of NetCreations

Rosalind co-founded NetCreations and is currently with Axxess Business Centers, which she founded. She is also an accomplished writer and author.

nPost.com Interview with Mihail Lari of BlogIt

Mihail of BlogIt shares his insights on monetizing content, growing a startup, and the future of Blogs.

nPost.com Interview with Tim Kunin of The Hunger Site

Focusing on the customer experience allowed Tim Kunin and partner Greg Hesterberg turn the Hunger Site network into a profitable business.

Update from Tim Kunin on 10/03/07: CharityUSA gives 100% of the sponsor advertising from our click-to-give sites to charity, and also pays a royalty to charities on every item purchased from any of our stores; so that almost 15% of total gross revenue is being given to charity. The money we give to charity is many times what we retain in profits, which are needed to pay off our loans, increase our inventory, and pay our taxes.

nPost.com Interview with Ted O'Neill of InfoPop

Learn how self-funded InfoPop uses customer feedback to help develop new services leveraging old services/products.

nPost.com Interview with Karen Howe of SingingFish

Karen of SingingFish shares her insights into stabilizing a startup business, engaging in large partnerships, and adapting to a changing market.

nPost.com Interview with Philippe Sanchez of PhotoWorks

Philippe discussed the evolution of PhotoWorks to meet changing technologies.

nPost.com Interview with Jon Matsuo of Fidesic

Fidesic is a startup firm targeting the outsourcing of Expense Report tracking and Accounts Payable Services.

nPost.com Interview with Doug Walker of WRQ Software

Doug Walker, formerly of WRQ shares his thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of public versus private companies, as well as his perspective on the value of quality products and support services.

nPost.com Interview with Doug MacLean of TalkingRain

TalkingRain is taking on the consumer market with its range of drinks. Learn about its strategy for differentiation in a very crowded market, and how to engage customers at the local level.

nPost.com Interview with Steve Goldman of Isilon

Isilon is a Rich Media storage provider that simplifies the production, archiving, and delivery.

nPost.com Interview with Mike Pickett of Onvia

Mike of Onvia details his experience with a radical shift in business models, and how is company endured such hardships to become a much leaner and more focused organization.

nPost.com Interview with David Norris of OnRequestImages.com

Interview with Mr. Norris about the key issues and opportunities facing OnRequestImages.com, also how the internet has allowed an entirely new model to succeed.

nPost.com Interview with Gary Miliefsky of NetClarity

Gary shares with us the key aspects of internet security, and how different business models can help solve your customers needs. Update: 08/18/05: With the addition of Gil Roeder as the new Chairman and CEO, Gary has moved into the Chief Technology Officer position.

nPost.com Interview with Brian Monnin of MetaStories

Brian discusses how MetaStories is enabling online publishers to simplify the management of multimedia presentations.

nPost.com Interview with Karl Jacob of Cloudmark

Cloudmark is a company that stops spam before it costs you money. Cloudmark's groundbreaking, peer-to-peer (P2P) solution has proven effective at fighting spam since 1998.

nPost.com Interview with Greg Helmstetter of MyGoals.com

Interview with Greg Helmstetter of MyGoals.com, the Web's leading site for setting and managing all of your personal and professional goals.

nPost.com Interview with Toni Schneider of Oddpost.com

Oddpost provides a web based email tool. It was recently acquired by Yahoo! Inc. in an effort to differentiate its web mail service.

nPost.com Interview with Steven Klein of ActiveBuddy

ActiveBuddy develops the technology that hosts Interactive Agents for corporations and online advertising.

nPost.com Interview with Barry James Folsom of Laszlo Systems

Interview with Laszlo Systems.

nPost.com Interview with Michael Schutzler of Classmates.com

Classmates.com is an online community of Alumni, Military, and Business Groups. Michael Shutzler is no longer with the company.

nPost.com Interview with Kal Raman of Drugstore.com

Drugstore.com is a leading online pharmacy

nPost.com Interview with Reed Hastings of Netflix.com

NetFlix was the first DVD subscription service, upsetting the multi-billion dollar rental business that was owned by Blockbuster Video. Reed Hastings talks about how he identified this market opportunity and grew it into a multi-million dollar business.

nPost.com Interview with Sven Halling of It's Alive

It's Alive facilitates person-to-person gaming using cellular phones.

nPost.com Interview with Mike Ahern of GiftCertificates.com

GiftCertificates.com provides employee incentives and reward systems.

nPost.com Interview with Mark Josephson of About.com

About.com is the Human Internet, with Guides that direct users to the information they need and want.

nPost.com Interview with Scott Brown of HireSites.com

HireSites.com is an Application Service Provider that allows content sites to host Job Boards.

nPost.com Interview with Lorne Lieberman of Barewalls.com

Barewalls.com is an online retailer of prints and artwork.

nPost.com Interview with Dan Pelson of Bolt, Inc.

Bolt, Inc. is the leading online community targeting the 14 to 24 year old demographic.

nPost.com Interview with Joe Kultgen of Trekshare.com

Trekshare.com is an online travel community that hosts pictures and travel summaries.

nPost.com Interview with Marc Josephson of Advanced Digital Internet

Advanced Digital Internet (ADI, Inc) provides wireless internet connections to corporations.

nPost.com Interview with Elizabeth Harrison of Harrison & Shriftman

Harrison & Shriftman is a public relations company located in New York. Learn what it takes too be successful in a cut throat business.

nPost.com Interview with Andy Sernovitz of Gaspedal Ventures

Gaspedal Ventures is an internet consulting agency.

nPost.com Interview with Paul Lightfoot of Novare Solutions

Novare Solutions, provides wireless infrastructure consulting.

nPost.com Interview with Jon Housman of Jungle Interactive

Jungle Interactive produces contents, events and services for the business and law school communities.

nPost.com Interview with Sarah Bunting of MightyBigTV.com

MightyBigTV.com brings together ratings and reviews of current and old Television shows.

nPost.com Interview with Anthony Plesner of 24/7 Media

24/7 Media is an online advertising network

nPost.com Interview with Michelle Peluso of Site59

Site59 is an online travel site, which is owned by Travelocity. It is targeting travel packages.

nPost.com Interview with David Jones of Baloptic

Baloptic is bringing high end sunglasses from down under to the US market. Learn what it will take to break into one of the worldest largest markets.

nPost.com Interview with William Schacht of Aestheticom

Aestheticom is an online multi-media agency.

nPost.com Interview with Michael Herder of InkFarm.com

InkFarm.com is an online ink cartridge supply company that is looking to tap into oa billion dollar market. What strategies does it take to be successful?

nPost.com Interview with Typhaine Zagoreos of Typhaine Handbags

Typhaine Handbags is looking to break into the exclusive handbag market.

nPost.com Interview with Brent Keltner of English Exchange, Inc.

English Exchange is bringing together people from all cultures to provide for a sharing of ideas.

nPost.com Interview with Shimul Mehta of Angelwish.org

AngelWish is a charity that is helping children living with HIV/AIDS.

nPost.com Interview with Susan Kish of First Tuesday

First Tuesday was one of the largest international networking organizations. They provide a resource for business professionals the world over to meet and interact.

nPost.com Interview with Samer Hamadeh of Vault.com

Vault.com is an online resource for company hiring practices, and cultures.

nPost.com Interview with Stephen Messer of LinkShare.com

LinkShare is a leading affiliate sales network. In partnership with large online retailers and thousands of affiliates LinkShare provides the system that tracks and records millions of dollars in sales every day.

nPost.com Interview with Patrick Spain of Hoovers, Inc.

Hoovers aggregates and compiles financial and contact information for a majority of businesses. It was one of the first successful online subscription services.

nPost.com Interview with Todd Williamson of MusicSteps, Inc.

Todd Williamson of JazzSteps shares his insights on niche music communities. JazzSteps is no longer in business, read more to see if you can find out if there is was a core issue with his business model.

nPost.com Interview with Manoj Saxena of CommerceOne

CommerceOne is an online eommerce provider.

nPost.com Interview with Tom O'Keefe of Tully's Coffee

Tom O'Keefe founded Tully's Coffee, the second largest coffee retailer

nPost.com Interview with Jesse Berst of IZ.com

IZ.com provided personal direct email marketing. It is no longer in business, and Jesse is currently hosting a syndicated Radio Show.

nPost.com Interview with Paul Freed of Startup Academy

Startup Academy's mission is to build team relationships in small companies. It is no longer in business.

nPost.com Interview with David Robison of Tri Path Imaging

Tri-Path Imaging's Technology provides medical diagnostics.

nPost.com Interview with Laura Domoto of The Seneca Group

Laura Domoto founded the Domoto Group, and now works with the Seneca Group.

nPost.com Interview with Steve Sperry of Acadio.com

Acadio.com targeted the online education market, and is no longer in business. Steve also started Primus Knowledge Corporation.