1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: ResellerRatings.com, American Canyon, California

Today’s special Deal Radar returns to ResellerRatings.com, a company I covered in a 2008 interview with its founder, Scott Wainner. American Canyon, California-based ResellerRatings.com is a platform for consumer ratings and reviews of online retailers. It features 430,000 reviews of 24,000 retailers, and its reviews are syndicated to Google Product Search, Bing Shopping, Google AdWords

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Built To Enjoy: Andrew Fox’s 100% Owned $30M ClubPlanet (Part 5)

SM: When you look at your customer base from a consumer point of view as well as from a venue point of view, what types of events and genres of music bring in the most revenue? AF: Electronic and house music are very popular inside the club. There has been a very large change over

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Maples, Founder And Managing Partner, Floodgate (Part 13)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you think about exit strategy at all when you’re investing? Mike: Not really. We think, Who might buy this company someday? Could it be public someday? But the thing that we’ve learned is that exit’s going to be so far away that what you believe

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Maples, Founder And Managing Partner, Floodgate (Part 12)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: So, it’s not necessary that the company had on the team, previous CEO experience, or any senior executive experience? Mike: I think it’s good to have, but sometimes I find that to be overrated. Irina: What do you do with the deals that you don’t invest

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Built To Enjoy: Andrew Fox’s 100% Owned $30M ClubPlanet (Part 4)

SM: Do you have segmentation and preferences when you choose which clubs to work with and the programming to get behind? How do you decide whom to get behind? AF: Today we pretty much cover the gamut. We work with everything from a food and wine festival to a nightclub. We are a company that

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Maples, Founder And Managing Partner, Floodgate (Part 11)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: So, you really don’t have a lot of interest in the niche markets? Mike: This is another view that we have that’s a little bit subtle, but we don’t talk in terms of available markets. The reason is when I can analyze the total available market,

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Maples, Founder And Managing Partner, Floodgate (Part 10)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: At what stage of a company’s development do you usually invest? Would you invest in a company that was just an idea on paper? Mike: It varies quite a bit. We’ve funded PowerPoint pitches before, but generally speaking we don’t do that. Our basic belief is

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