Startup

In the latest episode of mediabistroTV’s “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler chats with Gauri Manglik, the co-founder and CEO of Fondu.

Fondu is an iPhone app that allows users to share bite-size restaurant reviews with their friends (sort of like Yelp meets Twitter).

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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.

Next Issue, which has been described as “Netflix for magazines,” is a partnership between five major magazine publishers that aims to make reading magazines on your tablet easier by bundling together digital subscriptions for titles like Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Sports Illustrated.

In the pilot episode of mediabistroTV’s “App Slap,” we take the Next Issue app for a test drive.

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In the latest episode of mediabistroTV’s “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler meets with Storyville co-founder Paul Vidich. Storyville is a mobile app for short stories that connects readers and authors. A former music executive, Vidich helped Steve Jobs bring music singles to iTunes. He hopes Storyville will do for the short story what iTunes did for the single.

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Also, find out who’s hiring on the Mediabistro job board.

In the latest episode of mediabistroTV’s “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler chats with Jux CEO Ted Metcalfe. Jux is a personal publishing platform that allows users to create immersive, full-screen collections of photos, videos, and words. The startup says it’s like blogging without all of the crap.

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In the final part of our three-part “Media Beat” interview with Jonah Peretti, the internet entrepreneur talks about launching The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed.

“I wasn’t sure if it would be a big success,” Peretti admits, remembering the days leading up to the launch of The Huffington Post. “A friend of mine asked me if he should invest, and I was like ‘I’m not sure’… I didn’t really want to risk my friend’s money.”

He also offers advice for those wanting to launch their own startup, explaining that entrepreneurs shouldn’t worry about what tech blogs are covering.

Part 1: BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: ‘Our Reporters Are Doing the Kind of Work Reporters Love to Do’

Part 2: Jonah Peretti On What It Means To Go Viral

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Aereo recently debuted its streaming TV service in New York, with plans to roll it out to over 75 additional markets within a year.

As Aereo faces multiple copyright lawsuits from the broadcasting companies that own TV stations in New York, we took the service for a test drive to see what all the fuss is about (video above).

In the latest episode of mediabistroTV’s “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler chats with Sonar founder Brett Martin.  Sonar is a mobile app that helps you uncover the social connections you may have with people nearby.  Martin talks about how he got his first round of funding at SXSW and describes his vision for the future of social interaction.

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What did we do before Google alerts?

If you’re like us, and like to stalk keep track of people, Newsle is targeting you. It’s a web app that tracks people in the news and now, after raising $600,000, led by New York investment firm Lerer Media Ventures (Ken Lerer, co-founder of Huffington Post, is the firm’s general partner), it has added instant news alerts to its features. That’s right. Newsle finds articles about your friends and colleagues and notifies you soon after they’re published. In addition, the app allows you to follow politicians, CEOs, celebrities, and other public figures you’re interested in.

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In the latest episode of mediabistroTV’s “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler meets with piictu founder Jonathan Slimak. Piictu is a mobile app that allows people to collaborate using pictures. It’s also one of the “What’s Hot” and “New & Noteworthy” apps in Apple’s app  store.

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It seems like a new startup is popping into the media landscape every day. But according to the Small Business Administration, five out of 10 new companies  survive at least five years, one-third will make it 10 years, and only 25 percent stay in business 15 years or more. So what does it take to not just bring the company together, but to maintain its success for a long time?

With help from media moguls, we list the seven traits that makes the difference between a wanna-be with an idea bulb and a successful entrepreneur.

One of the first steps: finding that perfect partner. Cezary Pietrzak was one of four friends who worked together to launch start-up travel site Wanderfly, and he credits their friendship with getting the company off the ground. “You expect to spend a lot of time with other folks in your company and pull late hours, so you have to have a great relationship.”

Read on for more on learning the business, handling those funds and honing on your big idea at 7 Definitive Traits You Need for Startup Success. [sub req'd]