My interview with Anthony Casalena, Founder of Squarespace, a very cool web publishing platform: http://ow.ly/1zO60
Category: Examiner
Interview with Ben Kaufman, Founder of quirky
Another great innovation interview over on Examiner. I had the extreme pleasure to connect with Ben Kaufman, Founder of quirky. quirky is for every person who has an idea for a product or service (and don’t we all?!) and isn’t quite sure how to start bringing it to life. Check out the interview here.
Examiner interview: Laura Sandall, President of Gold Marketing Group
Exciting stuff on Examiner.com today – my interview with Laura Sandall, President of Gold Marketing Group. After 20 years at Target, inventing the modern-day concept of a pop-up store, she struck out on her own. Her story is full of courage and wise advice on going your own way. Check it out – click here for the full story.
Examiner.com: Interview with Brandon Kessler, Founder of ChallengePost
Everyone loves a good contest, especially when it’s a contest that organized, efficient, and dealing with cutting edge challenges that need to be solved. Enter ChallengePost, the conduit that makes contests accessible and fun, and delivers powerful , buzz-worthy results. With ChallengePost, competition truly is a game again.
Click here for the full interview with Brandon. ChallengePost is a start-up based in New York City.
Divvyshot opens its doors to the world
A few months ago I interviewed Sam Odio, Founder of Divvyshot, a fantastic photo site that takes the pain out of sharing your favorite pics. Today, only hours ago, Sam and the crew at Divvyshot opened its online doors to the world with a fantastic new site. Now you don’t have to worry about selecting files in batches and uploading them, painfully and slowly. Divvyshot utilizes a drag-and-drop method that’s elegant, simple, and brilliant.
Team Divvyshot took the idea of customer simplicity one step further with an iPhone app that gives users the capability to upload photos in real time. Can’t be bothered with tapping keys in the app? Check this out: the Divvyshot iPhone app also allows users to transfer thousands of photos by shaking two phones together. Seriously, can this app get any better? No iPhone? No problem. Users can also email photos to an event.
Did I mention Divvyshot is free? Yes, free, to everyone. I’m not sure why anyone would ever use another photo upload service. Not convinced? Check out the demo here.
Divvyshot is a YCombinator start-up.
Examiner.com: My Interview with Adam Rich, Co-founder of Thrillist.com
Looking for the latest great place to dine, shop, or hang in New York City? Look no further than Thrillist, a free daily email with one fabulous suggestion after another. I recently had the opportunity to connect with Adam Rich, one of the co-founders, to get the inside scoop on their start-up.
Many thanks to Flavie Bagnol, Director of Communications, for making the arrangements for this interview. For the full interview, click here.
Examiner.com: My interview with Jerri Chou, Co-founder of All Day Buffet
Meet Jerri Chou, Co-founder of All Day Buffet, an organization whose mission is “to change the world through creativity and business. We incubate, advise, and invest into for-profit/for-good companies.”
Under the All Day Buffet umbrella, you’ll find some kickin’ business initiatives like The Feast Conference, an innovation event that will get your creative juices flowing like the Mississippi, By/Association, a mechanism to introduce remarkable people to one another, and their latest creation TBD, a free email newsletter that delivers one world-shaking idea and one collective action to improve our future. It’s this latest venture that sparked my recent conversation with Jerri.
To read the full interview with Jerri, please click here.
Examiner.com: My Interview with Erica Heinz, Founder of Yogoer.com
For busy New York yogis, Yogoer.com is a dream service. In a couple of clicks, the site provides every nearby yoga, pilates, fitness, and dance studio based on an address. It’s Mapquest for your source of well-being. The site also provides job postings for yoga instructors, profiles of studios and instructors, and a blog. To make it even easier to utilize the service, Yogoer.com is available as an iPhone app. You can also follow Yogoer on Twitter.
Last week I had the pleasure to interview Erica Heinz, a graphic designer, Huffington Post columnist, yoga instructor, and founder of Yogoer.com. I’m also excited to announce that I’m recording my yoga teacher training diary on Yogoer.com’s blog. My thanks to Erica for the opportunity to connect with the community she’s building on Yogoer.com
For the full interview, click here.
Examiner.com: Interview with Sasha Abramsky, author of Inside Obama’s Brain
Over the Christmas holiday I read the book Inside Obama’s Brain by Sasha Abramsky, journalist and Senior Fellow at Demos. The book is a beautifully crafted work that examines the charismatic draw of President Obama by exploring the experiences and insights from dozens of people who have worked alongside the President throughout his career. Abramsky masterfully articulates what qualities draw us to Obama, and how Obama honed those qualities in preparation for his ascent to the Presidency. The book intertwines President Obama’s personal history with his professional accomplishments in a way that makes the book impossible to put down until readers have absorbed every last word of Abramsky’s prose. I never wanted this book to end.
I had the great fortune to speak with Sasha Abramsky last week. To read the interview, click here.
Examiner.com: 5 Tips to Help You Create and Achieve New Year’s Resolutions
So here it is: time to crank out a list of lofty resolutions that you know will never last past January 31st, right? Don’t do this to yourself. Please. You’ll feel like a failure, and that’s just not fair to do that to yourself. Examiner.com knows this, and they’ve asked all of their writers to share tips on how to make readers wildly successful with their New Year’s Resolutions in 2010.
I just posted 5 tips, followed by a personal story of my 2009 resolution, that I hope will be helpful to you as you begin to turn your attention toward a bright new year teeming with possibility. For the article, please click here.
Christa Avampato 
