
If your organization has come up with a great idea that needs money to get off the ground, you'll need a great proposal. Here's how to write one.

Charlene Li helps us evaluate Wetpaint, a Wiki service for over one million sites In this week's Vator Box, Charlene Li, founder of Altimeter Group and social networking guru, helps to analyze the opportunities for Wetpaint, a site that powers about 1.3 million free wiki Web sites, and has nearly 800 followers on Vator. The Seattle-based startup, which raised $40 million in venture funding, was founded by Ben Elowitz Li joined Ezra Roizen (Vator Box regular and digital media investment banker) and Bambi Francisco. Here are their observations and advice. - Elowitz delivers a very good pitch, covering everything from the company's origins, metrics, capital raised and value proposition. The pitch packs a lot in, though Ben could have given an example of one customer and how they use the service. - When Wetpaint started four years ... [ Read more ]

Janet Bodnar shows you how to turn your throwaways into treasure.

Many ways to help the environment are costly, but using less electricity is one measure that will save you money.































































