Chris Shipley helps us analyze Diddit - the review site for all activities Chris Shipley, co-founder of startup research and consulting firm, Guidewire Group, has spent more than a decade advising and mentoring startups. She’s responsible for bringing about 1,500 startups to DEMO (a leading conference for emerging tech startups) stage. On Vator Box, our version of Siskel & Ebert meets American Idol for startups, we try to find people or experts in certain fields who can help analyze one startup per show. In this segment, we brought Shipley in to be our guest host. Shipley joined Ezra Roizen (Vator Box regular and digital media investment banker) and me. Here are our observations. The company in the spotlight was Diddit, an online activity guide, or what Roizen describes as a Yelp meets OpenTable meets ...   [ Read more ]