Chris Shipley of Guidewire helps us review a magazine approach to searching topicsChris Shipley, co-founder of startup research and consulting firm, Guidewire, has spent more than a decade advising and mentoring startups. She’s responsible for bringing about 1,500 startups to the 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. The company in the spotlight was Kosmix. As the Web becomes an increasingly cluttered place to find information, new sources are emerging to help us browse information rather than to search for it. Wikipedia is a great example ... [ read more]