Monday, May 3, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Jonathan Belgourari - Mobshop
Jonathan Belgourari is a young entrepreneur with solid experiences in e-commerce and information systems. Before Mobshop, he built and managed a leading multichannel solution for 1633SA (Playboy France). In his early career, he joined the marketing team of Totem Entertainment (VirtualGirl) and created the community management unit of Cryo Networks (massively multiplayer online games).
Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Glide Health Corporation - - Glide Health Corporation and Integrated Medical Professionals Announce Part...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Oren Michels - Mashery ( Test )
Oren Michels
Mashery's co-founder and CEO has a record of success in a variety of executive positions spanning multiple industries. Oren co-founded and managed WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for public access wi-fi hotspots. He has served as president for two companies: Colt HR, a leading provider of mid-market benefits administration software and services; and Winebid.com, a leading online wine auction service. He also served as president and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company, and has held COO positions at manufacturing companies. Prior to joining Mashery, Oren worked as vice president of business development at Feedster, where he managed the company's activities in China and negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks, and Mitsui.
Oren began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School.
http://blog.praxicom.com/.a/6a00d8341dfbdb53ef00e54ff79e9a8833-150wi
Chris McGill - Mixx
- So what did you do before Mixx?
- I’m a recovering Banker, still working through the 12-step process; I was General Manager of Yahoo News, Weather, Yahooligans (Yahoo Kids) and Yahoo Education; and Vice President of Strategy for USATODAY.
- Can you tell us what's on YourMixx?
- I have a better question: What isn’t on my Mixx? I have Popular stories and photos, Environment, tech, science, Washington DC and Election 2008. My tags are "Mixx," "Alzheimers" and "Redsox." My Groups include "Team Mixx" (private); a private group for the parents of my four year old's pre-school class, and "Web 2.0 Beyond the Terror Dome."
- Assuming that you actually have some free time, what do you do with it?
- I chase my children and Mixx on my Crackberry. Or was that Mixx the children and chasing the Crackberry?
Bryan Trussel - Glympse
Bryan is the face of the operation, working to make Glympse part of our daily lives and make sure the product's ease and simplicity coincides with its commitment to safety and security. Bryan spent 16 years leading teams at Microsoft, working on a range of products from Windows to Interactive TV and embedded systems to casual games, including creating and launching several V1.O products, like MessengerGames, Windows CE and Xbox Live Arcade. He has a bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Utah and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern. He currently resides in Redmond, Wash. with his wife, four daughters and four-year-old son.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Bryan Trussel - Glympse
Bryan is the face of the operation, working to make Glympse part of our daily lives and make sure the product's ease and simplicity coincides with its commitment to safety and security. Bryan spent 16 years leading teams at Microsoft, working on a range of products from Windows to Interactive TV and embedded systems to casual games, including creating and launching several V1.O products, like MessengerGames, Windows CE and Xbox Live Arcade. He has a bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Utah and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern. He currently resides in Redmond, Wash. with his wife, four daughters and four-year-old son.
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Oren Michels - Mashery'
http://blog.praxicom.com/.a/6a00d8341dfbdb53ef00e54ff79e9a8833-150wi
Mashery's co-founder and CEO has a record of success in a variety of executive positions spanning multiple industries. Oren co-founded and managed WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for public access wi-fi hotspots. He has served as president for two companies: Colt HR, a leading provider of mid-market benefits administration software and services; and Winebid.com, a leading online wine auction service. He also served as president and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company, and has held COO positions at manufacturing companies. Prior to joining Mashery, Oren worked as vice president of business development at Feedster, where he managed the company's activities in China and negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks, and Mitsui.
Oren began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School.
Oren Michels - Mashery'
http://blog.praxicom.com/.a/6a00d8341dfbdb53ef00e54ff79e9a8833-150wi
Mashery's co-founder and CEO has a record of success in a variety of executive positions spanning multiple industries. Oren co-founded and managed WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for public access wi-fi hotspots. He has served as president for two companies: Colt HR, a leading provider of mid-market benefits administration software and services; and Winebid.com, a leading online wine auction service. He also served as president and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company, and has held COO positions at manufacturing companies. Prior to joining Mashery, Oren worked as vice president of business development at Feedster, where he managed the company's activities in China and negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks, and Mitsui.
Oren began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School.
Scott Annan - Mercury Grove
http://www.mercurygrove.com/images/team/scott_walking.jpg As CEO of Mercury Grove, Scott engages directly with clients to develop brilliant online marketing plans. Working collaboratively with the client, Mercury Grove team, and world class partners, Scott helps guide the team to achieve break-through business achievements.
Prior to launching Mercury Grove, Scott led global marketing technology at Lexmark International where his team ran over 120 websites in 28 different languages, 20+ extranets, a dozen online stores generating over $15M per year, a global intranet, and over 15 global, multi-million dollar software projects
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Jason Calacanis - Mahalo
“Jason McCabe Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., a network of widely read blogs including Engadget – ranked # 1 by Technorati, Joystiq, Autoblog, and Blogging Baby. Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Calacanis maintained editorial supervision over Weblogs, Inc. as a senior vice president of AOL. In June 2006, Calacanis relaunched Netscape, the iconic browser owned by AOL and was named its general manager.
As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc., a user-powered search engine.
Prior to forming Weblogs, Inc., Calacanis was CEO and founder of Rising Tide Studios, a media company that published print and online publications including the Silicon Alley Reporter, a must-read monthly that chronicled New York’s internet and new media industries. The company also produced high-profile industry-specific conferences in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. After the industry consolidated, the company’s flagship publication was folded and the company was sold out of bankruptcy to a portfolio company of The Wicks Group, a private equity firm. Eventually, it was part of a portfolio company that was sold to Dow Jones.
Calacanis was born and grew up in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. He received a B.A. in psychology from Fordham University in Manhattan. He is a 5th Degree in Tae Kwon Do and has run in eleven consecutive New York City Marathons. He served as a script consultant on Wayne Wang’s film “Center of the World” about the life of a “cyber-surfer” and appears in a supporting role. He serves on the board of directors of Bay Ridge Preparatory School.
Jason is known for his insights into the media industry and he is quoted widely in trade and consumer media outlets. He also keynotes industry conferences worldwide. His views can be read daily on his own blog, www.calacanis.com and heard weekly on CalacanisCast, a new show on the PodTech Network.” (Source: Calacanis.com)
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Gary Briggs - Plastic Jungle
Gary joined the Board of Plastic Jungle in May 2008 and was appointed CEO in November 2008.
Prior to Plastic Jungle, Gary served as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at eBay. He was responsible for eBay's branding and marketing activities in North America, including advertising, Internet marketing, direct marketing, onsite merchandising, partner relationships, and core category initiatives. In his six-year career at eBay, Gary held other positions including VP of Consumer Marketing for eBay U.S., VP of Global Marketing for PayPal, and General Manager for eBay Canada.
Prior to eBay, Gary was a founder of OurHouse, Inc., an e-commerce company partnered with Ace Hardware. Before this venture, he was Director of Worldwide Brand Strategy for IBM Corporation where he was responsible for the Company's brand positioning and cross-corporate marketing integration. While at IBM, he co-authored the marketing strategy for the company's "e-business" campaign.
Before joining IBM, Gary worked for six years at Pepsi-Cola, most recently as Marketing Director responsible for brand strategy, advertising and sports marketing for the Pepsi brand. In addition, while at Pepsi he developed a joint venture with the Starbucks Coffee Company and Pepsi's bottled water product, Aquafina. Prior to Pepsi, Gary worked for four years at McKinsey and Company as an associate and engagement manager.
Gary also serves on the Board of Ice.com. He graduated in 1984 from Brown University with a B.A. in Political Science and American Civilization. In 1989, he received his M.B.A. from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
His favorite Plastic Jungle experience: Buying an Apple Gift Card that essentially saved enough for a free iPhone.
How Plastic Jungle Works
As the premier destination to sell, buy, exchange, and donate gift cards in a trusted environment, Plastic Jungle offers the simplest and safest way to save money at your favorite stores and turn unwanted gift cards into cash. All transactions are guaranteed, and we offer industry-leading features such as gift card replacement protection in case they are lost or damaged.
Alex Baydin - PerformLine
Alex Baydin founded PerformLine in the spring of 2007. Prior to founding PerformLine, he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of Verticals at AzoogleAds, Inc., a leading performance-based affiliate network. At AzoogleAds, Alex was responsible for setting and driving lead acquisition, sales strategy and revenue in the following verticals: mortgage, mobile, education, debt consolidation, auto quotes, auto warranties, cash advance, tax services, student loans, home services, insurance, Lasik and cosmetic surgery.
Previously, Alex was Vice President of Business Development at Quigo Technologies, a leading contextual CPC and search engine marketing firm. Alex held two positions at Quigo, first running the SEM sales team, and secondly, leading partnership efforts to negotiate exclusive relationships with top tier publishers for Quigo's AdSonar Private Label contextual network. Prior to Quigo, Alex served at United Online (NASD:UNTD) as a Senior Director of Business Development. Alex holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University.Steve Barsh - PackLate
Kevin Reeth - Outright.com
Our Management Team
Kevin has spent more than 15 years bringing software applications and services for Intuit, Yahoo! and eGroups. With Intuit, Kevin launched numerous small business products, including versions of Quicken, rental property software, and the JumpUp community for entrepreneurs.
Dick Williams - Webroot Software
Dick Williams, CEO
Dick Williams is president and chief executive officer of Webroot Software. He brings to the role over four decades of executive and operational leadership experience for technology, software and digital media companies. Most recently Williams served as CEO-in-Residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners, where he worked with the Accel team to identify and analyze new ventures. In that role he also advised and assisted portfolio companies and their CEOs on all aspects of their business.
Dick has worked as CEO or Chairman of several category defining companies funded by some of the most successful venture capital firms in the world. Most recently Dick has been Chairman of Hyperic, a leader in open source systems management software for today’s large Web, SaaS, and cloud applications and infrastructures. Hyperic was acquired by SpringSource Global in May 2009. Prior to that, Williams was CEO of Wily Technology, the leader in Web application management, which was acquired by CA (Computer Associates) in 2006. Earlier he was CEO of Illustra Information Technologies, a pioneer of object database technology, which was acquired by Informix in 1996. Dick then co-founded and served as chairman of Quokka Sports, an online immersive sports media company, which completed its initial public offering in 1999.
Williams' executive leadership experience began at IBM, where he spent 22 years in a variety of sales, marketing, product and business management roles, including vice president for the company’s Data Systems and General Products divisions. He then served as president and CEO of Digital Research, which he turned around and later sold to Novell. At Novell Williams served as executive vice president of sales and support, and general manager of Novell’s Digital Research Systems Group.
Williams is an outside director of Fortify Software, 3VR Security and Chairman of Altor Networks.
Adam Peterson - Vipe Inc.
Stanford University - Saint Francis High School
Michael Murray - CEO at FBS Building Systems
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Paul J. Hastings, President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Hastings brings more than 20 years of experience as a biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry executive. He has served as President and CEO of OncoMed Pharmaceuticals since January 2006. Prior to joining OncoMed, Mr. Hastings was President and Chief Executive Officer of QLT, Inc. Previous to that, Mr. Hastings served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Axys Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Celera Corporation in 2001. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Hastings served as the President of Chiron BioPharmaceuticals, a division of Chiron Corporation. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of LXR Biotechnology. Mr. Hastings also held a series of management positions of increasing responsibility at Genzyme Corporation, including serving as President of Genzyme Therapeutics Europe as well as President of Worldwide Therapeutics. Mr. Hastings also served as Vice President, Marketing and Sales and General Manager, Europe for Synergen, Inc., and previously held a series of marketing and sales management positions with Hoffmann-La Roche. Mr Hastings was recently Chairman of the Board of Proteolix (sold to Onyx Pharmaceuticals in 2009), and served on the boards of ViaCell (sold to Perkin-Elmer in 2008), and Cerimon Pharmaceuticals. He is currently Chairman of the Board of the Bay Area Biosciences Association (Bay Bio) and serves on the executive committee of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Industry Association. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island.
Lance Tokuda - RockYou
Lance is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of RockYou, and brings over 15 years of software and management experience to the company. Prior to RockYou, Lance held Vice President & Chief Technology Officer positions in consumer and enterprise web services companies Iconix and Open Harbor, and was an early employee (number four) at Resumix, now Yahoo! HotJobs. Lance holds patents in text extraction and document categorization, with an email patent pending as well, and has received the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Award of Innovation for work on spatial text understanding. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas.
Jade Van Doren - TechForward
Prior to founding TechForward, Jade Van Doren has been involved in growing two successful businesses: Beatnik, Inc. an audio software company whose ringtone software is currently installed in 250 million cellular phones, and Tribal Brands, LLC., a strategic marketing consulting company specializing in brand, promotions, and business strategies. His experience includes Sony Corporation's Partnerships and Standards Strategy group at the company’s global headquarters in Tokyo, and product management on Macromedia's Flash product team. Jade holds an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he won the Parsky and Wolfen fellowships for entrepreneurship, and a B.A. cum laude from Williams College.
Jim McKelvey - Square, Inc
Background
In February 2009, Jim McKelvey wasn’t able to sell a piece of his glass art because he couldn’t accept a credit card as payment. Even though a majority of payments has moved to plastic cards, accepting payments from cards is still difficult, requiring long applications, expensive hardware, and an overly complex experience. Square was born a few days later right next to the old San Francisco US Mint.
Drew Curtis - Fark.com
Curtis graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa in 1995. From 1996 to 2002, he owned and operated DCR.NET, an ISP based in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Fark.com, the Web site, is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site. Every day Fark receives 2,000 or so news submissions from its readership, from which we hand-pick the funny and weird notable news -- and not-news -- of the day.
Fark isn't an acronym. It doesn't mean anything. The idea was to have the word Fark come to symbolize news that is really Not News. Hence the slogan "It's not news, it's Fark." Fark was originally a word Drew became known for using online back in the early 1990s. He can't remember why, but his guess is that it was either to replace another F-word or that he was just drunk and mistyped something. He tells everyone it was the former since it's a better story that way.
Four letter domain names were getting snapped up quickly, so on a whim in the summer of 1997 Drew checked to see if Fark.com was available. It was, and he grabbed it. At the time the only thing you could do with a Web site was put up what was then called a vanity site. This was almost all the Internet consisted of back in 1997. Think of vanity sites as poorly coded MySpace pages. Yes, MySpace pages look pretty bad, but these were worse. Drew didn't want to use the Fark.com domain name for a vanity site, so he decided to wait until he had a better idea.
e spent the next couple of years drinking and promptly forgot all about the domain. One day in February 1999 he had an epiphany - or a really good buzz - who knows.... He was sitting in his living room, thinking long and hard about starting Fark. He decided that if he was going to do it, he would have to do it every single day. He took a deep breath, grabbed a fresh beer, and jumped in. His friends evidently told other people about Fark and it caught on like a house on fire (or that weird ass rash you don't want to tell anyone about) and that's how it all started.The first year Fark received 50,000 page views. That's a respectable number for a site started from scratch. The second year it was a million. The number one highest-traffic corporate Internet hitting Fark's servers was CNN. Number two: Fox News.
What is Fark exactly? Fark is what fills space when mass media runs out of news. Fark is supposed to look like news... but it's not news. It's Fark.
Garrett Camp - StumbleUpon
Garrett has guided StumbleUpon's development since 2001, from inception to 10M registered members. StumbleUpon is now the largest personalized content discovery engine on the web, delivering over 500 million personalized recommendations per month from its index of 45 million human-submitted pages. Garrett completed his Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, where he researched interfaces for collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms and information retrieval. He is also a 2007 recipient of MIT Technology Review's TR35 award.
David Friedberg - WeatherBill
Prior to founding WeatherBill in 2006, David was with Google, where he joined as one of the founding members of the company's Corporate Development team. David managed a number of strategic projects for Google, including identifying and leading several of Google's largest acquisitions. David also served as a Business Product Manager for AdWords - Google's primary revenue source. Before Google, David spent several years working in private equity and investment banking. He has invested in and advised dozens of companies in the technology industry. Earlier, David worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he led several projects as a mathematical programmer. He has a degree in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Oliver Roup - VigLink
http://oroup.com/resume/oroup-resume.pdfFormer national champion rower, sailing race coach, and avid snowboarder. Independent travel to over 30 countries.
2007 – 2009
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL BOSTON, MA
Master in Business Administration, June 2009. Winner John H. McArthur Canadian Fellowship. Participant China/Vietnam immersion. 2nd place VCIC competition. Member: VC/PE, Tech/Media, Entrepreneurship clubs.
Oliver brings over 15 years of software experience to the company. Prior to VigLink, he was a Director at Microsoft in charge of product for various media properties including XBOX Live Video Marketplace, Zune Marketplace and MSN Entertainment. Oliver was also an early employee at Internet Radio pioneer Echo Networks and has worked for Paul Allen at Vulcan, for iPlayer at the BBC and for the Founders Fund. Oliver has issued and pending patents covering micro-transactions, media and metadata. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from MIT and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Master's Thesis, Hive: A Software Infrastructure for Things That Think is also available.
Matthew Sanchez - VideoEgg
Prior to co-founding VideoEggSM in November 2004, Matt was a managing member and chief operating officer of MediaLiquid, a production company founded by Sanchez, Kevin Sladek and Dave Lerman that focused on helping non-profits develop cost-effective public service announcements. He began his entrepreneurial career in high school when he founded a computer consulting group. Sanchez holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University.
Bill Gross- TweetUp
Bill Gross founded TweetUp in 2010 after a series of frustrating experiences tweeting during the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009, the World Economic Forum in Davos and at the annual TED conference in early 2010. Getting lost in the noise of meaningless chatter and unable to easily connect with users interested in finding insightful tweeters from these events, Bill realized there had to be a better way to connect to serious tweeters and followers. Bill took his concept for TweetUp to the Idealab board and several potential investors, all of whom immediately saw its potential.
Bill is also the CEO of Idealab, where he has started over 75 companies. He serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. Bill received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet.
A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi.
Bill serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. Bill received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gross
http://www.billgross.com/
John Ham - Ustream
Ustream was founded in the summer of 2006 by John Ham, Brad Hunstable, and Dr. Gyula Feher as way to help overseas soldiers connect more efficiently with their families.
John and Brad met as cadets at West Point. Serving as U.S. Army as officers during a wartime environment, John and Brad noticed an opportunity for revolutionizing communication. Soldiers were limited by the phone or instant messenger to connect with family and friends back home. They could only talk with one person at a time. John and Brad wanted to find a way to allow soldiers to connect with all of their loved ones at the same time. The goal was to create a way for them to stream with family members in cities all over the U.S. and the world. After a few months of late night brainstorm sessions, John, Brad, and Gyula decided to take a risk on behalf of a better vision. As they say, the rest is history.
Today, Ustream empowers everyone from sports fans to Presidential candidates and rock stars to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size."
Early years
John was born in Torrance, California, to Chi Ho Ham, a retired real estate developer, and Sang Wha Ham, a registered nurse. He grew up in Riverside, California with an older sister, Susan. Since childhood, he has shown an interest in being an entrepreneur. At age 16, he started trading equities and options.
Ham graduated from Riverside Poly High School in 1996. He then went on to West Point where he interned with NASA and the New York Stock Exchange and went on to receive his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from West Point. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army. While in the Army, Captain Ham was selected as a Commander and later nominated, selected to be the Aide to the 19th TSC Commanding General in South Korea.
Jeremy Stoppelman - Yelp.com
The Company: Yelp.com is trying to remake the Yellow Pages business and grab a slice of the $92 billion local advertising market. People review everything from their doctors to hot new clubs. It's a go-to site for hip 20-somethings in San Francisco, and is starting to expand to New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Los Angeles. It has more than 1 million visitors per month who have posted some 150,000 reviews. But Yelp.com still has to prove its formula works in other cities.
Funding: Yelp raised $1 million from PayPal founder Max Levchin in 2003, and $5 million from Bessemer Partners in 2005.
Background Check: Simmons graduated from the prestigious Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy at 16 and was the first engineer Levchin hired. Stoppelman, also from PayPal, is the token Harvard MBA drop-out of the bunch. He would swipe his father's business magazines, and invest his allowance in hot stocks -- usually tech companies.
http://jeremy.stoppelman.com/
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
The Company: Facebook.com connects the college crowd at thousands of schools across the country. It's the seventh most popular site on the Web, with 13 million unique visitors a day. It serves up more than 7 billion page views daily, ranking it second after Google. Next step: Translating success in the college market to the high school and post-grad scenes.
Funding: The company has raised $38 million so far -- a feat that is lore among the Web 2.0 crowd. Zuckerberg shrewdly negotiated a $100 million valuation during the first round of funding and a clause that leaves him in charge as long as he wants. In a second round of funding, that valuation soared to $500 million.
Background Check: Zuck, as he's called, wrote the software for the site in his dorm room at Harvard as a way to rate the attractiveness of students -- a prank that landed him in the Dean's office. He reworked it as a way to connect with classmates and it caught fire.
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
Josh Schachter - Del.icio.us
The Company: Del.ici.ous is a Web tagging site Yahoo bought in December, 2005, for an estimated $31 million. Now Schachter runs the site from cubicle 4434 in a building on Yahoo's Santa Clara Campus. Some say Schachter sold too soon and del.icio.us could have been a reverse Google, sorting searches in order of what millions of people tagging sites care about, not what an algorithm determines is relevant.
Funding: Marc Andreessen of Netscape fame sent him free servers early on. He took an undisclosed amount of funding from Union Square Ventures.
Background Check: Graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in electrical and computer engineering before defecting to Wall Street. Still, he loved tech, so everyday after work he wrote code for fun.
Joshua Schachter
Dennis Fong - Xfire
The Company: Xfire, a site where gamers hang out and challenge each other to games via an instant messaging window, was sold to Viacom for $102 million in April, after a bidding war. Viacom paid more than 10 times the company's revenues -- double the multiple MySpace got. But the deal has some risks: It could damage Xfire's gamer street credibility making Fong look like a sell-out.
Funding: Fong raised $11 million, part of which was a defense against a threatened intellectual property lawsuit by Yahoo, which was eventually dropped.
Background Check: A professional gamer in high school, Fong won six figure endorsement deals and a Ferarri, among other spoils. He started Gamers.com, a site with gaming tips and techniques with his brother in the mid-1990s. But he was shoved aside for a "grown up" CEO. He co-founded Xfire in 2002.
Dennis Fong
Jawahar Chirimar, CEO TimeData
Jawahar has worked for over 18 years in Financial Institutions, including: Susquehanna Investment Group, Fisher Francis Trees & Watts, Lehman Brothers, IREO and Citi Bank. His experience covers: Quantitative Research, Risk Management, Credit Trading, Business Start-up, Private Equity and managing a key trading profit center at Lehman. Jawahar earned his PhD in CIS from University of Pennsylvania, a BA in Mathematics and a BS in Computer Science from Cornell.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jawaharxchirimar
Max Levchin- Slide
The Company: Slide.com, a site that crawls the Internet collecting bits of very specific information for people, such as news clips about celebrity gossip, shoes available at Zappos.com, or pictures of women on hotornot.com ranked "nine" and above.
Funding: Levchin kicked in $12 million of his own money, with contributions from BlueRun Ventures and other private investors.
Background Check: Levchin co-founded PayPal in 1998, eventually selling it to eBay for $1.5 billion. Both Yelp and Slide came out of a post-PayPal incubator Levchin set up in 2003.
Max is the CEO and visionary behind Slide, the largest social entertainment company in the world and developer of the most engaging applications on social networks. Max is also renowned as the co-founder of PayPal, an expert in combating online fraud and one of the hardest working entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Before starting Slide, he incubated several other start-ups, including Yelp, where he currently sits as Chairman of the Board. Max started PayPal in 1998, took the company public in 2002 and then sold it to eBay for more than $1.5 billion at the age of 26. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), Max moved to Chicago at the age of 16 and later received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Max sits on the board of several other companies and trains for triathlons when he's not obsessing over Slide's business.
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Bram Cohen- BitTorrent
The Company: BitTorrent provides a way for people to share big media files without having to use a super high-speed Internet connection. It has 65 million users worldwide, and claims its files account for 60% of all Web traffic, although other estimates put that closer to 40%. In May, Warner Brothers signed a deal to sell and distribute some 200 movies and TV shows over BitTorrent. Right now the company makes money from advertising, but needs to broaden its business model.
Funding: Cohen has raised $9 million from DCM-Doll Capital Management
Background Check: Cohen wrote the code in 2001 while unemployed and living on credit cards. He never intended it to become a real business -- much less one that would be negotiating with glitzy Hollywood executives. For years he was a one man show, running the site of T-shirt sales and donations.
Brad Fitzpatrick- LiveJournal
The Company: LiveJournal, a sprawling online blogging community where friends keep up with each other's lives, sold to Six Apart for an undisclosed price in early 2005.
Funding: None, Fitzpatrick just solicited "donations" from users to keep the site going.
Background Check: Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal at University of Washington as a way to keep up with his friends. Those friends told other friends and they told other friends, and pretty soon he found himself running a growing social networking/blogging site. Now Fitzpatrick is Six Apart's chief architect and unofficial resident troublemaker. He used to hold weekly Segway races around the office until he put a hole in a wall and Six Apart CEO Barak Berkowitz put a stop to it. Fitzpatrick is into writing code that solves difficult problems, then posting it free for anyone to use online. He's written some of the underlying software used by sites like Friendster, Wikipedia, and much of the online porn industry.
Brian Phillips CEO and co-founder Sofa Labs
Brian was an early PayPal product manager who went on to become Sr. Director of PayPal Consumer Product Management. Prior to starting Sofa Labs, he was VP of Product and Design at Tokbox. Brian holds a JD/MBA from Santa Clara. He is currently single and plans on finding his future wife on Thread.
Doug Cosman, Founder Yieldex
Doug is the inventor of the Yieldex technology, and founder of the company. He is a senior data architect and developer, and a frequent presenter at Oracle conferences and the University of Colorado.
At Matchlogic and later Excite, Doug was instrumental in the creation of an ad management system that had features far ahead of its time. With 12 billion monthly impressions, the Excite system was architected for scale. Doug has built upon this experience and his prior experiences in database marketing and portfolio optimization to create Yieldex.
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Tom Shields, CEO Yieldex
Tom is a pioneer in internet advertising, having co-founded NetGravity in 1995 to create the world's first internet ad servers. As CTO, Tom developed mission-critical real-time ad server software that was successfully deployed at over 300 customer network operations centers. This rapid growth led to NetGravity's IPO in 1998, and subsequent acquisition by DoubleClick in 1999 for over $500m. Tom also received a Service Award from the IAB for leading the group that created the first ad impression counting standards.
Tom was most recently a Managing Director at Woodside Fund, where he led investments in early stage technology startups. Tom served on the boards of companies in a wide range of sectors, including open source and enterprise software, Web 2.0 and Internet services, optical networking, and microprocessors.
Prior to NetGravity, Tom was a development manager at Oracle, and was a member of two technology startups. He received a BA in Computer Science with honors from Harvard College.
Tom was most recently a Managing Director at Woodside Fund, where he led investments in early stage technology startups. Tom served on the boards of companies in a wide range of sectors, including open source and enterprise software, Web 2.0 and Internet services, optical networking, and microprocessors.
Prior to NetGravity, Tom was a development manager at Oracle, and was a member of two technology startups. He received a BA in Computer Science with honors from Harvard College.
Jim Pitkow, CEO, Co-founder Attributor
Jim is the CEO and co-founder of Attributor and also serves as the Chairman of Anchor Intelligence. Prior to Attributor, Jim was CEO and Chairman of Moreover Technologies, where he successfully restructured the company through acquisition by VeriSign in October of 2005. Before Moreover, Jim was the President and Chairman of Outride Inc., a spinout from the Xerox Palo Alto ResearchCenter (PARC), which was acquired by Google. Jim received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and graduated Cum Laude in Psychology from the University of Colorado.
Mayank Bawa Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Aster Data
ayank Bawa is CEO and co-founder of Aster Data, where he leads the company's strategic planning, management and technology development. He has led the company as it matured from an idea based on the co-founders research at Stanford University to an enterprise software company powering the most advanced customer data warehouses. Mayank has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT-Bombay, and a Master's and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. Mayank was the recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship (Sequoia Capital Fellow) at Stanford University during his doctorate studies. Mayank has published a dozen academic papers in top database conferences and has been affiliated with IBM Research and Microsoft Research.
Eric J. Gertler, CEO Altruik, Inc.,
Eric J. Gertler is the Chief Executive Officer for Altruik, Inc., and is responsible for overseeing the company's overall direction and growth.
Eric has over 15 years of experience in leading executive positions in media, publishing, and internet companies, including his time as President of U.S. News & World Report, Fast Company, and Atlantic Monthly. He is also the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Privista, an identity theft protection and personal credit management company, which was sold to, and integrated with, the consumer direct group Equifax (NYSE: EFX). He authored the book “Prying Eyes: Protect Your Privacy From People Who Sell to You, Snoop on You, and Steal from You,” (Random House), frequently appearing on network television to discuss identity theft, privacy, and internet marketing.
Mr. Gertler is a graduate of Brown University and the Institut D'Etudes Politiques, Paris, France, and has law degrees from American University (where he served as Editor-in-Chief of The Law Review) and La Sorbonne, Universite de Paris. He is a member of the New York Metro chapter of Young Presidents Organization (“YPO”).
David Roth, CEO and co-founder Appfirst
David Roth, CEO and co-founder at Appfirst, brings over 20 years of experience leading organizations and leveraging partnerships for building successful companies. David sets the AppFirst strategic direction and guides the day-to-day business execution. He served as Chief Executive Officer of DRE from 2008- 2009. David was CEO at Trigence (now AppZero), an application virtualization company, where he established the company’s success with quarter over quarter revenue growth through enterprise adoption and closed two rounds of venture capital. In 2003, David took on the role of Vice President, Services and Business Development at Consera, an IT automation company which was acquired by HP in 2004. As the Founder and CEO of Stratis Group, David built teams that drove the growth of this eBusiness B2B solutions company throughout the late 1990s. David began his career as a National Accounts Manager in the late 1980s at NYNEX and early 1990s at Microsoft. David received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and also attended the University of Arizona.
David’s passion can be seen both in and out of the office, across his kids’ soccer field and as virtual CIO for his wife Lauren’s corporate events businessEric Wheeler, CEO 33Across
Eric Wheeler, CEO
Prior to 33Across, Eric was the CEO of Neo@Ogilvy and Executive Director of Ogilvy Interactive North America. Under his leadership, Ogilvy Interactive's revenue grew five-fold from 2003-2007 working with leading brands including IBM, American Express, TD Ameritrade, Cisco and Yahoo!. Eric was co-founder and President/COO of Lot21, the award-winning digital agency that sold to Carat in 2002. Eric's 18-year career includes leadership positions at CNET, Young & Rubicam and Anderson Lembke in San Francisco. Eric holds a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Boston University.
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Fwix- Darian Shirazi
Darian Shirazi
Founded in October 2008 by Darian Shirazi, Fwix was originally designed to filter news & information on the internet by local area. Since then, the team at Fwix has built technology designed to filter and find the best local information on blogs, news sites, and social media sites. Currently, Fwix is active in over 160 cities in the US, Canada, UK & Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Founded in October 2008 by Darian Shirazi, Fwix was originally designed to filter news & information on the internet by local area. Since then, the team at Fwix has built technology designed to filter and find the best local information on blogs, news sites, and social media sites. Currently, Fwix is active in over 160 cities in the US, Canada, UK & Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
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To college, what they studied? Do they all have similiar background? Did they all get an MBA or got thier engineering degrees in 3 years?
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