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Andrew Anker

Investor, board member, blogger and occasional executive

Followers
Gil Penchina
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
Josh Elman
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Matt Galligan
Co-Founder & CEO of Circa. Co-Founded 1% of Nothing, SimpleGeo & Socialthing.
Leah Culver
Founder and CEO of Grove (grove.io). Former technical co-founder of Pownce (sold to Six Apart). Co-author of OAuth and OEmbed.
Jyri Engestrom
Founder Ditto (sold to Groupon) & Jaiku (sold to Google)
Jason A. Hoffman
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Oren Jacob
Cofounder, CEO ToyTalk. "Lean Launchpad" instructor Stanford, Berkeley. Mentor 500 Startups. EIR AugustCapital. CTO Pixar. Supervising Tech Dir "Finding Nemo".
Matt Haughey
Founder, MetaFilter Network, Inc.
Naval Ravikant
Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic
Babak Nivi
Co-founder of AngelList and Venture Hacks • EIR at Atlas and Bessemer • Worked on Songbird, Grockit, Kovio • Schooling at MIT • Published in Science • 2 Patents
Andrew Cove
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously intern at IA Ventures. Founder of Quirk. PS3 R&D at Naughty Dog. CMU CS BS and MS.
Dustin Dolginow
Funding team at AngelList + VC at Atlas Venture; founded and killed Social Swipe. Retail + SMB in my DNA.
Boston · VC
Dave McClure
Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Jason Calacanis
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
Robert Scoble
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
Garry Tan
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Jon Staenberg
Investor in Infospace, StubHub, Serious Materials, Evite, Seagate, Spinner, LiveBid.
Seattle · VC
Michael Parekh
A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994
Barney Pell
Founder Moon Express, Powerset (sold to Microsoft). Bing local, mobile, semantics . Assoc. Founder and Trustee, Singularity U. Active angel/advisor.
Ville Miettinen
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Hackers And Founders
We make life suck 34% less for early startups. 5.8k members Silicon Valley. 15 global chapters. 15+ members
Mike Jung
Internet focused VC and angel investor. Founder of Alpha (http://on.wsj.com/iHk2nk)
Dave Samuel
serial entrepreneur: co-founder of Spinner, Brondell, Grouper. 4 kids. and now Freestyle Capital.
David Sze
OPERATOR - Prod Dev/Mkting ✦Excite@Home/SVP ✦Excite/SVP ✦Crystal Dynamics/Producer ✦EA/PM INVESTOR: ✦LinkedIn/Board ✦Facebook/Board Observer ✦Pandora/Board
Lane Becker
Advisor, Freestyle.vc; founder, Get Satisfaction; founder, Adaptive Path; Author, "Get Lucky"; enjoys semicolons.
Peter Pham
Co-Founder/Partner at Science. Entrepreneur, Advisor. Built a few startups - Color, BillShrink, Photobucket. Always the first on the dance floor.
Munjal Shah
Founder and CEO of Like.com sold to Google last year. Previous company Andale sold to Alibaba. Started first company at 26. MS Stanford in CS
Jai Choi
Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
Bernard Moon
CEO of Vidquik, co-founded 4 startups, raised over $50 million, led product to BusinessWeek's "Best of the Web" list, blogger, TEDster, mentor at MuckerLab
Michael Tanne
Innovator, investor. Founder, AdForce, Wink. Worked @ Verity, Apple. Investor/Advisor: LinkedIn, Cloudmark, Wikia, ICONAircraft, BrightRoll, Fundly, GAINFitness
Kurt Collins
Co-Founder: Enole. Engineer: SGI, CNET, Razorfish. Business Development: Photobucket, Clearspring.
Steven Vachani
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Vinny Lingham
Founder/CEO Yola.com - raised over $30m in funding. Founder/CEO Clicks2Customers.com - raised over $7m in funding.
Michael Kim
Managing Partner at Cendana Capital; Investor and LP Advisory Committee member of IA Ventures, PivotNorth Capital, Freestyle Capital and SoftTechVC.
Mark Kingdon
Angel Investor. Former CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) and Organic; Entrepreneur in Residence at Idealab! Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Sunil Paul
Founder, Spring Ventures; Brightmail ($370M to Symantec) and FreeLoader ($38M); First Internet PM at AOL; Zynga board member
Narendra Rocherolle
President, Message Bus. CEO, The Start Project. Creator Webshots, 30 Boxes, and inventor of the little things like the retweet.
Shan Mehta
Angel investor, Entrepreneur
Wayne Sutton
Entrepreneur, Advisor and Partner of NewMe Accelerator http://NewMEAccelerator.com
Brian Bowman
Founder/CEO theComplete.me. Consumer Internet executive. Prior companies: Match.com, Yahoo, Disney/ABC, Reply.com, Infospace
Rob Lord
Internet disruptive innovation serial entrepreneur and honey badger. $100M+ in M&A exits from AOL and Yahoo!. Professional jellyfish undulator.
Oliver Roup
Co-Founder / CEO of VigLink, the easiest way to monetize your links. http://www.viglink.com
Scott Allison
Founder & CEO of Teamly.com, a team management SaaS tool. Serial entrepreneur with background in telecoms & web. I love starting, growing & advising companies.
Frank Gruber
Founder & CEO TechCocktail.com a media company focused on tech startup news, research & events. Co-creator DCWEEK. Former AOL & Tribune product development.
David W. Phillips
Experienced operating exec, entrepreneur, strategist, dealmaker, and attorney at early stage, fast growth companies. http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidphillips
Deepak Kamra
Partner at Canaan
Douglas Feirstein
CEO usell.com. Founder of LiveOps. Serial Entrepreneur and Angel investor. Strong entrepreneur with Senior management experience
Chris  Shipley
Driving Startups to Succeed
Pankaj Jain
Hedge fund technology & operations specialist. Entrepreneur. Techie. Accelerating startups at TLabs in India. Building community at Startup Weekend across India
David Recordon
Advisor to Superfeedr. Team member of Facebook.
Andre Torrez
Co-Founder Simpleform, Maker of MLKSHK. Technical Co-Founder Federated Media Publishing (Oak Investment Partners, Omidyar Network).
Gianni Martire
Co-Founder of Hotlist. Entrepreneur. Investor.
Roy Bahat
I run IGN, run around.
Derrick Oien
CEO at ScoreStream. CEO of chumby industries. President, COO & Founder Intercasting (sold to Good Technology). COO of MP3.com (MPPP) sold to Vivendi.
Bobbie Johnson
Writer, editor and entrepreneur. Spent a decade writing about technology and launching media products with the Guardian, BBC, GigaOM and many more.
Sramana Mitra
Founder of the One Million by One Million global initiative aimed at helping a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars in annual revenue and beyond.
Stephane Delbecque
Director of Product Management, ESPN International Digital Media @ESPN
Dana Severson
Co-founder/CEO of Wahooly. Serial entrepreneur who got my first business started at age 7. Hustler and idea generator. Strong background in advertising.
Ian Kennedy
I work on projects that intersect media and technology. Full time at GigaOM. Interested in Japan and startups that do business in Japan.
Howard Marks
co-founder Activision ATVI $14B cap, founder Acclaim Games (sold to Playdom). Founder and co-chair Start Engine LA's largest accelerator.
Simon Fletcher
Co-Founder of BakedCode. Y Combinator alum. Joined first startup at 16, now 19 years old. Scaled sites to over 1m daily pageviews. Nominated for 2011 .net award
Ed Anuff
Executive, Entrepreneur, and Technologist
Pius Uzamere
Co-founder of BeCouply. Open source contributor. Helped write a few federal privacy/security standards. CS grad from MIT, where I was student body president.
Greg Kumparak
Formerly of TechCrunch, now of PandoDaily. I tear things apart and put them together again in hopes that they still work.
John Shiple
CEO at FreelanceCTO
Trevor Gilbert
Writer at @PandoDaily. Email me: trevor at pandodaily dot com
Steve Schlenker
good vc (if there is such a thing), bad golfer
Ian Kallen
Platform architect at Blockboard. Big picture oriented but detail obsessed expert with with various cloud, data system and service stacks.
Scott Annan
Founded Mercury Grove, NetworkHippo.com, and WebCollaboration.com. Canadian Entrepreneur.
Tom Limongello
VP of Product Marketing for Crisp Media in NYC, previously worked for Unilever in Chicago and Shanghai. Created the FailWhale meme.
Eric Hixon
Co-founder of WebCal, first web calendar system. Sold to Yahoo! 1998, became Y! Calendar. Co-founder Mediamaster, first web music locker(RIP 2008). MS CS, NYU
John Newton
CTO at Alfresco (Accel, Mayfield, SAP), Documentum (sold to EMC). Original Engineer Ingres. BS, EECS Berkeley.
Rob Finn
Associate at Edison Ventures
VC
Saul Hansell
Building a visual news startup as an entrepreneur in residence at Betaworks. See http:\\SaulHansell.com
Nobuhiro Seki
Founder of Ikumore, Connectfree. Investor in Ikumore, Connetfree. Team member of Six Apart.
Deva Hazarika
Advisor to Parakweet and UrbanMapping. Founder, ClearContext and Moai Technologies. Advisor and Board Member at TransactTools (acquired by NYSE).
Miko Matsumura
VP Platform
Jimmy John
Former developer @ Splunk, Inc MS Computer Science, Arizona State University
Rob Millis
CEO and Co-Founder of Dynamo Player, Co-Founder of TinyPass; angel investor in SecureRF, MicroConnex, other industrial tech and small media ventures.
Taro Fox
CEO of AnyPerk(YC 12W). Co-founded Koad in college and made it profitable. Co-founded Mieple.
Ketan Anjaria
Founder & CEO CardFlick. 4th Startup in 10 yrs. Design + Engineering + Product. Multiple Patents + design awards. CardFlick TechCrunch Disrupt People's Choice.
Sriram Krishnan
Lead high-scale serving platforms at Yahoo. Lead API/platform dev for Microsoft's Windows Azure. Featured in NYTimes,TC, Engadget for app. O'Reilly author.
Mani Iyer
CEO Kwanzoo. Founder Teamscape (acquired by PSFT). Senior Marketing Exec, PSFT, ORCL. Microsoft Alum. MSCS U of Wisconsin. BSEE IIT Madras
Michael Downing
Co-Founder & CEO at TOUT
Jeffrey McManus
Coder, manager, hustler. Started Yahoo's developer network and led eBay's platform evangelism team. Advisor to Twilio. Currently running CodeLesson.
Damian Manning
Hacker, investor & serial entrepreneur. Venture Partner, @DEV. Founder & CEO, @RCRDCLUB. Co-founder & CEO, @Echospin (acquired '10). VP, Digital, MTV.
Mark Ury
Storybird CEO. Built & sold 3 companies since college. Had a kid, then built products & services for Nike, Starbucks, and Apple. Back to building my own thing.
don loeb
BD @Typekit, xoogler, dad, berkeleyite, CAL fan - these are my personal views and not those of my employer :)
Steve Markowitz
- Private investor since 2001 - Founding chairman/CEO, MyPoints.com; led $46MM IPO & $211MM secondary offering - Grew consumer membership from zero to 16MM