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Andrew Conru

Stanford PhD, Early Internet pioneer, 20+ Internet startups including founder/CEO Friend Finder (grew to $300M/year)

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Mitch Kapor
Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
Ariel Poler
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
Gokul Rajaram
Product Director, Ads at Facebook
Jason A. Hoffman
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Charlie Cheever
Quora CTO. Investor in Elation EMR, Wikinvest, Art.sy. Worked at Facebook, Amazon. Harvard CS.
Philip Rosedale
Founder of Linden Lab / Second Life, Love Machine, Worklist.net, Coffee & Power. Building futuristic things with computers and electronics since I was a kid.
Lars Mapstead
Founder Friendfinder Networks (FFN) Sold 2007 Founder Fupa Games 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
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.
500 Startups
Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
Saar Gur
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Danielle Morrill
Director of Marketing at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. Code enough to be dangerous, execute like a freight train.
Ville Miettinen
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Pejman Nozad
Angel investor and founding partner of Amidzad, investor in Dropbox, Zoosk, Path, Causes, Soundhound, Backplane, Addepar, Ark and 40 other startups
Hackers And Founders
We make life suck 34% less for early startups. 5.8k members Silicon Valley. 15 global chapters. 15+ members
Dave Schappell
Director of Product, AmazonLocal. Former founder and CEO, TeachStreet
Matthias Galica
CEO @ShareSquare. Formerly Product Manager @WooMe and BI @Nike. Also curates @StartupDigest LA.
James Cham
Principal at Trinity Ventures
Steven Vachani
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
John Ricci
Founder/President U.S. Angel Investors. VP S&M Trader Media (acquired for $350M). Cofounder JMC Telecom. VP Sales and Marketing Bull
Bob Zipp
Founder, Managing Parter at Amicus Capital
Chris DeVore
General Partner at Founders Co-op. Co-founder Judy's Book (Mobius). Co-founder Adjacency (sold to Sapient). Head of Patagonia eCommerce. Stanford GSB, Yale.
Yu-kai Chou
Co-Founder/CEO of RewardMe. Regular Speaker/Lecturer at Stanford, Google etc. on Geolocation and Gamification.
Clint Nelsen
Co-Founder of StartupLabs.org - Investing in early stage tech companies. Co-Founder of StartupWeekend.org Founder of Tomatobattle.com
Gary Kremen
Founder of Match.com, Clean Power Finance ($100m from Kleiner and Google), Sex.com and now Sociogramics (5 VC funds). EE, CS and Stanford MBA
Justin Massa
founder and ceo of Food Genius
Kushal Chakrabarti
CEO, Vittana. Ironman triathlete.
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.
Jonathan Miller
International Entrepreneur, Investor and Investment Banker
Marcelo Calbucci
Co-founder & CTO at EveryMove.
Peter Rosberg
Current: Dir NA Product New Ventures, PayPal. Mentor 500 startups Prior: CTO Reel.com (sold to Hollywood Video), Consuling CTO/Advisor esurance, big words...
Glen Hellman
Multiple IPOs and profitable exits, Reformed VC-Hired Gun CEO, and current friend of the entrepreneur
Greg Gibson
Serial VC-backed entrepreneur in the ecommerce, new media, online advertising, virtual goods, and SMB markets with multiple exits.
Leila Janah
Advisor to Samshi Afrika Limited.
Dave Lerner
host & founder of @venturestudio, 3x entrepreneur, angel investor, director university venture lab
Ron Wiener
7-time startup CEO. Currently CEO of EquaShip, "the 4th parcel carrier" providing big shipper discounts to small and medium sized businesses.
John Backus
Investor in DivX, Solve Media, EnerNoc, Koofers, Massive, Pontiflex, Fashion Playtes, GlobalLogic, ContextWeb, Mobile365, Apptap, Healthwarehouse.com...
Kevin Henrikson
Early Zimbra engineering team member. Now lead Zimbra R&D at VMware. Interest in SaaS, Internet Publishing, Ad Networks, Communications/Email, and Enterprise.
Dave Chase
Avado powers h/c providers changing the game. Saving MDs admin costs, improving patient satisfaction and most importantly, improving health outcomes.
Adam Miller
Founded first business at 13. Invested in equities since 14. Started 4 companies after MIT Econ '07, sold one so far. Now CEO of Abroad101.
Steve O'Donnell
CEO S1NED, EIR Ariadne Capital, Chair Preventia, Chair of IAB at Violin Memory and Rackwise, IEEE Spokesperson on Cloud & IT Security, ran Data Centres for BT
Adrian Scott
Founder/CEO, Coderbuddy; past Founder, Social Networking Pioneer, Ryze; Founding Investor, Napster; PhD Math Rensselaer at age 20
Joe Wallin
Startup attorney in Seattle for Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP. Blogs at startuplawblog.com. Co-creator of Startup Trivia iPhone & Android mobile app.
Michael Terpin
Founder/CEO of SocialRadius, Startup Debut; founder Marketwire (funded by Sequoia & Hummer Winblad, sold $35mm in 2006). 10-15 investments/yr, usually clients.
Bob Crimmins
Founder at MoonTango, Chronic Technology Entrepreneur, Philosophy Grad, Poker Instigator
Michael Lazerow
Founder: Buddy Media, GOLF.com, U-WIRE. Investing out of a $10M family partnership with my wife and bro, Kass and John. We don’t have sharp elbows.
Enrique Dubois
Mola.com founder (Spanish Incubator and Accelerator), European Serial Entrepreneur.
Ben Wirz
Director Biz Consulting for Knight Foundation http://bit.ly/kbVKiC. Ex-founder/partner US Global.
George Favvas
CEO Rewardli (500 Startups W11). Early employee @ 2 startups w/exits. Founder Reflexity (0-$2M in 2 yrs), Imviva (failed), SmartHippo. FounderFuel mentor.
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.
Maya Bisineer
Founder, MeMeTales. Founder DoodleADoodle, Trendspace. MS Electrical Engineering - Ohio State, MBA - Fisher COB.
Andrea Vaccari
Cofounder and CEO of Glancee and phd dropout in data mining. Worked at Google, SFI, and MIT. Exhibited at MoMA in New York and Design Museum Barcelona.
Todd Hooper
CEO, Zipline Games; veteran of multiple startups including WatchGuard Technologies, Trillium Lane Labs and Napera Networks.
Josh Bob
Founder and CEO of TurnStar (formerly Textaurant). Background in marketing, operations, and BD, and strong networker. MBA, but don't hold it against me.
Michael Schutzler
CEO at LiveMocha; Senior Vice President at RealNetworks; SVP Consumer Products at Monster Worldwide; CEO at Classmates
Brenton Gieser
Co-Founder of JoynIn. Former President of Social Media Agency ConvoSpark. Past contributor to Mashable, Huffington Post and Am Ex Open Forum.
Michael Madison
Berkeley MBA, Stanford MSEE, UMBC BS CompEng. Cross-border VC. Coder. Recently picked up Rails 3.2 & Coffeescript.
Mark Brooks
I work exclusively with internet dating companies. My team and I have worked with and advised the CEOs of PlentyofFish, Friendster, FriendFinder, TRUE...
Andrew Birt
Co-founder & director AngelCube, Melbourne's first venture accelerator.
Zain Khan
Founder at OZ Ventures; Googler at Google Inc.
Mike Simonsen
I'm the co-founder CEO of Altos Research. We do real estate data for people who care about such things. I also dig Silicon Valley and the startup culture.
Trevor Fiatal
Seamless.ly CEO & Founder. Previously CTO/Co-Founder SEVEN Networks, Systems Architect at Excite@Home. Steve Jobs is my role model.
Jason Stoffer
Partner at Maveron LLC
Seattle · VC
Ken
Ken
COO at RONAstar
Stefan Weitz
Sarcastic geek, angel investor, crazed gadget junkie, and all around search guy at Microsoft.
Stuart B Richardson
Founding Partner of Adventure Capital, Co-founder Aurelius Digital Angel Network & York Butter Factory, Stanford SEP'09 - based in Melbourne, Australia
Susan Strausberg
CEO at 9WSearch, Inc
Kirill Zubovsky
Engineer, wonderer, sleepless in Seattle. Founder of Scoutzie.com
Giordano Bruno Contestabile
Franchise Business Director - Bejeweled at PopCap Games. Worked in Asia, LatAm, Europe and US
Charles Katz
Founder, CEO 1stUp (sold to CMGI for $60mm). Founder, ConnectGroup (sold to LodgeNet for $5mm). Angel investor in companies such as Stubhub, Yammer.
Rajit Marwah
Founder & CEO at Startup. Before that Chief Product Manager, VP at MySpace, Messenger and Hotmail at Microsoft, TL Ventures, Stanford.
Keya Dannenbaum
Founder and CEO at ElectNext | Education: Stanford, Princeton, Wharton | Campaigns: 1 Presidential, 18 Local | Other: Fulbright scholar, TEDx speaker.
Brian Baker
Angel investor for 20+ years,have learned a few things along the way
Saul Hansell
Building a visual news startup as an entrepreneur in residence at Betaworks. See http:\\SaulHansell.com
Rebecca Lovell
Chief Business Officer at GeekWire
Mike Grandinetti
MD,Southboro Capital,5X start-upCXO, 2 IPOs,5exits; Mentor:TechStars, Founders Inst, Long MIT affiliation.Ex McKinsey.Connector to large global start-up network
Boston · VC
Monis Rahman
Founded Pakistan's largest online recruiting platform, ROZEE.PK; Co-founded and sold eDaycare.com; Designed Branch Prediction unit on Intel's Itanium chip
Karen Bantuveris
Founder & CEO of VolunteerSpot - the leading mom-centric USEFUL viral tool on the web. > 1 Million users and growing! Former CEO, Radiance Learning.
Demi Pietchell
Founder/Filmmaker at Hollow Clone Factory, Director of Business Development at Giant Concepts, Chapter Chair at Social Media Club PBC, Film/TV and ITP NYU
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.
Tejpaul Bhatia
ESPN and BS from Columbia
Raj Ramanan
Executive at KKR. Consultant at McKinsey & Co. Experienced in finance and operations.
Kalimah Priforce
Biz dev for Qeyno Labs | Co-Founder of Pitch Mixer Entrepreneur Forum | 12+ yrs. educator | Co-founded TMCA (45 colleges, 200K students).
Jesse Altman
I saw the open window, knew it was about to close, so I jumped through it.
Dan Street
CEO of Loku. 1 of 7 Execs at KKR Ops, tech/media practice. Bain & Co, promoted directly to post-MBA. Primedia. Dell. Rice University.
Arun Pattnaik
Solving UX with product startups. Oravel, SlideShare, Zeebo Inc, Startup School, InstaPress, Globals Inc., Bidray & more.
Azeo Fables
CEO & Co-Founder at VizLingo
Shane Mac
Director of Product at Zaarly, Inc
Jeffrey McManus
Coder, manager, hustler. Started Yahoo's developer network and led eBay's platform evangelism team. Advisor to Twilio. Currently running CodeLesson.
Michael Stone
Co-Founder & President of Abroad101. '07 Tufts University Psychology/Communications Grad; Social entrepreneur; Studied and taught in France and Australia.
Cooper Marcus
Growth Hacker & App Marketplace expert - I make product + marketing = ultra-efficient customer acquisition. Founded 5 startups. Kellogg MBA, Angel Pad alum.
Mark Sendo
CEO of Social Gaming Company and Creator of Reality Show
Ian Andrew Bell
Founder & CEO of AppSocial Media / Creator of Tingle
Jon Cartwright
Co-Founder Food.ee (@Invoke Media), GM Westbeach, life long explorer.
Todd Dean
Created a powerful group of angel investors that translated into investments in over 104 companies, exceeding $61 Million dollars in start-ups 2005-2010.
Andrew Kinzer
Design co-founder of GroupTalent. Background in UX/UI, branding, product, marketing. Formerly design director of startups Pelago and JustShareIt.
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