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Ben Parr

Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable.

Not gonna stop until we win.

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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.
Greg Bettinelli
SVP of Marketing at HauteLook (now part of Nordstrom). Former eBay, StubHub, Live Nation
Ross Mayfield
VP Biz SlideShare, Co-founder, CEO Socialtext, Founder RateXchange took IPO, advisor to Estonian President.
Oren Jacob
Cofounder, CEO ToyTalk. "Lean Launchpad" instructor Stanford, Berkeley. Mentor 500 Startups. EIR AugustCapital. CTO Pixar. Supervising Tech Dir "Finding Nemo".
Norman Winarsky
Vice President of Ventures at SRI • Co-Founder and Board Member of Siri (Acquired by Apple)
Phil Libin
CEO of Evernote. Enthusiast.
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
Graham Jenkin
Venture Hacker and Product Designer @AngelList. Ex-Google head of UX for Ads and Commerce. Ex-BofA head of UX.
Ben Mathes
Hacker at AngelList, at RockYou when it was #1, early at Readyforce. CS Masters 2 years early.
Kevin Montag
Venture Hacker @AngelList. Ex CTO @Hearsay News. Stanford Physics/CS.
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.
Dharmesh Shah
Founder and CTO of HubSpot and blogger at OnStartups.com
Dan Martell
Canadian. CEO/Founder of Clarity.fm. Co-Founder of Flowtown (Acquired '11), Founder of Spheric Tech (Acquired '08), Mentor @ 500Startup. Investor in many.
David E. Weekly
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Garry Tan
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Fred Destin
Partner at Atlas Venture
Boston · VC
Don Dodge
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
Peter Bordes
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
Micah Baldwin
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
Danielle Morrill
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Brandon Zeuner
Co-founding Partner @ Venture51. Founding team @ Flypaper (acquired in '11). Started at Interact (makers of ACT! & SalesLogix).
Michael Parekh
A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994
Daniel R. Odio
CEO of Socialize. Raised $1.5MM. Founded & sold PointAbout. Profiled in Wall Street Journal. General Electric TLP. Active founder+lifehacker blog. UVa McIntire
Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Ryan Swagar
Co-founding Partner @Venture51
David Beyer
Co-founder of Chart.io (YC 2010). Founding Partner at Spinnakr (500S). Sometimes investor.
Loic Le Meur
Founder of social software app Seesmic and LeWeb conference the #1 european tech conference
Nick ONeill
I founded Social Times Inc. in 2007 and sold it to WebMediaBrands (parent company behind mediabistro.com) in 2010. Now I'm building my next company...
Chris McCann
Welcome to the media revolution
Pedro Torres Picón
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
Peter Pham
Co-Founder/Partner at Science. Entrepreneur, Advisor. Built a few startups - Color, BillShrink, Photobucket. Always the first on the dance floor.
Adam D'Augelli
VC at True Ventures. Lover of Disruptive Technology, Punk Music, and Burritos. http://www.lifeinbeta.org
Arjun Dev Arora
Founder and CEO Retargeter. Bus Dev & Strategy at Yahoo. Investment Banker at Jefferies
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
Soraya Darabi
Cofounder of Foodspotting. In a prior life, the Manager of Social Media + Digital Partnerships at The New York Times.
John Furrier
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
Bradley C. Harrison
Founder/Managing Partner @ BHV; early-stage VC focused on media, tech, and entertainment. Focused on great people; MIT, Sloan '01; USMA '94; Airborne Ranger
Austin · VC
Andy McLoughlin
Co-founder of Huddle. Investor in Postmates, OnSports, Pipedrive, Buffer, Secret Escapes. All about product, brand, go-to-market. Brit in SF. Love puns.
Mark Kingdon
Angel Investor. Former CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) and Organic; Entrepreneur in Residence at Idealab! Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
James Tamplin
Founder & CEO of Firebase (YC S11). MS Industrial and Systems Engineering. Previously founded and sold SendMeHome.com.
Steven Vachani
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Sarah Prevette
Founder Sprouter (acquired by Postmedia). Inc Magazine Top 30 Under 30. Canadian Business Top 20 "Power Elite".
Igor Shoifot
convicted serial entrepreneur, investor, teacher (Berkeley, NYU, Stanford, UCSF), daffy startup adviser, stuttering writer, loud speaker
Michael Kim
Managing Partner at Cendana Capital; Investor and LP Advisory Committee member of IA Ventures, PivotNorth Capital, Freestyle Capital and SoftTechVC.
Anand Iyer
cto @ onsports. ex-product at IGN. ex-product on microsoft's windows phone 7. startup enthusiast. developer evangelist. saints fan. boilermaker. foodie. hack3r.
Doug Camplejohn
CEO and Founder. Carnegie-Mellon Engineer.
Paul Stamatiou
Hacker. Georgia Tech Alum. Texas born Greek. Known for PSTAM.com. Co-founder @Picplum (YC S11), Notifo (YC W10), Skribit. Got my 15min in my own Nike ad.
Sean Rad
GM at Hatch Labs (IAC company). Founder of Adly (largest celebrity endorsement platform for social media). Previously Founder of Orgoo (unified communications).
Natasha Murashev
Co-founder at StartupStats.com. Learning Ruby at natashatherobot.com. Worked at Google and the FBI. Northwestern class of 2008.
Marcus Nelson
Dir of Social Media @Salesforce. Co-Founded @UserVoice, TaskPick, Superstarch - Chili Champ
Albert Lai
Serial Entrepreneur. Recently: Big Viking Games/co-founder/ceo, Kontagent/co-founder (Analytics). Sold: BubbleShare (Disney), MyDesktop (WebMediaBrands).
Thomas Knoll
Founder, @Clipppr. Community Architect. Advisor. Previously: community, product, marketing, customer development at LaunchRock, Zappos, UserVoice, and Seesmic.
Robin Wauters
European Editor at @TheNextWeb. Lover of startups, my family and Belgian beer. Used to write for @TechCrunch. Full bio at http://www.robinwauters.com
Jared Goralnick
Founder & CEO, AwayFind. Sold tech co w/clients like HP, NTT, FBI. Worldwide speaker on email and productivity. Deep business, engineering, & UX experience.
Michael Mayernick
Co-founder of Spinnakr. Experienced developer of analytics software. Co-founder of @proudlymadeindc and @dctechmeetup
Justin Massa
founder and ceo of Food Genius
Hooman Radfar
Founder & Executive Chairman Clearspring
Brett Petersel
Chief Marketing Officer at Comunitee; Worked at Mashable, The Next Web; Founder of TheCommunityManager.com, eBusinessCards.com; Author; Former schoolteacher
Thomas Hessler
Dad | Entrepreneur | CEO | Founder zanox & Globumbus | Angel Investor in Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding, Crowdeducation, Cloud social mobile geo game mashups :-)
Francine Hardaway
Advisor and friend to entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Deep on marketing.
Anand Chandrasekaran
Head of Product, Mobile Search / Commerce - Yahoo!, Venture Advisor (Storm Ventures). World Economic Forum YGL. Founder, Aeroprise (acq BMC Software), Openwave.
Kristo Ovaska
I'm passionate about enpowering entrepreneurs and catalyzing startups from Baltic Rim, founder of @aaltoes @aaltogarage @funrank @Startup Sauna @startuplife_in
Sean Percival
Founder/CEO @Wittlebee. LA Native. Dad.
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.
Mark Silva
Founded several companies and have worked with hundreds of startups through my digital marketing career, bringing the Valley to big brands & 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.
Touraj Parang
Innovation catalyst; Ex VC & lawyer; Founder of Jaxtr; Currently VP Strategy & Corporate Development at Webs
Rick Bakas
Husband, Founder of @BakasMedia, Keynote speaker, Former NIKE brand guy, Sommelier, Creator of #CabernetDay, VP of Mktg at @PressPay- http://bit.ly/GetPressPay
Immad Akhund
Co-founder of Heyzap and Clickpass
Jesse Thomas
Jesse Thomas is the Founder of JESS3 – a creative interactive agency specializing in Social Media Data Visualization.
Eric M. Jackson
CEO of CapLinked. Former head of marketing at PayPal. Author of "The PayPal Wars."
Tomaz Stolfa
Founder at vox.io. Mobile, web, telco.
Jason L. Baptiste
founder of onswipe and author at OnStartups. Kills it on a regular basis.
Hilary Karls
Entrepreneur, Software Engineer. Current: Co-Founder at a stealth startup; Prev: Sociable Labs, Clean Tech Open, Google; MIT EECS BS 05, Wellesley Econ BA 04
Jose Cobian
Startup Advisor and Investor. Partner @okuriventures, @tetuanvalley @Startupbootcamp and @StartupSpain
Kim-Mai Cutler
Writer at TechCrunch
Valerie Petredis
Managing Partner Reinmkr Inc.
Travis Wallis | PeopleBrowsr API
Curator, PeopleBrowsr Labs | Director, API Strategy
Alessandro Santo
Entrepreneurial-minded, Columbia/Kauffman educated, finance dude
JR Storment
Co-Founder @Cloudability, Product and Marketing.
Stephen Messer
Co-founder, former Chariman & CEO of LinkShare.com
Eric Ingram
founder fwd, e-commerce entrepreneur, designer, programmer.
Benjamin Pofcher
Analyst at BHV LLC
Liana Burtsava
Founder of Trendy Lime. Director and VP roles at start-ups and corporations in 3 continents (Fotki.com, Dafiti, Inditex, McKinsey, Philips, RWE). INSEAD MBA
Matt Schlicht
Previously the Social Product Lead at Ustream - 3.5 years, Digital Strategy for Lil Wayne - 2 years (Grew him from 1M to 30M+ fans on fb)
Steve Garfield
Author: Get Seen, Online Video Secrets / Founder: Boston Media Makers / Investor / Host: SteveGarfield.tv / Investor in Qik (sold to Skype)
Erik Moore
Former bond trader (merrill lynch). Among first to invest in zappos. Co-founded flicklaunch. Dartmouth BA Wharton MBA Best Trade: mentoring inner city kids
Jon Ferrara
Pioneer & creator of CRM solutions, CEO - Nimble.com, Founder of GoldMine. Interests; Social Business, Customer Lifecycle, Acquisition, Enchantment & Retention.
Daniel Zarick
Product at Twilio. That's about it so far.
Nathaniel McNamara
Founder of Tip or Skip - Former entrepreneur (Chintano/PrivacyBank), VC (HIG Ventures), and more (McKinsey, Wharton, Poker).
Vivian Chien
Previously a CPA at KPMG
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