Dan Von Kohorn
Head of screening at Beacon Angels, serial team player. Finance and software background.
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Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor.
Managing partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners.
Founder, CEO, O'Reilly Media
Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
Managing Director at Foundry Group
Entrepreneur
Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
Author of The Lean Startup
Former Executive at PayPal, LinkedIn and Slide. Current Executive at Square
Product @ Google. Previous: CEO at Milk, Founder of Digg. Co-Founder of Revision3. Board member at Tony Hawk Foundation.
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Founder and Managing Director, Lowercase Capital
Co-founder at Founder Collective; Co-founder, CEO at Hunch; CEO/Co-founder at SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee)
A venture capitalist that invests in who we are and who we are becoming.
Co-founder/CTO PayPal; Founder/CEO Slide; Founder/CEO HVF; angel, tinkerer, cyclist, spy.
Managing Partner, Floodgate • Example investments include Twitter, digg, Solarwinds, Chegg, Demandforce, Aggregate Knowledge, ngmoco, Smule, and Spiceworks
Author of #1 NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, Japanophile, tea drinker, tango world record holder, language learning fanatic.
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar...
http://ma.tt/
CEO at Tasty Labs; Member of Technical Staff at Google; Director Engineering del.icio.us at Yahoo; founder at del.icio.us
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
We like startups
Keen (Ingenio), DimensionX, Wallop, Coveroo and Cloudmark. $500+ million in exits to msft, at&t etc. Early advisor to facebook.
venture capitalist, dad, husband, music lover, optimist
http://www.bijansabet.com
Managing Director at Menlo Ventures; Co-Founder of SGN
COO at Badoo • Former Director of Search Products Google • Director of Partnerships, Content & Platforms YouTube • Director of Platform Facebook
Founder of HOTorNOT.com, Angel Investor.
VP Product at Google
Co-founder and CEO of Yelp
Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd
http://john.jubjubs.net
Managing Director at Morado Venture Partners. Former EVP, CPO and early engineer at Yahoo!.
Co-founder of BetterWorks. Founder of MyMiniLife (sold to Zynga). Co-Creator of Farmville.
Partner at Accel
SVP Commerce & Local, Google. SVP Eng (all Ad systems & Google Apps), Google. VP Architecture & Systems, eBay. SVP Eng, Excite@Home. Board member, EA.
Marin Software Bd Member; Recurrent Energy Co-founder & COB; Work.com CEO; Excite@Home GM & SVP; bd member @ multiple public and private companies.
Startup investor/advisor and former entrepreneur
VC @ Lightspeed
Partner at Imagine K12. Partner at Y Combinator.
Former CEO of music startup Lala (acquired by Apple); Former Chief Product Officer at Yahoo!
Co-Founder and CEO of Uber
Founder HotOrNot; I/O Ventures
Partner of Bessemer Venture Partners, blogger, father of 3, born again atheist, singer with VIH
http://WhoHasTimeForThis.com
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
Founder / CEO wikiHow. Co-CEO eHow (sold to Demand Media). Co-founder at Luminescent Technologies (over $25 MM VC) and BigTray (Sequoia).
Cofounder, author, and chief architect of the WebLogic Application Server. 10+ years angel investor & advisor. Now CTO-in-Residence at Accel Partners in NYC
Investor in Google, Mint, Zazzle, StumbleUpon, Bump, Tellme, Pinkberry.
General Partner at Matrix
CEO of SurveyMonkey, was co-founder and CEO of Launch Media (sold to Yahoo) and ran Yahoo Music
Founder Super Rewards, acquired by AdKnowledge. Founder GrowLab Accelerator, Founder and CEO at Eastside Games. Investor in many.
Co-founder and CTO iPrint.com (NASD:IPRT). Co-founder and CTO MessageCast (Sold to Microsoft). StartX mentor, technical advisor.
CEO at DAR.fm
CEO at MP3tunes
CEO at Gizmo5
CEO at Linspire
CEO at MP3.com
Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic
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
Board Member, AngelList. Founder & Chairman, Vast. Investor/VC: LiveCapital (sold to D&B), Krillion (sold to Local.com), Showme, Powergetics, etc.
Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed.
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
General partner, GRP Ventures & 2x entrepreneur. Sold Koral to Salesforce.com
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
Managing Partner at SoftTech VC (one of the original micro-vcs, before it was fashionable ;). Invested in 125+ companies in 8 years. And really loving it.
Founder and CTO of HubSpot and blogger at OnStartups.com
Managing Director of TechStars NYC
Managing Member of BoxGroup (Angel Investor)
Founded 3 email companies and Capital Factory. Teaching 1 Semester Startup at University of Texas. Trilogy Alumni 1999. CS Carnegie Mellon.
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
Managing Member at SV Angel
Founder/CEO of TechStars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone.
http://www.davidgcohen.com
Founder and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures. Formerly Sr. Manager, Strategic Partner Development; Product Manager; International Sales Manager at Google
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
Director of MIT Media Lab, Co-Founder of Digital Garage, Ex-CEO Creative Commons, Investor in: Flickr, Kongregate, Kickstarter, Twitter, Technorati, Last.fm
A man. A plan. A panda.
Founder + CEO BetterWorks, adrenaline fueled angel, Marine...
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Erick Schonfeld is the former Editor of TechCrunch. He has been covering startups and technology news since 1993.
Rapleaf's CEO and janitor.
http://blog.summation.net
CEO/Co-Founder of Stocktwits..GP of Social Leverage (Angel Investing)..Wallstrip creator (purchased by $CBS)..Momentum, Acceleration & LOL hunter..Love Popcorn
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Chief Firestarter @ K9 Ventures
Prolific Investor. Medstory, Evernote, Flickr, Meetup, EDventure, Release 1.0, del.icio.us
Partner at Atlas Venture
Former entrepreneur (Upromise cofounder, Open Market VP) turned VC at Flybridge Capital. Serve as EIR at HBS and authored a book "Mastering the VC Game".
husband. dad. serial entrepreneur (firefly, lovefilm, seedcamp). operator (wpp, msft, skype). investor (index, TAG)
http://localglo.be
VP Enterprise Marketing, PBworks; Startup Investor and Advisor
Venture Partner at SoftTech VC (with @Jeff Clavier), CEO and Co-Founder of Bionic Panda Games. BD roles at Serious Business (now part of Zynga), Google, and Gaia Online
Managing Partner at IA Ventures.
Co-founder & CTO of Simple. Formerly Platform Lead and early employee at Twitter
Angel Investor. Advisor. More at tgm.com
The Founder Institute is a global network of startups and mentors that helps entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies.
YouTube, Google, Second Life, Conan O'Brien. Builds things in San Francisco. Likes citrus fruit. Wishes he knew magic tricks.
Founded DuckDuckGo. Co-founded NamesDatabase (sold to UNTD). B.S. & M.S. from MIT (Physics, Technology Policy). Angel investor. Hacker. Dad.
Investor in SimpleGeo, Mint, Get Satisfaction, Xobni, TaskRabbit, DNAnexus, Yieldex. Team member of First Round Capital.
Co-Founder and Partner at NextView Ventures. Previously VC at Spark Capital.
Investor at Union Square Ventures
Founder, Chief Operating Officer at betaworks
A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994
Founder at Harrison Metal
Early stage venture capitalist at http://www.ffvc.com
International Daddy of Mystery. Investor. Hatena (Board), Google (PM), OptoMail (Founder), Barclays Global Investors (Mktg)
Founder and Chairman, The Trisiras Group.
Investor, talker, etc.
Early stage VC at General Catalyst
