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Ed Roman

Founded 2 startups, sold one. Lean Startup expert. Connected to many important entrepreneurs. Runs a private entrepreneur network. Mentors startups.

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Brad Feld
Managing Director at Foundry Group
Boulder · VC
Tim Chang
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Bob Metcalfe
UTexas Austin Professor of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise; Polaris Partner; MIT Trustee. Past: Harvard, PARC, Stanford, 3Com, InfoWorld.
Austin · VC
Bill Boebel
Entrepreneur/engineer. CTO/co-founder Webmail.us (acq RAX). I also help a few amazing companies, including via Capital Factory, 500 Startups, TechStars & 21212
Jack Herrick
Founder / CEO wikiHow. Co-CEO eHow (sold to Demand Media). Co-founder at Luminescent Technologies (over $25 MM VC) and BigTray (Sequoia).
Jason A. Hoffman
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Kip McClanahan
Founder Broadjump (IPO), over six startups returned $800m in shareholder equity
Andy Palmer
CEO & Co-Founder of Vertica Systems and Founding Board Member at Recorded Future, CloudSwitch & Upstart
Matt Shobe
Serial entrepreneur, father, marathon runner, private pilot. (Order of importance varies by the hour.)
Brian Ascher
Partner at Venrock
Taher Haveliwala
Founder Kaltix (acquired by Google in 2003). Stanford CS PhD. Startup Advisor.
William Hsu
Partner, MuckerLab - Entrepreneur, Executive, Product Guy.
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.
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.
Paul Singh
Partner at 500 Startups
Robert Scoble
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
500 Startups
Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
Joshua Baer
Founded 3 email companies and Capital Factory. Teaching 1 Semester Startup at University of Texas. Trilogy Alumni 1999. CS Carnegie Mellon.
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.
Matt Ocko
Investor for 20 years in teams (Zynga, XenSource/CTRX Facebook, Datamirror/IBM, Fortinet/FTNT, Tango, Metaweb, D-Wave) solving hard problems for large markets.
Hiten Shah
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
Peter Bordes
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
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).
Brendan Baker
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
Josh Felser
Seed investor and serial entrepreneur. Co-founded Freestyle (early stage VC). Co-founded Spinner (sold to AOL), Grouper/Crackle (sold to Sony) & FYILiving.com
Steve Anderson
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
David Beyer
Co-founder of Chart.io (YC 2010). Founding Partner at Spinnakr (500S). Sometimes investor.
Hackers And Founders
We make life suck 34% less for early startups. 5.8k members Silicon Valley. 15 global chapters. 15+ members
Joshua Reeves
Co-founder/CEO, ZenPayroll. Co-founder/CEO, Unwrap (Acquired 2010). Zazzle. BS & MS EE at Stanford.
Amir Banifatemi
Managing partner at Bayspring Group, Founder K5Launch. Board Member and President / Investor at Tech Coast Angels.
Pedro Torres Picón
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
Christoph Janz
Internet entrepreneur (DealPilot, Pageflakes) and angel investor, mainly SaaS (Zendesk, FreeAgent Central, Clio, samedi, inFakt.pl, momox.de, Geckoboard,...).
Ryan Spoon
Principal at Polaris Venture Partners. Formerly: eBay, beRecruited (founder), Flite / Widgetbox.
Jai Choi
Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
Murat Aktihanoglu
Founder and Managing Director at ER Accelerator, Author of "Location Aware Applications", Serial Technology Entrepreneur
Kirill Sheynkman
Managing Director at RTP Ventures. Three time founder and CEO, Venture Partner at Greycroft, technologist at heart now running a VC fund.
Michael Tanne
Innovator, investor. Founder, AdForce, Wink. Worked @ Verity, Apple. Investor/Advisor: LinkedIn, Cloudmark, Wikia, ICONAircraft, BrightRoll, Fundly, GAINFitness
Bill Tai
Angel or Seed in Twitter (Tweetdeck), Tango, ContextLogic, Soundtracking. VC in >15 startups that IPO'd; Founder or Chairman of 3 companies (1 IPO, 2 sales).
John Furrier
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
Sam Decker
Founder/CEO Mass Relevance, Founding CMO Bazaarvoice, Co-founder Capital Factory, 7-year Dell Exec, 5 startups B2B & B2C (product, marketing, biz dev), author.
Marshall Kirkpatrick
CEO of Plexus Engine, a data mining tool suite for marketers, PR & media in pre-release beta. Former Co-Editor at ReadWriteWeb & Lead Writer at TechCrunch.
Clark Landry
Executive Chairman of GraphEffect and angel investor
Jameson Detweiler
Co-Founder // CEO of LaunchRock. Last startup failed thanks to lack of users. PhD dropout.
Peter Chane
Director of Partnerships and Business Development at Google Chrome OS
John Landry
Serial CTO and Entrepreneur - Angel Investor at Lead Dog Ventures... More at www.leaddog.com
Sam Zaid
Founder and CEO of Getaround; Advisor and investor in Gazaro; Founder and advisor to Apption; Occasional angel investor.
Elon Boms
Managing Director, LaunchCapital
Sarah Prevette
Founder Sprouter (acquired by Postmedia). Inc Magazine Top 30 Under 30. Canadian Business Top 20 "Power Elite".
Zarko Maletin
Vice President - Investments / M&A at Plug & Play Tech Center
Salil Deshpande
General Partner at Bay Partners; Investor with exits (SpringSource, Dynatrace, Jambool, others) and several seeds and pseudo-seeds that have matured.
Tyler Willis
BD at Unified. Advisor to BranchOut. Was employee #6 at Involver, grew customer base to more than 100K as the Head of Marketing (now at over 1m).
Landon Pollack
Managing Partner, Ignite Venture Partners
Jerry Michalski
Your guide to the Relationship Economy.
Roham Gharegozlou
VC at Rising Tide Fund. Also: angel investor, startup advisor, mentor at TechWadi.org, cofounder of Launch Labs. Relentless optimist.
Andy Yang
I run Extreme Startups | Former VC | Formerly at Chegg. Netflix. Thomas Weisel Partners. Goldman Sachs. Accenture. | Chicago MBA. Cal undergrad.
Neal Rapoport
Founder Dealtaker (sold to Media General), Founder Company Factory, Dude.
Bob Zipp
Founder, Managing Parter at Amicus Capital
Mark Birch
Principal Birch Ventures (Investor Postling, Profitably) Advisor SocialWish, Trader
Sean Rad
GM at Hatch Labs (IAC company). Founder of Adly (largest celebrity endorsement platform for social media). Previously Founder of Orgoo (unified communications).
Sunil Paul
Founder, Spring Ventures; Brightmail ($370M to Symantec) and FreeLoader ($38M); First Internet PM at AOL; Zynga board member
Jeff Schox
Patent Attorney. Mentor at 500Startups and RockHealth. Professor at Stanford and UMichigan. Early investor in Twilio, Bubbli, and Massive Health.
Tom Tunguz
Investor at Redpoint
Nitesh Banta
Investor at General Catalyst. Founding team of Getaround and Summer Workation. Have invested in Kayak, HubSpot, BigCommerce, Abine and Thumb.
Boston · VC
Chris Sheehan
Managing Director at CommonAngels - Boston based group of early stage investors http://www.commonangels.com
Michael Mayernick
Co-founder of Spinnakr. Experienced developer of analytics software. Co-founder of @proudlymadeindc and @dctechmeetup
Omar El-Ayat
VC at Crosslink Capital. Investor at Visual.ly, Postmates, Scripted, Ark, Vungle, and several other awesome companies.
Mark Friedgan
Manager at CatapultFund; Angel Investor; CTO at FundScience Inc.; BS/MS Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; CIO Top 100/InfoWorld Top 25 CTO
Rohit Sharma
CEO Syfto previously founder & CTO ONI ($ONIS), Acquired by $CIEN EIR @ MDV, founder-MetaMachinix, CEO - Vdopia, PrincipalPartner @ MDV,
Nabeel Hyatt
3x entrepreneur & product guy, last co sold to Zynga. Now an investor at Spark, dad, geek.
Bastian Lehmann
Posmtates Co-Founder & CEO - I'm addicted to customer feedback. I have no respect for the status quo.
Oscar Salazar
CEO/Co-Founder @CitiVox. Co-Founder/Advisor @Uber
Arjun Sethi
I love product. Palo Alto/San Francisco, Facebook, Isocket, Tapjoy, Yardsale, Kicksend, Betable, Wantful.
Joel Gascoigne
Founder of @Buffer. Took idea to revenue in 7 weeks. Full Stack Developer hacking since 12 with Masters in CS. Previously founded @OnePage. Occasional speaker.
Bakari Brock
Twitter lawyer. Ex-YouTube lawyer. Georgian at heart. Californian by location. Good things: music. tech. geo. mobile. snowboarding.
Keith Powers
Head of Strategic Development at Khan Academy. I like to build things that help humanity.
Nick Ducoff
I co-founded Infochimps and led the company as CEO from 2010-11. Now I am applying what I've learned as VP Content at Boundless. Previously, I was a VC lawyer.
Ben Smith
Investor, Advisor to and Founder of Technology Businesses
John A. De Goes
CEO / CTO @ Precog.io. Veteran software craftsman, experienced manager, entrepreneur, startup junkie, consultant, master generalist. http://precog.io
Soren Macbeth
Co-founder of @StockTwits. Chief Data Hacker @YieldBot. I like hacking, startups, data viz, machine learning, entrepreneurs, building and learning new things.
Matt Dickinson
Founded iMega $0-$8.6M EBIT 3yrs sold for 8 figures. Founded Growth Angels, investing and helping great teams grow their businesses. Online Marketing Expert.
William Kasel
Entrepreneur, Advisor, Investor. Sold over $1MM worth of mobile/social services to fortune 1000's. Designer behind MyPad, 30MM+ downloads on iPad/iPhone.
Rudy Garza
Founder of G51 Capital. Investor in SocialWare, Memeo, Motion Computing, iTaggit/PriceAdvice.com.
Austin · VC
Taylor Davidson
Early-stage VC at kbs+ Ventures (@kbspvc), focused on advertising and marketing technology. Background in mobile, financial services, photography.
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.
Stephanie Robesky
The original Nerdgirl.com. Founder of Grows Up. Previously at Netscape, Sega, Skype, PeoplePC & Atomico Ventures. International e-comm & product geek.
Touraj Parang
Innovation catalyst; Ex VC & lawyer; Founder of Jaxtr; Currently VP Strategy & Corporate Development at Webs
Jeff Tannenbaum
Investor @ BlueRun Ventures. also: developer, product designer, founder and investor in mobile & consumer web start-ups.
Adam Winter
Technology Consultant, Strategist, Angel Investor, former Entrepreneur
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...
Lloyd Armbrust
Founder and CEO of OwnLocal; Y Combinator W10; 10+ years in the newspaper industry.
Mark Hager
Investor in Episencial, give2gether, Bit.ly, Powermat, Briefcam, Ctera Networks. Team member of ALM-UNLTD.
Matt Turck
Managing director, Bloomberg Ventures. Previously, co-founder of TripleHop Technologies, acquired by Oracle. Twitter: @mattturck. Blog: http://mattturck.com
John Elton
Partner at iNovia Capital
Peter Kirwan
Currently Entrepreneur in Residence at Neustar. CSO of Webmetrics, sold to Neustar. Founder Servercast, Sold to CMGi/Navisite and CTO through IPO.
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