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Jason A. Hoffman

Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.

Followers
Tim Chang
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Matt Mullenweg
WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar... http://ma.tt/
Mike Jones
CEO of Science, Former CEO MySpace, CEO/Founder Userplane, CEO/Founder PBJ Digital, CEO Tsavo Media, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
Jonathan Abrams
Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.
Ariel Poler
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
James Hong
Founder of HOTorNOT.com, Angel Investor.
Janice Fraser
Founder, LUXr. Leader in the UX+Startup world. Entrepreneur. Co-founder and former CEO of Adaptive Path.
Jyri Engestrom
Founder Ditto (sold to Groupon) & Jaiku (sold to Google)
Dave Winer
Visiting scholar at NYU in journalism. Developed first blogging software, RSS and podcasting, outliners, web CMS. http://scripting.com/
Mark Jacobstein
CEO iSkoot, sold to QCOM (VP now). EVP loopt. Founder, Pres DChoc. Founder, CEO SW Sports & Soft, sold to Paul Allen & iXL. CS Harvard. Inventor fantasy sports
Bob Pasker
Cofounder, author, and chief architect of the WebLogic Application Server. 10+ years angel investor & advisor. Now CTO-in-Residence at Accel Partners in NYC
Ken Keller
Co-founder IGN.com & Cadence (SDA); emp #1 excite; emp #2 Frame.
David Skok
General Partner at Matrix
Boston · VC
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.
Ben Huh
Founder & CEO of Cheezburger, Inc.
Aaron Batalion
CTO & Co-founder, LivingSocial. Husband, Father, Geek, Entrepreneur, Advisor.
Maynard Webb
Chairman, LiveOps; former COO, eBay; member of Salesforce board
Kai Huang
Co-founder of RedOctane, creators of Guitar Hero
Oren Jacob
Cofounder, CEO ToyTalk. "Lean Launchpad" instructor Stanford, Berkeley. Mentor 500 Startups. EIR AugustCapital. CTO Pixar. Supervising Tech Dir "Finding Nemo".
Lars Mapstead
Founder Friendfinder Networks (FFN) Sold 2007 Founder Fupa Games Inc.
John Hanke
Serial entrepreneur - Keyhole founder (sold to Google) Google Geo VP, new project at Google
Sheeroy Desai
Love to start and build businesses.
Bram Cohen
BitTorrent inventor. Founder of BitTorrent Inc. Veteran of many startups.
Gerry Campbell
Angel investor & advisor - social, mobile, local tech. Portfolio includes Summize & Tweetdeck, both acq by Twitter. CEO Collecta, Pres Reuters Tech & SVP AOL
Jack Andrys
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Nolan Bushnell
Inventor of Pong, founder of Atari, Chuckie Cheese, built robots, hired Steve Jobs, father of electronic gaming & currently revolutionizing education
John Pettitt
CEO Free Range Content Inc. Ex: VP of Engr. BitTorrent. CTO/Founder CyberSource (IPO $2bn exit) & Beyond.com (IPO)
Adil Wali
Technology entrepreneur. Founder at Crowd Interactive and ModCloth. Investor at ClearGears.
Anshu Sharma
Product Guy who can connect dots that are obvious after the fact. Motto: Kindle-ize Everything.
Lawrence T Levine
Founded Trustwave(SecurePipe) (S1 filed in April 2011), Founded LFCI (ERP - Sold 1998), Created first Fetal Ultrasound System (1983). Old School - New Tech.
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.
Kevin Laws
Board Member, AngelList. Founder & Chairman, Vast. Investor/VC: LiveCapital (sold to D&B), Krillion (sold to Local.com), Showme, Powergetics, etc.
Khang Tran
Venture Hacker at AngelList, ex Head of Product at Friend.ly and WePay, engineer, designer, photographer.
Joshua Slayton
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously at Super Rewards (Adknowledge).
Ben Mathes
Hacker at AngelList, at RockYou when it was #1, early at Readyforce. CS Masters 2 years early.
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.
Navin Kumar
Founder and Geek. Former CTO of @Socialwok, now Venture Hacker.
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.
500 Startups
Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
Thomas Korte
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
Adam Rifkin
A man. A plan. A panda.
AngelPad
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
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.
Howard Lindzon
CEO/Co-Founder of Stocktwits..GP of Social Leverage (Angel Investing)..Wallstrip creator (purchased by $CBS)..Momentum, Acceleration & LOL hunter..Love Popcorn
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.
Anil Dash
Managing Director, Activate; Director, Expert Labs; Blogger, Dashes.com
Don Dodge
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
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
Jeff Fagnan
GP at Atlas Venture; founder of TUGG; advocate of uncertainty...
Tara Hunt
CEO, Buyosphere (current); Founder, Coworking; Author, The Whuffie Factor; Speaker, Leigh Bureau; Founder, Citizen Agency; Online Marketing Director, Like.com
Ronny Conway
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Ville Miettinen
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Ryan Sarver
Director Platform at Twitter; Director and early employee at Skyhook Wireless (mobile location, local)
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
Kelly Perdew
Co-Founder/CEO: TargetClose Investor: Klout, TroopSwap, BetterWorks, Scopely, Social Rewards, Bitium Advisor: LinkedIn, Pandora, TroopSwap, Ustream, Bitium
Pedro Torres Picón
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
Ted Rheingold
VP, Say Media. Founder & CEO Dogster/Catster (sold to Say) and OneMatchFire(.com). Community. Product. Business. Start-up advisor, investor, mentor.
Eric Chin
Partner at Crosslink Capital. Founder of Alpha (http://on.wsj.com/iHk2nk)
Lane Becker
Advisor, Freestyle.vc; founder, Get Satisfaction; founder, Adaptive Path; Author, "Get Lucky"; enjoys semicolons.
Kevin Cheng
Current: Co-Founder and President, Incredible Labs. Past: Product lead for twitter.com redesign; Dir Product Raptr; Designed Yahoo! Pipes.
Mike Walsh
Frontman at Rockstar Group, Advisor, Investor, trying to be an author (writing in process).
Kyle Bragger
Created Forrst (acquired by COLOURlovers 3/12). Made Tinyproj. Formerly engineer at mSnap, Huffington Post. Product guy, dev, swashbuckler.
Mark Mac Leod
I am a partner at Real Ventures, a Montreal-based seed VC fund where I focus on SaaS, freemium and e-commerce seed investments.
Jai Choi
Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
Ariel Arrieta
Marketer Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor. Co-Founder of NXTP Labs Co-founded Digital Ventures & InZearch, sold them to Fox a News Corp company (NASDAQ:NWS)
Murat Aktihanoglu
Founder and Managing Director at ER Accelerator, Author of "Location Aware Applications", Serial Technology Entrepreneur
Stewart Alsop
Partner at Alsop Louie Partners
Kirill Sheynkman
Managing Director at RTP Ventures. Three time founder and CEO, Venture Partner at Greycroft, technologist at heart now running a VC fund.
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
Jeff Miller
Hacker Angel. Founder @Punchfork. 11 yrs on Wall Street as a quant trader at Millennium & Goldman Sachs. BS Harvey Mudd, MS NYU/Courant. Data enthusiast.
Richard D. Titus
Prolific entrepreneur-founder, angel investor, and advisor in technology and media.
Max Niederhofer
Investor in Last.fm, Boticca, Skimlinks, Onefinestay, Fliptop.
Europe · VC
Edward Kim
Co-founder/CTO, ZenPayroll. Co-founder/CEO, Picwing (Acquired in 2011). Award-winning Android developer ($1MM/year in app sales). BS & MS EE at Stanford.
Alexander Mimran
Co-Founder Minbox, Co-Founder Penzu.
Matthias Galica
CEO @ShareSquare. Formerly Product Manager @WooMe and BI @Nike. Also curates @StartupDigest LA.
Tomer London
Co-founder, ZenPayroll. Co-founder/CEO, Vizmo. Worked at Bump, Intel. PhD cand. at Stanford EE. Stanford Graduate Fellow in Engineering.
Kurt Collins
Co-Founder: Enole. Engineer: SGI, CNET, Razorfish. Business Development: Photobucket, Clearspring.
Jared Kopf
entrepreneur: HomeRun, AdRoll, Slide, Justarrive; soldier: PayPal, IDEO; investor: Clarium, angel
John Furrier
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
Dan Rosen
Principal at Highland Capital Partners
Faruk Ateş
Founder of @four53. Frmly UI+UX at Apple, Product Designer at Apture (acq. by Google), creator of Modernizr (used on 190k+ sites globally).
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
William Bao Bean
Managing Director of Singtel Innov8 VC fund. 23 angel investments over 7 years mostly in China. Steering Committee for Angelvest largest angel group in China
Christopher Muenchhoff
Angel Investor, technical and financial background, focus on IT and meditec.
Ivan Kim
Co-founder of Better. Formerly, COO, Head of Product, Employee #2 at TinyCo. Designer at MailChimp. Parsons the New School for Design.
Andrew Mager
Developer Community Manager at Spotify in New York, NY. Formerly at SimpleGeo, Ning, CBS Interactive, and ESPN.
Alex Bangash
Rumson Group. Helped invest in over 50 funds spanning private equity, Growth, VC and Real Estate. Invested globally in US, India, Europe, and China.
MassChallenge
MassChallenge is the world's largest startup accelerator and competition. We award $1M annually to high impact startups (no strings attached, no equity taken).
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