Jason Calacanis
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
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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
VP, Google. Investor in Minted, One Kings Lane, Square. MSCS, Stanford.
Former Executive at PayPal, LinkedIn and Slide. Current Executive at Square
Investor in Skype, Chegg, Square, Etacts, Dailybooth, Flipboard, Nowmov, CitizenNet, Optimizely, Mobile Roadie, Brizzly.
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
Founder Techcrunch, CrunchFund Partner, blogger at Uncrunched.
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
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/
@Evan Williams Farm boy from Nebraska. Co-founder of Twitter. http://evhead.com
CEO of Science, Former CEO MySpace, CEO/Founder Userplane, CEO/Founder PBJ Digital, CEO Tsavo Media, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
CEO at Tasty Labs; Member of Technical Staff at Google; Director Engineering del.icio.us at Yahoo; founder at del.icio.us
Founder of Technology Incubator Idealab and 100 companies in last 30 years. Tweeting while on my quest for learning in life and at conferences.
Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.
Family 1st! but after that, Businessman, @winelibrary, @VaynerMedia, Author of @TYEbook and a dude that Loves the hustle (hard work), people and the @nyjets
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
COO at Badoo • Former Director of Search Products Google • Director of Partnerships, Content & Platforms YouTube • Director of Platform Facebook
Managing Director at Menlo Ventures; Co-Founder of SGN
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite
Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
Partner at YCombinator, Founder of FriendFeed, Creator of GMail
Partner at Embarcadero Ventures;
VP, User Growth, Mobile at Facebook;
VP, Platform & Monetization at Facebook;
VC at Mayfield Fund, VP & GM, AIM + ICQ at AOL
Co-Founder of Reddit, launched Hipmunk as marketing guy (now advisor), Chief Swine Defender at Breadpig,
Founder of HOTorNOT.com, Angel Investor.
Founder/CEO of Yammer. Founder of Geni. Original COO and product leader of PayPal.
Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd
http://john.jubjubs.net
Co-founder and CEO of Yelp
General Partner at Benchmark Capital
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.
Co-founder of Votizen • Founder Advisor at SV Angel • First Designer-in-Residence at Bessemer • Former Lead Designer at Mint.com
Maker of websites & mobile apps. Blippy, AdBrite, F-ckedcompany, TinyLetter, Mobog, BritePic, Tweetname, HitMeLater, Fast140, QuickRot, more. Author & drummer.
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Formerly VP Product at Twitter;
Product Manager at Google
Founder, Wikipedia and Wikia
Co-Founder & CEO of Circa. Co-Founded 1% of Nothing, SimpleGeo & Socialthing.
CTO at Obama for America, former CTO of Threadless and Advisor at Sandbox Industries.
Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of HDNet. He is also a "shark" investor on Shark Tank.
Partner at Index Ventures
Former VC (Battery), Co-Founder Tickle (Monster), WonderHill (Kabam), Jiff, Medpedia.
Business guy for @Asana, entrepreneur, angel investor in many great start-ups. Former Chief Product officer at SolarWinds (SWI).
Partner at Accel
Founder/CEO of XPD (sold, now Zynga China). Angel in Twitter, Square, and Foursquare. Advisor to Flipboard.
UTexas Austin Professor of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise; Polaris Partner; MIT Trustee. Past: Harvard, PARC, Stanford, 3Com, InfoWorld.
Entrepreneur/engineer. CTO/co-founder Webmail.us (acq RAX). I also help a few amazing companies, including via Capital Factory, 500 Startups, TechStars & 21212
Founder, LUXr. Leader in the UX+Startup world. Entrepreneur. Co-founder and former CEO of Adaptive Path.
Co-Founder & Former CEO of StubHub
Product Director, Ads at Facebook
Founding Partner, Founder Collective; Formerly CEO LiveOps
Long-time entrepreneur. Current partner at Google Ventures
Startup investor/advisor and former entrepreneur
Platform Team @ Twitter; CTO at Bebo; Co-Founder of Hi5
Grew up in Cape Town. Came to Stanford in 1998. Joined PayPal in 2000 & became CFO. Joined Sequoia in 2003. Invested in YouTube in 2005.
Founder Ditto (sold to Groupon) & Jaiku (sold to Google)
Co-Founder and CEO of Uber
Chief Monkey at Monkey Inferno. CEO/Founder of Bebo. Viral marketing/product guy.
Family man, Chairman and CEO Dell.com msdf.org msdcapital.com
Venture capitalist, Partner at Lerer Ventures, entrepreneur, media executive (ex-CEO of The Huffington Post, ex-CEO of Ziff-Davis), passionate about the oceans
I'm a product designer inspired by Apple, Audi, and Amazon. I've never owned a PC. I worked on Final Cut Pro at Apple. I’m the founder and CEO of Posterous.
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
Co-founder, Scribd.com
Entrepreneur, Founder Chegg.com
Serial entrepreneur (3 startups), Mafia Wars founder, Angel investor (10+ companies)
SVP of Marketing at HauteLook (now part of Nordstrom). Former eBay, StubHub, Live Nation
Founder and CEO of OneTrueFan. Founder of Gnip, MyBlogLog (sold to Yahoo!) and IGN (IPO, sold to Newscorp)
Early WebLogic engineer, EIR at Accel & Benchmark, Founder of Gauntlet Systems (Borland acq), Chief Technologist at Yahoo!, Founder of Bagcheck (Twitter acq)
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
Angel Investor, Vice President - Intuit, Homestead.com COO&CFO, Band of Angels, father of 2, bass player
Founder Factual. Founder Applied Semantics (developed ASI AdSense, bought by Google).
VP of Corporate Development at Google
Founder & CEO at SecondMarket
VP & CTO at Amazon.com
Founder: Earthlink, Boingo; co-Founder: eCompanies, Jamdat, Business.com; entrepreneur & investor
CEO at Crowdstar; VP - Business Development at AdMob
Founder of MySpace/Former President. Started two small Internet companies before MS, both profitable exits.
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Partner at Sequoia Capital
SVP Zynga; CEO and President of Yandex Labs; SVP Yahoo Search Group
CEO of SurveyMonkey, was co-founder and CEO of Launch Media (sold to Yahoo) and ran Yahoo Music
Founder Shopzilla ($562MM exit), Founder BizRate.com (top 100 website), Founder Cheers
Netflix Co-founder. Entrepreneur, Investor and Advisor
Chairman, LiveOps; former COO, eBay; member of Salesforce board
CEO at Xobni; Vice President, Social Search at Yahoo!; Vice President, Real Time Communications at Yahoo, Inc.; Founder at Starbox Systems
Founder of Keyhole, VP Geo at Google
Founder and CEO of Mightybell. Co-founded Ning.
