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Jimmy Wales

Founder, Wikipedia and Wikia

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Mitch Kapor
Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
Brad Feld
Managing Director at Foundry Group
Boulder · VC
Josh Kopelman
Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
Matt Mullenweg
WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar... http://ma.tt/
Gil Penchina
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
Jyri Engestrom
Founder Ditto (sold to Groupon) & Jaiku (sold to Google)
Michael Birch
Chief Monkey at Monkey Inferno. CEO/Founder of Bebo. Viral marketing/product guy.
Jim Breyer
Partner, Accel. Founder, Breyer Capital. Early Facebook investor. Board of Directors: Facebook, News Corporation, Dell, Etsy, Brightcove, Prosper, Wal-Mart
Jack Herrick
Founder / CEO wikiHow. Co-CEO eHow (sold to Demand Media). Co-founder at Luminescent Technologies (over $25 MM VC) and BigTray (Sequoia).
Ross Mayfield
VP Biz SlideShare, Co-founder, CEO Socialtext, Founder RateXchange took IPO, advisor to Estonian President.
Jason A. Hoffman
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
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.
Rob Solomon
Former President & COO at Groupon. Former CEO, SideStep (acquired by Kayak). Board Director at HomeAway, Tiny Prints, and High Gear Media.
James Franklin
CEO at SendGrid
Bram Cohen
BitTorrent inventor. Founder of BitTorrent Inc. Veteran of many startups.
Haroon Mokhtarzada
Co-Founder/CEO Webs.com (acquired by Vistaprint). Co-Founder SGN (acquired by Mindjolt). Strong product focus.
Jack Andrys
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Jordan Mendelson
Founder & CTO at SeatMe, Chief Architect of Napster, Founder of SNOCAP, Founder of Web Services, Founder of Heavy Electrons, Senior Product at LinkedIn.
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
AJ Shanley
Venture Partner, Atlas Venture. Former COO at TrialPay and Director at Symantec. Seed Investor, advisor. Swarthmore College, Harvard MBA.
Joshua Slayton
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously at Super Rewards (Adknowledge).
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.
Thomas Korte
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
Andrew Chen
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
Joi Ito
Director of MIT Media Lab, Co-Founder of Digital Garage, Ex-CEO Creative Commons, Investor in: Flickr, Kongregate, Kickstarter, Twitter, Technorati, Last.fm
David Lifson
CEO at Postling
Adam Rifkin
A man. A plan. A panda.
AngelPad
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Erick Schonfeld
Erick Schonfeld is the former Editor of TechCrunch. He has been covering startups and technology news since 1993.
David E. Weekly
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Jeremie Berrebi
Co-founder at Kima Ventures - Investing in 1 to 2 startups a Week - Already invested in 18 countries
Esther Dyson
Prolific Investor. Medstory, Evernote, Flickr, Meetup, EDventure, Release 1.0, del.icio.us
Anil Dash
Managing Director, Activate; Director, Expert Labs; Blogger, Dashes.com
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
Jon Staenberg
Investor in Infospace, StubHub, Serious Materials, Evite, Seagate, Spinner, LiveBid.
Seattle · VC
Danielle Morrill
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Mike Butcher
Editor, TechCrunch Europe
Michael Parekh
A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994
Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Barney Pell
Founder Moon Express, Powerset (sold to Microsoft). Bing local, mobile, semantics . Assoc. Founder and Trustee, Singularity U. Active angel/advisor.
Tara Hunt
CEO, Buyosphere (current); Founder, Coworking; Author, The Whuffie Factor; Speaker, Leigh Bureau; Founder, Citizen Agency; Online Marketing Director, Like.com
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.
Reshma Sohoni
Investor in Kwaga, Farmeron, Patients Know Best, Scoville.
Hackers And Founders
We make life suck 34% less for early startups. 5.8k members Silicon Valley. 15 global chapters. 15+ members
Tim Draper
Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Jason Freedman
Co-Founder at 42Floors, fixing commercial real estate. Co-Founder at FlightCaster. Funded by Y Combinator/Sherpalo/Tandem. Acquired in '09. Blog: humbledMBA
Kelly Perdew
Co-Founder/CEO: TargetClose Investor: Klout, TroopSwap, BetterWorks, Scopely, Social Rewards, Bitium Advisor: LinkedIn, Pandora, TroopSwap, Ustream, Bitium
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...
Raj Kapoor
Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Belmont · VC
Sahil Lavingia
Making Gumroad. Previously @ Pinterest.
Alexander Lloyd
Worked at Apple, Activision, SGI, Microsoft. Have been helping seed stage companies since 1998. http://www.twylah.com/alex01 http://www.acceleratorventures.com
James D Robinson
Co-Founder / Managing Partner at RRE Ventures
Kevin Cheng
Current: Co-Founder and President, Incredible Labs. Past: Product lead for twitter.com redesign; Dir Product Raptr; Designed Yahoo! Pipes.
Philipp Moehring
Associate at @Seedcamp, managing portfolio (60+ cos), operations, & connecting Seedcamp network (2000+ mentors & investors). I answer email faster than you.
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)
Max Niederhofer
Investor in Last.fm, Boticca, Skimlinks, Onefinestay, Fliptop.
Europe · VC
Soraya Darabi
Cofounder of Foodspotting. In a prior life, the Manager of Social Media + Digital Partnerships at The New York Times.
Michael Tanne
Innovator, investor. Founder, AdForce, Wink. Worked @ Verity, Apple. Investor/Advisor: LinkedIn, Cloudmark, Wikia, ICONAircraft, BrightRoll, Fundly, GAINFitness
John Furrier
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
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
Carlos Eduardo Espinal
Partner at Seedcamp
Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz
CEO at Sepulveda Capital. Co-founded 3 other companies in France, 2 VC-backed, all sold. Invested in 6 companies (2 sold, 1 RIP). Based in Europe.
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.
Mark Kingdon
Angel Investor. Former CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) and Organic; Entrepreneur in Residence at Idealab! Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Steven Vachani
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Lauren Flanagan
Former sw entrepreneur; invested in 30 companies over past 6 years. Run 2 early stage funds: BELLE Capital, LP & Phenomenelle Angels Fund.
Net Jacobsson
Founder of Opportunistic Ventures LLC & Playhopper. Frmr Executive at Facebook. Advisor to OpenFeint, Crowdstar & Padworx Digital. BoD at P1. Father of 3.
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.
Jerry Michalski
Your guide to the Relationship Economy.
Sam Teller
Managing Director of Launchpad LA (launchpad.la), Co-Founder of Charlie (meetcharlie.com), Partner at Charlie Ventures (charlieventures.com)
Alex De Carvalho
Co-Founder at VoxMed, Adjunct Professor at U. Miami, Author, Co-Founder of The Startup Forum and Founder of Social Media Club South Florida, among other things.
John Stokes
Co-Founder of early stage VC, Real Ventures (Montreal, Canada) and an investor in the FounderFuel Accelerator.
John Ricci
Founder/President U.S. Angel Investors. VP S&M Trader Media (acquired for $350M). Cofounder JMC Telecom. VP Sales and Marketing Bull
Tien Wong
CEO, Lore Systems & Opus8 - network engineering & cloud computing; invest in datacenters, BPO, CRM, & cloud tech. Blog: tienwong.wordpress.com, @Tien Wong
Thomas Knoll
Founder, @Clipppr. Community Architect. Advisor. Previously: community, product, marketing, customer development at LaunchRock, Zappos, UserVoice, and Seesmic.
Vishal Gondal
God-in-chief, Foodie, Geek, Traveler. Entrepreneur, Investor & Student
Ryan Allis
CEO and co-founder of iContact Chairman of Virante http://about.me/ryanallis http://www.ryanallis.com
Brock Pierce
Brock Pierce (30) is an entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for virtual goods in online games.
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
Saji Johnson
Managing Director at Anicca Ventures
Florian Seroussi
Founder of FS Ventures, investor in Producteev, Labotec, Pixowl, Open Garden, Celtrek, Pikchur...Mobile/Internet guy.
David Troy
Through Baltimore Angels.
Oscar Salazar
CEO/Co-Founder @CitiVox. Co-Founder/Advisor @Uber
Dave Mathews
Created print/UPC-to-web scanning w/ CueCat. Won an Emmy w/ Slingbox, #1 startup at CEA iStage w/ Boxee & Best Technology at LAUNCH w/ NeuAer Proximity Platform
Hooman Radfar
Founder & Executive Chairman Clearspring
Nikolaj Nyholm
4-time entrepreneur gone VC
VC
Tariq Krim
Founded Netvibes Founder Jolicloud occasional investor in product focused start up
Nicole Glaros
Managing Director, Boulder - TechStars
Matt Van Horn
I currently run business for Path. Previously ran bd for Digg and founded Zimride.
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