Josh Elman
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
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Managing Director at Foundry Group
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite
Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
Founder/CEO of Yammer. Founder of Geni. Original COO and product leader of PayPal.
VP Product at Google
Maker of websites & mobile apps. Blippy, AdBrite, F-ckedcompany, TinyLetter, Mobog, BritePic, Tweetname, HitMeLater, Fast140, QuickRot, more. Author & drummer.
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.
Single-handedly pioneered Social Gaming industry (Vampires/Zombies). Created 1st version of Causes. Founder BuildForge (Sold to IBM), Founder Ohai.
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
Entrepreneur, Founder Chegg.com
SVP of Marketing at HauteLook (now part of Nordstrom). Former eBay, StubHub, Live Nation
Founder and CEO, Flixster
Co-founder IGN.com & Cadence (SDA); emp #1 excite; emp #2 Frame.
CEO at Crowdstar; VP - Business Development at AdMob
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Co-founder Clover (Sutter Hill, Andreessen Horowitz), Co-founder Bix (sold to Yahoo), eBay, Intuit, MIT.
SVP Zynga; CEO and President of Yandex Labs; SVP Yahoo Search Group
Former COO/VP Product at Geni, designer of Yammer 1.0, founding designer at Tribe. Advising startups via 500 Startups, StartX, and Bullpen Capital.
Founder & CEO of Cheezburger, Inc.
Cofounder, CEO ToyTalk. "Lean Launchpad" instructor Stanford, Berkeley. Mentor 500 Startups. EIR AugustCapital. CTO Pixar. Supervising Tech Dir "Finding Nemo".
Founder/CEO App.net (aka Mixed Media Labs)
Previously founder/CEO of imeem. Creator of picplz. Stanford SymSys '03. Father. Guy who likes the Internet.
Former President, Apps and Commerce at AOL • Sr. Adviser at Silver Lake • SVP Communications Community at Yahoo! • CEO at Dialpad • General Partner at @Ventures
Angel investor & advisor - social, mobile, local tech. Portfolio includes Summize & Tweetdeck, both acq by Twitter. CEO Collecta, Pres Reuters Tech & SVP AOL
EIR at Greylock.
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
Venture Partner, Atlas Venture. Former COO at TrialPay and Director at Symantec. Seed Investor, advisor. Swarthmore College, Harvard MBA.
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously intern at IA Ventures. Founder of Quirk. PS3 R&D at Naughty Dog. CMU CS BS and MS.
Funding team at AngelList + VC at Atlas Venture; founded and killed Social Swipe. Retail + SMB in my DNA.
Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
Partner at 500 Startups
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
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 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.
A man. A plan. A panda.
Canadian. CEO/Founder of Clarity.fm. Co-Founder of Flowtown (Acquired '11), Founder of Spheric Tech (Acquired '08), Mentor @ 500Startup. Investor in many.
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Investor for 20 years in teams (Zynga, XenSource/CTRX Facebook, Datamirror/IBM, Fortinet/FTNT, Tango, Metaweb, D-Wave) solving hard problems for large markets.
Managing Director, Activate; Director, Expert Labs; Blogger, Dashes.com
General Partner at CrunchFund. Longtime writer at TechCrunch, VentureBeat, etc.
Partner at Start Fund
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
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Co-founding Partner @ Venture51. Founding team @ Flypaper (acquired in '11). Started at Interact (makers of ACT! & SalesLogix).
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
Seed investor and serial entrepreneur. Co-founded Freestyle (early stage VC). Co-founded Spinner (sold to AOL), Grouper/Crackle (sold to Sony) & FYILiving.com
A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
Co-founding Partner @Venture51
Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors. Building an exceptional community of entrepreneurs around the world. Stanford MBA.
Co founder of Heyzap, YC Alum, entrepreneur
Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable.
Not gonna stop until we win.
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Director Platform at Twitter; Director and early employee at Skyhook Wireless (mobile location, local)
We make life suck 34% less for early startups.
5.8k members Silicon Valley.
15 global chapters. 15+ members
co-founder, 3-Rings
GP, Hafooch Investments, Inc.
GP, Pulver Equities III
founder, #140conf events
founder, pulver.com
co-founder, Vivox
Co-founder/CEO, ZenPayroll. Co-founder/CEO, Unwrap (Acquired 2010). Zazzle. BS & MS EE at Stanford.
Angel investor
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...
Founding member of the Designer Fund & 500 Startups. Previously Facebook Fund & Venrock. Teach at Stanford design school & former Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab.
Welcome to the media revolution
startup geek. co-founder or early employee of 4 startups. 3 successful acquisitions ($30M - $300M), 1 abject failure. now a partner at Kleiner Perkins.
OPERATOR - Prod Dev/Mkting
✦Excite@Home/SVP
✦Excite/SVP
✦Crystal Dynamics/Producer
✦EA/PM
INVESTOR:
✦LinkedIn/Board
✦Facebook/Board Observer
✦Pandora/Board
Start-up CFO, Angel Investor and Professor
VP, Say Media. Founder & CEO Dogster/Catster (sold to Say) and OneMatchFire(.com). Community. Product. Business. Start-up advisor, investor, mentor.
Founder & CEO of @Brit; Worked at Google, Apple, Tiny Pictures; Investor and advisor to tech startups
CEO and Founder of Appstores.com, previously Partner Engineer at Facebook, Co-founder of Ping.fm (acquired by Seesmic).
Current: Co-Founder and President, Incredible Labs. Past: Product lead for twitter.com redesign; Dir Product Raptr; Designed Yahoo! Pipes.
Founder at Freshplum, Inc. Recently sold Divvyshot to Facebook. Started first company in high school and grew it to several million dollars in revenue.
Principal at Polaris Venture Partners. Formerly: eBay, beRecruited (founder), Flite / Widgetbox.
Co-Founder/Partner at Science. Entrepreneur, Advisor. Built a few startups - Color, BillShrink, Photobucket.
Always the first on the dance floor.
VC at True Ventures. Lover of Disruptive Technology, Punk Music, and Burritos.
http://www.lifeinbeta.org
Founder: Bullpen Capital, Aggregate Knowledge, Invested in Zynga, Udemy, Tubemogul, SimpleFeed
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
Co-Founder Minbox, Co-Founder Penzu.
Founder of Academia.edu. PhD at Oxford. Won Oxford's most competitive scholarship.
Innovator, investor. Founder, AdForce, Wink. Worked @ Verity, Apple. Investor/Advisor: LinkedIn, Cloudmark, Wikia, ICONAircraft, BrightRoll, Fundly, GAINFitness
Founder/CEO Mass Relevance, Founding CMO Bazaarvoice, Co-founder Capital Factory, 7-year Dell Exec, 5 startups B2B & B2C (product, marketing, biz dev), author.
Partner at Transmedia Capital and co-founder of Kicklabs seed accelerator in San Francisco. Focused on early stage digital media & cloud companies.
Angel Investor. Former CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) and Organic; Entrepreneur in Residence at Idealab! Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Founder of Seraph Group. Invested more than 50 companies.
Co-Founder // CEO of LaunchRock. Last startup failed thanks to lack of users. PhD dropout.
Director of Partnerships and Business Development at Google Chrome OS
Investor and Company Builder - Partner, Greylock Partners
Investor and advisor. Former Deputy General Counsel at Facebook. Started career as corporate attorney at Wilson Sonsini.
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Experienced entrepreneur, leader, & product- and tech-oriented executive in startups and public companies. Ex-Yahoo, Waterfront Media, Away.com.
CEO Friendsheet, 64px, Free Gifts, LikeButton, early SGN, early @ Tapulous. FB Fund advisor, 500 Startups mentor. Notable FB Platform developer.
Founder/CEO Yola.com - raised over $30m in funding. Founder/CEO Clicks2Customers.com - raised over $7m in funding.
