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Lars Mapstead

Founder Friendfinder Networks (FFN) Sold 2007 Founder Fupa Games Inc.

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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.
Leonard Speiser
Co-founder Clover (Sutter Hill, Andreessen Horowitz), Co-founder Bix (sold to Yahoo), eBay, Intuit, MIT.
Jim White
Investor in Shutterfly, Farecast, Bix.com
Andrew Conru
Stanford PhD, Early Internet pioneer, 20+ Internet startups including founder/CEO Friend Finder (grew to $300M/year)
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
Ben Mathes
Hacker at AngelList, at RockYou when it was #1, early at Readyforce. CS Masters 2 years early.
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.
Christen O'Brien
Partner & GM, Business Development
AngelPad
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Hiten Shah
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
Charles Hudson
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
Micah Baldwin
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Dror Berman
Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors. Building an exceptional community of entrepreneurs around the world. Stanford MBA.
Chris McCann
Welcome to the media revolution
Pedro Torres Picón
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
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
Matthias Galica
CEO @ShareSquare. Formerly Product Manager @WooMe and BI @Nike. Also curates @StartupDigest LA.
Kurt Collins
Co-Founder: Enole. Engineer: SGI, CNET, Razorfish. Business Development: Photobucket, Clearspring.
Anurag (Anu) Nigam
Founder of Hi5, Cerent, Siara, 411Sync, BuzzBox. Advisor to Trooval.
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
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.
Bedy Yang
Venture Partner 500Startups (focused Latam + international); Founder Brazil Innovators - epicenter of startups in Brazil. Connector, community builder
Steven Vachani
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Vinny Lingham
Founder/CEO Yola.com - raised over $30m in funding. Founder/CEO Clicks2Customers.com - raised over $7m in funding.
Igor Shoifot
convicted serial entrepreneur, investor, teacher (Berkeley, NYU, Stanford, UCSF), daffy startup adviser, stuttering writer, loud speaker
Benjamin Yoskovitz
VP Product at GoInstant. Founding Partner at Year One Labs, early stage accelerator. Previously founded Standout Jobs.
John Ricci
Founder/President U.S. Angel Investors. VP S&M Trader Media (acquired for $350M). Cofounder JMC Telecom. VP Sales and Marketing Bull
Neal Rapoport
Founder Dealtaker (sold to Media General), Founder Company Factory, Dude.
Reuben Katz
Ceo, co-founder & investor @ geeklist. 6x entrepreneur & brand guy. Successful exits in internet & education
Gary Kremen
Founder of Match.com, Clean Power Finance ($100m from Kleiner and Google), Sex.com and now Sociogramics (5 VC funds). EE, CS and Stanford MBA
Florian Seroussi
Founder of FS Ventures, investor in Producteev, Labotec, Pixowl, Open Garden, Celtrek, Pikchur...Mobile/Internet guy.
Mick Liubinskas
Co-founder of Wooboard (employee recognition) and Co-Founder of Pollenizer (Australian startup team), Mr Focus, head of marketing for Kazaa.
David Troy
Through Baltimore Angels.
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.
Demian Bellumio
COO of Senzari, Founder of HackDay Foundation, President Aunken Ventures, Founding Shareholder BroadSpan Capital.
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.
Raj Sandhu
Angel/VC/PE,founder. Prev Soros Fund affil, Modulus Video. Yale CS, HBS. Inv in Invite Media, iTriage, FTNT, SLTC. Acq by GOOG, GRPN, AET, CSCO, MOT, AMCC, SCMR
Tim Chae
CEO of PostRocket. Two profitable startups before age of 18. UI/UX, BD & Hustler. Babson College Tech Entrepreneurship and Design UG.
Marco Giberti
Entrepreneur. Angel Investor
Suzanne Xie
Founder and CEO of Hullabalu. Founded and sold Weardrobe to Like.com (now Google).
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...
Valerie Petredis
Managing Partner Reinmkr Inc.
Derek Wall
Founder & CEO of VANITI, 7X entrepreneur, with a passion for startups
David Williams
Owner, 2020 Ventures. 20 years funding and building consumer web & digital media companies in US & China (SF-based).
Jonathan Ebinger
I've been investing in mobile since before it was cool. I've invested and sold companies (profitably!) in US, Asia, and Europe. I started and sold my own biz.
Pascal Levy-Garboua
Co-Founder VirtuOz (MDV), Investor at Producteev, Clean Wave, MS Stanford, Polytechnique, ex-eBay
Karl Mehta
Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Founder & CEO, PlaySpan (Acq. VISA) MobileAria (Acq. Wireless Matrix) E&Y Entrepreneur of Year 2010- Northern California
Douglas Feirstein
CEO usell.com. Founder of LiveOps. Serial Entrepreneur and Angel investor. Strong entrepreneur with Senior management experience
Mike Tsao
Former ex-Googler. All-around swell guy. Hobbies include code reviews, exception handling, and logs analysis.
Greg Gibson
Serial VC-backed entrepreneur in the ecommerce, new media, online advertising, virtual goods, and SMB markets with multiple exits.
George Kellerman
Venture Partner at 500 Startups. Profitably ran a $500M P&L at Dell; secured $200M+ in BD deals; $12B+ in financings and M&A; former firefighter--a real one!
Paul O'Brien
GroupCharger CMO and VP Product. Track record of traction and growth for early stage ventures including Zvents, & Outright.com. Early career with HP and Yahoo!
Dave Lerner
host & founder of @venturestudio, 3x entrepreneur, angel investor, director university venture lab
Stephen Messer
Co-founder, former Chariman & CEO of LinkShare.com
Kevin Henrikson
Early Zimbra engineering team member. Now lead Zimbra R&D at VMware. Interest in SaaS, Internet Publishing, Ad Networks, Communications/Email, and Enterprise.
Furqan Nazeeri
Investor in iSpecimen.
Matthew M. Gonzales
P/T Explorer, Tea Drinker, Startup Junkie, Mobile Evangelist, Sometimes Funny, Connector, Co-Host @SFNewTech - Advisor @Beintoo @appbackr @Tethras #YearofMobile
Rey Flemings
Founder, CEO Stipple. Repeat entrepreneur, advisor, investor.
Adrian Scott
Founder/CEO, Coderbuddy; past Founder, Social Networking Pioneer, Ryze; Founding Investor, Napster; PhD Math Rensselaer at age 20
Margaret Wallace
CEO, Shadow Government, Inc. CEO, Playmatics, Inc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wallace
Michael Harries
Citrix Startup Accelerator
Alex Khein
COO/Director BlueBay Asset Management (London); previously at Morgan Stanley. Cornell Ph.D. Physics
Tim Delhaes
CEO at mon.ki. Founded MSM (now Nu:run) and Google's largest Enterprise partner in Latam.
Urmas Purde
Salestrainer and Co-Founder in Vain & Partners (trained over 20k salespersons) for 15 years, Co-Founder of Pipedrive
Jamu Kakar
Led the Landscape engineering team at Canonical for 5 years.
Echeyde Cubillo
Hands on software engineering/leadership / entrepreneur. 2 exits ( Bix to Y! as co-founder, Singlefeed to Alibaba as cto).
Enrique Dubois
Mola.com founder (Spanish Incubator and Accelerator), European Serial Entrepreneur.
Shinya Okumura
Investor in 500 Startups (Fund), Zazzle.
Kris Nair
building companies, since 1999. babysitting entrepreneurs, since 2007
George Favvas
CEO Rewardli (500 Startups W11). Early employee @ 2 startups w/exits. Founder Reflexity (0-$2M in 2 yrs), Imviva (failed), SmartHippo. FounderFuel mentor.
Jonathan George
CEO at Boxcar. Moving faster than you. Aggressive but humble. Love family, motorcycles and being an entrepreneur. Call me anytime, 316-259-8554.
Sramana Mitra
Founder of the One Million by One Million global initiative aimed at helping a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars in annual revenue and beyond.
Eran Eyal
CEO / Founder Springleap.com; CoFounder evly.com; Designed 16 mobile phones; Radio tech journo; M&G Top 200 South Africans; Old Mutual top 36 Entrepreneurs;
Susan Mernit
Digital Media entreprenur & advisor
Scott Saunders
CEO, Founder at Payoff.com
Peter Ashley
Worked at PayPal for 5+ years. Raised >$25MM for startups and funds including Opinmind, BuildeRadius, Chirpme and 500Startups.
Eckart Walther
CEO CardSpring
Faisal Aftab
Media Executive & VC Investor Co-Founder & CEO, Pearl Media Group Partner, OxonCapital ▪▫
Greg Davis
Founder kWhOURS‐ entrepreneur, surfer, skier
Tom Higley
Advisor to Card Gnome.
Richard Kain
General Manager at TriplePoint
Antone Johnson
Social/digital media startup lawyer, advisor, investor, Board member. Former eHarmony VP/global head of Legal. OG MySpacer. Prolific commentator.
Andrew Romans
General Partner The Founders Club, Managing Partner at Georgetown Venture Partners, founder of $50M startup The Global TeleExchange (GTX), MBA Georgetown
Nick Frost
Entrepreneur advocate at AngelList, Founder of StartupList, AngelHack Advisor, US Navy.
Alex Choy
Associate at Gold Hill Capital making $50k-$250K investments in seed/early stage startups and providing $1M-$10M debt facilities to later stage startups.
Mike Chen @spacemonkeymike
Seasoned Product Management & Business Development
Howard Marks
co-founder Activision ATVI $14B cap, founder Acclaim Games (sold to Playdom). Founder and co-chair Start Engine LA's largest accelerator.
Tracy Osborn
Founder of WeddingLovely. 500 Startups & The Designer Fund. Future superhero.
Jeff Epstein
Founder of Ambassador (formerly zferral) a TechStars summer NYC '11 company. Trained attorney, sold startup in law school, paid off loans & never looked back.
Ryan Keating
As Managing Partner and Founder of Keating Consulting Group, I have served as interim CFO and advisor to over 80 early-stage & VC backed technology start ups.
Benjamin Jorgensen
Business Development Co-Founder of KlickPush.com
Joshua Konowe
see previous post
Yuri Rabinovich
entrepreneur, mentor and software architect working on initiatives to foster innovation by creating intensive workshops for entrepreneurs.
Senad Dizdar
Founder at cloudHQ, Showzey.com & FbSocialChat.com. One of authors of HP OpenView DataProtector. Key engineer & manager in Oracle RDBMS Backup and Recovery.
Nat Criou
CEO of RidePal. Ex-product manager @ Google, AdMob, Meebo. INSEAD MBA. Founded BeatSarcoma (nonprofit).
Vlad Stan
Founder, Angel Investor, Geek and Tango Dancer
Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin
Ex Navy 3x 30under30 winner, top UNSW postgrad, IEAUST Engineer of the year, Founded BlueChilli: Aus Venture Tech company that joins startups as tech co-founder
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