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Ryan Merket

CEO and Founder of Appstores.com, previously Partner Engineer at Facebook, Co-founder of Ping.fm (acquired by Seesmic).

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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.
Tim Chang
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Steve Blank
Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford, Berkeley and Columbia http://www.steveblank.com
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
Bradley Horowitz
VP Product at Google
Josh Elman
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Matt Galligan
Co-Founder & CEO of Circa. Co-Founded 1% of Nothing, SimpleGeo & Socialthing.
Mark Cuban
Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of HDNet. He is also a "shark" investor on Shark Tank.
Robin Chan
Founder/CEO of XPD (sold, now Zynga China). Angel in Twitter, Square, and Foursquare. Advisor to Flipboard.
Gokul Rajaram
Product Director, Ads at Facebook
Jim Young
Founder HotOrNot; I/O Ventures
Thomas Ryan
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
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
Joe Greenstein
Founder and CEO, Flixster
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.
Vish Makhijani
SVP Zynga; CEO and President of Yandex Labs; SVP Yahoo Search Group
Jim Barnett
Serial CEO. Entrepreneur. Investor. Partner Shasta Ventures; Chairman Turn, Extole, & Sojern Prior: CEO/founder Turn; President Overture Search; CEO AltaVista.
Lukas Biewald
I'm the founder of CrowdFlower/Dolores Labs. http://lukasbiewald.com
Maynard Webb
Chairman, LiveOps; former COO, eBay; member of Salesforce board
Aaron Batalion
CTO & Co-founder, LivingSocial. Husband, Father, Geek, Entrepreneur, Advisor.
Andy Palmer
CEO & Co-Founder of Vertica Systems and Founding Board Member at Recorded Future, CloudSwitch & Upstart
Bobby Yazdani
Chairman, CEO, and Founder Saba Software (public company); Investor in HotPrints, DropBox, Klout, Qwiki, CleverSense, and many more.
Jim White
Investor in Shutterfly, Farecast, Bix.com
Jeff Bonforte
CEO at Xobni; Vice President, Social Search at Yahoo!; Vice President, Real Time Communications at Yahoo, Inc.; Founder at Starbox Systems
Kai Huang
Co-founder of RedOctane, creators of Guitar Hero
Lars Mapstead
Founder Friendfinder Networks (FFN) Sold 2007 Founder Fupa Games Inc.
Dave Hodson
Co-founder and CTO iPrint.com (NASD:IPRT). Co-founder and CTO MessageCast (Sold to Microsoft). StartX mentor, technical advisor.
Scott Crosby
co-founded Urchin Software Corp., which is now Google Analytics. COO Euclid Inc.
Michael Herf
Cofounded Picasa -> Google
Justin Waldron
co-founder @ zynga
Adil Wali
Technology entrepreneur. Founder at Crowd Interactive and ModCloth. Investor at ClearGears.
Jeff Lapin
Former CEO of Starwood Hotels, Take-Two, and Atari. Called the "turn-around CEO", he's built and ran billion dollar companies in a variety of industries.
Anshu Sharma
Product Guy who can connect dots that are obvious after the fact. Motto: Kindle-ize Everything.
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.
AJ Shanley
Venture Partner, Atlas Venture. Former COO at TrialPay and Director at Symantec. Seed Investor, advisor. Swarthmore College, Harvard MBA.
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.
Dave McClure
Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Christine Tsai
Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed.
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/
AngelPad
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Paige Craig
Founder + CEO BetterWorks, adrenaline fueled angel, Marine...
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.
Erick Schonfeld
Erick Schonfeld is the former Editor of TechCrunch. He has been covering startups and technology news since 1993.
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.
Jeremie Berrebi
Co-founder at Kima Ventures - Investing in 1 to 2 startups a Week - Already invested in 18 countries
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.
Hiten Shah
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
Jeff Bussgang
Former entrepreneur (Upromise cofounder, Open Market VP) turned VC at Flybridge Capital. Serve as EIR at HBS and authored a book "Mastering the VC Game".
Boston · VC
MG Siegler
General Partner at CrunchFund. Longtime writer at TechCrunch, VentureBeat, etc.
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
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.
Tom McInerney
Angel Investor. Advisor. More at tgm.com
Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Gautam Gupta
Early stage VC at General Catalyst
Boston · VC
Jeff Fagnan
GP at Atlas Venture; founder of TUGG; advocate of uncertainty...
Steve Anderson
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
Othman Laraki
growth @ twitter by profession / kiter by addiction / nerd & entrepreneur by passion / casablanca native by origination
Ville Miettinen
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
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
Jeff Pulver
co-founder, 3-Rings GP, Hafooch Investments, Inc. GP, Pulver Equities III founder, #140conf events founder, pulver.com co-founder, Vivox
Laura '@Pistachio' Fitton
CEO/Founder oneforty, Co-Auth Twitter for Dummies, Founder, Pistachio Consulting, lectured at HBS, MIT-Sloan, Cornell. MHT, Pepsico & WEST award recipient.
Dana Stalder
Early stage ventures capitalist at Matrix Partners. Executive at PayPal, eBay & Netscape. Founder at Respond.com
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...
Enrique Allen
Founding member of the Designer Fund & 500 Startups. Previously Facebook Fund & Venrock. Teach at Stanford design school & former Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab.
Brit Morin
Founder & CEO of @Brit; Worked at Google, Apple, Tiny Pictures; Investor and advisor to tech startups
Dave Schappell
Director of Product, AmazonLocal. Former founder and CEO, TeachStreet
Mike Walsh
Frontman at Rockstar Group, Advisor, Investor, trying to be an author (writing in process).
Jay Levy
Fab, Klout, Kohort, Jibe, Rapportive, Crimson Hexagon
Philipp Moehring
Associate at @Seedcamp, managing portfolio (60+ cos), operations, & connecting Seedcamp network (2000+ mentors & investors). I answer email faster than you.
Nova Spivack
Serial entrepreneur / angel; 20 ventures, 2 IPOs. 1st investor in Klout. Founder: Bottlenose, Live Matrix, Daily Dot, StreamGlider, Twine, EarthWeb & Dice.
Munjal Shah
Founder and CEO of Like.com sold to Google last year. Previous company Andale sold to Alibaba. Started first company at 26. MS Stanford in CS
Jai Choi
Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
Adam D'Augelli
VC at True Ventures. Lover of Disruptive Technology, Punk Music, and Burritos. http://www.lifeinbeta.org
Stewart Alsop
Partner at Alsop Louie Partners
Richard D. Titus
Prolific entrepreneur-founder, angel investor, and advisor in technology and media.
Innovation Endeavors
Investing in the raw talent behind a dream and building an exceptional community of entrepreneurs around the world
Fritz Lanman
Founder, Stealth Startup; Former Microsoft Corporate Strategy & Acquisitions.
John Furrier
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
Dan Rosen
Principal at Highland Capital Partners
Jared Kopf
entrepreneur: HomeRun, AdRoll, Slide, Justarrive; soldier: PayPal, IDEO; investor: Clarium, angel
Sam Decker
Founder/CEO Mass Relevance, Founding CMO Bazaarvoice, Co-founder Capital Factory, 7-year Dell Exec, 5 startups B2B & B2C (product, marketing, biz dev), author.
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
Eric Chen
Founder at Uj Ventures (Seed Fund) Partner Equilibrium Investments (Real Estate Fund) Venture Partner at WI Harper (US-China VC) Co-founder Tiny Prints
Brenden Mulligan
Entrepreneur, Designer, Developer. Creator of Onesheet, TipList, MorningPics, PhotoPile, ArtistData (acquired), 500Startups mentor.
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