Roger Dickey
Serial entrepreneur (3 startups), Mafia Wars founder, Angel investor (10+ companies)
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A venture capitalist that invests in who we are and who we are becoming.
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Keen (Ingenio), DimensionX, Wallop, Coveroo and Cloudmark. $500+ million in exits to msft, at&t etc. Early advisor to facebook.
Co-founder of BetterWorks. Founder of MyMiniLife (sold to Zynga). Co-Creator of Farmville.
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Founder/CEO of XPD (sold, now Zynga China). Angel in Twitter, Square, and Foursquare. Advisor to Flipboard.
Founder HotOrNot; I/O Ventures
Entrepreneur, Founder Chegg.com
Angel Investor, Vice President - Intuit, Homestead.com COO&CFO, Band of Angels, father of 2, bass player
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
SVP Zynga; CEO and President of Yandex Labs; SVP Yahoo Search Group
Founder Super Rewards, acquired by AdKnowledge. Founder GrowLab Accelerator, Founder and CEO at Eastside Games. Investor in many.
Founder of Karma Science
Founder of Tapjoy
KPCB Associate, helped start the iFund
Stanford MBA
U of Michigan Computer Engineering
Co-founder of RedOctane, creators of Guitar Hero
Founder Friendfinder Networks (FFN) Sold 2007 Founder Fupa Games Inc.
Partner at Avalon Ventures; Co-founder Phoenix Technologies (PTEC); Vice President at America Online
Love to start and build businesses.
co-founder @ zynga
Founder of MyMiniLife. Co-Creator of FarmVille. Investor in BetterWorks, Pixelapse. Team member of Zynga, MyMiniLife.
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 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.
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.
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Founder + CEO BetterWorks, adrenaline fueled angel, Marine...
CEO/Co-Founder of Stocktwits..GP of Social Leverage (Angel Investing)..Wallstrip creator (purchased by $CBS)..Momentum, Acceleration & LOL hunter..Love Popcorn
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Co-founder at Kima Ventures - Investing in 1 to 2 startups a Week - Already invested in 18 countries
Investor for 20 years in teams (Zynga, XenSource/CTRX Facebook, Datamirror/IBM, Fortinet/FTNT, Tango, Metaweb, D-Wave) solving hard problems for large markets.
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
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
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).
Angel Investor. Advisor. More at tgm.com
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
Early stage VC at General Catalyst
Founder Moon Express, Powerset (sold to Microsoft). Bing local, mobile, semantics . Assoc. Founder and Trustee, Singularity U. Active angel/advisor.
Co-founding Partner @Venture51
Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors. Building an exceptional community of entrepreneurs around the world. Stanford MBA.
Partner at i/o ventures. Previously CEO of lefora, meetro & paragon5
Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable.
Not gonna stop until we win.
CEO @ LocalResponse, GP @ ENIAC Ventures, Partner India Internet Group. 12+ years experience investing and operating across the mobile ecosystem.
Co-founder of Chart.io (YC 2010). Founding Partner at Spinnakr (500S). Sometimes investor.
Angel investor and founding partner of Amidzad, investor in Dropbox, Zoosk, Path, Causes, Soundhound, Backplane, Addepar, Ark and 40 other startups
Founder, FX Aligned, eSecLending. TechStars Boston, North Country Angels, Anges Quebec, Founder Fuel, MassChallenge. http://tydanco.com That's about it.
Internet focused VC and angel investor. Founder of Alpha (http://on.wsj.com/iHk2nk)
Founding member of the Designer Fund & 500 Startups. Previously Facebook Fund & Venrock. Teach at Stanford design school & former Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab.
OPERATOR - Prod Dev/Mkting
✦Excite@Home/SVP
✦Excite/SVP
✦Crystal Dynamics/Producer
✦EA/PM
INVESTOR:
✦LinkedIn/Board
✦Facebook/Board Observer
✦Pandora/Board
Internet entrepreneur (DealPilot, Pageflakes) and angel investor, mainly SaaS (Zendesk, FreeAgent Central, Clio, samedi, inFakt.pl, momox.de, Geckoboard,...).
CEO and Founder of Appstores.com, previously Partner Engineer at Facebook, Co-founder of Ping.fm (acquired by Seesmic).
CEO & Co-Founder of ecomom. Sold last startup to Richard Branson's Virgin Group. Worked at Lycos, NBCi, PTC, SGI. Several exits (Buydirect for $140M)
Director of Product, AmazonLocal. Former founder and CEO, TeachStreet
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
Hacker Angel. Founder @Punchfork. 11 yrs on Wall Street as a quant trader at Millennium & Goldman Sachs. BS Harvey Mudd, MS NYU/Courant. Data enthusiast.
Scrappy Mofo. Hustler. Co-Founder/CEO of Humanoid SpeakerText.
Rumson Group. Helped invest in over 50 funds spanning private equity, Growth, VC and Real Estate. Invested globally in US, India, Europe, and China.
I'm interested in technology and real estate.
Co-Founder // CEO of LaunchRock. Last startup failed thanks to lack of users. PhD dropout.
Serial CTO and Entrepreneur - Angel Investor at Lead Dog Ventures... More at www.leaddog.com
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Serious Business, Zynga
CEO Friendsheet, 64px, Free Gifts, LikeButton, early SGN, early @ Tapulous. FB Fund advisor, 500 Startups mentor. Notable FB Platform developer.
Investor at Bain Capital
Founder/CEO Yola.com - raised over $30m in funding. Founder/CEO Clicks2Customers.com - raised over $7m in funding.
convicted serial entrepreneur, investor, teacher (Berkeley, NYU, Stanford, UCSF), daffy startup adviser, stuttering writer, loud speaker
Mentor @ 500 Startups, previously CTO @ SimplyHired
CEO of Astound Labs. Former CEO of Sendori; sold to Ask.com. Mentor @ Stanford, Berkeley. Investor in Klout, Twylah, etc. MS/BS Comp Eng U of Mich. MBA Cornell
VC at Rising Tide Fund. Also: angel investor, startup advisor, mentor at TechWadi.org, cofounder of Launch Labs. Relentless optimist.
Founder & CEO at Rentabilities.
Fmr CEO Nedstat (now part of comScore)
Founder Dealtaker (sold to Media General), Founder Company Factory, Dude.
Co-Founder and CEO of @MindSnacks
Founder, Spring Ventures; Brightmail ($370M to Symantec) and FreeLoader ($38M); First Internet PM at AOL; Zynga board member
Six Tech Start-Ups. Co-Founder/CEO LimeLife (sold to Total Beauty), VP Marketing XFire (MTV) / Mplayer (IPO), Electronic Arts, McKinsey. Mobile Expert.
Ceo, co-founder & investor @ geeklist. 6x entrepreneur & brand guy. Successful exits in internet & education
Investor at General Catalyst. Founding team of Getaround and Summer Workation. Have invested in Kayak, HubSpot, BigCommerce, Abine and Thumb.
Manager at CatapultFund; Angel Investor; CTO at FundScience Inc.; BS/MS Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; CIO Top 100/InfoWorld Top 25 CTO
3x entrepreneur & product guy, last co sold to Zynga. Now an investor at Spark, dad, geek.
Entrepreneur, Investor, Connector. Chairman & cofounder of inSparq. Previously, I led the acquisition of Bebo from AOL.
Co-founder of 9GAG. Co-creator of Startup Quote. LLB HKU.
I build technology & businesses. Co-Founder @ Leadnomics & RightAction. Entrepreneur, Angel, Advisor (Online Media/Technology).
Entrepreneur, Advisor and Partner of NewMe Accelerator http://NewMEAccelerator.com
Hacker/Founder. Co-Founder of Contactually. Formerly Founder of Struc.to(2010), CTO of Workstreamer (acq. 2009). Washington, DC tech community organizer
Founder & CEO of Teamly.com, a team management SaaS tool. Serial entrepreneur with background in telecoms & web. I love starting, growing & advising companies.
CEO: Social Rewards Inc.; Advisory Board: @Klout.com; Organizer: @PubCon Internet Marketing Conferences; Loyalty Points for Social Engagements @Joseph Morin
Managing Director at Exemplary Holdings. Past entrepreneur. Working in healthcare IT. Penn grad
Founder/CEO of Inigral, considered the leading company in social software for HigherEd, closed the first PRI as a venture investment from the Gates Foundation.
10-yr CEO, founder, BoD @ eBags (34% CAGR, 9.4M bags sold, 1.4M reviews, profits, $30M raised); CEO @ UsingMiles; Advisor Runa; Facilitator Founder Institute CO
Early Facebook engineer and expert at optimizing for performance at scale.
Chief Executive Officer at InternMatch
Partner at Science, Santa Monica
Co-Founder Punchd (acq. GOOG '11). 500Startups LP. Google. Cal Engineering. Love Chipotle. Product/Stats/UX. Known to be naughty.
