Ross Mayfield
VP Biz SlideShare, Co-founder, CEO Socialtext, Founder RateXchange took IPO, advisor to Estonian President.
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Managing Director at Foundry Group
Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite
Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
VP Product at Google
Founder Ditto (sold to Groupon) & Jaiku (sold to Google)
Partner, Accel. Founder, Breyer Capital. Early Facebook investor. Board of Directors: Facebook, News Corporation, Dell, Etsy, Brightcove, Prosper, Wal-Mart
Founder / CEO wikiHow. Co-CEO eHow (sold to Demand Media). Co-founder at Luminescent Technologies (over $25 MM VC) and BigTray (Sequoia).
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 and CEO of Mightybell. Co-founded Ning.
Former President & COO at Groupon. Former CEO, SideStep (acquired by Kayak). Board Director at HomeAway, Tiny Prints, and High Gear Media.
BitTorrent inventor. Founder of BitTorrent Inc. Veteran of many startups.
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
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.
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 and CTO of HubSpot and blogger at OnStartups.com
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
Director of MIT Media Lab, Co-Founder of Digital Garage, Ex-CEO Creative Commons, Investor in: Flickr, Kongregate, Kickstarter, Twitter, Technorati, Last.fm
A man. A plan. A panda.
Theory & practice of social media. Advisor to Flickr, del.icio.us, dodgeball, currently to FourSquare, Socialbomb, Cursor, Nerd Collider, GivKwik, Singly.
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.
Prolific Investor. Medstory, Evernote, Flickr, Meetup, EDventure, Release 1.0, del.icio.us
husband. dad. serial entrepreneur (firefly, lovefilm, seedcamp). operator (wpp, msft, skype). investor (index, TAG)
http://localglo.be
Managing Director, Activate; Director, Expert Labs; Blogger, Dashes.com
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
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.
Investor in Infospace, StubHub, Serious Materials, Evite, Seagate, Spinner, LiveBid.
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
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.
Founder Moon Express, Powerset (sold to Microsoft). Bing local, mobile, semantics . Assoc. Founder and Trustee, Singularity U. Active angel/advisor.
CEO, Buyosphere (current); Founder, Coworking; Author, The Whuffie Factor; Speaker, Leigh Bureau; Founder, Citizen Agency; Online Marketing Director, Like.com
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/Founder oneforty, Co-Auth Twitter for Dummies, Founder, Pistachio Consulting, lectured at HBS, MIT-Sloan, Cornell. MHT, Pepsico & WEST award recipient.
Founder of social software app Seesmic and LeWeb conference the #1 european tech conference
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...
Frontman at Rockstar Group, Advisor, Investor, trying to be an author (writing in process).
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
Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
VC at True Ventures. Lover of Disruptive Technology, Punk Music, and Burritos.
http://www.lifeinbeta.org
Prolific entrepreneur-founder, angel investor, and advisor in technology and media.
Investor in Last.fm, Boticca, Skimlinks, Onefinestay, Fliptop.
Innovator, investor. Founder, AdForce, Wink. Worked @ Verity, Apple. Investor/Advisor: LinkedIn, Cloudmark, Wikia, ICONAircraft, BrightRoll, Fundly, GAINFitness
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
Founder/CEO Mass Relevance, Founding CMO Bazaarvoice, Co-founder Capital Factory, 7-year Dell Exec, 5 startups B2B & B2C (product, marketing, biz dev), author.
Founder
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.
Co-founder of Huddle. Investor in Postmates, OnSports, Pipedrive, Buffer, Secret Escapes. All about product, brand, go-to-market. Brit in SF. Love puns.
BOLDstart Ventures, Managing Partner
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Founder Newroo (sold to News Corp) & Ad.ly (largest celeb endorsement network). Brown grad. Now: founder at Chill.com
Founder/CEO Yola.com - raised over $30m in funding. Founder/CEO Clicks2Customers.com - raised over $7m in funding.
Managing Director at Scale Venture Partners
Entrepreneur; Startup Advisor; Angel; Consultant & Aspiring Author on Corporate Engagement with the Startup Ecosystem.
Hacker. Georgia Tech Alum. Texas born Greek. Known for PSTAM.com. Co-founder @Picplum (YC S11), Notifo (YC W10), Skribit. Got my 15min in my own Nike ad.
cto @ onsports. ex-product at IGN. ex-product on microsoft's windows phone 7. startup enthusiast. developer evangelist. saints fan. boilermaker. foodie. hack3r.
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.
Your guide to the Relationship Economy.
EVP @edelmandigital, strategist, thinker, doer, dad, hubby to @msarmano, frequent contributor to @harvardbiz, biker, karaoke junkie, & imperfect soul.
CEO and Founder. Carnegie-Mellon Engineer.
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.
Dir of Social Media @Salesforce. Co-Founded @UserVoice, TaskPick, Superstarch - Chili Champ
Founder of Gist.com (sold to RIM in Feb 2011), Microsoft Exchange, EIR at Vulcan Capital
Founder, Spring Ventures; Brightmail ($370M to Symantec) and FreeLoader ($38M); First Internet PM at AOL; Zynga board member
Co-Founder of Chute. Previously first employee at Klout (VP Product) where I helped grow the team from 1 to 20. Fourth startup.
Innovative Product Expeditor
Founder of PageLever (YC S11). Helped YouTube be fastest growing fan page on Facebook. Advised: Mint, Intel, Microsoft, Redskins. Intern: TechCrunch & TechStars
Ceo, co-founder & investor @ geeklist. 6x entrepreneur & brand guy. Successful exits in internet & education
Founder, @Clipppr. Community Architect. Advisor. Previously: community, product, marketing, customer development at LaunchRock, Zappos, UserVoice, and Seesmic.
European Editor at @TheNextWeb. Lover of startups, my family and Belgian beer. Used to write for @TechCrunch. Full bio at http://www.robinwauters.com
Steve Hoffman is a high tech serial entrepreneur and Cofounder of Yumby http://www.Yumby.com
Posmtates Co-Founder & CEO - I'm addicted to customer feedback. I have no respect for the status quo.
Co-founder of Wooboard (employee recognition) and Co-Founder of Pollenizer (Australian startup team), Mr Focus, head of marketing for Kazaa.
Product guy @ space mOnkey, backcountry.com, Mozy, Novell and Microsoft.
Founding Partner of Golden Gate Ventures, Co-founder of Lefora, Product Guy at Meetro. Mentor at Founder Institute, i/o ventures, & JFDI. World Explorer.
Serial startup entrepreneur. Angelpad Alum. Co-founder @Pipedrive.com & @Garage48.org. Founder of world 2nd pet owners sn uniteddogs.com.
I love product. Palo Alto/San Francisco, Facebook, Isocket, Tapjoy, Yardsale, Kicksend, Betable, Wantful.
4-time entrepreneur gone VC
Founded Netvibes
Founder Jolicloud
occasional investor in product focused start up
Founder, TapSense. Head of Smartphones at InMobi. MS, MIT; B.Tech IIT Kanpur, India
Advisor and friend to entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Deep on marketing.
Chairman of Podio, 23, Socialsquare, Kinetik. Founder of reboot festival.
I'm passionate about enpowering entrepreneurs and catalyzing startups from Baltic Rim, founder of @aaltoes @aaltogarage @funrank @Startup Sauna @startuplife_in
Entrepreneur
Founded several companies and have worked with hundreds of startups through my digital marketing career, bringing the Valley to big brands & companies.
Chairman at Tradeshift & Everbread
3x entrepreneur (Bilbo, Invincible, Dulance), sold a company to Google, became the first head of its Moscow R&D Center. PhD in Physics
Jesse Thomas is the Founder of JESS3 – a creative interactive agency specializing in Social Media Data Visualization.
