Russel Simmons
Founder and Former CTO of Yelp.
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Founder HotOrNot; I/O Ventures
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
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.
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
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
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Angel Investor. Advisor. More at tgm.com
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Founder of Academia.edu. PhD at Oxford. Won Oxford's most competitive scholarship.
entrepreneur: HomeRun, AdRoll, Slide, Justarrive; soldier: PayPal, IDEO; investor: Clarium, angel
Co-founder of Huddle. Investor in Postmates, OnSports, Pipedrive, Buffer, Secret Escapes. All about product, brand, go-to-market. Brit in SF. Love puns.
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Posmtates Co-Founder & CEO - I'm addicted to customer feedback. I have no respect for the status quo.
Founding Partner of Golden Gate Ventures, Co-founder of Lefora, Product Guy at Meetro. Mentor at Founder Institute, i/o ventures, & JFDI. World Explorer.
Founder & CEO of Teamly.com, a team management SaaS tool. Serial entrepreneur with background in telecoms & web. I love starting, growing & advising companies.
Managing Director at Correlation Ventures
Serial VC-backed entrepreneur in the ecommerce, new media, online advertising, virtual goods, and SMB markets with multiple exits.
President of Kiva
Director of Marketing at 100Plus. Former Director of Brand and Community at Yelp (started there in 2005!).
Software Engineer, Entrepreneur, Tinychat Co-Founder
Mola.com founder (Spanish Incubator and Accelerator),
European Serial Entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur on indefinite leave of absence from Stanford PhD, global trotter with chronic life ADD
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.
I help startups at i/o ventures. Founded 1st ecommerce travel portal in Tanzania. Worked in 3 continents. Product Guy, Builder of Tech Ecosystems, Stanford MBA
Co-founder Chart.ly (sold to Stocktwits), full-time hustler.
Founder and builder at Dwolla
Scientist turned Interaction-Focused Entrepreneur
Cofounder Disconnect. Full stack ops experience. Legal, biz counsel to startups, internet companies for the past decade. Consumer and environmental advocate.
Seamless.ly CEO & Founder. Previously CTO/Co-Founder SEVEN Networks, Systems Architect at Excite@Home. Steve Jobs is my role model.
Co-founder at Weotta, launched it at Tech Crunch Disrupt NYC 2011. Advised Kauffman Labs. Advised Venturehacks, helping them get AngelList off the ground.
Whatever it takes at Sonar.me
Stanford Business School Graduate - 2011, Former Professional Soccer player for 8 years and Stanford Captain
Managing Director at VentureMind
CEO and Co-Founder, Gloto
COO and Co-Founder, Solipsys
Inventor - hold 5 software patents
Entrepreneur In Residence at U.S. Venture Partners
SVP Enterprise Division at Nuance Communications
Co-Founder, President and CEO at BeVocal
Advisor, Mentor, Strategist focused on Business Design & Product Planning. CEO @ Brightmonk Innovation, Venture Architect @ LOT2Labs. M.I.T., TiE CM/Board.
Investor in MatterPort, Palantir Technologies.
Successful Founder/GM of local retail businesses.
International resort CFO at Club Med.
CoFounder at LendFriend. Bootstrapper, product designer, full stack developer. Masters in Computer Eng and PHD candidate at Clarkson University
Son, Brother, Friend, Jesus lover and Web/UI Designer
Always trying to see the world differently..
Ex-NASA Internet, ex-Princeton Review EVP. Co-founder and first CEO of @NoodleEducation, now Founder and CEO of Contnu.com.
Delivering web products since 1996 • Hacker @Gild • Investor, advisor @Dropis • Founder/CEO @Coderloop (bootstrapped + sold in 12 months) • ex Yahoo!, Vodafone
CEO/Co-Founder @AdStack. Co-Founder @BloomSpot . Engineer @ S&P @Capital IQ. Expert in performance marketing, consumer internet, web/product development.
Co-Founder & Partner, OxonCapital ▪▫
Coder, manager, hustler. Started Yahoo's developer network and led eBay's platform evangelism team. Advisor to Twilio. Currently running CodeLesson.
Technologist
CEO and Founder of PrescribableApps. Organizer of Health 2.0 Boston chapter. Formerly with Mass Medical Angels, Novartis and Partners Healthcare.
Founder/CEO LetsLunch.com. Engineer with a marketing background. I love starting, growing & advising companies.
Director of Marketing for BOKU Inc. Before, global advertising for Nike, McDonald's, and Audi of America at digital creative agency AKQA, Inc.
Engineer at Google
Engineer, Principal/Manager at Qualcomm Inc.
Partner,VP BizDev at Sparkeo.com
- Private investor since 2001
- Founding chairman/CEO, MyPoints.com; led $46MM IPO & $211MM secondary offering
- Grew consumer membership from zero to 16MM
Co-Founder of Onefeat; EM Lyon Student; VC Analyst at Jaina Capital; iPhone Project Management at Canal+; Member of Xplicit; Gen Y Kid
Founder of Second Glass, Millennial wine consumer expert, Inc Mag 30 Under 30, wine expert and writer
CEO Family Office Sayn-Wittgenstein
No bio, no life, just facts
Built the Yelp iPhone app. Web services at Alexa. Computer science B.S. from Cornell.
Founder and CEO at Modify Watches
Ph.D. Cornell University - Design theory and methodology, Founded Paul Chang Design, interaction and visual design studio (2001)
CEO, mobileStorm Inc.
Investment manager - algotrading Biz Dev at Psagot Ofek (2007-2009)
Qmerce Founder & CEO (2009-Today)
BA - Finance/Economics
CoFounder of CentUp. A tool (coming soon) that will monetize the billion+ likes a day and help charities and authors while doing it.
Managing Director at ATLAS|Rearden
Co-Founder Reputami, Product guy, ICT Management Consultant,
Founder & CEO of Oxi Technologies & CloudInfi. Co-Founder of Evnts Corp. Curator @ MeetMyIdeas. Chief-Editor at FounderBits.
Entrepreneur, financial services executive, start up mentor
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CEO/Co-Founder of Second Glass, founded 1st start-up in college, Inc Magazine 30 Under 30 Young Entrepreneur
Founder & CEO - Cauzly.com, Parabolic Ventures, NextGen Leaders Council, EndeavorCard, InterCapital Group, Inspired Futures Foundation
CEO - Serial entrepreneur and UX lover. 3rd Startup.
BBA UMichigan, Founder (MediaMiles), Dir. of Digital / MC2 Agency. No bullshit
Sales Director, Spigit, Inc.
CEO and founder of Finanz&Co and Finanz 360. Worked at Microsoft, Morgan Stanley and Citibank.
Founder/CEO, Storybricks (build your own games with zero programming). Founder, Cellcrypt (sold @ $25m)
Co-founder/ CEO of Feedmonk.
Co-Founder URList. PhD Logic University of Milan, Master Degree Economics Bocconi University, Milan.
Angel Investor. Co-owner of VC fund. Prev. Head of Mobile Games at Nival Interactive & Nival Online.
CEO at RULE7MEDIA LLC. Speaker - startup and digital: CNN, Harvard B-School, Kaufmann/Stern/NYU, CUNY, others.
Founder Amitech Business Solutions. Founder All Events.in. B.E. Computer Engineer LDCE Ahmedabad, India.
Multi-literate hacker + a decade of pre-sales and enterprise consulting experience. Consuming coffee, and making social media actually *work*.
Accounting Specialist
CEO Freshle. Was: CBDO in IT for 6 years, 3 startups, last one is idea stage accelerator (apta.me, yotru.com, smailex.com). Blogger (Top Google in Russia).
