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Steve Blank

Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford, Berkeley and Columbia
http://www.steveblank.com

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Brad Feld
Managing Director at Foundry Group
Boulder · VC
George Zachary
A venture capitalist that invests in who we are and who we are becoming.
Steve Case
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
Tim Chang
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Jonathan Abrams
Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.
Shervin Pishevar
Managing Director at Menlo Ventures; Co-Founder of SGN
Jason Putorti
Co-founder of Votizen • Founder Advisor at SV Angel • First Designer-in-Residence at Bessemer • Former Lead Designer at Mint.com
Janice Fraser
Founder, LUXr. Leader in the UX+Startup world. Entrepreneur. Co-founder and former CEO of Adaptive Path.
Eric Hippeau
Venture capitalist, Partner at Lerer Ventures, entrepreneur, media executive (ex-CEO of The Huffington Post, ex-CEO of Ziff-Davis), passionate about the oceans
Thomas Ryan
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
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.
Elliot Loh
Former COO/VP Product at Geni, designer of Yammer 1.0, founding designer at Tribe. Advising startups via 500 Startups, StartX, and Bullpen Capital.
Jim Barnett
Serial CEO. Entrepreneur. Investor. Partner Shasta Ventures; Chairman Turn, Extole, & Sojern Prior: CEO/founder Turn; President Overture Search; CEO AltaVista.
Oren Jacob
Cofounder, CEO ToyTalk. "Lean Launchpad" instructor Stanford, Berkeley. Mentor 500 Startups. EIR AugustCapital. CTO Pixar. Supervising Tech Dir "Finding Nemo".
James Franklin
CEO at SendGrid
Dave Hodson
Co-founder and CTO iPrint.com (NASD:IPRT). Co-founder and CTO MessageCast (Sold to Microsoft). StartX mentor, technical advisor.
Taher Haveliwala
Founder Kaltix (acquired by Google in 2003). Stanford CS PhD. Startup Advisor.
Jack Andrys
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Jordan Mendelson
Founder & CTO at SeatMe, Chief Architect of Napster, Founder of SNOCAP, Founder of Web Services, Founder of Heavy Electrons, Senior Product at LinkedIn.
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
Graham Jenkin
Venture Hacker and Product Designer @AngelList. Ex-Google head of UX for Ads and Commerce. Ex-BofA head of UX.
Joshua Slayton
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously at Super Rewards (Adknowledge).
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.
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/
Andrew Chen
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
Adam Rifkin
A man. A plan. A panda.
AngelPad
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Howard Lindzon
CEO/Co-Founder of Stocktwits..GP of Social Leverage (Angel Investing)..Wallstrip creator (purchased by $CBS)..Momentum, Acceleration & LOL hunter..Love Popcorn
Garry Tan
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Hiten Shah
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
Peter Bordes
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
Seedcamp
The #1 European Seed Investment Program. Invested in 50+ startups from all over Europe. Based in London, helping to make the world a better place for startups.
Micah Baldwin
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
Danielle Morrill
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Brandon Zeuner
Co-founding Partner @ Venture51. Founding team @ Flypaper (acquired in '11). Started at Interact (makers of ACT! & SalesLogix).
Brendan Baker
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
Startup Weekend
Investor in LaunchRock, Cloudbot, Zazu, Memolane.
Dror Berman
Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors. Building an exceptional community of entrepreneurs around the world. Stanford MBA.
Ben Parr
Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable. Not gonna stop until we win.
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.
Pejman Nozad
Angel investor and founding partner of Amidzad, investor in Dropbox, Zoosk, Path, Causes, Soundhound, Backplane, Addepar, Ark and 40 other startups
Hackers And Founders
We make life suck 34% less for early startups. 5.8k members Silicon Valley. 15 global chapters. 15+ members
Raj Kapoor
Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Belmont · VC
Enrique Allen
Founding member of the Designer Fund & 500 Startups. Previously Facebook Fund & Venrock. Teach at Stanford design school & former Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab.
Pedro Torres Picón
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
Steve Bennet
Start-up CFO, Angel Investor and Professor
Kirill Sheynkman
Managing Director at RTP Ventures. Three time founder and CEO, Venture Partner at Greycroft, technologist at heart now running a VC fund.
Sean Glass
Founder of now public co. Got Yale into Entrepreneurship. Working with others to build DC into an entrepreneurial hub. Angel / VC/ Entrepreneur.
Dev Khare
Venture investor at Lightspeed Ventures and former entrepreneur
Boris Wertz
Founder JustBooks / AbeBooks (sold to Amazon). Angel investor (> 30 consumer internet / SaaS investments). Venture Partner Acton Capital. Co-founder GrowLab.
Soraya Darabi
Cofounder of Foodspotting. In a prior life, the Manager of Social Media + Digital Partnerships at The New York Times.
Michael Tanne
Innovator, investor. Founder, AdForce, Wink. Worked @ Verity, Apple. Investor/Advisor: LinkedIn, Cloudmark, Wikia, ICONAircraft, BrightRoll, Fundly, GAINFitness
Kurt Collins
Co-Founder: Enole. Engineer: SGI, CNET, Razorfish. Business Development: Photobucket, Clearspring.
John Furrier
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
Cyril Ebersweiler
Visionary Punk, founder of Chinaccelerator and HAXLR8R, partner at SOSventures. Sometimes cowork with coconuts.
Tristan Kromer
10 years in music, 5 in IT security, lived in 5 countries, founded 1 company, and currently build startup bootcamps. Taught myself RoR and design.
Andy McLoughlin
Co-founder of Huddle. Investor in Postmates, OnSports, Pipedrive, Buffer, Secret Escapes. All about product, brand, go-to-market. Brit in SF. Love puns.
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.
Tuff Yen
Founder of Seraph Group. Invested more than 50 companies.
Luis Rivera Gurrea-Nozaleda
Cofounder @OkuriVentures, @TetuanValley, @Startupbootcamp and @StartSpain. Mentor @Seedcamp, @Gammarebels, @StartupHighway and @IBMSmartcamp. Former Blade Runner
Steven Vachani
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Jüri Kaljundi
Serial entrepreneur. Co-founder: @Talentag & @Garage48. Product guy with tech background. Love interaction & product design. Advisor & small-time angel.
Adam Marchick
Investor at Bain Capital
Patrick Vlaskovits
CMO of Drumbi. 500 Startups mentor. Co-wrote "The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development".
Eoghan Jennings
Startupbootcamp, bringing startups to Dublin, Ireland and helping them grow fast, former CFO of XING
Chris Schultz
Founder, Voodoo Ventures, Founder, LPIgnition
Sergio Monsalve
Venture Capital Investor at NVP
Ravi Belani
Influencer Series; former VC @ Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Net Jacobsson
Founder of Opportunistic Ventures LLC & Playhopper. Frmr Executive at Facebook. Advisor to OpenFeint, Crowdstar & Padworx Digital. BoD at P1. Father of 3.
Brant Cooper
I help startups get started. Customer Development Expert (Author of Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development)
Landon Pollack
Managing Partner, Ignite Venture Partners
Josh Stein
Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley
Roham Gharegozlou
VC at Rising Tide Fund. Also: angel investor, startup advisor, mentor at TechWadi.org, cofounder of Launch Labs. Relentless optimist.
Mikko Alasaarela
Creative Entrepreneur. Founder and investor in numerous startups.
John Ricci
Founder/President U.S. Angel Investors. VP S&M Trader Media (acquired for $350M). Cofounder JMC Telecom. VP Sales and Marketing Bull
Cesar Alaniz
Y Combinator Alumni, Co-Founder UserFox
Trevor Loy
General Partner at Flywheel Ventures; Board of Directors at National Venture Capital Association
Sean Rad
GM at Hatch Labs (IAC company). Founder of Adly (largest celebrity endorsement platform for social media). Previously Founder of Orgoo (unified communications).
Temo Chalasani
CEO, Co-founder
Christian Sanz
Geeklist's (@gklst) Cofounder & CTO. Former CTO at Storify & DECA.tv. Former Tech Executive (Founding Team) at Break.com and Search Engineer at Go.com/Disney
Peter Werner
Lawyer at Cooley, and represent (mostly) private technology-focused companies, angels (including AngelList) and VCs.
Jeff Schox
Patent Attorney. Mentor at 500Startups and RockHealth. Professor at Stanford and UMichigan. Early investor in Twilio, Bubbli, and Massive Health.
Scott Sage
VC at DFJ Esprit; Angel Investor and Startup Advisor
Austin · VC
Reuben Katz
Ceo, co-founder & investor @ geeklist. 6x entrepreneur & brand guy. Successful exits in internet & education
Thomas Knoll
Founder, @Clipppr. Community Architect. Advisor. Previously: community, product, marketing, customer development at LaunchRock, Zappos, UserVoice, and Seesmic.
Tabreez Verjee
Angel Investor who loves aligning purpose and profit. Board Director Kiva.org, Co-Founder GAC ($500M VC), Founding team Sonique($70M), Bain, Cal
Saad Khan
Non-linear thinker,Venture / Angel investor, Partner at CMEA Capital
Ben Metcalfe
Early BBC News Website software engineer, founder BBC Developer Network, occasional angel investor
Rohit Sharma
CEO Syfto previously founder & CTO ONI ($ONIS), Acquired by $CIEN EIR @ MDV, founder-MetaMachinix, CEO - Vdopia, PrincipalPartner @ MDV,
Mick Liubinskas
Co-founder of Wooboard (employee recognition) and Co-Founder of Pollenizer (Australian startup team), Mr Focus, head of marketing for Kazaa.
Marcus Schappi
President at Ninja Blocks
Clint Gordon-Carroll
Product guy @ space mOnkey, backcountry.com, Mozy, Novell and Microsoft.
Tony L. Chen
Early investor in HubSpot, Visible Measures and others. Yale MB&B & MIT Sloan MBA. Startup advisor, consultant and entrepreneur.
Ray Chan
Co-founder of 9GAG. Co-creator of Startup Quote. LLB HKU.
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