Sky Dayton
Founder: Earthlink, Boingo; co-Founder: eCompanies, Jamdat, Business.com; entrepreneur & investor
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Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
CEO of Science, Former CEO MySpace, CEO/Founder Userplane, CEO/Founder PBJ Digital, CEO Tsavo Media, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
Partner at Embarcadero Ventures;
VP, User Growth, Mobile at Facebook;
VP, Platform & Monetization at Facebook;
VC at Mayfield Fund, VP & GM, AIM + ICQ at AOL
Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of HDNet. He is also a "shark" investor on Shark Tank.
Venture capitalist, Partner at Lerer Ventures, entrepreneur, media executive (ex-CEO of The Huffington Post, ex-CEO of Ziff-Davis), passionate about the oceans
SVP of Marketing at HauteLook (now part of Nordstrom). Former eBay, StubHub, Live Nation
Partner, Accel. Founder, Breyer Capital. Early Facebook investor. Board of Directors: Facebook, News Corporation, Dell, Etsy, Brightcove, Prosper, Wal-Mart
Founder Factual. Founder Applied Semantics (developed ASI AdSense, bought by Google).
Founder: Earthlink, Boingo; co-Founder: eCompanies, Jamdat, Business.com; entrepreneur & investor
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
CEO of SurveyMonkey, was co-founder and CEO of Launch Media (sold to Yahoo) and ran Yahoo Music
Co-founder Scopely; Chairman / Co-founder Deep Dive Media; Head of Domain Channel Google; Founding member / VP Applied Semantics; Technical Sales Engineer, AMD
Angel investor & advisor - social, mobile, local tech. Portfolio includes Summize & Tweetdeck, both acq by Twitter. CEO Collecta, Pres Reuters Tech & SVP AOL
Former President, Apps and Commerce at AOL • Sr. Adviser at Silver Lake • SVP Communications Community at Yahoo! • CEO at Dialpad • General Partner at @Ventures
Founder & CEO, mySimon (acquired by CNET for $700 million); Founder & CEO, Become.com (raised $37 million in funding & grew the company to $56 million in rev)
VC @HighlandCapital. Was founder/CEO of Lycos, the most popular site in the world in internet 1.0 days. @Bob Davis
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.
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.
A man. A plan. A panda.
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
husband. dad. serial entrepreneur (firefly, lovefilm, seedcamp). operator (wpp, msft, skype). investor (index, TAG)
http://localglo.be
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
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
Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors. Building an exceptional community of entrepreneurs around the world. Stanford MBA.
We make life suck 34% less for early startups.
5.8k members Silicon Valley.
15 global chapters. 15+ members
Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson
OPERATOR - Prod Dev/Mkting
✦Excite@Home/SVP
✦Excite/SVP
✦Crystal Dynamics/Producer
✦EA/PM
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✦LinkedIn/Board
✦Facebook/Board Observer
✦Pandora/Board
Investing in the raw talent behind a dream and building an exceptional community of entrepreneurs around the world
Founder/Managing Partner @ BHV; early-stage VC focused on media, tech, and entertainment. Focused on great people; MIT, Sloan '01; USMA '94; Airborne Ranger
Serial entrepreneur with a couple of exits. Early investor in AVG, Mashery, 8tracks, Refinery29, Rapportive, 500Startups. UIUC Computer Science.
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.
Executive Chairman of GraphEffect and angel investor
Angel Investor. Former CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) and Organic; Entrepreneur in Residence at Idealab! Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, enjoying what I do and the people I work with. Now Managing Partner @ iNovia Capital
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Old software architect -turned- web entrepreneur then VC investor; now at Revel Partners & ER Accelerator, before at Steelpoint Capital, Darby Overseas, & KMF.
CMO of Drumbi. 500 Startups mentor. Co-wrote "The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development".
VC at Rising Tide Fund. Also: angel investor, startup advisor, mentor at TechWadi.org, cofounder of Launch Labs. Relentless optimist.
Managing Director of Launchpad LA (launchpad.la), Co-Founder of Charlie (meetcharlie.com), Partner at Charlie Ventures (charlieventures.com)
GM at Hatch Labs (IAC company). Founder of Adly (largest celebrity endorsement platform for social media). Previously Founder of Orgoo (unified communications).
Brock Pierce (30) is an entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for virtual goods in online games.
Six Tech Start-Ups. Co-Founder/CEO LimeLife (sold to Total Beauty), VP Marketing XFire (MTV) / Mplayer (IPO), Electronic Arts, McKinsey. Mobile Expert.
Venture Partner DFJ; Board Member, Tivo, Prysm; Entrepreneurship Educator at Stanford. Priors: Mobius VC, VP Apple, CEO T/Maker Company. Stanford MBA
Ceo, co-founder & investor @ geeklist. 6x entrepreneur & brand guy. Successful exits in internet & education
Business guy at WhatsApp, previously M&A at Google
CEO and founder at CAUSECAST
The Founder, CEO and product visionary behind Swagsy. Most recently, held both Product Management and Sr. Development roles at Specific Media / Myspace.
Co-founder and Chairman at Slated Inc. General Partner of Actarus Funds. Co-founder and Chairman of PalmStar Entertainment. Co-founder of theglobe.com
Multiple startups - CEO Maxperts, CEO Dreammedia, CEO Brammo
Founder/CEO of Dinevore. Ex-Morgan Stanley banker and management consultant. World traveller: climbed Kilimanjaro, 25+ countries/5 continents.
Founder & CEO of Identified.com
VP Platform Facebook, Harvard
Former Cofounder and President - SocialVibe
Partner at Science, Santa Monica
Entrepreneur & Founder of Deadcellzones.com & PhotoEnforced.com
Managing Partner Reinmkr Inc.
Founder/CEO of Undrip. Founder of Zinch (acquired by Chegg). Princeton dropout. Designer/Developer by day. Rapper by night ( http://undrip.com/rap )
Co-founder of www.triptrotting.com. Business background (UBS, Teach For America). USC Marshall School of Business 2007.
Entrepreneur, investor. New venture Skymarker/WANT! cofounder/ceo HouseParty, Jupiter, chair nonprofit OpenGate, ex dir Electronic Literature Org, MOUSE.
disciplined business leader, strategic thinker, entreprenuer, angel, Value Maximization Strategist (M&A expert),
OrganicStartup (Internet & Mobile incubator). Tech Coast Angels LA (seed investor network). Founder HealthInReach (consumer-driven healthcare marketplace). MBA
Runs Founder Institute Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures http://goldengate.vc
host & founder of @venturestudio, 3x entrepreneur, angel investor, director university venture lab
Media economist, chairman Media Advisory Group. Invests in early stage companies that advance media ecosystem. Editor Jack Myers Media Business Report.
Driving Startups to Succeed
Co-Founder: 3DGroove, Co-Founder: ODVD, Founder: Frank The Plumber
Entrepreneur, software engineer, coffee professional - currently: cofounder of Tonx
previously: cofounder and CTO of Foodzie
Pioneer & creator of CRM solutions, CEO - Nimble.com, Founder of GoldMine. Interests; Social Business, Customer Lifecycle, Acquisition, Enchantment & Retention.
Serial entrepreneur in this space. Founder of InCorp ($15mm/year, 100k recurring SMBs); Founder of MyLLC (700 biz formations/week); author of LLCs for Dummies.
Managing Director at Mobile Global
Director AppLab Uganda
Tech Biz Mgr at Acumen Fund
VP BizDev at BuyDomains.com
Co-Founder, EVP at Internet Interstate
Board of Directors at Rhapsody International
The Stanford Student Startup Accelerator
Founder & Chairman at Airworks
CEO, Context Digital Media, frmr EVP, Atari, Mng Dir, Bigpoint, Yahoo! Games, Microsoft. Founder Institute Mentor, guest lecturer HBS, UCLA.
President BlackLocus (Silverton, DFJ), COO/GM TrueCar (GRP, Anthem, Capricorn). COO Pricelock (Artiman, Goldman Sachs). COO Quepasa (IPO).
CEO of Telematica and now 'all in' as CEO of StreetLight Data, Inc. In my 'spare time', advising companies like Cloudsoft, Real-Status, and Drawn to Scale.
Co-founder http://Zaarly.com (@Zaarly); Startup Weekend multi-alum; husband of Hoya Professor; reformed startup lawyer; traveler & pug owner. SUPER fortunate!
Founder/CEO of SocialRadius, Startup Debut; founder Marketwire (funded by Sequoia & Hummer Winblad, sold $35mm in 2006). 10-15 investments/yr, usually clients.
CEO of GumGum
CEO of Shipito.com. Started several successful and profitable companies. Jury member on ipo48.org in Prague. Investor on Czech version of TV show Dragon's Den.
President of Mahalo.com. Frmr CEO, Gifts.com. Frmr exec at NYTimes.com; M&A at IAC. Advisor to Roadify.com, Food52.com, Hipswap.com, Touchera.com, Blip.tv.
CEO at mon.ki. Founded MSM (now Nu:run) and Google's largest Enterprise partner in Latam.
Co-founder. Wednesdays.com
Co-founder. 11 Strong.
Tech lead for eBay Checkout at PayPal
CEO of Hotlist, Webby Honoree - Social / Mobile. Top 5 Entrepreneur of The Year @Mashable Awards. NYU Stern B-Plan Winner. Founded co, acquired for 8-figures.
Co-Founder Shhlisten Music, Frankel Commercialization Fund Consumer Technology team leader. MBA U of Michigan
CEO Rewardli (500 Startups W11). Early employee @ 2 startups w/exits. Founder Reflexity (0-$2M in 2 yrs), Imviva (failed), SmartHippo. FounderFuel mentor.
Partner at Rustic Canyon
Investor in Talend, Netvibes, Greenext. Founder LesMobilizers, Comwax. Partner Chausson Finance. Chicago MBA. @Marc Brandsma
