UsingMiles - AngelList

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Product

Average family in UsingMiles tracks 660k loyalty points, valued @ ~$15k. UM helps families in 15+ loyalty programs get organized, then optimize "earn & burn"

UM auto-tracks 100+ programs like United, Marriott, LivingSocial, Best Buy

By March, in travel, we'll launch a metasearch for redeeming points & for finding paid travel solutions that maximize point accrual (patent pending)

Contracts: major airlines, hotels

Entrepreneur Mag: 2011's 100 Brilliant Companies
Inc Mag: 2011 Top 50 Biz Apps

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Jon Nordmark

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
Krista Paul

Founder UsingMiles. Strong Marketing, PR & Social background. Summa Cum Laude, Univ. of CO Leed's School of Business. Techstars 2008, mentor Founder's Institute
Fernando Cardenas

MIT EE/CS Grad. Expert at bridging business/technology gap, building tech teams, and delivering software results.
Keith Bristol

VP of Product @ UsingMiles. Led Design, Usability and eventually Global Technology Services @ eBags. Built out eBags and Tumi sites for US, UK, Japan & Germany.
David Johnson

CTO at UsingMiles.com. Operating lynxLOGIC consulting biz for 5 years. CTO at Mocapay. Director of Tech at StorePerform. Program Mgr and SDE at Microsoft.
Michelle Byerly
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David Cohen

Founder/CEO of TechStars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone. http://www.davidgcohen.com
Howard Lindzon

CEO/Co-Founder of Stocktwits..GP of Social Leverage (Angel Investing)..Wallstrip creator (purchased by $CBS)..Momentum, Acceleration & LOL hunter..Love Popcorn
Fabrice Grinda

Founder and CEO at OLX, Investor at AppsFire, BrightRoll, BrandsClub..
Paul Sherer

Over 20 years investing (Osprey, VantagePoint, RS & Co.) Co-founder PivotalInvest.com targeting Web/Mobile start-ups with pivotal ideas to change lives.
Brett Jackson

VP Business Development at AVX Aircraft Co. Former angel investor and early employee at Crocs, Inc. Investor in over a dozen startups.
Peter Cobb

Co-founder, SVP at eBags.com

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TechStars

Investor in 100+ great startups such as SendGrid, CourseKit, Contently, CrowdTwist, Orbotix, Intense Debate (Wordpress), DailyBurn (IAC), and Filtrbox (Jive).

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Randy Petersen

Known as the frequent flyer guru: I can see for miles and miles and miles ...
Shawn R Davison

Software Entrepreneur & Technology Advisor
Vince Chirico

Advisor to UsingMiles.
Jeff Potter
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“UsingMiles is a finalist for the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award.”

6 days ago

6 Comments

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Sam Decker Untapped points in an untapped market. Jon is a rockstar and knows everyone in the ecommerce industry, and they know him. Expanding the opportunity for people to spend their points is long overdue and there are multiple distribution strategies to reach the target customer.

3 months ago

Paul Sherer Jon and Krista are incredible entrepreneurs and I believe Using Miles will become just as fundamental as the suitcase for active travelers. They have a relentless focus on simplifying how we earn, organize and redeem Points across any and all sources. If Pinterest.com helps discover what we like, Using Miles helps us actually experience what we enjoy.

3 months ago

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