Tony Wright
Current: tomoguides.com (mobile apps for on-the-ground travelers). Previous: Cubeduel (went viral, sold 2011) & RescueTime (YC, True Ventures, profitable).
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Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford, Berkeley and Columbia
http://www.steveblank.com
VP Product at Google
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of HDNet. He is also a "shark" investor on Shark Tank.
Product Director, Ads at Facebook
Visiting scholar at NYU in journalism. Developed first blogging software, RSS and podcasting, outliners, web CMS.
http://scripting.com/
I'm a product designer inspired by Apple, Audi, and Amazon. I've never owned a PC. I worked on Final Cut Pro at Apple. I’m the founder and CEO of Posterous.
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
CEO iSkoot, sold to QCOM (VP now). EVP loopt. Founder, Pres DChoc. Founder, CEO SW Sports & Soft, sold to Paul Allen & iXL. CS Harvard. Inventor fantasy sports
VP of Corporate Development at Google
Entrepreneur, CEO and cofounder of Twilio.
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
Serial CEO. Entrepreneur. Investor.
Partner Shasta Ventures; Chairman Turn, Extole, & Sojern
Prior: CEO/founder Turn; President Overture Search; CEO AltaVista.
CEO & Co-Founder of Vertica Systems and Founding Board Member at Recorded Future, CloudSwitch & Upstart
Chairman, CEO, and Founder Saba Software (public company); Investor in HotPrints, DropBox, Klout, Qwiki, CleverSense, and many more.
Investor in Shutterfly, Farecast, Bix.com
CEO at Xobni; Vice President, Social Search at Yahoo!; Vice President, Real Time Communications at Yahoo, Inc.; Founder at Starbox Systems
Co-founder of RedOctane, creators of Guitar Hero
Investor, board member, blogger and occasional executive
Co-founder Scopely; Chairman / Co-founder Deep Dive Media; Head of Domain Channel Google; Founding member / VP Applied Semantics; Technical Sales Engineer, AMD
Co-founder and CTO iPrint.com (NASD:IPRT). Co-founder and CTO MessageCast (Sold to Microsoft). StartX mentor, technical advisor.
Cofounded Picasa -> Google
co-founder @ zynga
Product Guy who can connect dots that are obvious after the fact. Motto: Kindle-ize Everything.
Vice President of Ventures at SRI • Co-Founder and Board Member of Siri (Acquired by Apple)
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.
General partner, GRP Ventures & 2x entrepreneur. Sold Koral to Salesforce.com
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 of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
Founder + CEO BetterWorks, adrenaline fueled angel, Marine...
Canadian. CEO/Founder of Clarity.fm. Co-Founder of Flowtown (Acquired '11), Founder of Spheric Tech (Acquired '08), Mentor @ 500Startup. Investor in many.
CEO/Co-Founder of Stocktwits..GP of Social Leverage (Angel Investing)..Wallstrip creator (purchased by $CBS)..Momentum, Acceleration & LOL hunter..Love Popcorn
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
General Partner at CrunchFund. Longtime writer at TechCrunch, VentureBeat, etc.
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
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.
CEO @ LocalResponse, GP @ ENIAC Ventures, Partner India Internet Group. 12+ years experience investing and operating across the mobile ecosystem.
Co-founder of Chart.io (YC 2010). Founding Partner at Spinnakr (500S). Sometimes investor.
co-founder, 3-Rings
GP, Hafooch Investments, Inc.
GP, Pulver Equities III
founder, #140conf events
founder, pulver.com
co-founder, Vivox
Internet focused VC and angel investor. Founder of Alpha (http://on.wsj.com/iHk2nk)
Founder & CEO of Behance, Author of Making Ideas Happen, Investor and Eternal Student.
OPERATOR - Prod Dev/Mkting
✦Excite@Home/SVP
✦Excite/SVP
✦Crystal Dynamics/Producer
✦EA/PM
INVESTOR:
✦LinkedIn/Board
✦Facebook/Board Observer
✦Pandora/Board
Director of Product, AmazonLocal. Former founder and CEO, TeachStreet
Founder HARO (sold to Vocus). CEO and Founder of Social Media and PR firm the Geek Factory. Investor and advsior to multiple early stage startups.
Associate at @Seedcamp, managing portfolio (60+ cos), operations, & connecting Seedcamp network (2000+ mentors & investors).
I answer email faster than you.
Serial entrepreneur / angel; 20 ventures, 2 IPOs. 1st investor in Klout. Founder: Bottlenose, Live Matrix, Daily Dot, StreamGlider, Twine, EarthWeb & Dice.
VC at True Ventures. Lover of Disruptive Technology, Punk Music, and Burritos.
http://www.lifeinbeta.org
Marketer Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor. Co-Founder of NXTP Labs
Co-founded Digital Ventures & InZearch, sold them to Fox a News Corp company (NASDAQ:NWS)
Founder JustBooks / AbeBooks (sold to Amazon). Angel investor (> 30 consumer internet / SaaS investments). Venture Partner Acton Capital. Co-founder GrowLab.
Partner at Alsop Louie Partners
Investor in Last.fm, Boticca, Skimlinks, Onefinestay, Fliptop.
Investing in the raw talent behind a dream and building an exceptional community of entrepreneurs around the world
Founder, Stealth Startup; Former Microsoft Corporate Strategy & Acquisitions.
Angel or Seed in Twitter (Tweetdeck), Tango, ContextLogic, Soundtracking. VC in >15 startups that IPO'd; Founder or Chairman of 3 companies (1 IPO, 2 sales).
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
Principal at Highland Capital Partners
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/Managing Partner @ BHV; early-stage VC focused on media, tech, and entertainment. Focused on great people; MIT, Sloan '01; USMA '94; Airborne Ranger
Founder
Principal at Trinity Ventures
President of BuzzFeed in NYC. He was previously Strategic Partner Development Manager on Google's SMB (Small Medium Business) Partnerships team.
Venture Partner 500Startups (focused Latam + international); Founder Brazil Innovators - epicenter of startups in Brazil. Connector, community builder
Founder of Seraph Group. Invested more than 50 companies.
Co-Founder // CEO of LaunchRock. Last startup failed thanks to lack of users. PhD dropout.
Serial CTO and Entrepreneur - Angel Investor at Lead Dog Ventures... More at www.leaddog.com
Managing Director, LaunchCapital
Investor and Company Builder - Partner, Greylock Partners
Serial entrepreneur from half a dozen startups. Angel investor. Former VC. I built the first Web application server way back in the Web 1.0 days.
Serious Business, Zynga
Community Builder. Angel. Project 11. Tech Stars Boston.
Founder Sparkbuy (sold to Google); Founder Ontela (acquired Photobucket).
Venture Capitalist
Mentor @ 500 Startups, previously CTO @ SimplyHired
Founder/CTO Real Media (acq by 24/7 & WPP). CTO TACODA (acq by AOL). Founder/Managing Partner Genacast Ventures, technology seed fund w/exits to Google & Adobe
Founder, Voodoo Ventures, Founder, LPIgnition
Board Director at Sand Hill Angels (focus: Mobile/eCommerce/location). Advising startups worldwide. Founder of IPforAsia. Worked at NXP, Philips, Sina.com, NEC.
Co-Founder, President & COO at Invite Media Inc. part of Google
Principal at Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Europe). Investing in high potential online/tech/media companies
Influencer Series; former VC @ Draper Fisher Jurvetson
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.
Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley
VC at Rising Tide Fund. Also: angel investor, startup advisor, mentor at TechWadi.org, cofounder of Launch Labs. Relentless optimist.
VP Product at GoInstant. Founding Partner at Year One Labs, early stage accelerator. Previously founded Standout Jobs.
Managing Director of Launchpad LA (launchpad.la), Co-Founder of Charlie (meetcharlie.com), Partner at Charlie Ventures (charlieventures.com)
Founder of Gist.com (sold to RIM in Feb 2011), Microsoft Exchange, EIR at Vulcan Capital
Active angel for 17 years; Currently working on a new gig;
Senior Partner with VC Globespan Capital for 12 years;
Top rated Wall Street analyst; Entrepreneur
CEO, Lore Systems & Opus8 - network engineering & cloud computing; invest in datacenters, BPO, CRM, & cloud tech. Blog: tienwong.wordpress.com, @Tien Wong
Co-founder of Spinnakr. Experienced developer of analytics software. Co-founder of @proudlymadeindc and @dctechmeetup
