Brian Norgard is a founder of Chill, which is a platform that allows you to watch video from (and with) the people you care about. Brian also founded Newroo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media when he was 25) and Ad.ly(the world’s largest celeb endorsement network).
Brian Wong is the founder of kiip (pronounced “keep”), a mobile rewards network, backed by True Ventures. Kiip has raised over $4.4 million in funding to date and is redefining the advertising industry through a “moments”-based value model, versus the traditional attention based screen estate model. Very recently, Kiip was listed by Forbes as one of the “4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List”.
Tara Hunt cofounded Buyosphere in 2010, an online Q&A for shopping. Buyosphere is leveraging the social web to build a knowledge base that will change the way we choose every product on the web. Fast Company called her one of the most influential women in technology and one of the 25 women-led startups to watch. She is a digital nomad currently living in Montreal with her dog, Ridley and boyfriend Carlos and has a grown son, Tad, who keeps her honest.
Dave Elchoness co-founded Tagwhat with Don Cramer and Angus Shee in 2009 to create new mobile experiences for people at places. The team launched Tagwhat in 2010 as a location-based social network with augmented reality but found that users did not quite know how to leverage location and soon revised their plans to focus squarely on place-based storytelling in multimedia. Walk by a place and watch as that place comes to life in your mobile in video, audio, and images as you pass.
Bo Fishback is the co-founder and CEO of Zaarly, a proximity-based, real-time, buyer-powered market where buyers make an offer for an immediate need and sellers cash in on their local marketplace. If you’ve ever said, “I’d pay ______ for _______” then Zaarly is for you. If you’ve ever said “I want money,” well… you’re welcome.
Mona Bijoor
Mona Bijoor is the founder of JOOR, a network that makes it easier for brands and boutique owners to connect, conduct business, and maximize their potential. After experiencing firsthand some of the incredible challenges and time constraints that professionals in the fashion industry face – rushing to showroom appointments, poring over line sheets, and scouting emerging talent – Mona Bijoor decided to create a private network offering a simple, online solution to the tedium of wholesale fashion buying.
Oliver Roup
Oliver Roup is the CEO of VigLink, a platform that allows you to easily monetize the outgoing links on your website. Previously, he was a director at Microsoft, in charge of products for various media properties including XBOX Live Video Marketplace, Zune Marketplace and MSN Entertainment. Oliver has patents issued and pending; covering micro-transactions, media and metadata. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from MIT and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Bre Pettis
Bre Pettis makes things that make things. Passionate about invention, innovation and all things DIY, Pettis builds infrastructure for creativity. He is a founder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things, a founder of Thingiverse where people share digital designs and a founder of NYCResistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn.
Aaron Harris
Aaron Harris is the co-founder of Tutorspree, a marketplace for tutoring which is trying to solve a series of massive inefficiencies in a market that’s worth $100B worldwide. It’s a system in which students and parents are unhappy with the methods through which they find and work with tutors and in which tutors are unhappy with the ways they find new students.
Christian Lanng
Christian Lanng is the co-founder of Tradeshift, the world’s first cloud business network, mixing business and social networks. Tradeshift has so far been highly successful, with users in more than 190 countries and more than 2,000 users joining the online network every week.
Matthew Bellows
Matthew Bellows is the founder and CEO of Yesware – an email solution for salespeople. He’s handled sales for several startups, including his previous one, WGR Media, which he sold to CNET. The lack of tools that help salespeople do their job better finally drove him over the edge. He called his partner Cashman and they started another company together.
Adii Rockstar
Adii Rockstar (born Adriaan Pienaar) is an entrepreneur, the co-founder of the successful online startup WooThemes and a general creator of Rockstar Awesomeness. Along with being a serial entrepreneur, he is also a designer and developer (CSS, PHP and WordPress), which has spawned his other company – a boutique design and development agency called Radiiate.
Alex Schiff
Alex Schiff is the CEO and co-founder of Fetchnotes, a super easy-to-use notes application. He is a junior at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Prior to starting Fetchnotes, Alex was an early employee at Benzinga, a financial media startup, where he spearheaded business development and various editorial initiatives.
Mark Vletter
Mark Vletter is the founder of Voys Telecom (one of the largest telecom providers in the Netherlands) and the one who’s trying to steer the company is the right direction with the help of his team. Mark was schooled at the Hanze University in Groningen to understand business processes and improve them using ICT. He fell in love with the Internet in 1996.
Ernests
Ernests has spent the last 6 years working in web projects and developing startup ideas in the Bluetooth and QR code fields. In 2008, together with Reach.ly co-founder Kaspars, he built a recommendation engine for geographic places and more recently the pre-cursor to Reach.ly, an affiliate-driven direct marketing hotel bookings site. He is active in the Baltic rim and Nordic startup scene, organizing events such as Garage48 in Riga.
Yaron Samid
Yaron Samid is the founder and CEO of BillGuard, a personal finance security company named “2011 Big-Data Startup of the Year” by O’Reilly Media and “2011 Top Startup of the Year Runner-up” by TechCrunch. BillGuard harnesses the collective knowledge of millions of consumers to protect credit cards from unfair, erroneous and fraudulent charges.
Dayson Pais
Dayson Pais is a serial entrepreneur who’s worked on dozens of websites, mobile & desktop apps since the age of 13. He co-founded Webly, a creative web agency, Epicwhale, a design and technology incubator and is now busy building his first consumer product called Textme.
Robert Boehme
Robert Boehme the CEO of Part-Time Scientists, a German based team of over 100 scientists, engineers and researcher that are working in cooperation with over 50 industrial partners towards sending a rover to the moon. He is a system engineer who took the shortcut directly from high school to work and started working his first job at the age of 18 as a consultant for the German government. He is one of the founding figures of the in Germany well known, “Linuxeinsteiger” community. His track record of writing about himself in third person is quite good too.
Geoff Lewis
Geoff Lewis is the co-founder and CEO of Topguest, an early-stage technology company that is redefining loyalty program engagement for a mobile, social world. Founded in June, 2010, Topguest has thus far been adopted by loyalty programs with a combined reach of +170 Million members.
Stephen Ou
Stephen Ou is a up-and-coming entrepreneur who had several products under his belt. He is the founder of Artsy Editor, a well-loved WordPress editor used by many popular bloggers. He takes care of every part of Artsy Editor, from starting marketing campaign to answering support emails, from writing code to making Photoshop design. Before Artsy Editor, he also created several successful, widely-used web apps includingiTunes Instant and TwtRoulette. In total they’ve attracted over three hundred thousands users in less than a year. His work had been featured on Inc. Magazine, Forbes, TechCrunch, Mashable, The Next Web, and more.
Travis Katz
Travis Katz is the co-founder and CEO of Gogobot.com – a social trip planning site. Prior to founding Gogobot, Travis was the SVP and GM for MySpace International, launching MySpace in more than 30 countries and growing the user base to more than 70MM users.
Ben Lang
Ben Lang is an 18-year-old Internet entrepreneur whose journey began at age 14 when he started his own eBay business. He’s the founder of EpicLaunch, a popular blog for young entrepreneurs. Ben’s also the founder of MySchoolHelp, a site for students to find and share notes from their schools. Right now he’s living in the Tel Aviv area of Israel, working on the marketing team at Wibiya and will be joining the Israeli army in March.
Isaac Garcia
Isaac Garcia is the CEO and co-founder of Central Desktop. The company is the provider of the cloud-based collaboration software Central Desktop, which revolutionizes how people connect and share information to drive profitable business results.
Sachin Rekhi
Sachin Rekhi is founder of Connected, a professional contact manager that brings your contacts together in one place. Unlike other contact managers, Connected maintains an always up to date address book of the contacts and conversations in your life by syncing with your email, calendar and social networks. It recently was acquired by LinkedIn.
Otis Chandler
Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. The site has since grown to nearly 7 million members who have added over 240 million books, completely by word of mouth. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009.
Rand Fishkin
Rand Fishkin is the CEO and co-founder of SEOmoz, a leader in the field of search engine optimization tools, resources and community. He co-authored the Art of SEO from O’Reilly Media and was named on the 40 Under 40 List and 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30. Rand has been written about in The Seattle Times, Newsweek and The New York Times, among others, and has keynoted conferences on search around the world. He’s particularly passionate about the SEOmoz blog, read by tens of thousands of search professionals each day. In his miniscule spare time, Rand enjoys the company of his amazing wife, Geraldine.
Neil Patel
Neil Patel is the co-founder of two Internet companies — Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics. Through his entrepreneurial career, Neil has helped large corporations like Amazon, AOL, GM, HP and Viacom make more money from the Web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he also was one of the top influencers on the Web according to The Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Max Niederhofer
Dr. Max Niederhofer is the founder of Qwerly, a people search engine for the social web. It was recently acquired by Fliptop. Prior to Qwerly he was a Principal at Atlas Venture, a Boston- and London-based venture capital firm. He previously co-founded myblog.de, Germany’s largest blogging community and was a seed investor in Last.fm (acquired by CBS).
Mike Dirolf
Mike Dirolf is the founder of Fiesta, a company that is making group communication over email easier than ever before. Before Fiesta, Mike was an engineer at 10gen, working on MongoDB. Mike grew up in Albany, NY and received a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University.
Christian Reber
Christian Reber is the heart-driven founder, serial entrepreneur and driving force behind 6Wunderkinder, a software company in Berlin, Germany. With his main roles as CEO and product manager he is fully realizing his childhood dream of building a company that not only creates software that is functional, but also cutting-edge and sexy.
Scott Dudelson
Scott Dudelson is an internet entrepreneur and the Chief Operating Officer of Prodege. As COO of Prodege, Dudelson spearheads the operation and business development of Prodege- owned properties, including the web’s premier online rewards destination, Swagbucks.com, and The Gift App, one of the most popular virtual gifting applications on facebook.
Greg Tseng
Greg Tseng co-founded Tagged in October 2004 and has served as CEO since its inception. He has been a driving force in creating Tagged with his partner, co-founder and long-time friend, Johann Schleier-Smith. Tagged enables anyone to meet and socialize with new people. With over 100 million members in 220 countries, Tagged has established the category of social discovery. Greg went to Harvard College and pursued a Ph.D. in Physics at Stanford before leaving to launch Tagged.
Paige Craig
Paige Craig is the CEO and co-founder of BetterWorks, an LA based company focused on “Making Work Rewarding” for small & medium business across the US. He is also an angel investor, board member and advisor to both early-stage consumer Internet and new media companies as well as companies in the national security and defense sectors.
Paul Molluzzo
Paul Molluzzo is the founder of Baby Goes Mobile, a “grandma-proof” web application for creating baby books with your cell phone. Paul took the inspiration from the website he built for his firstborn son to create an easy-to-use application for other parents to take advantage of the mobile web they have in their pocket.
Jody Sherman
Jody Sherman co-founded ecomom.com in 2009 out of a desire to help moms with the myriad decisions they face on a daily basis. Sherman felt that helping them sort through the confusing and often misleading information about what is safe to put in, on, and around their families would be the best way to help effect change that would be good for children and also good for the planet.
Pete Kazanjy
Pete Kazanjy is the co-founder of Honestly.com, a community-contributed professional reputation and peer review website. Pete founded Honestly.com with his co-founders, Jason Heidema and Danis Dayanov, to help bring professional reputation into the Web age.
Jameson Detweiler
Jameson Detweiler is the co-founder and Chief Hair Officer of LaunchRock, a startup that allows you to set-up a “coming soon” page in just minutes.
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