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Adeo Ressi

CEO, TheFunded.com  

Adeo Ressi is Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of 12,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. The Institute is the eight start-up that Adeo has founded or built, four of which were acquired and three of which are still operating.

• Startup Legal and Incorporation on 02/08/2010

Alain Raynaud

CEO, FairSoftware  

Alain Raynaud is the founder and CEO of FairSoftware, a TechCrunch50 Finalist that lets people associate online for profit by forming virtual corporations. In 2002, Alain co-founded EVE-USA, an electronic design automation company that grew to 100 employees and $30M in revenue. He is the author of two U.S. patents. Alain was also a freelance journalist between 1987-97, covering Apple for MacWorld France and other magazines.

• Intellectual Property on 02/22/2010

Alexander Castro

CEO,  

CEO and founder of Delve Networks, an online video platform backed by Intel Capital, Labrador, and DFJ Frontier. Previously held senior management roles at Amazon, Microsoft, and AT&T Bell Labs. Received undergrad and graduate degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University, completed coursework at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

• Hiring and Firing on 02/01/2010

Bryan Thatcher

CEO, Locker Blogger  

Bryan Thatcher is CEO of Empressr, a leading Web application that allows users to create, manage and share rich-media presentations. As CEO and Founder of Fusebox, Bryan applies his mind for innovation to some of the most revered brands in finance, media, and pharmaceuticals—Discover Financial Services, JPMorgan Chase, MTV, CNN, ESPN and Pfizer—helping them increase profits and stay relevant in an ever-changing world of marketing opportunities.

• Presentation on 03/22/2010

Bubba Murarka

Business Development, Facebook  

Bubba Murarka is an active startup adviser, investor and event host. As a member of Facebook's Business & Corporate Development team he works with numerous startups to help them acquire and engage customers via the Facebook Platform & Advertising Solutions. Previously, Bubba started Pocketwerks & Texame, served as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Bay Partners and ran several product development teams at Microsoft. He is the primary inventor on 13 patents and enjoys playing racquetball whenever possible.

• Marketing and Publicity on 03/08/2010

Dan Shapiro

Board of Directors, Photobucket  

Dan Shapiro is the founder of Ontela, a pioneering mobile imaging company, where he was named CEO of the Year by MobileBeat. After being placed on the Dow Jones Top 10 in Wireless list, receiving the CTIA award for Best Social Networking Application, and being named Breakthrough Startup of the Year by the WTIA, Ontela merged with Photobucket in December of 2009 where Shapiro now holds a seat on the Board of Directors. He also serves on the boards of Bonanzle Inc. and the nonprofit Washington Technology Industry Association. Prior to founding Ontela, Shapiro managed development of the RealArcade service at RealNetworks, enabling thousands of end-users to play classic games such as Monopoly, Scrabble and Rollercoaster Tycoon on their desktops. He arrived at RealNetworks by way of Wildseed, where he managed software development for one of the world's first Linux-based phones. Shapiro started his career at Microsoft working on Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Shapiro's articles have been published in publications including The Washington Post, Wireless Week, and the Seattle PI, and he is a frequent speaker at conferences and events. He has been awarded seven patents, and received his B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.

• Basic Research on 12/14/2009
• Startup Legal and Incorporation on 02/08/2010
• Graduation on 04/05/2010

Dave Parker

CEO, 9Spaces  

Dave Parker is a seriel entrepreneur in International Business and currently the CEO of 9Spaces, Inc as well as a board member for three other companies. I was introduced to the funded while an Entrepreneur in Residence for a venture fund in San Jose. That three years of EIR expernience gave me the "other side of the table" view of the world and confirmed what I knew about myself as an Entrepreneur. I'm a founder that is good and connecting ideas to business models on the front end and positioning companies for sale and the back end. I've founded four companies as CEO. Sold Four, closed one, and sit on the board of four compnanies today.

• Your Vision and Idea Types on 12/07/2009

David Kidder

CEO, Clickable, Inc.  

David S. Kidder is the co-Founder and CEO of Clickable, an online advertising web service based in New York City. Prior to Clickable, Kidder co-founded SmartRay Network, a mobile advertising delivery pioneer acquired by LifeMinders. Kidder is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, received the ID Magazine's International Design Award and the Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008 (Metropolitan, and National Selection). He is the creator and co-author of the two-time NYT’s bestselling book series, The Intellectual Devotional. He lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and two sons.

• Earning Revenue on 01/25/2010

Derrick Morton

CEO, FlowPlay  

Derrick is the CEO of FlowPlay - a creator of online game technology and consumer products. He has been a games and online entertainment executive for over 14 years. Over the course of the past 7 years he has been a key executive at the top online game websites - iWin, Uproar, Flipside, Virtual Vegas and GameHouse. Most recently he was General Manager of Mobile Games for RealNetworks, a business unit he founded. Derrick was a key executive at GameHouse which was acquired in 2004 by RealNetworks. Mr. Morton received a BA, magna cum laude, from USC Film School and an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School.

• Company Roadmap on 01/11/2010
• Graduation on 04/05/2010

Glenn Kelman

CEO, Redfin  

I co-founded Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed enterprise software company that created the corporate portal market & went public in 2002 before being bought by Oracle. I've run Redfin since October 2005, when it was just a few guys in an apartment; the company has grown to a $20M revenue run-rate and recently recorded its first profits. I was graduated from UC Berkeley.

• Your Vision and Idea Types on 12/07/2009
• Marketing and Publicity on 03/08/2010

Hillel Cooperman

Founder,  

Hillel founded Jackson Fish Market in November of 2006 with co-founders and partners Walter Smith and Jenny Lam. Since its inception, JFM has shipped six hand-crafted consumer web experiences including They’re Beautiful!, Invitastic, and What a Lovely Name. Before JFM, he worked for Microsoft from mid-1997 to late 2006 as a program manager, a product unit manager, and all the positions in between. While at Microsoft, he helped ship Internet Explorer for the Macintosh, several versions of MSN Explorer, and the Windows Vista program. Before Microsoft, he worked at two small software companies creating products for the Macintosh. He also founded and writes for Tastingmenu.

• Naming and Branding on 01/04/2010

Jay Jamison

Founder & President,  

Jay Jamison is the Co-Founder and President of Moonshoot, an early-stage online gaming company with the mission to spark English language learning in children everywhere. Prior to starting Moonshoot, Jay held leadership roles in product management and marketing for Microsoft in Redmond and Tokyo for over 9 years.

• Naming and Branding on 01/04/2010
• Earning Revenue on 01/25/2010

Joe Betts-LaCroix

Co-Founder, OQO  

Joe Betts-LaCroix founded OQO, creator of the world’s smallest PC, in 2000, and established the resulting market category of smaller-than-laptop PCs, now called UMPCs, netbooks, etc. He is now immersed in generating and monetizing intellectual property, as well as advising several startups. Prior to OQO, he has operated numerous other companies, as well as having done groundbreaking academic research at Caltech, Harvard, JPL, MIT and the IBM Almaden Research Center in various fields, including quantum biophysics, marine chemistry, human-computer interface and alternative energy. Joe has patents pending and granted for over 80 inventions in a diversity of fields, ranging from electronic methods to consumer finance to cleantech.

• Basic Research on 12/14/2009
• Intellectual Property on 02/22/2010
• Partners and Suppliers on 03/01/2010

Jon Ingalls

Founder & CEO, TrackSimple  

As Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of TrackSimple, Jon leads the team with a simple and profound mission to “measure everything”. To date TrackSimple is processing terabytes of data from far flung sources to find never before realized lift for Publishers and Advertisers. Before stepping down in 2007 to pursue TrackSimple Jon Ingalls held several roles at Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), delivering Amazon’s Service Oriented Architecture, technical liaison to Amazon’s Merchant.com sales efforts and finally as Director of Performance. Jon drove the dramatic expansion of Amazon’s data network, resulting in of one of the largest data processing infrastructures on the planet, capable of mining huge amounts of information in near real-time. Today those systems continue to collect, process, and manage millions of performance metrics every minute driving Amazon’s infrastructure on a gigantic scale.

• The Funding Lifecycle on 03/29/2010

Jordan Weisman

CEO and founder,  

Jordanis the CEO and Founder of Smith & Tinker. Jordan has been the creative and motivating force behind the founding and success of a number of entertainment companies, including: FASA Corporation (roleplaying games), Virtual World Entertainment (the world's first public networked virtual reality entertainment centers) acquired by the Disney Family in 1992, FASA Interactive (PC games, including the MechWarrior franchise) acquired by Microsoft in 1999, WizKids (collectible games, including HeroClix) acquired by Topps Inc. in 2003, and 42 Entertainment (alternate reality gaming).

• Your Vision and Idea Types on 12/07/2009

Michael Schutzler

Chief Sherpa, CEOsherpa.com  

Michael Schutzler is a CEO Advisor & Executive Coach at CEOsherpa. He has a 25+ year career leading business teams including: co-founder of RR Donnelley Direct Printing Division; co-founder & CEO of Freeshop.com which had an IPO in 1999; turnaround CEO of Classmates.com which sold to UNTD in 2004; and currently serves on the board of three Seattle start-ups - Flowplay, Talentspring, and Digital Forest. Michael has an BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, an MBA in Economics from WE Simon School at University of Rochester, and is a member of the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches.

• Naming and Branding on 01/04/2010
• Intellectual Property on 02/22/2010

Ron Wiener

Chief Mechanic, Venture Mechanics, LLC  

Serial entrepreneur and angel investor; currently Chief Mechanics at incubator Venture Mechanics, LLC in Seattle. Founder and CEO of five investor-backed companies including Earth Class Mail, SnapNames.com, PrintBid.com, Distribution Sciences Corp and Azure Technology. Have incubated more than a dozen startups since 1998. Starred on Startup Junkies TV show for its first season (see it on hulu or itunes).

• Presentation on 03/22/2010
• Hiring and Firing on 02/01/2010

T.A. McCann

CEO, Gist, Inc.  

T.A. McCann serves as founder and CEO of Gist. His past experience includes entrepreneur-in-residence roles at both Vulcan Capital and Polaris Venture Partners. He also held senior positions at Microsoft, leading product planning for the Exchange Server Group and developing the Service Delivery Platforms group focused on mobile applications development. In addition, he is a founder of Jump2Go, HelpShare, and Soft Labour. He currently serves on the board of Art with Heart and is an advisor to Wishpot, Asset Archives, and Notary One. In addition to his technology background, T.A. has won sailing's America's Cup and sailed around the world.

• Marketing and Publicity on 03/08/2010
• Presentation on 03/22/2010

Todd Hooper

CEO and founder, Napera Networks  

Todd Hooper is an experienced startup executive who has founded and lead software, hardware and services companies including Momentum, Trillium Lane Labs and Napera Networks. Todd was part of the executive team at WatchGuard Technologies prior to its IPO. In addition, he has advised a wide range of early stage startups. He is passionate about building compelling products for enterprise customers and individual end users.

• Basic Research on 12/14/2009
• Company Roadmap on 01/11/2010
• Graduation on 04/05/2010

Will Hodgman

EVP - International,  

Will Hodgman is Executive Vice President of International for comScore, Inc. Will is a veteran marketer and a successful entrepreneur - having founded, built and sold two digital measurement companies - AdRelevance and M:Metrics. Will’s career spans global advertising, marketing, media and measurement. He has founded, built and managed global media measurement companies that represent the benchmarks in the industry.

• Company Roadmap on 01/11/2010