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The Best Community Manager I know Over the course of the last year, I've seen a community grow into a thriving resource for all its participants. Engagement, both online and through offline events, is through the roof. It's a high quality, experienced, and focused community of participants who have leveraged each other's knowledge to get a ton of value out of it.
Charlie O'Donnell - LinkedIn
Charlie is a connector--introducing like minded friends, helping entrepreneurs find supporters, or just trying to make sense of disruptive ideas and the appropriate opportunities to create change. His interest in technologies that improve connection and empower individuals has led him to the creation of Path 101 (www.path101.com), a career discovery destination. He is the company's co-founder & CEO and passionately leads the business strategy, marketing, and business development.Chris Fralic
Before First Round, he was most recently VP of Business Development at del.icio.us which was acquired by Yahoo! in December 2005. Chris previously spent 6 years at eBay, and his last position there was a combination ad sales and business development role, and before that he led the eBay Entertainment categories, managing the transaction, platform and supply/demand aspects of the books, movies and music marketplaces in the US with over $1 billion in transaction volume during his time there.
Redefining Success - The Giving Pledge | First Round Capital | Seed Stage Venture Capital Fund in San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia
It's worth a moment of reflection on what's happening with the The Giving Pledge. In the VC/Technology community we spend a lot of time trying to create wealth, and one of the ways success is measured is by how much money was made. But there's not as much focus on what people do with their resources once they've been attained, and many who have achieved it have searched for significance beyond just the success.Bill Gates was one of the first from our generation to lead the way with his Bill ...
We are entrepreneurs. We believe that successful seed investors take an active role and work alongside the entrepreneurs in which they invest. Success or failure is often determined in the first 6-18 months of a company's life. Early decisions ultimately drive long term value creation.
Christine Herron
This weekend the Barnes in Philadelphia opens, and it’s truly amazing. It’s been described as the single greatest collection of impressionist art under one roof, with over 181 paintings by Renoir, more Cezanne paintings than there are are in Paris, 59 from Matisse, 46 by Picasso, more by Manet, Van Gogh’s, Degas, Gauguin and on ...
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Phin Barnes
Before joining First Round Capital, Phin founded ResponDesign, an independent videogame company that developed and published Yourself!Fitness, the first fitness game for Xbox and PlayStation2. While managing the marketing and distribution of Yourself!Fitness from 2003-2006, Phin secured retail partnerships with Nordstrom and Best Buy as well as promotional partnerships with Proctor & Gamble and McDonald’s.Chris Fralic Nothing To Say Rob Hayes Permanent Record Josh Kopelman Redeye VC
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Josh founded Half.com in July of 1999, and led it to become one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000 -- and Josh remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com business unit and growing eBay’s Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual gross merchandise sales. In late 2003 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that created the world's first anti-spam router. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later. In addition to being an active angel investor, Josh has served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Comcast Interactive Capital - a $350 million venture capital fund affiliated with Comcast Corporation.
Josh Kopelman
As a seed-stage investor, First Round Capital typically funds powerpoints. Not only are the majority of our investments pre-revenue, but most of the time we are investing in pre-launch companies. While these companies might have an alpha/beta version of ...
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Josh Kopelman - LinkedIn
Josh is currently Managing Director of First Round Capital, a seed stage technology venture fund. Josh has been an active leader in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Josh founded Half.com in July of 1999, and led it to become one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world.Most recently, he was a member of the Corporate Development team at Yahoo, where he focused on M&A to support the company’s user-facing properties. In 2007, he led the company’s $350M acquisition of Zimbra. Earlier, Kent led business strategy efforts for Yahoo’s Front Page, Communications and Community products which included Yahoo.com, My Yahoo and Yahoo Mail.
Kent Goldman
The currency of an early stage business isn't revenue or profit, it's learning. Products and features are tactics employed to test and reach a market vision. After our data review, I'm more convinced of this than ever....
Products Are Tactics | First Round Capital | Seed Stage Venture Capital Fund in San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia
Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1985. He has been a Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School. During his academic career he served as an editor of Communications of the ACM, Management Science, Transactions on Office Information Systems and Transactions on Database Systems. His research on user interface technology, and on optimization of computer networks led to his bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in 1974. As a result of this early participation in the internet, he advised many corporate and government agencies on the uses of electronic and voice mail, implementing it throughout the Wharton School in the mid 1970s.