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- Founder of WhitePages.Com
Alexis Ohanian is most well known as one of the Founders of Reddit where he goes by kn0thing. Reddit was in the first group of startups at YCombinator. Reddit was also the first exit from YCombinator when they sold to Conde Nast Digital in 2006. He has given a Ted talk (on Mr. Splashy Pants, a humpback whale) and presented at many startup/web events. He has done a Kiva fellowship in Armenia. Alexis is also an accredited investor and has an angel investment firm named Das Kapital Capital, LLC. He is also a board member of the Awesome Foundation. Currently, Alexis is a founder at Breadpig. He also has a marketing role at Hipmunk, a new flight search startup founded by his Co-Founder at Reddit, Steve Huffman. Alexis also represents YCombinator in the East Coast of the US.
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- Co Founder of BuddyTV.Com
You can find Brian on Twitter , on LinkedIn , in a coffee shop, or on a golf course…
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- Co Founder of Grasshopper
Hayley Tomazic has seven years of sales and marketing experience. After obtaining a double major in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from the University of Dayton, she began her career at Ryan Homes, one of the nation's largest homebuilders. Her friendly approach and positive attitude contributed to several awards including multiple Sales Representative of the Quarter titles. In 2007, she moved to St. Louis to continue in her real estate career. She opened Fairway Development, a real estate development and consulting company, and also became a real estate agent for J.F. Meyer Realty. She added Mo.com to her endeavors in 2011 and is looking forward to promoting small businesses everywhere.
Jeff Bennett is the CEO of Swap.com. Swap is an award-winning website that brings people together to swap the stuff they have for the stuff they want. Jeff has been an active digital citizen since the mid-1990's and this experience has enabled him to play leadership and advisory roles with many successful Internet businesses. Prior to Swap.com, Jeff founded and served as President & COO of NameMedia, where he built one of the largest domain portfolios in the world.
Jeff has also served in several executive roles at Lycos, including VP of eCommerce and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development. Jeff is focused on leveraging the power of social media and commerce to build the Swap economy, a mission that he has spoken about on The CBS Early Show and FOX Business, and in publications like Entrepreneur and the Boston Globe. You can find his blog at www.jeffbennett.com.
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- Founder and CEO of Meetcha
- Founder of Monster.Com
Jeffrey C. Taylor is the Founder and CEO of Meetcha.com, a unique social dating site. Jeff is also the Founder and Chairman of Tributes.com, eons.com, and the Founder and former CEO of Monster.com. He serves on the Board of Directors of Boston's Citi Center for the Performing Arts and Board of Advisors of Berklee College of Music. Jeff holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; a Certificate-Owner/President Management (OPM) Program, Executive Education, Harvard Business School; and an Honorary Doctorate from Bentley College. Jeff has been an avid Deejay for more than 30 years under the name Jefr Tale. He has a weekly show on Sirius/XM (Area) on Sunday nights.
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- President and CEO of Branders.Com
- President and Chief Executive Officer of Branders
Jerry McLaughlin is President and Chief Executive Officer of Branders.com, the largest and lowest-priced online promotional products source in the world. Before co-founding Branders.com in 1999, Mr. McLaughlin was with Altos Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in companies and entrepreneurs. Previously, Mr. McLaughlin was CEO of Enwisen, the first Internet-based clearinghouse of employee benefit information between insurers and large employers; and, before that, practiced business law with Cooley Godward of Palo Alto, California, where he worked with emerging growth companies, venture capitalists, and investment bankers in Silicon Valley.
Kelsey is a senior marketing major with a minor in English at the University of Missouri. She is a member of the Division I Women's golf team, as well as the vice president of her campus entrepreneurship club. Kelsey recently started a small scale marketing company at the University of Missouri with her friend Meghan, and will graduate in May 2011.
Meghan Orbe is a senior marketing major with a minor in Hotel and Restaurant management at the University of Missouri. She is the President of the Flegel Academy for Aspiring Entrepreneurs, the VP of growth and networking for MU Entrepreneurs, and the Director of Marketing for the Alumni Mentor Program. Meghan recently started a small scale marketing company at the University of Missouri called Make Me Your Ad. She recently accepted a position at P&G and will start work in June 2011.
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- Author of "the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur."
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- Co Founder of KISSMetrics and CrazyEgg
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- Author
- Author of the 80 / 20 Principle
Richard Koch is the author of the widely popular book, The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less, as well as 19 other books. He is a highly successful entrepreneur, whose ventures have included Filofax, Plymouth Gin, and Betfair. He was formerly a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and a partner of Bain & Company, before co-founding LEK Consulting.
The 80/20 principle says that roughly 80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs. While the 80/20 ratio is just a guide, the results can just as well be 90/10 or 70/30, or even 99/1. Koch also points out that it doesn't necessarily need to be a sum of 100. It's just a clean way to communicate the concept that most results come from a small part of our effort.
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- Co Founder of Advertising.Com
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- Founder of SiteTuners and Conversion Conference
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- Founder and CEO of FatWallet
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- Founder and CEO of AWeber