Speakers & Mentors
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Hunter Walk
Hunter Walk is the director of Product Management at Google, focused primarily on YouTube. He joined Google in December 2003 after serving as a member of the founding team of Second Life at Linden Lab from 2001 to 2003.
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Harsh Patel, RRE ventures
Partner, RRE ventures
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Mitchell Kapor, Kapor Capital
founder of Lotus Development Corporation
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Vas Natarajan, Accel
Investor at Accel.
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Shellye Archambeau, MetricStream
CEO of MetricStream
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Scott Weiss, Andreessen Horowitz
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
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Margit Wennmachers, Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz, co-founder
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Lynn Vojvodich, Andreessen Horowitz
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz; Founder Take3; Recovering Engineer and CMO
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Marvin Chow, Google
Google Global Marketing Director
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Kurt Collins, Youth Radio
Tech Strategist & Developer at Youth Radio Mentor at Hidden Genius Project Co-Founder & CEO at Enole
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Trey Hoehne, Rackspace
Cloud Evangelist with the Rackspace Startup
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Peter Shanley, Neo
Biz Development at Neo
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Michael Seibel, SocialCam
CEO of Socialcam mentor-2012
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Marlon Nichols, Intel Capital
VC at Intel Capital mentor-2012
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Stephanie Palmeri, SoftTech
Principal with SoftTech VC mentor-2012
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Sabrina Parsons, Palo Alto Software, Inc.
Sabrina Parsons, Palo Alto Software, Inc. Heir to a business planning kingdom and CEO of the world leader in business plan and management software (flagship products include LivePlan and Business Plan Pro) Sabrina knows more than a little something about planning, pitching, and managing a startup to success. Sabrina took over Palo Alto Software in 2007 (her father was founder and business [...] mentor-2012
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Makinde Adeagbo, Software Engineer
Makinde Adeagbo joined facebook as a software engineer in the summer of 2007. While there, he worked on many aspects of the user facing product (photos, events, video…) and front end performance. After more than 3 years at facebook, he briefly worked at Bridge International Academies in Nairobi, Kenya, helping to recruit and build IT & mobile apps to support [...] mentor-2012
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Aston Motes, Assorted Bits
Aston Motes was the first hire at Dropbox, where over the last four and a half years he has worked on a wide variety of products, from the Dropbox.com website to the Teams small business product to the API thousands of 3rd-party developers use today. Previous to Dropbox, he enjoyed a short stint at OkCupid where he was an early [...] mentor-2012
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Eva Ho, Factual
As the VP of Marketing, Sales and Operations at Factual, Eva manages all aspects of the brand, revenue generation, HR and finance. In 2008, she co-founded Navigating Cancer, a website and tools that empower cancer patients to navigate their best care. She is also very active in the non-profit sector, founding Whole Child LA in 2008, a community pediatric pain [...] mentor-2012
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Thomas Knoll, Launchrock
Co-founder & Hustler at http://launchrock.com who’s done Community Cultivation and Customer Development for Zappos, UserVoice, and Seesmic. I advise companies on strategies and tactics for community cultivation and customer development to help them: discover, welcome, acquire and retain an active community of customers; and transform customer support and social engagement into a source of customer evangelism. mentor-2012
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Hiten Shah, KISSmetrics
Hiten started on the Internet by founding a Internet marketing consultancy, ACS. He then went on to create Crazy Egg, an analytics tool that visualizes the user experience on a website. Now with KISSmetrics he is building a data driven solution to help online businesses make better business decisions. Hiten is passionate about helping other entrepreneurs and startup people. speaker-2012
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James Levine, Mentor
500 Startups Mentor, Slave to Expensive Typewriters…startup geek, formerly CTO at Simply Hired. Travel, film, and music buff. Mountain View, CA mentor-2012
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Matt Van Horn, Path
Matt Van Horn, VP of Business Development at Path speaker-2011 speaker-2012
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Vivek Wadhwa, Duke
Vivek Wadhwa is a senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, an executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, and a visiting scholar at the School of Information at University of California at Berkeley. He helps students prepare for the real world, lectures in class and leads groundbreaking [...] speaker-2011
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Laurence Toney, Zynga
Laurence Toney is a seasoned consumer internet executive who likes to work in exciting environments with passionate people. He enjoys solving complex problems by building and developing great teams that are motivated to create great products that solve real customer problems. Prior to Zynga, Laurence was the Global General Manager, Experience Management with Nike.com. He was responsible for developing and [...] speaker-2011
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Pablo Fuentes, Proven
Pablo Fuentes CEO & Co-Founder proven.com Pablo is committed to helping people find jobs through their mobile phones. He is also passionate about helping minorities and women start technology companies. Pablo was honored as a Champion of Change and has been invited to speak at the White House about Proven and mentoring. Pablo enjoys Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, snowboarding, kiteboarding, reading, and [...] speaker-2011