People
Meet 2550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building New York's tech scene.
Dave McClure
Founding Partner @500startups. previous: @paypal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, @mint.com, SimplyHired. Geek, entrepreneur, marketer, investor, Sith Lord.
Fred Wilson
Managing partner at @union-square-ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners.
Christine Tsai
Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.
Chris Dixon
Investor @ a16z. Cofounder @ Hunch and SiteAdvisor.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Family 1st! but after that, Businessman, @winelibrary, @vaynermedia, Author of @TYEbook and a dude that Loves the hustle (hard work), people and the @nyjets
David Tisch
Founder @boxgroup • Founder @spring-3 • Worked at @techstars • Studied at @university-of-pennsylvania, @new-york-university • Angel Investor @boxgroup
Paige Craig
Angel investor 80+ deals, 21 exits. Backing great people w huge ideas. Early angel and advisor to AngelList. Drove into Iraq alone in 2003 to start first company. US Marine & Intelligence dude.
David Cohen
Founder/CEO of @techstars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone. http://www.davidgcohen.com
Erick Schonfeld
Executive producer of DEMO, co-founder of TouchCast, former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. Business 2.0 and Fortune alum. Covering startups and tech since 1993.
Anil Dash
Cofounder, ThinkUp. Columnist, Wired. Blogger at Dashes.com since 1999. Board member at @stack-exchange. Cofounder, @activate.
David Lifson
Sr. Dir, Product @poppin. Former GM, Engineering at @General Assembly. Co-founder, @postling (acquired by LocalVox). VP Product @etsy, TPM/Dev at @amazon.
Esther Dyson
Prolific Investor. @medstory, @evernote, @flickr, @meetup, EDventure, Release 1.0, del.icio.us
Jeff Pulver
Chairman of @zula-1. A pioneer who helped shape the development and growth of the worldwide VoIP industry. Loves Disruptive Technologies. Host #140conf.
Charlie O'Donnell
@brooklyn-bridge-ventures, formerly at First Round Capital
John Frankel
Early stage venture capitalist at http://www.ffvc.com
Eric Hippeau
Venture capitalist, Partner at @lerer-ventures, entrepreneur, media executive (ex-CEO of @the-huffington-post, ex-CEO of Ziff-Davis), passionate about the oceans
Jonah Lupton
Founder: Lupton Media Group, Parabolic Ventures, The Greatest Pitch, Cauzly.com, Strivved.com, The Lupton Group, InterCapital Group, and StriveAuto.com
Michael Parekh
Goldman Sachs (1982-03). Former Partner. Founded GS Internet Research team in 1994. Investor/Entrepreneur. >30k Hours evaluating/helping Startups over 20 yrs.
Clay Shirky
Theory & practice of social media. Advisor to @flickr, del.icio.us, dodgeball, currently to @foursquare, @socialbomb, @cursor, Nerd Collider, GivKwik, Singly.
Saul Klein
husband. dad. serial entrepreneur (firefly, @lovefilm, @seedcamp-2). operator (wpp, msft, @skype). investor (index, TAG) http://localglo.be
Jeff Bussgang
Former entrepreneur (Upromise cofounder, Open Market VP) turned VC at Flybridge Capital. Serve as EIR at @harvard-business-school and authored a book "Mastering the VC Game".
Kal Vepuri
Entrepreneur and Investor. Founder & Chairman: The Trisiras Group (Money) Brainchild (Work) The Arrivals (Outerwear)
Roger Ehrenberg
Managing Partner at @ia-ventures.
Rob Go
Co-Founder and Partner at @nextview-ventures. Previously VC at Spark Capital.