Aaron Weber

Current

• President and Co-Founder at Open Preferences
• Owner at Next Venture, LLC

Past

• COO & Co-Founder at W3i
• Owner at Independent Online Marketing

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Aaron Weber’s Summary

Passionate entrepreneur with 10 years experience starting up W3i a hyper-growth online software marketing company that organically grew to $25 million a year in revenue.

Currently working on my next start up called Open Preferences a service where users can sync their movie, TV and music preferences between many different services.

Aaron Weber’s Experience

• President and Co-Founder

  Open Preferences

  (Internet industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Open Preferences is a service where users can sync their movie, TV and music preferences between many different services (Like Netflix, Hulu, Yahoo, Last.FM, Pandora, etc).

• Owner

  Next Venture, LLC

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Next Venture is my personal holding company that funds my start ups, angel investments and other investment opportunities.

• COO & Co-Founder

  W3i

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  May 2000 — August 2007 (7 years 4 months)

  Founding partner of W3i, formerly known as Freeze.com, a hyper-growth online software marketing company that grew to $25 million a year in revenue. Has worked in majority of rolls in the company, but primarily focused on operations, business development and building the attribution on advertising system that was key to the success of the company. Last primary responsibilities centered on continuing to scale the company, managing accounting, human resources, software development and IT areas as the COO. In August of 2007 decided to no longer have an active role in the company.
  
  Web Properties Include:
  freeze.com
  my.freeze.com
  screensaver.com
  wallpapers.com

• Owner

  Independent Online Marketing

  (Internet industry)

  January 1998 — May 2000 (2 years 5 months)

  Created and promoted various websites.

Additional Information

Aaron Weber’s Websites:

• My Company

Aaron Weber’s Honors:

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 - Award Winner in Minnesota and Dakotas Region recognizing outstanding entrepreneurs on a regional, national and global level who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses

SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2005 - Named Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Minnesota Small Business Administration

National Recognition from Entrepreneur Magazine 2004 - Entrepreneur magazine ranked Freeze.com as the 31st fastest-growing new business in the U.S.