Co-Founder, Villij.com
Providence, Rhode Island Area
- Current
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- Co-Founder at Olive Interactive LLC
- Past
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- Co-Founder at Localcents, INC.
- Participant at TechStars
- Investor & Manager at Private Real Estate Investment & Management
- Co-Founder at Kalbay Systems
- Education
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- Western Washington University
- Homer High School
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Arron Kallenberg’s Summary
Arron grew up in house that he helped his father and grandfather build on the beach in Homer, Alaska. Summers were spent as a deckhand on his family’s commercial fishing boat; and winters were divided between school, cross-country skiing and teaching himself how to write code.
In 2000 Arron moved to the “Lower 48” to study math, computer science and cultural anthropology at Western Washington University. A few bad fishing seasons forced him to “dropout” of school and start his own business (a web-based application development firm).
In 2006 Arron co-founded Villij.com. In 2007 Villij was accepted into TechStars (a mentorship-driven seed stage investment fund). In 2008 Arron co-founded DandyID.org with Sara Czyzewicz and Anthony Dimitre.
Arron’s firsthand experience being raised in a rural fishing community, combined with his intense interest in computer science and cultural studies provided much of the inspiration he now applies toward his various web-based entrepreneurial endeavors.
Arron Kallenberg’s Specialties:
Project Management, Business Development, Fundraising, Investor Relations, Software Development
Arron Kallenberg’s Experience
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Co-Founder
Olive Interactive LLC
(Partnership; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
DandyID lets you easily collect all of your online profiles in one convenient place and allows people to discover the real verified you across the web. Powerful social analytics let you track how people are engaging you online.
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Co-Founder
Localcents, INC.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Between 2006 and early 2008 Localcents, Inc created two consumer facing applications: Localcents.com and Villij.com. Loclcents.com is a free online classifieds and local coupon site. Villij.com (currently inactive) set out to be a people & content recommendation engine for the distributed web. In 2007 Villij was accepted in to TechStars, a seed stage mentor-driven investment fund. Localcents, INC. also created a PHP development framework, which is available for license.
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Participant
TechStars
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)
TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage investment fund for web and software startups. In 2007 I participated in TechStars Boulder as the one of the co-founders of Villij.com.
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Investor & Manager
Private Real Estate Investment & Management
(Real Estate industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years )
Bought, fixed up and flipped a 5 bedroom house in Bellingham, WA. Invested in a second property with my good friend Loren Castillo. After renovating the property, Loren bought me out, which in turn allowed me to focus full time on Localcents, INC.
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Co-Founder
Kalbay Systems
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2003 — 2006 (3 years )
I founded Kalbay Systems while attending Western Washington University. Kalbay Systems was a application development firm that specialized in creating custom web-based business process infrastructure primarily for the Real Estate and Manufacturing industries.
Arron Kallenberg’s Education
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Western Washington University
Cultural Anthropology 2000 — 2003
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Homer High School
High School Diploma , 1996 — 2000
- Activities and Societies:
- I taught intermediate and advanced web design as part of the community schools program. I volunteered in the school cafeteria for all four years of high school. I was also an active member of the fencing club and competed in the western sectionals, successfully qualifying for Junior National in Foil.
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Arron Kallenberg’s Interests:
Prgramming, Snowboarding, Fencing, Sailing
Arron Kallenberg’s Groups:
TechStars,
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