Dave McClure

Current

• Advisor at TipMobile
• Advisor, Angel Investor at TradeVibes
• Advisor, Angel Investor at SlideShare

• Advisor, Angel Investor at EventVue
• Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University
• Advisor, Angel Investor at Oortle / PhotoPhlow
• Angel Investor at RichRelevance
• Advisor at CrazyEgg / KissMetrics
• Conference Chairperson at Graphing Social Patterns
• Advisor, Boardmember, Angel Investor at TeachStreet.com
• Advisor, Angel Investor at Mint Software
• Web 2.0 Expo Conference Chair at O'Reilly Media
• Advisor at Spock Networks
• Advisor, Angel Investor at Mashery
• Advisor at Kiva.org
• Board Member at Unitus
• Advisor, Angel Investor at Simply Hired
• Angel Investor at Canopy Financial
• Startup Advisor / Angel Investor at 500 Hats

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Past

• Advisor & Co-Conspirator at ZapMeals
• Advisor at Bix.com
• Marketing Consultant at oDesk

• VP Evangelism Marketing at Simply Hired
• Director of Marketing at Simply Hired
• Director of Marketing, PayPal Developer Network at PayPal
• Startup Consultant / Advisor at 500 Hats
• Founder/CEO at Aslan Computing
• Tech Proj. Mgr, Application developer, SQL DB developer at various; consulted for Microsoft, Intel, others

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Education

• The Johns Hopkins University

Recommended

47 people have recommended Dave

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• My Website
• My Portfolio

Dave McClure’s Summary

see the following for more info:
my blog: http://500hats.typepad.com/
my website: http://www.500hats.com/
my bio: http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/about-dave-mcclure.html

Dave McClure’s Specialties:

internet startups, tech entrepreneurship, startup metrics, product management & product marketing, community evangelism, consumer/small business.

professional interests: internet marketing, SEO/SEM, blogs & web publishing, social networking & social media, Facebook, web analytics & metrics, prediction markets, viral marketing, microformats, geeky stuff.

personal interests: geeks, entrepreneurs, startups, microfinance, economics, music, ultimate frisbee, cartoons & animation.

Dave McClure’s Experience

• Advisor

  TipMobile

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2008 — Present (2 months)

  I am an advisor to a startup developing social network apps & services for mobile devices.

• Advisor, Angel Investor

  TradeVibes

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  December 2007 — Present (6 months)

  I am an advisor and angel investor in TradeVibes, an Internet startup that is developing technology for structured content data collection & organization. I help advise the company on product & marketing strategy.

• Advisor, Angel Investor

  SlideShare

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — Present (7 months)

  I am an advisor and angel investor in SlideShare, an Internet startup that is the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web. I help SlideShare with product ideas, marketing, intros to investors, and general business strategy.

• Advisor, Angel Investor

  EventVue

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (9 months)

  I am an advisor & investor for a startup developing social networking software to support online communities for conferences. i help them with market research, product strategy, & marketing.

• Visiting Lecturer

  Stanford University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2007 — Present (9 months)

  I am a visiting lecturer at Stanford University. Currently i am a co-instructor along with Prof. BJ Fogg for CS377W, which teaches teams of students how to build viral & engaging web applications using social platforms like Facebook. The class also emphasizes applying metrics to improve product development & product marketing. We also bring in industry speakers from companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, & several venture-backed startups to provide real-world examples of internet technology & entrepreneurship in action. It's a blast :)

• Advisor, Angel Investor

  Oortle / PhotoPhlow

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (9 months)

  I am an advisor & angel investor for Oortle, an Internet startup that develops technology for enabling real-time communication infrastructure on social application platforms. The company also operates PhotoPhlow, a hosted community for browsing & sharing photography experiences.

• Angel Investor

  RichRelevance

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2007 — Present (10 months)

  I am an angel investor in an internet startup that creates advertising & personalization software & services, and provides value-added content to publishers and high-quality relevant leads to merchandisers.

• Advisor

  CrazyEgg / KissMetrics

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2007 — Present (10 months)

  I am an advisor for a web metrics & analytics startup that lets people improve their websites. I help them with product ideas, marketing, intros to investors, and general business strategy.

• Conference Chairperson

  Graphing Social Patterns

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2007 — Present (11 months)

  I am the conference chairperson for Graphing Social Patterns, a business & technology conference about facebook, social networking platforms, and social applications.

• Advisor, Boardmember, Angel Investor

  TeachStreet.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2007 — Present (1 year)

  I am an angel investor, and board member for education-focused startup TeachStreet.com. I help advise with the company's product & marketing efforts, and i have also helped make introductions to other Silicon Valley angel investors & VCs.

• Advisor, Angel Investor

  Mint Software

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)

  November 2006 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  Advisor & consultant to consumer financial services startup on product & marketing. i helped the marketing team do customer research & market positioning, create brand concepts, define channel strategy for customer acquisition, and develop marketing content. i also helped research web analytics & metrics tools for measuring user acquisition & engagement. i also became a Mint Software investor in Q2 2007.

• Web 2.0 Expo Conference Chair

  O'Reilly Media

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  As a consultant to O'Reilly Media, I helped create & co-chair the first-ever Web 2.0 Expo technology conference (http://www.web2expo.com). Along with Tim O'Reilly & John Battelle and the staff of O'Reilly Media & CMP, I defined conference objectives, designed conference tracks & programs, recruited program committees & advisory board members, and reviewed over 500 submissions for conference talks. I was solely responsible for designing 2 of the 7 conference education tracks on Marketing & Community and Strategy & Business Models, for which I selected & organized over 30 talks & panel sessions and recruited more than 80 notable industry speakers. I also helped promote & market the conference to the overall technology community, including tech press & bloggers, software developers, designers, entrepreneurs, marketers, venture capitalists, and tech executives, resulting in over 10,000 conference attendees. I also made coffee & donuts.

• Advisor

  Spock Networks

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Startup advisor to search engine startup developing people search. My advisory role focused on product & marketing areas, social networking and vertical search topics, and related technical infrastructure. I helped the founders research competitive technology offerings, develop initial product & feature ideas, brainstorm branding & identity concepts, and create marketing campaigns. I helped connect and introduce the company to notable tech analysts, reporters, & bloggers such as Michael Arrington, Charlene Li, Tim O'Reilly, and John Battelle. I worked with the marketing team to prepare for and participate in leading industry events such as Web 2.0 Expo and Supernova, where the company won top honors from among numerous other startups.

• Advisor, Angel Investor

  Mashery

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2006 — Present (2 years)

  I am an advisor and angel investor in Mashery, an Internet startup that operates web-hosted infrastructure for managing API programs & platforms. I help advise the company on product & marketing strategy.

• Advisor

  Kiva.org

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

  May 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Advisor to non-profit microfinance startup. My advisory role is focused on product and marketing areas, also some technical infrastructure. I have helped the company founders & management team with introductions & connections in both the technology industry and microfinance industry. I have also helped the team brainstorm on website development, consumer branding, social networking, and general product & marketing issues.

• Board Member

  Unitus

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

  September 2005 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  Unitus (www.unitus.com) is a leading social venture capitalist for the microfinance industry in developing countries. We select promising microfinance institutions ("MFIs") and then structure long term investments (grants, debt and equity) and consulting skills, geared towards greatly accelerated growth, financial transformation and massive poverty alleviation.
  
  As of June 2007, Unitus has made investments in 16 MFIs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and reaches over 2 million borrowers worldwide.

• Advisor, Angel Investor

  Simply Hired

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2005 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  While an employee at the company, I became an angel investor in Simply Hired in August 2005. After leaving full-time role in May 2006, continued as advisor to the company. Advisory role focuses on marketing & product areas, some technology infrastructure.

• Angel Investor

  Canopy Financial

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  I am an angel investor in Canopy Financial, an Internet startup that provides innovative technology and electronic payment solutions to connect healthcare and financial services.

• Startup Advisor / Angel Investor

  500 Hats

  (Internet industry)

  September 1999 — Present (8 years 9 months)

  From time to time, I serve as an advisor to promising new startups. Occasionally, I also provide angel investment to some of these companies. In general I prefer to work with internet startups involved in the areas of software, e-commerce, search, social networking, and small business / consumer markets. I like to work with startups that are pre-venture or first-round institutional, and range in size from 2-25 people. For more info on the kind of companies I've worked with in the past, see: http://www.500hats.com/sys-tmpl/startupclients/
  
  Companies for which i'm currently an investor or advisor include: Mint, SlideShare, TeachStreet, EventVue, Oortle/PhotoPhlow, Mill River Labs / TradeVibes, RichRelevance, Spock, Canopy Financial, HealthUnity, Kiva.org (non-profit), Mashery, and Simply Hired.

• Advisor & Co-Conspirator

  ZapMeals

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Restaurants industry)

  May 2007 — June 2007 (2 months)

  Advisor & co-conspirator for non-existent online food marketplace startup (don't ask, just look: ZapMeals.com).

• Advisor

  Bix.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2006 — November 2006 (6 months)

  Advisor for consumer internet startup in entertainment. Advisory role focused on product and marketing areas. The company was acquired by Yahoo in November of 2006.

• Marketing Consultant

  oDesk

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2006 — November 2006 (5 months)

  Consulting role focused on product and marketing areas, primarily helping the company gain visibility with hi-tech audience & customers. Assisted with market research, brand development, product features & workflow, online advertising, marketing & PR, web-related events & conferences. Helped get articles about oDesk on TechCrunch, VentureBeat, O'Reilly Radar, other tech-focused blogs & websites. Helped coach and prepare for LaunchPad demo at O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference in November 2006.

• VP Evangelism Marketing

  Simply Hired

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  December 2005 — May 2006 (6 months)

  Simply Hired (www.simplyhired.com) operates the world's largest search engine for jobs, with over 5 million job listings indexed from thousands of job boards, classifieds, and company websites. SimplyHired.com was named one of the "Top 50 Cool Websites for 2005" by Time Magazine, and was chosen "Best of the Web" by Business Week in both 2005 and 2006. As of April 2005 Simply Hired has raised over $17M in funding from a number of angel and institutional investors including Garage Technology Ventures, Foundation Capital, and News Corp.
  
  In December of 2005 I was promoted from Director to VP, and continued to handle outbound marketing & evangelism functions for the company. Prior to leaving my full-time position with the company and moving to an advisory role, I also ran the Product group for a short period and helped manage the company partnership with MySpace.

• Director of Marketing

  Simply Hired

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2005 — December 2005 (1 year)

  I ran the marketing team thru 2005, and managed all aspects of SimplyHired.com marketing, PR, website content, search engine marketing, site metrics, community, and customer support.
  
  I helped create the Simply Hired brand, voice, and overall look & feel. I was personally responsible for partnerships with LinkedIn and O'Reilly Media, and my team was responsible for the SimplyHired.com launch at Demo Fall 2005, and for the SimplyFired.com website and campaign that achieved national news coverage. I spoke on behalf of the company at the 2005 Web 2.0 conference, and created the first-ever Vertical Search conference with speakers from over two-dozen search startups along with Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft.
  
  In 2005 Simply Hired received awards from Time and BusinessWeek, and was featured in national publications and websites including: NY Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, USA Today, Washington Post, San Jose Mercury, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, GigaOm, Business 2.0, and The Economist.

• Director of Marketing, PayPal Developer Network

  PayPal

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EBAY; Internet industry)

  September 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 2 months)

  I founded and managed the PayPal Developer Network (http://www.paypal.com/pdn), a community of ~300,000 web designers and developers who use PayPal to build E-Commerce websites, solutions, and services.
  
  I managed a team of technical evangelists to help deliver technical education & marketing, create site content, build PayPal add-on solutions for various web development and productivity tools (including wizards for Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, FrontPage, and Outlook), community message boards and forums, documentation, conferences, etc.
  
  I also interacted closely with the PayPal Product and Marketing teams to help drive product strategy, marketing communication strategy, and provide regular customer feedback on current and requested functionality.

• Startup Consultant / Advisor

  500 Hats

  (Internet industry)

  August 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 1 month)

  Provided product strategy consulting, product marketing, business development, and evaluation of early-stage Internet & E-commerce ventures. Assisted startups in defining and developing business strategy and revenue model, technical marketing and product management, research and development of strategic partnerships (particularly re: Microsoft). Assisted recruiting and organizational development.
  • Served as advisor/consultant to 7 hi-tech startups; 4 secured venture financing, 3 acquired.
  • Brought in key advisory board members to seed-round financial services startup.
  • Developed strategic partner relationship with Microsoft Commerce group for eMarketing startup.
  • Researched Microsoft Commerce, XML products for business development partnership.
  • Interviewed, hired Product Marketing Manager for eMarketing startup.
  • Appointed to Microsoft Commerce Partner Advisory Council, one of 50 members worldwide.

• Founder/CEO

  Aslan Computing

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 1994 — July 1999 (5 years 4 months)

  Primary responsibilities involved business management, developing and managing marketing and sales efforts, recruiting and hiring technical staff, developing and managing strategic partnerships. Additional responsibilities included client account management, accounting and finance, general startup management. Aslan was acquired by Panurgy Corporation in January 1998.
  • Founded, bootstrapped professional services startup from 0 to $2M in revenues in 3 years.
  • Won “Microsoft Partner of the Year” award Northern California 1997, from pool of over 500 companies.
  • Won business with key clients: Intel, Microsoft, Netscape, Stanford, The Gap, Intuit, VentureOne.
  • Averaged 200% growth in annual revenues from ’95 to ’98.
  • Recruited, interviewed, hired company employees; grew staff to 20 people.
  • Arranged competitive company acquisition in ’98 from among 3 interested companies.
  • Continued to grow business unit by 50% in the year after acquisition (also profitable).

• Tech Proj. Mgr, Application developer, SQL DB developer

  various; consulted for Microsoft, Intel, others

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 1988 — April 1994 (6 years 3 months)

  Designed, developed, deployed client/server information systems and SQL DB systems for corporate clients in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Worked with Microsoft & Intel for two years developing and managing mission-critical capacity planning and scheduling system for Intel worldwide production and manufacturing. Managed technical projects and teams, deployed systems, provided maintenance & support, systems training. Technical skills included application development, SQL database development and tuning, Windows networking.
  • Developed real-time portfolio tracking system for Southern California money mgmt firm.
  • Designed client-server application module for San Francisco food packaging company.
  • Created mission-critical client-server application module for Microsoft on high-profile Intel project.
  • Successfully managed worldwide Intel production system and database for 200+ users for 18 months.
  • Supervised team of 4 Intel developers for new production releases and rollouts.

Dave McClure’s Education

• The Johns Hopkins University

  BS, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, January 1988

  Activities and Societies:

  Captain of Ultimate Frisbee team, Member of Peabody-Hopkins Chorus, Member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Additional Information

Dave McClure’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Website
• My Portfolio

Dave McClure’s Interests:

Finance and economics, ultimate frisbee, entrepreneurship and venture capital, jazz and classical music, politics and business, sports and games of all kinds, cartoons and animation

Dave McClure’s Groups:

Founded, organized, and led Silicon Valley business and technical organizations that support local startups and entrepreneurs. Chaired monthly user groups and special interest groups (SIGs) on variety of technology & entrepreneurial issues such as Search, Venture Finance, E-Commerce, and the Internet. Developed meeting topics, recruited various CEOs, VPs, VCs, as speakers from leading technology & venture companies including Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Netscape, Intel, DFJ, Sequoia Capital, Garage Technology Ventures, numerous others.

• Founder/Chairperson, Silicon Valley Search SIG, 2005-2006.
• Executive Council, SDForum, 1996-2003.
• Founder/Chairperson, Venture Finance SIG, 2000-2001.
• Founder/Chairperson, Silicon Valley E-Commerce SIG, 1998-2000.
• Chairperson, Internet SIG, 1996-1997
• Chairperson, Client/Server SIG, 1995-1996
• Board member, Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE), 1997-2000
• President, SVASE, 1998-1999

•    SDForum member
•    BlogOn member
•    Full Circle Fund member
•    PayPal Alumni on LinkedIn (PALs) member
•    KIVA member
•    Unitus member
•    Obama for America member
•    Pre-IPO PayPal employees member

Dave McClure’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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