Chairman & CEO at Medialets
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Mentor at TechStars
- Chairman & CEO at Medialets
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- Managing Director at WashingtonVC
- Board/Advisor at Phone.com
- President & CEO at Litman, LLC
- Partner at SoCo
- President & CEO at Viaduct Technologies, Inc.
- CEO/Publisher at WirelessOutpost.com
- co-founder at Proxicom
- Campus Consultant at NeXT
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- University of Maryland College Park
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Eric Litman’s Summary
I've been an entrepreneur in the tech sector since the earliest commercial days of the Net, and have been about as hands-on involved in everything from product definition & architecture to global P&L management as anyone in the space. I'm an emerging technologies guy at heart - particularly passionate about wired/mobile/media convergence - and have spent the past 17 years staying as far out on the leading edge as customers and markets have been willing to fund (and admittedly, sometimes a little further).
I was a co-founder of Proxicom (IPO), helped build digitalNATION for its sale to Verio ($100m in cash), was CEO of Viaduct Technologies (post-bubble merger w/ the now defunct #2 ad agency in Canada), and through it all have spent a ton of time helping global tech brands (HP, IBM), ISPs (Digex, UUNET, digitalNATION), telcos/mobile operators (Verizon, BellSouth, Omnipoint, VoiceStream, Sprint), CPG leaders (Sony, The Bay, LaSenza/WetSeal, ...) and a host of consumer and enterprise startups to align their web & mobile products, businesses and marketing processes with emerging technology trends.
My contact details are on my blog - feel free to drop me a note to say "hi" or talk about changing the world.
Eric Litman’s Specialties:
New venture development, business and technology strategy, complex solution sales, emerging technology evangelism, building and leading stellar teams, devouring domain-specific knowledge
Eric Litman’s Experience
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Mentor
TechStars
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
2008 — Present (less than a year)
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Chairman & CEO
Medialets
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
2008 — Present (less than a year)
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Managing Director
WashingtonVC
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year)
I led the team at WashingtonVC, an early stage fund and incubator focused on building companies through the exchange of complimentary technologies and marketing services. WashingtonVC’s portfolio of companies share resources, talent and technology to deliver innovative products and services in consumer Internet, telecom, media and the domain name space.
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Board/Advisor
Phone.com
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; phcm; Telecommunications industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year)
Phone.com offers cutting-edge communications services for both residential and professional use, with a special focus on the infrastructure and budget needs of small businesses that may operate out of homes, multiple locations, or off of cell-phones.
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President & CEO
Litman, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — November 2007 (5 years 11 months)
I spent some time outside of the tornado, doing venture development, strategy consulting and some philanthropic work on my own, often in a very comfortable robe with one of my Jungle Cats on my desk. Highly recommended. Except for the Jungle Cats part.
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Partner
SoCo
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
I was a partner in a disruptive, media/entertainment startup that can best be summarized as a hybrid between a music label and an ad agency. We worked with a mix of independent and A-level talent together with global consumer brands to create a new, ad-driven model for distributing content online.
I spent my days evaluating business models and applications for monetizing entertainment content online, splitting my time between corporate strategy, sales/business development, product definition, content acquisition and partner/technology selection. When I wasn't immersed in the minutiae of social media platforms or the structures of artists' contracts and traditional content licensing deals, I could often be found talking with the CMOs/senior marketing execs at some of the biggest consumer brands (Coke, AT&T, Verizon, ...) about engaging consumers in their marketing and innovation processes through entertainment content and community.
Another company is bringing this to market. -
President & CEO
Viaduct Technologies, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1996 — January 2002 (5 years 8 months)
I built Viaduct from a one-man shop to a world-class Internet professional services agency with global presence, marquee clients and a stellar team in under three years. The company was revenue financed and profitable from the first year of operations, and continued to show strong growth through its merger with the now-defunct Wolf Group, which at the time was one of the largest independent ad agencies in North America.
I drove sales and marketing, managed partnerships, and lead the company into business/marketing/technology strategy and product development engagements with Fortune 500 companies and startups in technology, telecom, CPG, media/entertainment, distribution and finance. We helped companies and venture capital funds align, helped corporate intrapreneurs flourish, and created a highly-successful approach to delivery that generally lead to repeat customer engagements.
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CEO/Publisher
WirelessOutpost.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
July 1996 — November 1998 (2 years 5 months)
In the early days of running Viaduct, I created Wireless Outpost, the first online publication and community dedicated to tracking the emerging digital mobile networks in the US. I hired a strong editorial team, built partnerships for additional content and grew the subscriber base into a thriving community of over 200K consumers and mobile professionals.
The site featured a database of the rate plans and phones offered by all of the US mobile operators, had a fictitous, managed index fund that tracked the industry, guest contributions from a host of business and tech leaders, and vibrant, active discussion on mailing lists covering consumer-related topics in the emerging mobile market.
What started as a blog covering the launch of Sprint Spectrum - the first GSM carrier in the US - ended up becoming a fantastic marketing and business development tool for Viaduct, as it evolved into one of the top research/intelligence tools for executives in the mobile industry. -
co-founder
Proxicom
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PXCM; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1991 — December 1994 (3 years 10 months)
Proxicom was one of the first pure-play Internet/e-business consulting practices, growing quickly from its launch in 1991 to a spectacular IPO in 1999. I was one of the team of four who started the company, and led the company from its beginnings as a government contractor to a focus on the Internet market.
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Campus Consultant
NeXT
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
September 1990 — September 1991 (1 year 1 month)
NeXT was Steve Jobs' company following his first tenure at Apple. We made and sold some of the most forward-thinking technology the world has ever seen - so far forward, in fact, that we did more making than selling. Ultimately, Steve went back to Apple, organized a purchase of NeXT, and transformed NeXT's software platform, NeXTSTEP, into what is today Mac OS X.
I was responsible for pre- and post-sales on campus support for higher-ed customers in the Baltimore, Washington, DC area.
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Eric Litman’s Interests:
Emerging technologies, new business strategy and development, mobile software/devices/infrastructure, windsurfing, skiing, life inside the tornado.
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