LinkedIn: Eric Olson

Current

Associate at DFJ Portage Venture Partners
Volunteer: Web Strategy at World Bicycle Relief
Founder at TECH cocktail, LLC

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Past

Partner Development at Google, Inc.
Business Development Associate at FeedBurner (acquired by Google in June 2007)
Investment Performance Analyst at Cambridge Associates, LLC

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Education

Bentley College

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Connections

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

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Eric Olson’s Experience

Associate

DFJ Portage Venture Partners

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

March 2008 — Present (3 months)
Volunteer: Web Strategy

World Bicycle Relief

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

February 2008 — Present (4 months)

Advising on Web Strategy
Founder

TECH cocktail, LLC

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

May 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)

• Planned TECH cocktail events that bring together tech communities in under served areas
• Grew the event from 250 to 500 attendees per quarter in Chicago.
• Expanded into the Washington D.C. and Boston market from home base of Chicago
• Secured sponsorships to fund TECH cocktail events
• Managed the finances, books and legal filings
• Helped to maintain/write TECHcocktail.com
• Responsible for evaluating partnership opportunities
Partner Development

Google, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)

• Worked to inform publishers about what the FeedBurner acquisition meant for them.
• Worked to move FeedBurner publishers to Google AdSense and vice versa.
• Planned and conducted sessions with various teams inside Google to educate them on feeds and FeedBurner.
• Continued to support FeedBurner publishers and maintain our ad network.
• Worked with Ad Sales on specific special projects and initiatives.
Business Development Associate

FeedBurner (acquired by Google in June 2007)

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

November 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 8 months)

• Helped to grow the FeedBurner publisher base from about 50,000 to over 400,000
• Worked on and refined business development strategy
• Cultivated relationships with online publishers both using and not using FeedBurner.
• Personally recruited: Seeking Alpha, PopSugar, VentureBeat, Houseblogs, CoolHunting, TopButton, PSFK, Raw Story, Outside the Beltway, GigaOm, Simply Recipes. Space.com (Imaginova), Scientific American and many others. These equate to hundreds of thousands of subscribers added.
• Worked with large brands and publishers including Dow Jones, Reuters, USA Today, Ford Motors, Huffington Post, Conde Nast and others.
• Improved communication with the 350,000 FeedBurner publishers via a "Publisher Tips" blog that I championed (blogs.feedburner.com/tips) and a series of meet-ups in various cities.
• Worked on the implementation of SalesForce.com in order to track the sales pipeline more effectively.
• Helped with support queries.
Investment Performance Analyst

Cambridge Associates, LLC

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

August 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 4 months)

• Managed and executed private equity performance reporting for 17 institutional clients on a quarterly basis.
• Reviewed and analyzed 175 private equity fund reports per quarter.
• Worked to design processes to create efficiencies on my team.
• Streamlined communications between the Boston and DC offices.
• Venture Capital asset class specialist (only one on the team) and member of the interview/recruiting team.

Eric Olson’s Education

Bentley College

B.S., Finance, 2000 — 2004

Activities and Societies:

Bentley Honor Society, Bentley Investment Group, President's List, Graduated Magna Cum Laude