Harjeet Taggar

Harjeet Taggar

Entrepreneur

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • CEO at deciding my next venture
Past
  • Director of Product Management at Live Current Media, Inc.
  • Co-founder at Auctomatic
  • Co-founder at boso.com
Education
  • University of Oxford
Connections
215 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Harjeet Taggar’s Summary

Entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California, USA

Harjeet Taggar’s Specialties:

customer acquisition, sales, raising capital, front-end web development, product management, hiring,


Harjeet Taggar’s Experience

  • CEO

    deciding my next venture

    (Internet industry)

    September 2009Present (3 months)

    currently deciding what inspires me and what i want to work on next post startup-acquisition and one year working with the acquiring company

  • Director of Product Management

    Live Current Media, Inc.

    (Internet industry)

    March 2008August 2009 (1 year 6 months)

    I led the development of the cricket.com property. Originally there was no product on the domain, with a team of three people I built out a fantasy cricket game, news aggregation service and live score feeds. In under a year we built the site up to just under 1 million monthly unique visitors and 10 million monthly page views. The site was also generating approximately $30k a month in revenue with engagement stats being particularly impressive, average time spent on the site per visit was over 10 minutes.

  • Co-founder

    Auctomatic

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    January 2007March 2008 (1 year 3 months)

    Auctomatic built online e-commerce software to simplify the selling experience for merchants. Acquired for $5 million by Live Current Media. Raised investment from angels including Paul Graham, Paul Buchheit and Chris Sacca. Funded by Y Combinator.

  • Co-founder

    boso.com

    (Internet industry)

    June 2006May 2007 (1 year )

    First startup venture, online marketplace for students in the UK. Simple product, tough market.

  • Trainee Lawyer

    Latham & Watkins

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Law Practice industry)

    September 2006September 2006 (1 month)

    I accepted a training contract with California based law firm, Latham & Watkins but decided not to start my legal training so I could concentrate on building a start up.


Harjeet Taggar’s Education

  • University of Oxford

    Law , 2006

    Activities and Societies:
    Oxford Entrepreneurs, Future Flyers, Halsbury, Majlis

Additional Information

Harjeet Taggar’s Websites:

Harjeet Taggar’s Interests:

consumer internet, web technologies, design, football, boxing, startups

Harjeet Taggar’s Groups:

Auctomatic, Y Combinator

  •    Y Combinator Alumni

Harjeet Taggar’s Honors:

Real World Graduate of the Year 2006 Finalist, Freshminds One to Watch 2005


Harjeet Taggar’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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