Entrepreneur
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CEO at deciding my next venture
- Past
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- Director of Product Management at Live Current Media, Inc.
- Co-founder at Auctomatic
- Co-founder at boso.com
- Trainee Lawyer at Latham & Watkins
- Education
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- University of Oxford
- Connections
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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
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CEO
deciding my next venture
(Internet industry)
September 2009 — Present (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
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Director of Product Management
Live Current Media, Inc.
(Internet industry)
March 2008 — August 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.
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Co-founder
Auctomatic
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2007 — March 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.
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Co-founder
boso.com
(Internet industry)
June 2006 — May 2007 (1 year )
First startup venture, online marketplace for students in the UK. Simple product, tough market.
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Trainee Lawyer
Latham & Watkins
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Law Practice industry)
September 2006 — September 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
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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
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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
