Jeff Cohn

Current

Venture Consultant at MHS Capital
Founder at DeadCellZones.com
Founder at PhotoEnforced.com

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Past

Director of Investment Screening at Tech Coast Angels
Venture Consultant at Hunt Ventures
Corporate Development Consultant at Oversee.net

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles - The Anderson School of Management
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

Jeff Cohn’s Summary

Jeff is a "buy side" venture consultant sourcing bootstrapped and buyout oriented investment opportunities in Southern California. Jeff sources investment opportunities for San Francisco based MHS Capital a $35M entrepreneur friendly venture capital fund. Jeff is also an entrepreneur and the founder of two nationally recognized crowd sourcing web sites DeadCellZones.com and PhotoEnforced.com. Jeff’s angel investment and technology career includes working for the (Tech Coast Angels), domain services firm (Oversee.net), ebusiness consulting firm (iXL - former NASDAQ: IIXL), and the enterprise software company (Computer Associates International, Inc. - NYSE: CA). Jeff has a B.S. in Business Administration, Finance from the University of Colorado

Jeff Cohn’s Specialties:

Bootstrapped & Buyout Investment Opportunities, Online Marketing / Advertising Services,

Jeff Cohn’s Experience

Venture Consultant

MHS Capital

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Venture consultant sourcing and evaluating bootstrapped oriented and buyout venture investment opportunities in Southern California. MHS Capital is a Venture Capital fund based in San Francisco backed by an extraordinary group of technology executives and entrepreneurs, including senior executives from every major Internet portal, and a deep roster of serial entrepreneurs building some of the leading software and Internet companies. MHS Capital invests in bootstrapped software and internet companies and sponsors serial entrepreneurs to do small tech buyouts. MHS Southern California investments include Magniy360, Adisn and Fonality.
Founder

DeadCellZones.com

(Telecommunications industry)

July 2001 — Present (8 years 5 months)

DeadCellZones.com is a mashup of wireless cell phone coverage complaints for AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint. The web site is dedicated to identifying areas within the United States and Canada where cellular phone calls are frequently dropped or where cell phone service is not available. It is our mission to become the standard local consumer cell coverage benchmarking service. The web site is ad supported and reports are licensed to to wireless carriers and drive testing companies. Our maps have received over 100,000 complaints since the web site was founded in 2001 and is growing everyday.
Founder

PhotoEnforced.com

(Information Services industry)

January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

PhotoEnforced.com is the largest worldwide community database of red light camera and speed camera locations and fines. The crowd sourced database consists of more than 6200+ red light camera and speed camera locations and it is growing everyday. It is our mission to track photo enforced locations and applicable fines. The web site is ad supported and the database is licensed to GPS device manufacturers and mapping providers.

Jeff Cohn’s Education

University of California, Los Angeles - The Anderson School of Management

NA , Director Training Program , 2001 — 2001
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business

B.S. , Business Administration, Finance & Economics , 1992 — 1996

Portfolio analyst intern for Greenberg & Associates financial services firm.

Activities and Societies:

Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity,
Vail Ski Resort Season Pass Holder (Oh How I Miss It!)

Additional Information

Jeff Cohn’s Websites:

Jeff Cohn’s Interests:

Audience Measurement & Transparency, Online Publisher Monetization, Web 2.0 Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Lead Generation, Social Media, Domain Monetization, Family Office Investing, Angel Investors

Jeff Cohn’s Groups:

NextGen Partners, Southern California Venture Capital Alliance, LAVA, LARTA, Software Council, LA Tri Club, LMU Masters Swimming, Club Ed Running Group, Tech Coast Angels