Jonah Keegan

Current

Co-Founder at New York City Entrepreneurs
Founder at Snapshirts

Past

Founder at Freshman Fund
Market Analyst at Right Media
Editor at Sturza's Institutional Research

Scientist at Modular Genetics Inc

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Education

Boston University School of Medicine
Princeton University

Connections

418 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Jonah Keegan’s Summary

Launching websites and web products. Direct experience with social savings (consumer) and ad-tech. Practice involves identifying customer pain points, creating use cases for stakeholder buy-in and establishing solutions, mapping development (specs) and developing marketing opportunities.

At Freshman Fund this consisted of focus groups, surveys and one-on-one user tests; getting stakeholders into a room and agreeing on the solution, writing a detailed spec, taking developer feedback and refining specs through to product launch, and coordinating with PR and email marketing for user messaging and external marketing.

Jonah Keegan’s Specialties:

Product Management, Social Media, Product Marketing, Web Analytics, User Testing, Product Specifications, Customer Service / User Feedback

Jonah Keegan’s Experience

Co-Founder

New York City Entrepreneurs

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

Are you part of a technology-based startup or business in the NY metro area?

Are you facing a significant operational decision or trying to get your head around a thorny issue?

If so, I'd like to invite you to share the problem with a small group of entrepreneurs and members of the NYC tech and digital media community. We provide a small (9-12ppl), non-public forum where ideas can be shared and critiqued honestly in a 60-75min focused discussion.

We solicit entrepreneurs and business people like you because, outside the boardrooms of startups and their VCs, few people have access to the real-world problems confronting entrepreneurs "in their own words."

If this sounds interesting, or if you know someone who might be interested, please contact me or forward this message. We ask only that our guests represent operating businesses or startups with funding and bring a meaningful issue (not a sales pitch) to the table.

We meet on the last Monday of each month
Founder

Snapshirts

(Retail industry)

October 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

Launched with Matt Clark (Gorges Website Design - http://gorgeswebsites.com/). Site allows bloggers to design a t-shirt, mousepad or coffee mug featuring a word cloud made from the keywords in their blog. Net profitable since February 2006.
Founder

Freshman Fund

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 4 months)

Founder at an early-stage startup.

Customer Service, Product Development & Operations

Primary customer service contact for our users. Turn customer problems into improvements to our website and/or our internal systems and procedures. Key role in the design of our disbursement system. Design and product management for both internal and consumer-facing products and features. Endless QA for all of the above.

Product Marketing
Focus groups, surveys, blogging, search marketing and one-on-one usability sessions. Design specifications for the consumer app UI.

Market research, lead prospecting and presentations for business development of white label partnerships with Fortune 500 financial services firms.
Market Analyst

Right Media

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

October 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Conduct market research pertaining to the evolution of Right Media's open, transparent exchange for advertising yield management. Develop methods and tools to improve Media Guard, the company's internal ad taxonomy product.
Editor

Sturza's Institutional Research

(Financial Services industry)

June 2005 — April 2006 (11 months)

Edited independent biopharmaceutical investment research for copy and content. Drafted research notes for the company's institutional and retail products. Responsible for weekly retail investment newsletter, Sturza's Medical Investment Letter. Designed and edited marketing strategies for increasing retail subscriber base.
Scientist

Modular Genetics Inc

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

January 2001 — January 2004 (3 years 1 month)

Business Development
Wrote Competitive Analysis and modeled financial projections for business plan ($1M raised); modeled financials for deals with several major US Pharmaceutical firms.

Operations
Trained and managed three technicians in all aspects of laboratory usage. Wrote production protocols and co-designed/managed R&D efforts. Trained technicians in equipment use & research protocols.

Named Inventor on U.S. Patent Application "Ladder Assembly and System for Generating Diversity" 11/271,562; Filed: November 11, 2005

Jonah Keegan’s Education

Boston University School of Medicine

M.A. , Medical Sciences , 1999 — 2001
Princeton University

Bachelor's , Chemistry , August 1994 — June 1998

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