Managing Director, Maven Ventures, LLC.
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Founder and Managing Director at Maven Ventures, LLC.
- Past
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- Entrepreneur in Residence at Charles River Ventures
- Vice President, Business Development & Sales at Bebo
- Vice President, Business Development & Sales at Birthdayalarm
- Head of Business & Corporate Development at Friendster
- Consultant, Business Development & Marketing at AgileTV (Self-employed)
- Senior Vice President, Business Development & Marketing at NBCi (NBC Internet)
- Associate, Attorney at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
- Education
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- UC Davis School of Law, King Hall
- Duke University
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Jim Scheinman’s Summary
Consumer Internet technology entrepreneur and executive with over 15+ years of experience at early-stage, pioneering consumer Internet companies. Areas of expertise include social networking and online community, viral marketing, user-generated content, online ad sales, business development, and e-commerce.
Jim Scheinman’s Specialties:
Social Networking expert, involved in social networking and social media from the inception of the industry; Business development and marketing for Internet and new media companies; Online ad sales for social media;Board and advisory work; angel investing
Jim Scheinman’s Experience
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Founder and Managing Director
Maven Ventures, LLC.
(Internet industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
I founded Maven Ventures LLC to help companies achieve their dreams and act as board member, investor and/or advisor.
I'm currently working with seven internet companies in many capacities including helping with strategic direction, angel and venture capital fundraising, social networking strategies, viral marketing, sales and business development. The companies I work with are mostly in the consumer internet space and are generally early stage, though not all of them fit this bill. The seven companies are: Birthdayalarm, MocoSpace, SocialGold, eons, ContextOptional, Paglo and WangYou. Tribunl, a leading social application development company and one of the first companies I worked with was successfully acquired by RockYou in 2008. -
Entrepreneur in Residence
Charles River Ventures
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
October 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 1 month)
As an EIR, I worked with the CRV partners to uncover new investments in the following areas: consumer Internet, social networking, social media, online advertising, casual gaming and virtual worlds. I also advised several of the firm's portfolio companies. At the completion of my EIR, I decided that rather than starting my own company right now and/or taking a CEO role at a portfolio company, that at least for the next several years, I would prefer to continue helping companies by taking advising roles and/or a board seat for equity, and in some cases also being an angel investor.
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Vice President, Business Development & Sales
Bebo
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
March 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 9 months)
Co-founded of Bebo and headed up all domestic and international business development, sales and marketing for Bebo. Bebo is the #3 social networking site in the English-speaking world (behind MySpace and Facebook), and #1 in the UK, Ireland, AU & NZ.
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Vice President, Business Development & Sales
Birthdayalarm
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Services industry)
March 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 10 months)
Currently a consultant to Birthdayalarm
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Head of Business & Corporate Development
Friendster
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 8 months)
I headed up business and corporate development at Friendster and was responsible for all significant partnerships and mergers and acquisition discussions. I created Friendster's pioneering business model of engagement marketing generating significant revenues resulting in profitability. My engagement marketing business model serves as the cornerstone for all of the successful marketing campaigns on social networking sites today like MySpace, Facebook and Bebo.
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Consultant, Business Development & Marketing
AgileTV (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
January 2001 — June 2001 (6 months)
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Senior Vice President, Business Development & Marketing
NBCi (NBC Internet)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NBCi; Internet industry)
October 1998 — June 2001 (2 years 9 months)
I headed up a team of 50 business development, account management, sales and marketing professionals for a $2Billion public GE company. I started at snap.com and grew the team as the company merged with Xoom.com and went public as NBCi. It was a roller-coaster ride from the birth of the internet bubble to the ultimate and unfortunate pop. But what a ride it was, and the lessons learned gives me a rare and invaluable perspective as we enter into the wonderful web 2.0 world of social networking!
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Associate, Attorney
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry)
May 1995 — September 1998 (3 years 5 months)
Attorney, practicing law in the following filed: Corporate & Securities, VC financings, and intellectual property.
Jim Scheinman’s Education
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UC Davis School of Law, King Hall
JD , Corporate Law , May 1992 — May 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- President, Law School
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Duke University
BS , Neuropsychobiology , August 1984 — May 1988
graduate level courses at Duke's Fuqua Business School
- Activities and Societies:
- Beta Kappa, Sigma Chi, Rugby Team
Additional Information
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Jim Scheinman’s Interests:
Family, Coaching AYSO soccer, Swimming, Golf & Karate
Jim Scheinman’s Groups:
WOMMA--Word of Mouth Marketing Association
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DukeGEN - The Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network - Main Group -
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UC Davis School of Law Alumni Group
Jim Scheinman’s Honors:
Frequent speaker at conferences on Social Networking
Most recently spoke at Ad Tech in London and in San Francisco about Bebo Engagement Marketing
Interviewed on Television and the radio about engagement marketing and web 2.0
Quoted in the WSJ, NYT, LAT, The Economist, AdWeek, NMA, and many other leading publications
Jim Scheinman’s Contact Settings
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