Mark Bao

Current

CEO at Classleaf
Co-Founder at Ramamia
President & CEO at Avecora

CTO, Co-Founder at TickrTalk

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Past

Co-Founder at DebateWare.com
Co-Founder; Business Operations at Student Concourse
Founder at Facebook Idol

Owner at Quivira Media

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Education

High School Senior currently

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Mark Bao’s Summary

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Mark Bao (formerly Steven Bao) is a 17-year-old student and technology entrepreneur, and is the President & CEO of Avecora. He is also a nonprofit founder and advocate.

Mark is a Co-Founder with Jason L. Baptiste at Ramamia, a family sharing site that allows family members to share what's happening in their family.

He also works at DebateWare.com, a software consultancy firm and startup that offers its main product DebateNet, a debate organization and event management system.

Mark is also the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at TickrTalk, a stealth consumer web startup founded in 2008.

Mark also is the CEO of Classleaf, taking education into the 21st century through teacher class websites and an academic platform.

He also is the CEO of Adaptance Advertising, an ad network based on an advanced advertising algorithm combining five targeting factors, including behavioral and contextual, and others.

Mark has also developed several Facebook apps, one of which was sold to Lee Lorenzen at Altura Ventures. Afterwards, with two marketing partners, he developed the application Facebook Idol, which was sold to a private investor in October 2007.

In the past, Mark has created companies in advertising, such as Cadmium, and others within CRM and project management.

Mark is inspired by technology, innovation, consumer electronics, and the integration of devices with each other and the social layer, as well as nonprofits and philanthropy.

Let's connect. Email me or call me at 617.395.5633.

Mark Bao’s Specialties:

business development, business strategy, startups and entrepreneurship, revenue models and generation, business networking, sales and marketing, advertising, web development, product development, product design, user experience, information design, personal branding, marketing psychology

Mark Bao’s Experience

CEO

Classleaf

(E-Learning industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Classleaf aims to bring education into the 21st century by improving teacher-student communication, adding simple-to-use class webpages, calendar, pages, and more for teachers and students.
Co-Founder

Ramamia

(Internet industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Ramamia is a simple communication utility that lets families easily and privately share photos, messages, events, and links. Joined Jason L. Baptiste and Matt Byrd. Distributed team in Silicon Valley, Boston, and Miami. Angel funded.
President & CEO

Avecora

(Internet industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Avecora is a long-term technology innovation business that looks to shift the technology industry through web applications and integrated consumer electronics.

Avecora's products include Avecora OnDemand, an SaaS small business management and team organization web application, delivered on the web, on demand.
CTO, Co-Founder

TickrTalk

(Internet industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

TickrTalk is a stealth consumer web startup.
Co-Founder

DebateWare.com

(Internet industry)

January 2007 — January 2009 (2 years 1 month)

DebateWare.com is an enterprise web software consultancy providing services to debate organisations.
Co-Founder; Business Operations

Student Concourse

(E-Learning industry)

May 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 5 months)

Student Concourse is the online organizer and social network for the academic life of students.
Founder

Facebook Idol

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

August 2007 — December 2007 (5 months)

Facebook Idol is a partnership between Steven Bao, Jean-Jacques Duclaux and Julien Jalouzet that developed and promoted the Facebook Idol application on Facebook. It was sold to a private investor in Fall 2007.
Owner

Quivira Media

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

April 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Mark Bao’s Education

High School Senior currently

2007 — 2010 (expected)

Activities and Societies:

Junior State of America, Student Congress, School Council, Key Club Volunteer, Business Club, Debate Club, Math Team.

Additional Information

Mark Bao’s Websites:

Mark Bao’s Interests:

entrepreneurship, technology, advertising, consumer electronics, networks, mobile, wireless, new technology, social graph, web, innovation, web, edutech, handheld, social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, value creation, foundations, charity

Mark Bao’s Groups:

Junior State of America, Web Innovators Boston, Boston Entrepreneurs Group, OneIn3 Boston Young Entrepreneurs Group, Ecademy, Y Combinator Hacker News (markbao)