Mark Bao

Current

• President & CEO at Avecora
• Co-Founder; Business Operations at Student Concourse
• Co-Founder at DebateWare.com

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Past

• Founder at Facebook Idol
• Owner at Quivira Media

Education

• High School Sophomore currently

Recommended

3 people have recommended Mark

Connections

363 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website - markbao.com
• My Business - avecora.com

Mark Bao’s Summary

Mark Bao (formerly Steven Bao) is 15-year-old student and web, marketing and advertising entrepreneur, and is the President & CEO of Avecora.

The mission of Avecora was to create innovative solutions in new and emerging media, in not only web development but in actual situations to present solutions to certain problems.

Avecora is a partner with DebateWare, where Mark works as co-founder and lead developer. DebateWare, a division of SMR Enterprises Inc., is the developer of DebateNet, the online debate and event management system for debate organizations. DebateWare has provided services for the Junior State of America, the largest student-run organization in the United States, as well as the Collegiate Society of America, a nationwide college debate organization.

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 applications TopVideo and Facebook Idol. The latter was sold to a private investor in October 2007.

Mark also is the developer of AdSocial (formerly Cadmium), the targeted social application advertising network available for developers of social applications and advertisers, that extends the social advertising graph to the web, by aggregating social network profile information and targeting advertisements around the web.

Mark Bao’s Specialties:

partnerships, project management, web development, networking

Mark Bao’s Experience

• President & CEO

  Avecora

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  June 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Avecora is a new media, emerging media, advertising and consumer electronics business.

• Co-Founder; Business Operations

  Student Concourse

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)

  May 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

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

• Co-Founder

  DebateWare.com

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)

• 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 Sophomore 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:

• My Website - markbao.com
• My Business - avecora.com

Mark Bao’s Interests:

entrepreneurship, technology, web 2.0, web 3.0, semantic web, internet, new media, emerging media, advertising, consumer electronics

Mark Bao’s Groups:

Junior State of America, Web Innovators Boston, Boston Entrepreneurs Group, OneIn3 Boston Young Entrepreneurs Group,, Ecademy

•    eOffice member
•    Obama for America member
•    ENTREPRENEURS-GET FUNDED member
•    Hacker News member
•    Boston Online Networking member

Mark Bao’s Contact Settings

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