Steve Vachani (Based in Brazil and USA)

Current

• CEO at Power.com
• Managing Partner at Serendipity Ventures

Past

• CEO at NetProspect
• CEO at Qool Media
• Founding Director and member of founding team at Freelotto

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Steve Vachani (Based in Brazil and USA)’s Summary

Seasoned Technology and social Entrepreneur, investor, and startup CEO. Industry expert in area of social networks, viral marketing, and user generated content.

Over the past 11 years, some projects that I have been involved with as either a founder, CEO, board member, advisor or investor include Qool Media (top online auctions, loyalty solutions and direct marketing company), Freelotto (top sweepstakes & direct marketing company with almost 40 million users], FreeRazor [online marketing experiment with Gillette that reached 5 million visitors and 200,000 subscribers in first 12 weeks while testing project), MedSN (leading distance learning company in medical education. www.medsn.com), Collaborative Drug Discovery - CDD (online community for scientists to share research and collaborate on drug research to solve the world's worst diseases)

Since I was a student at UC Berkeley, I spent the last 14 years developing a new social entrepreneurship model for creating capital markets around social problems. My life dreams and goals are related to this work. The work I am doing today as an entrepreneur are helping me gain the experience, resources, and contacts to put in place my social entrepreneurship innovations to improve the world we live on a global level.

At the same time, at a local level, I spend my free time assisting social entrepreneurs and artists with incubating smaller scale social projects.

In 2003, after 10 years as an entrepreneur and startup CEO in the Silicon Valley and New York, I moved to Brazil, where I spent 3 of the most dynamic and exciting years of my life exploring my interests in social entrepreneurship, politics, dance, arts, music, international trade, and more.

There I had that chance to reinvent myself, learn new skills, meet thousands of interesting personalities, learn Portuguese, improve my dance skills, build personal relationships with Brazil's young political, social, financial, business, and entertainment leaders.

Steve Vachani (Based in Brazil and USA)’s Specialties:

Can take a good business idea that you have and help you develop and execute a rock solid business model, financial plan, and marketing strategy. Have deep knowledge and understand of every Internet business model and marketing strategy and can develop the most powerful viral marketing and user generated content strategies for startup companies that want to disrupt their markets.

Steve Vachani (Based in Brazil and USA)’s Experience

• CEO

  Power.com

  (Internet industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

• Managing Partner

  Serendipity Ventures

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

  January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

  Managing investments, consulting, and incubation for new Technology and Social ventures. In the technology space, our primary focus is on the development of social networks, user generated content, and viral marketing.
  
  Specifically, we are creating a new marketing field focused on the science of Viral Marketing and User generated content. We are creating applications which accelerate the growth of viral marketing and user generated content at signficantly higher growth rates than we have seen in existing social networks and user generated content communities. We have a strong interest in accelerating the growth of new applications in emerging markets.
  
  Our second focus is to further the growth of the emerging field of socal entrepreneurship. At the moment, in relation to new social ventures, our primary focus is on assisting social entrepreneurs with relationship building, marketing strategies, online community building, strategic planning, fundraising, business plan development.

• CEO

  NetProspect

  (Internet industry)

  1997 — 2003 (6 years )

• CEO

  Qool Media

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1997 — December 2003 (7 years )

  Founder and CEO of one of the Internet's largest online auctions and loyalty marketing companies. We created an online currency earned by shopping at hundreds of stores and ongoing usage of one's credit cards, phone service, and other lifestyle services. Managed and built the management team required to to operate the logistics, business development, sales, merchandising, adminstration, accounting, marketing, product development for an online loyalty currency used by millions of loyal Internet users. Personally wrote and managed the tone, voice, marketing campaigns, and communications for Qool's daily email newsletter to millions of Qool members for over 4 years with close to 1000 emails and over 200 customized marketing campaigns created. Newsletter was recognized in the online marketing industry for it's record breaking conversion and loyalty rates for leading Internet brands and Fortune 1000 advertisers.

• Founding Director and member of founding team

  Freelotto

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1996 — December 2000 (5 years )

  Site grew to 14th largest website in the world, close to 40 million registered members, and $50 million in annual revenues at it's peak. Assisted with online and viral marketing strategies from startup to maturity as site grew from 0 to 40 million registered users and one of the world's largest online database marketing companies.

Steve Vachani (Based in Brazil and USA)’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  Political Science, Social Welfare, Business Adminstration 1992 — 1996

Additional Information

Steve Vachani (Based in Brazil and USA)’s Websites:

• My Website

Steve Vachani (Based in Brazil and USA)’s Interests:

Who am I? A freespirited romantic and action-oriented dreamer living my life with passion, ambition, sincerity, integrity, freedom, serendipity, and a mission to change the world in small and very big ways. My 7 simple rules that guide me through my life 1) Live life like a romantic adventure and have a cause 2) Treat everybody the way you want to be treated. 3) Be passionate about everything you do 4) Live each day like there is no tomorrow 5) Dream big and act on your dreams, even if the path is unclear. 6) Eat well, sleep well, and work in a job you love 7) Smile a lot and trust strangers as friends until they give you a reason not to trust them. Passions: backpacking, brazil, hip-hop, ice hockey, latin & hip-hop dancing, music, nanotechnology, rollerblading, linguistics, organizing & attending unique parties, new experiences, historian/futurist Visit my personal page at http://www.ryze.com/go/vachani to read more about my life philsophy.

Steve Vachani (Based in Brazil and USA)’s Groups:

Harvard Business School Alumni Meetings

•    Latin America Mobile Network (+1000)
•    Grameen America, Inc.

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