Founder & CEO at Novadea
Greater New York City Area
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- Founder & CEO at Novadea
- Past
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- Founder & CMO at Pando Networks
- Founder & President at DeskSite
- VP, Marketing at Zend Technologies
- Director, Product Management at BackWeb Technologies
- Director, Marketing at Register.com
- Education
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- Univ. of Maryland
- Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel
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Yaron Samid’s Summary
Yaron Samid is an Internet entrepreneur and active tech community organizer. He currently runs Novadea, a private new media startup incubator. Yaron previously founded Pando Networks, the world's leading commercial P2P content delivery company with over 30 million users and major media customers. Prior to Pando, Yaron founded DeskSite, growing the PCTV network to over 2 million viewers and sustained profitability. Yaron has also held senior marketing and product management positions at Zend, BackWeb and Register.com.
Invited regularly to speak at industry conferences, in 2006 Yaron founded NY Video (www.nyvideo.org), an organization bringing 3,000+ web video entrepreneurs and professionals together in NYC each month to showcase and discuss web video trends. In the summer of 2007 Yaron founded TechAviv (www.techaviv.com) to connect and help fellow Israeli entrepreneurs succeed worldwide. TechAviv is the world's largest global organization of Israeli hi-tech founders and investors. Over 1,500 members, by invitation only, gather monthly in Israel, New York, Silicon Valley and Boston to showcase, discuss and help fellow Israeli hi-tech startups. The TechAviv.com blog covers the up and coming players in the booming Israeli Internet sector.
Yaron serves on the board of directors at Aprigo, Pond5 and InterMatch, the advisory boards of half a dozen startups, and is an executive committee member of the Tevel.org Angel Group.
Yaron Samid’s Specialties:
Consumer Internet software and service startup management, strategy, marketing, product management and user experience design.
Yaron Samid’s Experience
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Founder & CEO
Novadea
(Internet industry)
October 2001 — Present (7 years 10 months)
Novadea is a new media startup incubator and the facilitator of two of the world's largest grassroots startup organizations; TechAviv (www.techaviv.com) and NY Video (www.nyvideo.org).
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Founder & CMO
Pando Networks
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
March 2004 — March 2008 (4 years 1 month)
Pando Networks is the world's leading commercial P2P content delivery company with over 25 million users and Fortune 500 customers.
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Founder & President
DeskSite
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
January 2003 — March 2004 (1 year 3 months)
DeskSite provides branded content delivery and monetization services for major artists and record labels including Vivendi Universal, Interscope and Bertelsmann.
Sample Artist Channels:
www.50centdesksite.com
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VP, Marketing
Zend Technologies
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 1 month)
www.zend.com
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Director, Product Management
BackWeb Technologies
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; BWEB; Computer Software industry)
January 1997 — December 2001 (5 years)
www.backweb.com
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Director, Marketing
Register.com
(Public Company; RCOM; Internet industry)
January 1996 — January 1997 (1 year 1 month)
www.register.com
Yaron Samid’s Education
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Univ. of Maryland
B.Sc , Marketing , December 1991 — December 1995
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Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel
International Marketing & Project Management
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Yaron Samid’s Interests:
Being surrounded by passionate, creative people that dare to make a difference and give back to their community.
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