Director, Product & Marketing at Widgetbox
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- President at InGameNow
- Director, Product & Marketing at Widgetbox
- Founder and Board Member at beRecruited.com
- Past
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- Manager, Internet Marketing at eBay
- Senior Manager, Kijiji.com Country Manager at eBay Inc
- Education
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- Duke University
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Ryan Spoon’s Experience
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President
InGameNow
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (10 months)
InGameNow (http://www.ingamenow.com) allows sports fan to interact around teams, leagues and games. Follow your favorite teams and connect with other sports fans over real-time scores, banter, news and gossip.
InGameNow’s Beta version launched April 7th - the same night as the 2007-2008 NCAA Championship game. Plenty of features that are coming shortly… features that will keep you even more connected your favorite teams, games and InGameNow users.
InGameNow is an sfEntrepreneurs company (founder).
sfEntrepreneurs is a young entrepreneurs organization based in the San Francisco / Bay Area. Our members collectively invest in the organization, development and operation of the businesses we choose to pursue.
As an organization, we self-incubate, fund and grow the team's ideas into businesses. And while the organization is a side project for all of our members, collectively we are able to achieve rapid innovation.
http://www.sfentrepreneurs.com -
Director, Product & Marketing
Widgetbox
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
December 2007 — Present (11 months)
Widgetbox is a platform to create, share and find widgets for your website, blog, or social network profile.
Widgetbox has served over 1.5billion widgets on 200,000 different websites. -
Founder and Board Member
beRecruited.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — Present (8 years 10 months)
beRecruited.com is the nation’s No. 1 online networking destination for high school student-athletes seeking recruitment from college coaches and universities. beRecruited provides a platform for student athletes to connect and interact with college coaches across the nation, giving students the tools to research and build profiles of verified athletic and academic information. beRecruited has more than 165,000 registered student-athletes, 8,000 college coaches and 7,000 high school coaches.
RVS Ventures, Inc., the investment company of entrepreneur Raymond Sozzi, and Madison Parker Capital, LLC, a Boston-based private equity firm, acquired beRecruited, LLC in October, 2007 and formed beRecruited Inc. As part of the growth strategy, the Company hired former ESPN.com executive Jeff Cravens as president.
beRecruited was founded in 2000 by Ryan Spoon, an NCAA swimmer for Duke. -
Manager, Internet Marketing
eBay
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)
August 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 5 months)
Focused on onsite engagement user acquisition through search engines. Key project leads:
eBay My World: http://myworld.ebay.com/berecruited
Reviews & Guides: http://www.reviews.ebay.com
eBay Blogs: http://blogs.ebay.com
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Senior Manager, Kijiji.com Country Manager
eBay Inc
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)
July 2007 — December 2007 (6 months)
Kijiji is eBay's local classifieds site and community. Kijiji.com launched in the United States in July 2007 and is now available in 100s of cities.
I have moved from eBay's Internet Marketing and Engagement teams to manage Kijiji.com - focusing particularly on traffic acquisition, user experience, product marketing and strategy.
Try it out at http://www.kijiji.com
Ryan Spoon’s Education
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Duke University
BA,
- Activities and Societies:
- Duke Varsity Swim Team - two time university record holder
