Category: Mentors (Page 13 of 23)

Martyn Crew, CEO of Bootstrap Marketing

Martyn CrewIn sales leadership roles with companies like Asera, Cast Iron, and CrossWorlds, Martyn was often frustrated by marketing’s inability to deliver content that met sales’ and customer needs. That’s why he founded Bootstrap and his pragmatic, get-it-done attitude has struck a chord with enterprise execs, startup founders and investors alike.

Bootstrap works with industry leaders like SAP, high-growth companies like Pentaho and start-ups like Yeti Data to help them position their solutions by developing content and campaigns that help them get to market fast and stay ahead of their competition.

As a company, Bootstrap is a group of experienced professionals that blends highly quality content development with the latest demand generation, web and digital marketing techniques to develop effective positioning, messaging and campaigns for our customers. Read More...

Monica Pal, CMO of Areospike

Monica PalMonica has over two decades of experience in engineering & technology marketing in communications and collaboration, security and middleware at big companies, startups and open source companies.

‘I’m a builder. I love taking the pieces, raw assets and integrating them to make something bigger and better. The basis of everything I know about marketing, I learned in design 101. Good design principles are the same whether you are working with code or words or assets, to build software, a brand or a business.’

‘I was an engineer for ten years, starting in Apple’s pioneering collaboration products team where we shipped the first unified messaging and secure email system. I loved the customer focus and strong sense of design there – clean, elegant, consistent across all products. Then I caught the startup bug.’ Read More...

Murray Newlands, Marketing Maven

Murray Newlands

Murray Newlands

Murray Newlands is a mentor and advisor at Founders Space. He’s an Internet marketing expert, prolific blogger, advisor, teacher, and author with years of experience and demonstrated expertise in the Internet marketing industry.

Murray runs TheMail.com, is a Deputy Editor of Search Engine Journal, US correspondent for YourStory, and an advisor to a number of Bay Area startups including VigLink. Read More...

Jeff Goldsmith, CEO of Distill

Jeff Goldsmith

Jeff Goldsmith

Marketing (Advisor)

Jeff Goldsmith is the CEO of Distill. He executes marketing campaigns with creative skills gained from several related successful careers.

His advertising and branding clients include Blue Shield, Hilton, Hitachi, Dish Network, Nutri/System, Etrade, Quicken, Visa, GE, PwC, Sun Microsystems, Wells Fargo, Women.com, Starbucks, Sprint, E-Loan, PayPal. Read More...

John Boitnott, Marketing, PR & Digital Media

John Boitnott is a writer for Venture Beat, the Atlantic Wire, Beyond Search and Media Post. He’s also a digital media consultant. He worked as the Social Media Manager for Village Voice Media, and now consults with a wide range of startups.

John has also held dozens of positions at various TV newsrooms in the state of California. He worked in TV news from 1994 to 2009. He was a web editor for two years at KNTV, the NBC station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. He also held freelance writing positions at KGO, KRON and KPIX. In addition, he was a radio anchor, assignment desk manager, reporter, editor and producer at KEYT.

Scott Gray, Founders Space Instructor

Scott Gray

Scott Gray

Scott is a lead instructor at Founders Space. He’s a serial entrepreneur, scientist, and educator.

Scott has a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics. In 1997, He founded Useractive Media while in graduate school. Useractive utilized a Tool Integrated Learning Environment (TILE), which combined custom built Learning Management with web-based Programming Development Environments. Read More...

Peter Seidel, President & General Counsel of WavePlay

Peter Seidel

Peter Seidel

Peter Seidel is President & General Counsel of WavePlay, a San Francisco Bay/Silicon Valley promotional agency. Peter focuses on strategic direction and relationships, investments, market research, event development, photography and videography.  

He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Minnesota Bar Association, and he is active with the California Society of CPAs and the California Bar Association.  Prior to joining WavePlay, Peter worked in management, tax and business consulting in the corporate environment and in Big 4 and regional accounting firms.   Read More...

Cassandra Phillipps, Creator/Producer of FailCon

Cassie Phillipps

Cassie Phillipps

Entrepreneur & Event Producer

Cassandra Phillipps has been a startup event producer for over two years, working on and producing numerous conferences, including Inside Social Apps, Girls in Tech: Catalyst Conference, Finance4Founders, SF MusicTech Summit, SF Beta, SNAP Summit, and many more. She is the creator and producer of FailCon, the first conference ever to openly discuss entrepreneurial failures and what we can learn from them, hailed by NBC, NPR, KQED, and Wired Magazine as an incredible success! Read More...

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