Category Archives: mentors

Cohort Metrics For Startups Revealed – Part I: Plain English

Posted on July 13, 2011 by 500 Startups| 18 Comments

Meet Silver Surfer aka 500 SuperMentor Dan Martell (@danmartell).  Dan is the Co-Founder of Flowtown, a social marketing application for businesses.  Self diagnosed as having intense ADHD, you can either find him hosting dinners, speaking about marketing or jumping off … Continue reading →

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Startup Dad Gives Baby Up For Adoption

Posted on June 24, 2011 by 500 Startups| 1 Comment

Meet Professor X, aka 500 SuperMentor Hong Quan (@hongdquan). An entrepreneur and recruiter building cars and startups, Hong has even hired a real honest-to-goodness rockstar (#3 on Billboard charts).  He uses his superpowers of recruiting and abilities to read and influence … Continue reading →

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Celebrate The Small Victories

Posted on June 14, 2011 by 500 Startups| 5 Comments

Meet Lion-O aka SuperMentor Brenden Mulligan (@bmull). Brenden founded ArtistData, a music industry startup that enables artists to easily keep their content up-to-date across multiple marketing channels and consumer touch points, which was acquired in May 2010 by Sonicbids. More … Continue reading →

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Engineering vs. Design

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Christine Tsai| Leave a comment

This post is a reblog from Jason Putorti’s blog. Jason is a 500 Startups founder (of Votizen) and venture advisor. View the original post here. The extranormal guy talking about features still thinks that the consumer actually cares about them, … Continue reading →

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Serendipity: A View From SXSW

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Christine Tsai| Leave a comment

Meet Phoenix (Jean Grey) aka 500 SuperMentor Wendy Tan-White. Wendy is Founder of Moonfruit, a simple and powerful website builder for SMBs who expect better design tools to produce better designed sites. Moonfruit was founded in 1999, survived the Dotcom … Continue reading →

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Fail Fast, Fail Often, And Fail By Design

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Christine Tsai| 5 Comments

Meet Bear Grylls, aka 500 SuperMentor TJ Sassani. TJ is the Founder and CEO of zozi, a company rapidly becoming the go-to place for the coolest experiences and activities.  zozi aggregates thousands of merchants in the experience category and is striving … Continue reading →

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10 Ways To Use Zipcast

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Christine Tsai| Leave a comment

SlideShare recently announced Zipcast, a new social web conferencing system that is entirely browser-based.  We’ve reblogged these tips on how to use Zipcast (original post). SlideShare co-founder and CEO Rashmi Sinha is a venture advisor and mentor for 500 Startups, as well … Continue reading →

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Hiten Shah, Ryan Freitas, and Charles Hudson Save The World

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Christine Tsai| Leave a comment

Ok maybe not QUITE, but they did do something pretty awesome this week. Read on for more. Since we announced the 500 Startups Accelerator last week, we’ve been having several excellent talks from our SuperMentors. This week, Hiten Shah, Ryan … Continue reading →

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A Sense of Déjà Vu: Why focusing on monetization is critical for mobile app developers.

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Christine Tsai| 1 Comment

Meet Lucky Luke aka 500 SuperMentor and Founder Michael Oiknine (@apsalarinc).  Michael is co-founder & CEO of Apsalar, a behavioral targeting and analytics platform for mobile apps.  Prior to Apsalar, Michael was co-Founder & COO of Kefta, a SaaS provider … Continue reading →

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