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Dave McClure

Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, startup investor, and blogger. He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel, a seed-stage investment program; as well as the fbFund, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups.

Dave is an investor in the following companies: Mint, SlideShare, Twilio, 1000 Markets, UserVoice, Bit.ly, Dolores Labs, KissMetrics, TeachStreet, Eventvue, RichRelevance, Mashery, Simply Hired, and Canopy Financial, among others.

From 2005-2006, Dave launched and ran marketing for job search engine Simply Hired. From 2001-2004, Dave was Director of Marketing at PayPal (acquired by eBay in 2002), where he started & ran the PayPal Developer Network program. Prior to PayPal, Dave was a database consultant & programmer for several companies, including Microsoft and Intel. In 1994 he founded Aslan Computing, an internet and e-commerce firm later acquired by Servinet/Panurgy in 1998.

Dave is the founder of Startup2Startup, a monthly dinner series for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs & VCs, and has been a conference chairperson for STARTonomics, Graphing Social Patterns, and Web 2.0 Expo (SF). He has been a guest lecturer on social application platforms & viral metrics at Stanford University. Dave is an advisor to microfinance organizations Unitus & Kiva, and a co-founder of the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network. He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in Mathematical Sciences Engineering.

Milestones

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  Dave McClure invested in Fluther. (9/21/09)
  Posted 9/21/09 at 4:43pm
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  Dave McClure invested in SlideShare. (5/7/08)
  Posted 5/7/08 at 8:03pm
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  Dave McClure invested in Mill River Labs. (1/1/08)
  Posted 2/10/08 at 10:40pm
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  Dave McClure invested in SlideShare. (1/1/08)
  Posted 4/10/08 at 7:02am
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  Dave McClure invested in Mashery. (9/26/07)
  Posted 2/5/08 at 2:44pm
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  Dave McClure invested in Mashery. (9/07)
  Posted 11/11/07 at 6:35am
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  Dave McClure invested in EventVue. (9/1/07)
  Posted 9/24/07 at 9:33am
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  Dave McClure invested in Mint.com. (4/07)
  Posted 9/20/07 at 8:40am
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  Dave McClure invested in TeachStreet. (2007)
  Posted 4/20/08 at 1:21pm
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  Dave McClure invested in Simply Hired. (8/5/05)
  Posted 8/5/08 at 10:18pm
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  Dave McClure added a position as VP Evangelism Marketing at Simply Hired.
  Posted 7/18/07 at 11:44pm
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  Dave McClure added a position as Director of Marketing at PayPal.
  Posted 3/13/08 at 9:16am
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  Dave McClure added a position as Founder/Principal at 500 Hats.
  Posted 3/13/08 at 9:16am
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  Dave McClure added a position as Board Member at TeachStreet.
  Posted 4/20/08 at 12:14pm
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  Dave McClure added a position as Investment Team.
  Posted 5/19/09 at 4:02pm
• 
  Dave McClure added a position as Investment Team.
  Posted 5/23/09 at 11:30am

Videos

Investments

Sources

1. Fluther Raises $600k From Top Valley Investors For Crowd-Sourced Answers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. SlideShare Secures $3M for Embeddable Presentations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Company website (slideshare.net) [edit]
4. Company Blog (blog.tradevibes.com) [edit]
5. readwriteweb.com [edit]
6. thealarmclock.com [edit]
7. techcrunch.com [edit]
8. prnewswire.com []
9. Dave became an advisor to TeachStreet in spring 2007, and an angel investor in fall 2007. (500hats.com) [edit]
10. techcrunch.com [edit]