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WebsiteBranchOut.com
Twitter@rmarini

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Harvard Business School, MBA 1999
Univ of New Hampshire, BS - Business Admin. 1994

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Rick Marini

Founder & CEO of BranchOut.com.

Rick Marini has been a pioneer in online social media for over 10 years. Rick is the Founder & CEO of BranchOut.

BranchOut is the largest professional network on Facebook, with millions of users. BranchOut users leverage their Facebook friend network to find jobs, source sales leads, recruit talent, and strengthen relationships with professional contacts. BranchOut also operates the largest job board on Facebook with over 3 million jobs and 200,000 internships.

Prior to founding BranchOut, Rick was the Founder & CEO of SuperFan, a profitable social entertainment site that produced social games for clients including CBS (Survivor, Amazing Race, NCIS), MTV (Jersey Shore, The Hills, The City), Universal Music (Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls, Weezer), Warner Music (Britney Spears), NBA stars Dwight Howard and Lebron James, etc.

Prior to founding SuperFan, Rick was the Co-Founder, CFO & Chief Strategist for Tickle.com. Tickle was one of the largest social media sites on the Internet and the first site to successfully leverage viral marketing through personality tests, photo-sharing and matchmaking products. Under his leadership, Tickle operated as a profitable company with close to $40 million of annual revenue. In 2002, Tickle won the “Rising Star” Webby Award as the fastest growing site on the Web and became a top 20 global Internet site with 200 million registered users. In 2004, Tickle was acquired by Monster Worldwide for over $100 million.

Rick currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Fwix, Lumos Labs, Founder’s Den, FIGHTER, StrongerLabs, MySongToYou and Friendster (acquired by MOL). Rick is an angel investor in Wavii, Stipple and UrbanTag. He serves as National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama.

Rick received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of New Hampshire, magna cum laude, and an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

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Company Date Round Size Participants
Stipple 11/10Seed$2M11

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  1. Stipple Raises $2M From Kleiner Perkins, Mike Maples … And Justin Timberlake (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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