Ronald Conway
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Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.
Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from 1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.
Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).
Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.
Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
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imeem imeem is an online music service that provides fans with access to songs they want.
dotCloud DotCloud is a second generation PaaS platform that is the commercial entity behind Docker, an open source app portability project.
Yardbarker Network Yardbarker Network is a sports blogging community.
Weebly Weebly is a consumer service that lets people create a website, blog or online store.
Vizu Corporation Vizu Corporation is an enterprise technology platform allowing advertisers to target audiences through the purchase funnel.
Typekit Typekit allows subscribers to embed fonts into online documents and websites.
Twitter Twitter is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages known as “tweets.”
TrialPay TrialPay is an offer-based payments platform enabling customers to pay for one item by trying or buying something else.
Svpply Svpply is a social shopping site that enables users to register and start keeping track of products that they like.
StumbleUpon StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds and recommends personalized web content to its users.
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Eventbrite Member of the Board of Advisory
Associated Content Member of the Board of Directors
RockYou Member of the Board of Directors
140 Proof Member of the Board of Advisory
UCSF Medical Center Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, UCSF Medical Foundation
ScanScout Member of the Board of Directors
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