David Kaye
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of Oxford |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Software.com |
| Position: | Advisory Board |
| Time period: | January 2007 - Present |
| Description: | • Provide occasional insight into product management, business and marketing strategy. |
| Employer: | Iron Realms Entertainment |
| Position: | Co-founder |
| Time period: | January 1997 - Present |
| Description: | • Co-founded this pioneering MMO publisher, which was the first company in North America to commercialize the sale of virtual items as a primary business model.
• Wrote initial game design for the company' s flagship product, Achaea. • Helped to take the company from zero to millions of dollars in revenue. |
| Employer: | Sparkplay Media |
| Position: | VP Business Development |
| Time period: | September 2007 - May 2008 |
| Description: | • Co-wrote (with Sparkplay's CEO) Series A investor materials and attended all VC pitch meetings.
• Closed $4.25m in funding from Redpoint and Prism Ventureworks. • Produced extensive game design/product documentation for the company's upcoming MMO, Earth Eternal, and its user-controlled environment product, Groves. |
| Employer: | Mforma Americas |
| Position: | Producer |
| Time period: | January 2004 - December 2005 |
| Description: | • Managed and oversaw multiple aspects of production across the company's portfolio of Marvel interactive titles.
• Lead production on the Fantastic Four mobile game, which won a nomination for Best Mobile Game in GameSpot's E3 2005 Editor's Choice Awards. |
| Employer: | Mobilista |
| Position: | Founder, Managing Director |
| Time period: | January 2003 - December 2004 |
| Description: | • Founded the first business in Europe to launch a Java-based, carrier-independent mobile content portal.
• Designed, built and brought the product to market by signing distribution deals with media owners including Lycos Europe and Freeserve (now Wanadoo), the UK's largest ISP. |
| Employer: | Lycos Europe |
| Position: | Business Development Manager, Mobile |
| Time period: | January 2001 - December 2002 |
| Description: | • Started up and lead the company's pan-European mobile marketing team.
• Established the company as the leader in wireless media sales among European portals. |
| Employer: | Transpera |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2007 |
| Description: | • Managed product development from seed stage through close of Series A.
• Lead design of UI and functionality for the company's first product launch: a cross-network WAP video portal with partner Break Media. The product was a hit with the partner and consumers. • Drafted RFPs for on-deck services to be deployed across several North American carriers. |
| Employer: | The Walt Disney Company |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2007 |
| Description: | • Advised on product development for a wireless project at Buena Vista Television. |
| Employer: | Microsoft |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2006 |
| Description: | • In conjunction with RampRate, conducted a study of the enterprise software services market. |
| Employer: | Encore Software |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2005 |
| Description: | • Designed a mobile content product for retail distribution.
• In record time, signed content licensing deals with multiple publishers on highly favorable terms. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Oxford |
| Degree: | English Language and Literature, BA |
David's Startups (1)
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Meteor Games
Meteor Games is an independent game studio founded in 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell, creators of Neopets.com. Meteor Games first title in development is Twin Skies. Twin Skies is an online game tha...
David is Following (3)
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I Can See The World
High Level Photographic services and projection. Taking Photographs from 100ft in the air without leaving the ground.
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David's Contacts (4)
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Bob Goodson
British, working in San Francisco at Quid. Runaway Oxford medievalist. Former Yelpee.
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Kirill Makharinsky
Ostrovok.ru, Quid, YouNoodle, Slide. focused on data, product, marketing.
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Christian Arno
Scottish, just hit the big 3-0, driving Lingo24, the top web-focused translation service provider, forward internationally. Degree in French and Italian from St. John's, Oxford.
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Richard Price
CEO of Academia.edu - Facebook for academics