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John Manoogian III

Founder (Product, UX)

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://jm3.net
Industries: Entertainment, Internet
Skills: Design, Entrepreneurship, Product design, Public speaking, Rails, Viral marketing, Writing
Location: San Francisco
Groups: BASES, Gumball Capital
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding experts, Getting press, Investing in projects, Mentoring, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Supporting my investments
Tags: advisor, designer, founder, geek, hacker, legos, Sushi, ux
Schools: University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor

FEATURED STARTUP

140 Proof

140 Proof 140 Proof

The Twitter ad platform for brands in the social stream, fueling explosively social engagement in apps & sites via persona targeting. Say: hello@140proof.com

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Growth

FULL BIO

I advise and collaborate with smart inventors, designers, and engineers. I am a total fucking nerd and design geek. Feel free to contact me re: world-changing ideas that would terrify normal people.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Bubble Fusion Labs
Position: Founder, VP of Product Design + UX
Time period: October 2009 - Present
Description: I help us design, build, and grow. I am to blame for inventing [+1], our latest and best product, together with the funniest, smartest team anywhere.

Employer: Top Fans™
Position: VP, Product and User Experience
Time period: July 2007 - May 2009

Employer: NewCRU
Position: Co-Founder, UX
Time period: January 2007 - July 2007
Description: design, plan, launch

Employer: Organic, Inc
Position: Creative Director, Experience Design (created new team)
Time period: December 2005 - October 2006
Description: Built a world-class, hybrid team of IAs and interface developers

Educated and sold $40m+ accounts to VP-level stakeholders and clients

Unified multiple teams into one group focused on innovation and prototyping

Employer: Organic, Inc
Position: Director, Interface Engineering
Time period: January 2004 - December 2005
Description: Led team of 20 architects, developers, and designers across two offices on a 20+ million dollar account

Grew and maintained successful partnerships with Interwoven, Akamai, WebSideStory, and iCrossing

Provided wonderful services in London, New York, Toronto, Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco.

Employer: Feed Me Links
Position: Mad Scientist / Chief Community Officer
Time period: January 2002 - December 2006
Description: Social Bookmarking Community with a soul, a nice interface, 13,000+ users, and 300,000+ links.

Architected all user experience and LAMP back-end, plus accompanying AIM client & Firefox plugin.

Interoperates with all major bookmark and syndication formats

EDUCATION

University: University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor
Time period: 1995 - 1999
Degree: Digital Multimedia (invented new major), BA

PUBLICATIONS

Patents: #AG06Q3000FI - Wine database and Recommendation System
#12502874 - Ranking for Feature and Content Access
John Manoogian III

John's Startups (4)

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  • Beyond Profit

    Beyond Profit

    Supporting the finance and early stage growth of for-profit bioscience and social technology companies.

  • NewCRU

    NewCRU

    Great mobile wine experiences.

  • Bubble Fusion Labs

    Bubble Fusion Labs

    We're making the Internet, one tweet at a time.

  • 140 Proof

    140 Proof

    The Twitter ad platform for brands in the social stream, fueling explosively social engagement in apps & sites via persona targeting. Say: hello@140proof.com

John is Following (15)

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  • Crusher

    Crusher

    Crusher Inc

  • VideoEgg, Inc.

    VideoEgg, Inc.

    VideoEgg is the pioneering video ad network for online communities. We connect brands to consumers with video and rich media across a network of leading video and gaming sites, social networks and applications.

  • Engine Yard

    Engine Yard

    Engine Yard provides infrastructure services and support to allow clients to scale their Ruby on Rails applications quickly and effortlessly

  • Slide

    Slide

    New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.

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