Kirill Makharinsky
Co-founder of YouNoodle and former Slider. Love working with startups and new technology.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://younoodle.com |
| Industries: | Financial, Internet, Media, Real Estate |
| Skills: | Business, Copy Writing, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Guerrilla marketing, Investment, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Russian, Viral marketing |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA |
| Groups: | BASES, Berkeley Hackathon, Building a Business, California Clean Tech Open, Cambridge Technology Ventures Conference 2008, CleanTech Circle Forum, CORE , CUE, DrinkTank London, EO, Excitera Innovation Challenge 2008, Founders Fund, Global Social Venture Competition, Harvard Media Ventures, HBS Entrepreneurship Club, Imperial Entrepreneurs, Inspiration Ventures, LSE Entrepreneurs, Oxford Entrepreneurs, SEEDA Enterprisers, Seedcamp, SF Beta, Silicon Valley Comes To Oxford, ST@B: Startup @ Berkeley, Stanford Innovation Tournament 2008, The SF JavaScript Meetup, Warwick Entrepreneurs, Web Mission 2008, Youniversity Ventures, Zenopy |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Getting press, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects |
| Tags: | Angel investing, Facebook apps, Fashion, Heli-skiing, Internet industry, music, Poker, Private Equity, Real Estate |
| Schools: | University of Oxford |
FEATURED STARTUP
YouNoodle
YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
Kirill is the co-founder of YouNoodle.com, the startup innovation company which has recently launched with funding from Peter Thiel, The Founders Fund, Max Levchin and several other investors. Prior to YouNoodle, Kirill managed analytics and metrics at Slide. Previously he had been established as the #1 Graduate in the UK based on his work while at Oxford University.
Kirill was also in the founding team and a President of Oxford Entrepreneurs (the largest student enterprise club in Europe) and graduated from Oxford University with a double first in Applied Mathematics.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | YouNoodle, Inc. |
| Position: | Co-founder |
| Time period: | September 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Building startup predictor model. |
| Employer: | Slide, Inc. |
| Position: | Data and Analytics |
| Time period: | July 2006 - September 2007 |
| Description: | Product analytics and data management; virality analysis; data insight; data infrastructure, product analysis, product development, business development, financial modeling, product spec writing, mysql and excel coding, API distribution, product and logging QA. While I was at Slide we grew from under a million registered users to more than 150 million people interacting with our products every month. |
| Employer: | Global Equity Partners |
| Position: | New ventures analysis |
| Time period: | July 2005 - September 2005 |
| Description: | Analysis of the games of skill market; analysis of the betting platform market; analysis of games of skill web designer; financial modelling; investment decision presentations. |
| Employer: | Meinl Bank |
| Position: | Derivative Analyst |
| Time period: | July 2004 - September 2004 |
| Description: | Carried out Monte Carlo simulation to price equity options; categorised risk in highly structured interest rate products; carried out Value at Risk analysis. |
| Employer: | Oxford Entrepreneurs |
| Position: | President and founding team member |
| Time period: | January 2004 - April 2006 |
| Description: | Headhunted and led a committee of 14 of 3-year old Society with already 3000 members; raised in excess of £150,000 from sponsors and founding patrons; organised tens of events each involving at least 200 students and entrepreneurs; made contact and successfully invited entrepreneurs such as Sir Alan Sugar and Dame Anita Roddick to speak to members for free; helped create replica societies at 3 other universities; co-ordinated the set up of and advised 5 student start-up companies that together had revenues in excess of £20,000 in their first year; secured PR coverage from The Times, The Economist, New York Times, Guardian. In 2004 the DTI highlighted OE as “one of the top three organisations in the UK for supporting innovation and enterprise”. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Oxford |
| Time period: | 2003 - 2006 |
| Degree: | Mathematics, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
Kirill's Startups (4)
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YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
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Enternships.com
A place for people to find internship opportunities at small companies.
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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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Am I Worth It?
A place for students to meet other (hot) students.
Kirill's Contacts (574)
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Immad Akhund
CTO and founder of clickpass.com and ex-CEO of revmap.com. Studied Computer Science at Cambridge University. I love thinking of ideas and seeing things built. Most of my experience in in consumer web entreprises. 23 years old, currently resid...
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Steve Chen
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Veerappan Swaminathan
Singaporean, 23, Mechanical Engineering major & Technopreneurship minor at NUS, Lead for Start-Up@Singapore 2008 - business plan competition, Varsity Floorball Team
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Mengyi He