Stephen Wang
Serial entrepreneur: Alivenotdead.com, Rotten Tomatoes, XMFish.com, Design Reactor.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.alivenotdead.com/stephen |
| Industries: | Entertainment, Internet |
| Skills: | Business, Computer Engineering, Design, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Management, Web design |
| Next step: | Expanding alivenotdead.com across China and a move to from Hong Kong to Beijing |
| Location: | Hong Kong and Beijing, China |
| Interested in: | Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Getting press, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | rottentomatoes alivenotdead film entertainment china berkeley |
| Schools: | University of California System - Berkeley |
FEATURED STARTUP
alivenotdead.com
alivenotdead.com
A social network connecting filmmakers, musicians, and other artists with their fans. Offers official web sites and fan clubs for many of Asia's top artists.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Growth
FULL BIO
Before: Grew up in LA and Maryland...
Then: Went to Berkeley... built some great companies with my friends
Now: Moved to China to do more startups
Currently: Doing a startup in Hong Kong/Beijing
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | AliveNotdead.com |
| Position: | CTO, Co-founder |
| Time period: | December 2006 - Present |
| Description: | An online community for artists (filmmakers, musicians, performing artists, and more) and their fans allowing communication, interaction, and collaboration. Our mission is to remake the way artists market, distribute, and communicate with their fans starting with Asia.
Teaming up with three other of my Rotten Tomatoes colleagues -- we all love Hong Kong movies and become friends with many great filmmakers, musicians, and other artists in Hong Kong, China, and elsewhere who we hope will find this site as a great new way to gain exposure here in Hong Kong and abroad. |
| Employer: | XMFish.com / Xiaban.com |
| Position: | COO |
| Time period: | January 2006 - January 2007 |
| Description: | Operating a mainland China city portal helping people find the best places to eat, shop and play.
We also operate one of China's most active local forum communities with over two-thirds of Xiamen's online population visiting our web sites each week. I moved from the comfortable surroundings of the San Francisco Bay Area to my second favorite city of Xiamen, Fujian, China -- a wonderful coastal city near Taiwan where my two college friends had started a new internet business. I came into a company that had already been around for about a year and a half, but needed someone with my kind of expertise. The fun challenge here was to work with a completely local Chinese team daily and redesign and grow a site from nearly scratch in a unique, but tremendously heated market. |
| Employer: | IGN Entertainment |
| Position: | VP/Publisher, Rotten Tomatoes |
| Time period: | July 2004 - December 2005 |
| Description: | IGN Entertainment, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, Inc. (acquired September 2005), is a leading Internet media and services provider focused on the videogame and entertainment enthusiast markets.
During my time at the head of Rotten Tomatoes, I helped grow traffic from 2.7M unique visitors in the month of June 2004 to 6.2M unique visitors in the month of January 2006 right after I left. We also launched great new features like the Certified Fresh label for the best reviewed movies and the Rotten Tomatoes media player to serve up a huge library of trailers and online video clips. We also conducted our first publicity tour of all of the major and minor movie marketing departments in order to expand our partnerships with the studios. As a department head for IGN, I was able to be a part of the lead up and aftermath of our acquisition by Fox Interactive Media and ultimately departed so that I could get back to the exciting, new startup life, this time in China. |
| Employer: | Rotten Tomatoes |
| Position: | CTO, Co-Founder |
| Time period: | April 2000 - July 2004 |
| Description: | Leading entertainment web site (Alexa ranking ~700) acquired by IGN Entertainment in July 2004. |
| Employer: | Design Reactor |
| Position: | Technical Director, Co-Founder |
| Time period: | June 1997 - April 2000 |
| Description: | Design Reactor is a leading digital communications agency primarily for technology and
entertainment clients. During its initial years, the firm was a leading developer for various film and TV clients including ABC.com, DisneyChannel.com, ZoogDisney.com, ToonDisney.com, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, and more. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of California System - Berkeley |
| Time period: | 1993 - 1997 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BA |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Film, community web sites, wushu, hiking, badminton |
| Awards: | 2005 HSBC Young Entrepreneurs Award
Articles about me and my past ventures: http://www.theculturalconnect.com/magazines/asia/2006-02-... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_displa... http://swang.jilted.com/gallery/albums/hosted/sfchron1_fi... http://swang.jilted.com/gallery/albums/hosted/rollingston... |
Stephen's Startups (2)
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is the leading movie reviews web site and community. Readers can quickly decide what movies to watch through the Tomatometer rating. Acquired by IGN Entertainment in 2004 and now a part of Fox Interactive Media.
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alivenotdead.com
A social network connecting filmmakers, musicians, and other artists with their fans. Offers official web sites and fan clubs for many of Asia's top artists.
Stephen is Following (7)
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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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Raptr
Raptr is the best place on the web for game players of all types to connect with each other, compare stats and achievements, get recommendations, and discover new games.
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Lithium Technologies
Lithium powers online customer communities for enterprises, allowing them to drive word-of-mouth marketing, reduce costs with peer-to-peer support, and accelerate innovation by tapping new ideas directly from the customer base
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RockYou
RockYou is a leading provider of applications and widgets on the web. RockYou widgets include photo slideshows, glitter text, customized Facebook applications and voicemail accessories.
