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Created 12 years ago in Funding / Venture Capital
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Jim Scheinman
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Jim Scheinman has spent the last 20 years of his career as an Entrepreneur in one capacity or another. He’s been a founder, executive, angel investor, attorney, mentor capitalist and venture capitalist at many successful Silicon Valley consumer startups. In January 2013, Scheinman launched Maven Ventures Growth Labs in Palo Alto to tap into the massive trend of the groundswell of entrepreneurship and to scale his successful angel investing business, Maven Ventures, which he founded in late 2008. Four of his ten investments since 2008 have achieved successful exits and four others are doing extremely well, like Tango. Maven Ventures Growth Labs Fund is a venture fund from which Jim invests in the startups that are incubated in the Growth Labs. BACKGROUND Immediately prior to founding Maven Ventures, Scheinman was an entrepreneur in residence (“EIR”) at Charles River Ventures, a leading venture firm where he helped source, vet and advise their web 2.0 portfolio companies. Scheinman is one of the early pioneers of the social networking phenomenon as one of the first employees and the former head of business development and sales at the first social networking site, Friendster. There he created the concept of ‘engagement marketing,’ enabling consumers to become brand advocates and spreading brands’ messages amongst their network of friends. In 2005, Jim left Friendster to join co-founders Michael & Xochi Birch to launch Bebo as the first employee and Board member. At Bebo, he was integral in launching the site, raising the venture round, leading the strategy and its eventual sale to AOL for $850M in 2008.
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Fantastic advice....things we never thought of before
Source: Clarity Louis Ziskin Mar 27, 2018Jim was very clear and concise in answering my questions. I left the call feeling much more confident in the direction my business is going.
Source: Clarity Ikechukwu Amadi Sep 28, 2016Excellent advice on startups & funding
Source: Clarity John Hayward-Mayhew Mar 8, 2016Great advice, clear succinct and to the point, much appreciated.
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Source: Clarity Hamish Brocklebank Sep 25, 2015Helpful and very reassuring. Would definitely do more calls in the future
Source: Clarity Hernan Jaramillo Apr 21, 2014Jim has been great to work with from the launch of Zoom, he gets along with everyone and is there to help on anything we need. His contacts in the business and venture community have been invaluable. And, not only did he come up with the name Zoom (we were calling ourselves saasbee), but he also helped us create our marketing strategy and language, go to market launch and PR strategy, and has introduced us to key consultants and employees. Jim's been an integral part of our success to date that has culminated in an amazing introduction to and review of Zoom by Walt Mossberg at the WSJ. We truly couldn't have done this without Jim's help.
Source: LinkedIn Eric S. Yuan Jan 4, 2013Jim is the kind of business guy that engineers really enjoy working with. He's got tons of domain experience, great ideas, lots of enthusiasm, and he genuinely enjoys the challenge of making great products that can be built to scale for millions of users.
Source: LinkedIn Adam Platti Jan 4, 2013In the early days of AgileTV, Jim led the effort to build the company's plan for partnering with Internet content companies. He was instrumental to sorting through the potential relationships and business models. It's a lot of fun to work with Jim!
Source: LinkedIn David Chaiken Jan 4, 2013Jim is an outstanding person to have on one's team. He is a man of the highest integrity, makes everyone comfortable around him, and he is also extremely creative and energizing! He has a knack for seeing the big picture and larger strategic issues while still taking care of the details. Jim was a pleasure to work with!
Source: LinkedIn Seth Rosenblatt Jan 4, 2013I had the priviledge of working with Jim at Snap.com/NBCi back in 1999. Jim an I were on different teams but were working on similair clients and initiatives. I learned a great deal about negotiations and working with people from Jim. His business practices and approaches to doing business were eye-opening and inspirational. Jim and I have stayed in touch and have worked together in a few other business ventures over the years as well. I have always thought very highly of Jim for his professionalism, honesty, integrity and skills as a negotiator and business person. I would reccomend Jim to anyone who would want to work with him.
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