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Vak Sambath

Irvine, CA

Founded several startups. Software. Enterprise CRM. UX/UI. Roll-up your sleeves and go to battle with founders.

Currently: Cuantafy, building a healthcare database to map providers in the country. Stealth at the moment.

BrightQuery.com, building an enterprise data analytics company to track public & private companies in the U.S.

Past: Startup end-to-end product and business development at CreatorIQ.com, a social CRM SaaS platform.

Failed a lot. Also, learned a lot too. My pain is your gain. :)

Key characteristics: nerd, entrepreneur, marketer, startup junky, connector, internet & social addict, creator of Orange County startup ecosystem.

I love building products that matter. When ideas are tough and people need technical solutions... I'm the guy that people call to hammer, flush and polish out business challenges with solutions :)

$1.00/min

Vak donates to DonorsChoose.org ($132.66)

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angel investing Landing Page Optimization SaaS - Enterprise & SMB B2B Minimum Viable Product Agile Project Management E-commerce Consulting SEO copywriting Lean Software Development Website Monetization Web Commerce

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Customer Develop & User Experience

I've built many web and mobile applications in my career by focusing on customer development by understanding the psychology of web visitors and consumer appetite for solutions.

As a product guy, I am the driver of user interface design and user experience. I'm very good at taking the work of other experts and flushing out where the areas of disconnection between product build and customer needs.

Angel Investing

My first company, I raised over $1.5 million. In addition, I've acquired my first company after a year of starting my first startup. Started Techzulu, SoCa's premier news site.

I can be very helpful in identifying investors, building pitch decks and working through deal terms and structure (which can be very confusing. I can help with cap tables, funding etc.

SaaS - Enterprise & SMB B2B

I founded a few SaaS companies that's a platform for SMB. In addition, my properties have generated over 1.6 billion pageviews through 1 million members in my network. Industry companies in my experience portfolio financial services, education, insurance, business operations and other key verticals.

I can help with early stage ideas, where I have extensive modeling experience in building SaaS applications, LTV, pricing, customer process flow, retention and attrition management as well as B2B customer acquisition.

Web and Mobile Apps, Startups

Been building companies for over a decade. Former developer and currently a product go to guy. When people need a product developed, I'm the person they turn to.

Why I'm different? When turning an idea into a viable business, my process is being able to understand and integrate hardware, software and customer development principles into a product that customers want.

Business Modeling

Many early stage companies typically have issues building out their core business modeling and developing a clear path to revenue. This is a key activity that all companies should do early on as it drives all the key metrics that ultimately drive a business and funding.

I am can help companies think through their business and develop a model that can be tracked and easily explained to investors. I've developed a team over the years that I can bring in to fast track your idea and business virtually overnight.

Startup Fanboy: Community Builder

I am a co-founder of Duocampus, an OC coworking space where entrepreneurs such as business developers, programmers and designers feel at home while working on their startup idea.

I've been helping build and curate startup communities since 2004, where I've helped organized startup lunches, dinners and mastermind meetups.

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robert de heer Source: Clarity

I have had the pleasure to mentor alongside Vak Sambath at Startup Weekend events and at FastStart Studio incubator. I have found him to be very knowledgeable of the Startup lean methodologies and very well versed in the industry of Technology. He's an innovator and an entrepreneur's entrepreneur.

private private Source: LinkedIn

Vak is an excellent advisor for Tech related start ups. His network and resources provide an excellent source for up and coming entrepreneurs. I would highly recommend him for validating MVPs in the current online environment.

dylan watkins Source: LinkedIn

During our time at Allegheny, Vak Sambath was consistently self-motivated. With his heavy coarse loads, he always knew where his priorities lied. “Study first, relax later” describes Vak fully.

Sincerely,
William Brown

Will Brown Source: LinkedIn

Although Vak had worked in networking for a relatively short period of time when I met him, I could tell right away that he was very intelligent and would pick up the nuances of our products quickly. He did not disappoint. Vak is a highly motivated individual and is simply a nice guy to work with. I would not hesitate to do with business with him again.

Anna Dispensa, MBA Source: LinkedIn

Vak is an energetic leader and a great strategic thinker. We've worked together for four years and he is one of the hardest working individuals I have ever met. He has a great ability to see the big picture and lay out a plan to execute on that vision. It's been a pleasure working with him and I look forward to working with him on future endeavors.

Mel Smith Source: LinkedIn

Vak is what people would call a prime mover. Where others were simply content to pontificate about what the Los Angeles technology community needed to raise it to the next level, Vak walked out of the StartupLA conference and started TechZulu from scratch. His energy, his enthusiasm, his focus, and his determination are completely unmatched. A true treasure.

Damon Young Source: LinkedIn

Vak is very knowledgeable about the tech space. His social media expertise has brought others tremendous value on growth and marketing. Having watched him develop his company over the span of 1.5 years, I have seen tremendous growth in brand awareness and the number of followers on TechZulu.com. His network has expanded greatly throughout Southern California and his charismatic personality has brought him many friends.

Albert Ko Source: LinkedIn

From the time I met Vak to now he has always provided ultimate value and insight to profitable ways of doing business. He brings the experience and energy that only someone with a lot of passion for what they do, can have.

I have trusted Vak with multiple business consultations and we are now working on a venture together. I trust his judgment and appreciate his willingness to always help.

Alex Carrillo Source: LinkedIn

Member since March 2013