Stephano Kim is a New York-based entrepreneur and angel investor. Stephano currently serves as president of AHAlife, a curated marketplace of unique products and content from all over the world. Prior to AHAlife, Stephano served as president of GraphEffect, a social media marketing platform, and prior that as president and COO of [x+1], an integrated digital marketing and data analytics platform. Stephano has also led investments in consumer technology and digital media for Advanced Technology Ventures, directed business development and strategy for AOL, and co-founded several start-ups along the way including Blackboard, the leading provider of e-learning enterprise software and services. Stephano also manages Springhouse Capital, an angel fund that has made investments in The Echo System, LifeCrowd, Tangoe, WeddingWire, DramaFever, ZocDoc, and Shareaholic, Retention Science and Chromatik. When not obsessing about startups and entrepreneurs, Stephano can be found in the playgrounds of the upper west side of Manhattan hanging from the monkey bars with his 2 daughters.
After Blackboard or actually more accurately after firing myself about 40 times and hiring people who had real experience doing these real jobs, you know, I had moved on to start an on-line video gaming company and it never really occurred to me how crucial cash flow is. And there's two pieces to t...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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