Noah Kagan May 2008
| Email: | noahkagan@gmail.com | |
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| Phone: | 510-866-6624 | |
| AIM: | noahdovkagan | |
| Blog: | Okdork.com | |
| Flickr: (recent images) |
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Qualifications Summary
Creative entrepreneur with experience in marketing, strategy and product management. My main interest is making things happen. These personal sites are always cheesy so trying to keep it simple and help you learn more about me. My studies and personal interest are in user experiences, planning and creating new websites and figuring out how to reach the right audience.
Professional Experience
kickflip inc : September 2007 — Present : Founder.
- making things, eating burritos and kicking ass
Mint Software : December 2006 — September 2007 : Director of Marketing.
- Created the content network with over 1,000+ RSS subscribers and 100,000+ monthly page views.
- Guest-List: Built a pre-launch email list of 20,000+ targeted individuals through dynamic landing pages, strategic partnerships, SEM & SEO.
- Branding & Marketing: Setup all the marketing based on research & user studies.
- Invented (I think) priority access for beta list through a segmented survey, asking friends who they hear about things from instead of just another friend and 'I want Mint' badges to grow page-rank.
Projects & Consulting : July 2006 - February 2007 : Helped different companies with product development, functionality & attention:
- Community Next: Coordinating the premier conference for creating, growing and monetizing online communities.
- scanR: Developed and wrote out specifications for viral marketing plan, assisted with SEM campaigns and improved activation usability.
- One Click Tennis: Created marketing strategy that doubled membership, specd out new features and worked out numerous partnerships.
- Event Robot: Helped hire new programmers, created online branding and worked with numerous clients on their online communities.
- ClaimID: Worked with company on clarifying message to users, improving email/site communication and site functionality.
Entreptreneur27 : November 2005 — Present : Created events for young technology entrepreneurs to socialize and learn.
- The Wine List: An educational event for wine newbies
- Starting a Startup: A panel of 9 young entrepreneurs took questions from a 160 person audience
- Technology Symposium: Showcasing 9 start-ups to VCs, bloggers, media and industry
Facebook : October 2005 — June 2006 : Researched, developed and executed on numerous features on the site.
- Status: Came up with the idea of real-time updates and executed with one engineer.
- Flyers: Self-service advertising system
- Pulse: Shows the latest trends on college campuses
- Mobile: SMS and Wap integration
- Search: Worked on revision of entire search platform
- Friend Details / Social Timeline : Helped develop and execute friend relationships
- Created new ways of viral marketing such as tagging others photos & inviting non-users through events/groups
- Google Maps integration
Intel : August 2004 — October 2005 : Managed supply chain for all mobile Pentium 4 laptop chips.
- Manage worldwide deployment of over 1 million Pentium laptop parts to international OEMs and pushed for additional chip builds to increase revenue by Millions of dollars
- Schedule 6-month production supply chain with factory in Malaysia
Microsoft : May 2003 — August 2003 (Internship) : Responsible for market research, business development and marketing:
- Created sales framework for accounts over $1 million dollars to maximize revenue opportunity
- Created action plan to encourage positive relations with CIO’s for FY04 activities
- Analyzed customer relationships, revenue and attendance through trend analysis of the top 150 customers for FY04 marketing plans
Past Projects & Work Experience : Fun Times
- HFG Consulting: Connecting companies and the college market complete marketing, recruitment and strategy for businesses. Clients included: Dell Computers
- Taught business principles to elite high school students in Korea.
- Collegeup: Classifieds for college students very similar to Craigslist
- Book Exchange: for Berkeley students with over 25,000+ in books and 10,000+ members
- Student Discount Card: for 6 college campuses across California. Grossed over $50,000 within 2 years.
- IT Consulting: helped small and medium businesses with websites, computer setups and networks.
- Sales associate: top sales person for 2 years while in high school.
- Managed a popcorn stand in Vallco Mall while attending high school.
- Macy's Bed sheets and linens
Academics
Awarded a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from UC Berkeley in 2004.
Tidbits
Enjoy doing 120 pushups a night and playing tennis anytime.
Avid reader, movie watcher and attendee of independent rock concerts.