Noah Kagan January 2017

My Marketing Blog:	Noah's Okdork.com

Professional Experience

AppSumo.com : Today — Now : Chief Sumo.

kickflip inc / Gambit / Volume11 Media: September 2007 — April 2010 : Founder.

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 (Mark Slee).
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
Come Get Used Book Exchange: for Berkeley students with over 25,000+ in books and 10,000+ members
Ninja Card Student Discount Card: for 6 college campuses across California. Grossed over $50,000 within 2 years.
Transtech IT Consulting: helped small and medium businesses with websites, computer setups and networks.
Office Max Sales associate: top sales person for 2 years while in high school.
PopCorn Company: Managed a popcorn stand in Vallco Mall while attending high school.
Macy's Sales Associate: Bed sheets and linens
Free calls anywhere internationally. Assisted in setup.