Reading Lists

Dilanka - Growth @ AstroPrint
I work on GROWTH @ AstroPrint where we are building a unified cloud platform for consumer 3D Printing. (Sort of like Android) More info: https://astroprint.com/downloads

Banji Adenusi - Partner
Banji is an attorney whose creative approach to business underpins his analytic bent. Described as “very result oriented” and the “type of legal practitioner you want at all times”, Banji compliments his problem-solving skills with a measure of calmness and bursts of energy. He has advised and represented businesses in connection with intellectual property matters, technology contracts, M&A, corporate finance, real estate, software licensing and capital raise. He enjoys reading, writing, programming, finance & investing, business development, research, photography, strategic planning, tennis and music.

Lidia Donajczyk-Lipinska - Founder @ Hubmama
Lidia Lipinska is an internationally seasoned business strategist. She thrives on bringing her full skill set of business analytics and project management to bring businesses to the next level. Her experience in innovation-driven tech environments inspired her to create HubMama.

Berg Moe - Partner & CEO, EntraHouse AS
My LinkedIn profile sums it all up; Serial Entrepreneur, Business Angel Facilitator, and TEDx speaker. Owner & manager at Gründerklubben - The Entrepreneurs Club - the largest entrepreneurs network in Norway. GEN member (Global Entrepreneur Network) and GEW Oslo organizer (Global Entrepreneurship Week). I have more than 30 years of experience with funding, coaching and growing companies and great ideas to the next level. Have an extensive global network of people in both the seed funding and venture capital world. I consider myself as an entrepreneur by heart and is always looking for win-win scenarios. Currently, I have invested in a few startups and are now engaged taking them to the next level.

Aashay Mody - Growth at Astro
Tech Enthusiast. Life-long learner.

Sergio A. Escobar - Managing Director at Founder Institute Montreal, Global Facilitator at Techstars Startup Programs
Sergio is the Managing Director for the Silicon Valley early stage accelerator Founder Institute in Montreal, plus acts as Montreal Facilitator for Techstars Startup Program (Startup Digest, Startup Weekend, Startup Next). He has a diversified investment portfolio of companies ranging from Artificial Intelligence, Wearables, EdTech, Productivity Softwares, eCommerce, MarketPlaces, FinTech to Consumer Apps. Sergio is a tech entrepreneur having experience with Aerospace, eCommerce and Mobile Payment startups. Deeply involved in the international entrepreneurial scene through his involvement as Mentor & Judge for entrepreneurial programs such as Startup Chile, Startup Peru, Startup Bootcamp, MsB Tunisia, Kuwait National Fund, Techstars Startup Programs, Founder Institute and World Bank 'Tech Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean'.

Vincent PÉTRÉ - Head of Sourcing - 33entrepreneurs
Sourcing promising startups in the fields of Wine,Beer, Spirits and Food at 33entrepreneurs, global tech startups located in Bordeaux. Also son of champagne makers and, of course, addicted to wine among many other great life pleasures.

Dmitry Kabanov - @m1try
Curating @startupdigest Moscow and Business Development & Growth Hacking Reading List

Susan Rodriguez - Founder and Managing Director After Jump - The Business Consultancy Company.
Consultant - Entrepreneur - Business Leader I am a Proudly Costa Rican business consultant, technical leader, Development Manager interested in discovering the best way to make our professional dreams come true by providing a more equal world, full of opportunities to integrate knowledge with technical hacks. I have multinational business marketplace experience in the IT Industry, Business Development, Program Management, Project Development, Operations Management, Sales and Digital Marketing. I have a Business Consulting Company in Latin America where I would like to continue embracing people around the world on their efforts, to make sure we enter this upcoming technological transition the best possible way.

Edith Yeung - Partner at 500 Mobile Collective Fund
Edith Yeung is a Partner at 500 Mobile Collective Fund, focusing on investing in mobile apps and consumer internet startups. Prior, Edith was the VP of marketing & business development for Dolphin Browser. Dolphin Browser is a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide.  She also founded RightVentures - seed stage investment firm focusing on mobile and consumer internet companies.

Xu Tao - Founder of 硅谷早知道, Editorial Director at 36Kr

Anna Jagric - Strategic Advisor for Co:Create at The Crowd

Carie Davis - @cariedavis2

Jose Iglesias - Regional Director EMEA Techstars

Michael Ryan Norton - Facilitator at Techstars // Startup Weekend
I'm a business design consultant, technical project manager, and marketing campaign manager, interested in all things related to crowdfunding, digital marketing strategy, art merchandising, and manufacturing. I'm also a photographer, songwriter, musician, audio engineer, and caffeine enthusiast.

Charlene Tessier - Crowdfunding - Startup Digest Curator
- Entrepreneur Embracing Fintech - Lean Business Development Aficionado - Adventurer, Foodie and Dancing Fool! As a highly creative professional, I'm constantly learning and utilizing new business model tools that assist management in making better strategic decisions. With a strong connection to the Vancouver Startup and FinTech community, I greatly enjoy contributing and connecting to like minded entrepreneurs. Learning that failure is part of success has allowed me to excel in all aspects of my life.

Mary Murdoch - Customer Success and Experience Guru

Eugenio Monforte - Product Manager
/ Full Stack Designer on startups. Host of World Information Architecture Day Mendoza 2016 (Argentina) and Viña del Mar 2017 (Chile)

Phillip Chao - Founder • UI/UX • Product Designer
Tech Enthusiast in primary cross sections of design, healthcare, IoT, and consumer services.

Malik Dixon - Internet Marketer/Front-End Developer/Media Designer in the making
Malik Dixon is an Internet Marketer and Front-End Developer that will soon become a leading authority on Internet Marketing and Front-End development. To assist in startups and businesses in an overall marketing solution that accurately targets their markets by creating engaging content and internet marketing strategies to attract visitors and create conversions. Malik enjoys connecting with businesses, startups, and like-minded people. Consistently training to be the best in the field, Malik is always training in development, design, and internet marketing to provide the best solutions for his clients. He also teaches in local meetups and passionate in assisting other people with their goals.

Lilibeth Gangas - CTCO @ Kapor Center | SW_Oakland Organizer
Lili Gangas is the Chief Technology Community Officer. In this role, Lili helps catalyze Oakland’s emergence as a social impact hub of tech done right – where tech, diverse talent, and action driven partnerships can tackle pressing social and economic inequities of our communities head-on. #techdoneright #Oakland #ecosystembuilder Contact Lili@kaporcenter.org

Silvia Li Sam - Growth & Communication Designer @ Hostfully // Diversity & Inclusion Curator // Startup Weekend Organizer
Silvia is a 21-year-old growth hacker and content marketer who has built the largest publication on Medium (Startup Grind powered by Google for Entrepreneurs) and has recruited NYT best selling authors and top venture capitalists and founders as writers. Her social media campaigns have reached 1.2 million users organically in 2 months and her pieces average 30,000 views. She believes in tech for social impact and is currently driving initiatives in collaboration with Startup Weekend and Kapor Center for Social Impact.

Dontae Rayford - Business Development Manager @ IFTTT
Dontae is helping to connect the world at IFTTT. He's been proud to call Oakland his home for the past 3 years. In his spare time, he teaches a class to MBA students at Mills College and shares the amazing stories of POC and other underrepresented minorities helping to diversify the world of tech: http://www.cotlnews.com/

Aurelio Jimenez Romero
Aurelio Jiménez works for entrepreneurs and startup communities at INCYDE Foundation. He is also co-founder of KLASS Data, technologies for education, and organizer of Startup Weekend education in Madrid.

Deborah Chang - Educator, Entrepreneur, and Community Builder
Deborah Chang is an educator, entrepreneur, and community builder. She is the founding executive director of #NYCEDU, a community of New Yorkers working together to guarantee that their entire city has the education needed for ALL to thrive. She is also the co-founder Nexus Works, a company that takes early stage startup teams through every stage of the customer development process, from deeply understanding their user to executing on their go-to-market strategy. In addition to her work in education, Deborah is an avid rock climber, voracious reader, and consummate adventurer.

Startup Digest Education

Hrvoje Morić - Educator
Hrvoje Morić is a secondary History teacher, curriculum coordinator and adjunct professor of International Relations at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He also moonlights as a gamification teacher trainer and host of the Guadalajara Geopolitics podcast.

Jennifer Chin - Education Community Builder
Jennifer Chin is a community connector and startup education advocate. She runs the community at CodeCore Bootcamp in Vancouver and has previously worked with impact incubator Spring U, and growing startups like Foodee, and Trulioo. She is passionate increasing the accessibility of education for all, especially when it comes to women in STEM.

Jessica Falkenthal - Education Community + Growth Strategist
Jessica Falkenthal has spent the past ten years leading marketing, community building and experience design for startups, schools and nonprofits. She has a deep love for creating engaging education experiences from managing online learning communities, coaching early-stage education entrepreneurs, growing the Startup Weekend Education program worldwide, running her own education startup, recruiting for an online MBA program, leading professional development workshops for educators, and designing and teaching technology classes at the Boys and Girls Club and 4-H Youth Development programs. Jessica is a community organizer for the SF Edtech Happy Hour, Ignite SF Education, 4-H and Startup Weekend Education.

Anurag Maloo - Regional Manager (India, South & Central Asia)
Anurag Maloo is an active Indo-Asian startup innovation Community Architect and entrepreneurship ecosystem builder. As a Regional Manager for South & Central Asia with Techstars and Startup Weekend, he is responsible for the cultivation and sustained growth of vibrant startup ecosystems in India, SAARC nations and Central Asian countries. He is incredibly passionate about fostering entrepreneurship, grassroots leadership, and building strong collaborative startup communities.

Fatima Anila - Curator Energy and Clean Tech Digest
Founder CEO and Director at Alishverish Pvt. Ltd. in Pakistan. An experienced Business Development professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Telecom and solar power equipment commissioning supply industry. Clean-Tech enthusiast and Entrepreneurship advocate. Affiliated with UNIDO's GCIP - Global Clean Tech Innovation Programme in Pakistan as Change Agent and Business Trainer at Solar Bibi initiative in Pakistan. Compiled and developed first ever Renewable Energy Technology Installation Training programme, and Energy Efficient Electronics Innovation Programme, for Engineering graduates with Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) and National Institute of Electronics (NIE) in Pakistan. Working closely with PCRET and NIE in renewable energies. Over 12 years of experience in teaching Business management and entrepreneurship at MBA and BBA level in different universities in Islamabad as visiting faculty member. Skilled in Entrepreneurship, Volunteer Management, Team Building, Administration, and Volunteer Training. Strategic Management professional with a MS focused in Management from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology.

Shuonan Chen - Founding Partner at Agile Venture Capital
Shuo is the Founding Partner at Agile VC, focusing on investing in enterprise and fintech startups and helping these startups expand globally. She is also an Advisor to Rescale, a cloud simulation platform with high performance computing, and sits on the Board of North America Blockchain Association. Prior, Shuo was at Goldman Sachs in investment banking. She also founded Cashify, a social enterprise focusing on promoting financial literacy among young adults

Karolina Noronha - Product & Payments Partnerships

Thilmin Gee - Global Payments and FinTech Startup Enthusiast
Thilmin is an expert in monetization, international growth, and the analytics behind it all. She is knowledgeable about the entire customer journey from lead gen to engagement to conversion. Her jam is global payments, but she also enjoys talking about lending, biometric security, and more. Hit her up if you're in SF or want to reminisce about NYC!

David Nagy - ALL about FOOD, Innovation & Collaboration
Ambitious. Bold. Curious. Learning @FOODxTECH / Past @relayr_cloud @StartupVerband @pitchmarathon @GoLibre

Winnie Leung - Communications Director at Bits x Bites
Winnie is Communications Director at Bits x Bites, China's first accelerator VC to invest in startups solving food system challenges.

Nathan Monk - Growth Strategist. Entrepreneur. Mentor
Strategist, marathoner, mentor and entrepreneur passionate about helping startups succeed and large enterprise adapt to disruptive business models. My experience spans over a decade in digital marcom, strategy and BD in large, medium and presently the technology startup community. I've worked with +600 startups as a champion of 'lean' development and growth which includes: business model generation, customer discovery, financing, go-to-market and team building strategies. Follow me: @cowboytweets

Ron Flavin - Growth and Funding Strategist
My name is Ron Flavin and I am passionate about helping entrepreneurs, startups, businesses of all sizes and organizations of all types get to where they want to Grow. I have been launching and growing startup ventures since I was 21 years old. Through years of trial and error, I learned what it takes to launch and grow a successful business or organization. I also know first-hand that success is possible regardless of background, circumstance or situation.

R. Scott Munro - MBA Candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
I am a classical languages nerd turned digital health geek. I spend my days researching medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies + helping clinicians efficiently collaborate. I have a passion for the intersection of health and technology, and wholeheartedly believe we are at the beginning of the most exciting eras of healthcare. I would be excited for you to join the 5,000+ entrepreneurs, providers, investors, and technologists who receive a weekly update on the intersection of health care and technology.

Startup Digest - This Digest needs a new curator.
If you're interested in taking over this list, please email info@startupdigest.com.

Philip Alexander - CEO, People Platform
Philip is CEO of People Platform. Previously, Philip worked as Head of Strategy, Talent and Operations for a VC-backed start-up, and as a strategy consultant for a major consultancy. He is also a Governor of two schools in Lambeth, and a mentor with a leading UK charity.

Michael Kruk - CoFounder & CEO @ Crowsnest.io
Mike has a background in computer engineering and analyzing high-tech startups. Most recently, Mike CoFounded Crowsnest.io. Crowsnest provides error reporting and crash analytics for internet-connected products.

Miriam Meima

Mark Schreiber - Director of Innovation and Design, Maker Education Consultant, Makerspace and Fablab Evangelist
Stanford Fellow and founder of Design Case Consulting, Mark Schreiber knows hands-on education. With over 15 years in technology, engineering, digital fabrication, and design, Mark is well versed in the integration of STEAM into schools. Mark consults for Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and the American School in Japan to help bring more design and innovation into classrooms worldwide. With Bachelor degrees in Technology Education and Industrial Technology, and a Masters of Science in Construction, Technology, and Engineering Education, Mark is already an active member of the “maker generation.” He is the owner and creative editor of the open-source “Design Case Curriculum”, and a member of MIT’S international FABlab network.

Mitchell Cuevas - Sr. Marketing Director at Techstars
I do marketing at Techstars, am passionate about helping entrepreneurs, and am obsessed with finding, playing with, and implementing all the best new marketing (and other) technology I can get my hands on. Shoot me an email anytime if you want to help curate or connect.

Holly Knowlman - Editor, Stupid Magazine

Edith Yeung - Partner at 500 Mobile Collective Fund
Edith Yeung is a Partner at 500 Mobile Collective Fund, focusing on investing in mobile apps and consumer internet startups. Prior, Edith was the VP of marketing & business development for Dolphin Browser. Dolphin Browser is a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide.  She also founded RightVentures - seed stage investment firm focusing on mobile and consumer internet companies.

Timo Hoffmann

Manuel Heckmann
I am an experienced venture manager, advisor and mentor. My focus is mobility, transportation, logistics, agile development, transactional analysis. My motto since the early days as junior entrepreneur has been: "Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world - are the ones who do." (http://herestothecrazyones.com/)

Andy Palanisamy

Lidia Donajczyk-Lipinska - Founder @ Hubmama
Lidia Lipinska is an internationally seasoned business strategist. She thrives on bringing her full skill set of business analytics and project management to bring businesses to the next level. Her experience in innovation-driven tech environments inspired her to create HubMama.

Dylan Hoos

Marc Nager

Christian Nicholson - CEO of EchoMe Inc.
Christian is the cofounder of EchoMe, a real-time music platform. He produces and writes music, loves product design, and believes the music revolution has just begun.

Corey Crossfield
Corey is the head of digital for Revelation Management, a division of Red Light Management. This includes overseeing day-to-day digital strategy and social media as well as building technology partnerships.

Startup Digest - This Digest needs a new curator.
If you're interested in taking over this list, please email info@startupdigest.com.

Claire Topalian - Public Relations for Tech Startups
Firm believer in PR as Lead Gen. I've worked with numerous startups, a handful on non-profits, and a number of major corporations with their PR/content strategies. Most recently, I began hosting webinars designed to help entrepreneurs and small business owners avoid outsourcing their PR and Marketing needs to expensive agencies.

SC Moatti - Tech visionary, early stage investor & fmr Facebook exec
Tech visionary, early stage investor & fmr Facebook exec | Opera Software board director | Stanford b-school lecturer | Bestselling author & keynote speaker

Reza Ladchartabi - sr. PM Connected Car - Curator Product List @ Startup Digest

Tony McGibbon

Kyle Kelly - Managing Partner at Anthem SI
Modern IT consulting and cloud migration strategy for big enterprises, public sector, and high growth brands.

Marc Prosser

Michael Heiligenstein

Joan Torres - @SmartUrbanite
Tech entrepreneur and co-founder of LABCITIES, a global platform connecting smart city projects, experts and organizations around the world. I'm also a digital innovation consultant with extensive experience working with companies and governments across Europe and the Middle East.

Daniel DAlonzo - danieldalonzo.com
Empowering you wth the tools to design a sustainable future.

Danish Chaudhry

Tarek Mohamed Hassan - Founder at Visions LAB
Helping changemakers in their personal development and connecting global ideas.

Brad Feld - VC at Foundry Group and author of Startup Communities
I'm a VC at Foundry Group. I live in Boulder, Colorado, invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and read a lot.

Shane Reiser - @shanereiser

Julian Miller - @gvillesjules
Driven polymath making the world a better place day and night. Voracious reader, connector of disparate dots, and ponderer of novel notions.

Zubin Chagpar - @phylosopher

Yohei Nakajima - Director of Pipeline, Techstars

Lindsay Saunders - Program Manager
Lindsay Saunders has been in the AR/VR Art space for the past 4 years. She coordinated her first show in Brooklyn with Artist Lauren Shaw and hasn't looked back from there. Since then she has made the Jump to San Fransisco to look at the more technical side of things. Lindsay loves the ability to see a piece of art come to life and tell a whole new story and can't wait to see what the future of art and interactivity look like. Lindsay is currently a Engineering Program Manager for the Connected Devices Team at Mozilla.

Kelly Vicars - VR Co-founder, Artist, Editor
Kelly Vicars is a writer, artist and creative producer in San Francisco. Formerly a reporter at Epic Magazine, she followed her curiosity about VR to co-found VR Weekend and edit StartUp Digest’s global AR/VR newsletter. She is curating and producing a VRAR art show in San Francisco in October 2016. For more information visit www.dreamlogicart.com

Martin Ahe - VR Editor at Startup Digest
I have been working in AR/VR since 2010 as one of the early employees at Layar, the first mobile AR platform. Since then I co-founded VR Weekend and helped to curate the VR track at Mountainfilm Festival. By day I'm a UX/UI designer at McKinsey bringing this fascinating technology to some of world's most iconic companies.

Ginny Fahs - VR Editor at Startup Digest

Ashish Aggarwal - M&A and Corp Dev at Opera Software
Ashish is passionate about helping entrepreneurs in building great technology products and in scaling companies. In his current role, Ashish is responsible for making strategic corporate acquisitions in for Opera Software. He has worked previously in VC (OCA Ventures), as an entrepreneur (Founder of Click2Deals in India), in big data marketing (at Dell), and as an engineer (for Yahoo! for five years). He actively mentors startups from various accelerator programsHe led startup due diligence for Startup Europe Partnership, an initiative of The European Union led by Mind the Bridge Foundation.

Kevin Fung - Product at Kensho Technologies

Will Martin - Curator
Startup Weekend organiser, @LiveDuel founder and all round tech enthusiast

Lorel Sim - Stanford Student | E-commerce blogger |

Clare Bennett

Tony Cueva - CEO & Co-Founder - Drop Technologies, Inc
Tony is electronic engineer who has co-founded Drop, the first automated treatment for reducing excessive sweating. He is an entrepreneur who is passionate about creating new ventures in healthcare and education.

Lidia Donajczyk-Lipinska - Founder @ Hubmama
Lidia Lipinska is an internationally seasoned business strategist. She thrives on bringing her full skill set of business analytics and project management to bring businesses to the next level. Her experience in innovation-driven tech environments inspired her to create HubMama.