Thanks for visiting my blog. I'm using this as a place for me to post thoughts on my experiences starting a business, hiring people, marketing and selling a software product, raising money, and having fun. I've been doling out advice to new entrepreneurs a lot recently, and I thought this might be a more efficient place to post all that information.
Here's my biography:
David Vivero is the founder and CEO of RentJuice, the best way for rental agents and property managers to market and optimize their rentals. In this role, he has been thankful to recruit the world-class team of engineers and businesspeople who produce and market the service, has monitored and responded to all customer feedback, and he has been trusted to allocate the capital of leading angel investors and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. David combined his career experience in online product and his rental property management DNA, having grown up managing several apartment buildings on Miami Beach.
Prior to starting RentJuice, David evaluated consumer Internet investments on behalf of Mayfield Fund, a leading venture capital firm. He was a Management Associate at IDG Communications, the publishers behind 300 trade magazines and 400 web sites, reporting to the global CEO and VP of Interactive on new product development and business development projects. As a college student, David also founded Harvard Media Ventures, a student-run media company that produced several profitable print magazines and events targeting the Ivy League student population.
David has also been a consultant and author. He has advised several online media companies on online strategy, including The New York Observer and Let's Go Publishing. He's the author of two Harvard Business School cases: Monster Networking, which covers Monster Worldwide's attempt to enter the social networking space in 2004, and Visions of Web 3.0, a discussion of semantic web technology and the vision of structured data available as a service on the web.
David holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB in Economics from Harvard College. He lives in the Russian Hill area of San Francisco and is not on any arbitrary of lists of X people with Y qualities under Z age.
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