Company Info for shoedazzle.com | Icebreaker

Company Info for shoedazzle.com | Icebreaker

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Partner, Head of Venture Building @ M13 | Founder & Chairman @ Bouqs | Adjunct Professor @ UCLA Anderson | xDisney | xBain

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Sr. Customer Success Manager @ LinkedIn

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Marketing & Growth

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StartupTAP is a recruiting consultancy rooted in relationships. We help founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders build and scale their teams and companies. I grew up in LA's tech ecosystem through executive search with Todd Gitlin at Safire Partners. I learned a lot and applied those learnings to building StartupTAP over the last decade with an amazing group of people I've had the privilege to work with. Having grown up in the Silicon Valley surrounded by tech, I've spent me entire career in LA's tech ecosystem - or more broadly - SoCal, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. While there are lots of variables involved with recruiting and people, one constant is that talent is the most important asset to any company. We focus on building and maintaing relationships with talent. StartupTAP works closely with investors, founders and leaders; telling their stories, and connecting talent with opportunity.

Heather Zweigel

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Fashion Stylist

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Brian Garrett is the Co-Founder of Crosscut, having now built a 20+ year career in LA building and investing in the SoCal entrepreneurial community. He is now singularly focused on solving some of humanity's biggest problems with his focus on FrontierTech - space, defense, energy, climate, advanced manufacturing, robotics and the near-shoring of our supply chains. Brian is very active in the Los Angeles start-up community and works actively with the founders of these amazing SoCal Tech companies: Umbra Space, WelcomeTech, Hivewatch, Pearl, BuildOps, Intro.co, Compa, The BlackTux and Omaze. He has also invested in and worked with entrepreneurs across the country including the founders of SoloPulse, Heliux, Monarx, Nostra.ai, Sutro and Symbl.ai With over 20 years of both investing and operating/entrepreneurial experience, Brian tries to bring humility and empathy to the lonely plight of starting and scaling start-up companies and works tirelessly to help his entrepreneurs succeed. Prior to co-founding Crosscut, Brian was a Partner at Palomar Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Garrett joined Palomar in 2001 and played an active role in managing and investing two funds over 6 years totaling more than $400 million. While at Palomar, he was the sponsor of and/or an active board member in nine Palomar portfolio companies, including successes such as Entone (a video on demand company that sold to Harmonic), Lombardi (business process management software that sold to IBM) and Datallegro (data warehouse appliance company sold to Microsoft in 2008). Prior to Palomar, Brian was the Director of Business Development at Niku Corporation. Prior to Niku, Brian worked at a boutique strategy consulting firm called R.B. Webber & Company. Brian worked with numerous early-stage technology companies including CommerceOne, Inktomi, Sagent, Aurum and Broadbase. Brian received his MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and he graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. Specialties: Investing Focus: Crosscut focuses primarily on pre-seed and seed-stage opportunities in all things Frontier (space, defense, energy transition, climate, advanced manufacturing, robotics, supply chain) across Southern California and other under-served markets across the US.

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Using technology to foster the development of great user experiences. Specialties: UX specialist and evangelist, user experience (usability) modeling and buildout, rapid prototyping and bootstrapping, complete site build-outs, e-commerce integration, technical and design management, production optimization and deployment. HTML 5.0, CSS 3.0, JavaScript (React, Angular.js, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, YUI, Prototype.js), Responsive Design and Layouts, PWA, RoR, Grails, JAM stack (JavaScript, API, Markup), LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) development, PHP, Java, JSP, Adobe Flash, ActionScripting, Adobe creative suite, Macromedia suite, and many more web technologies.