article thumbnail

Interview: Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media

InfoChachkie

Former Vice President of Technology at eHarmony and Vice President of Engineering at the Rubicon Project. In this interview, Mark discusses how his experiences at Oracle, eHarmony and the Rubicon Project contributed to the creation of his latest venture, SteelHouse Media. There are two things I learned at eHarmony.

eHarmony 204
article thumbnail

Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built. eHarmony for me fell into that camp. Third party products are used appropriately. More complex MVPs are going to be 12+ Programmer months. We needed the matching algorithm.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How DinnerDate.com Takes Online Dating Offline, with Andrew Connell

socalTECH

The startup--created by Robert Earl (Founder and CEO of Planet Hollywood), Grant Hosford (formerly of eHarmony), and Connell (formerly of Nokia)--is using the Internet to arrange group dates at local restaurants, to connect people in person and offline. I had helped launched music products at Nokia, and they put us together.

San Diego 264
article thumbnail

Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

article thumbnail

Congrats To All The Winners and Thanks To Our Speakers at #REACHNeXT!

Tech Zulu Event

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. Was the VP of Technology at eHarmony where he built personality-matching technology.

article thumbnail

Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

article thumbnail

LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Product Development: philosophie. Mark Douglas, Steelhouse President and CEO, is formerly from Oracle and was the VP of Technology at eHarmony. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA. Incubator: Amplify LA. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal.

Startup 111