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About Me

Brian R. Stuckey is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and full time student at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.  Prior to this, he was the Chief Operating Officer of AOI Marketing Group. At AOI, Brian co-founded Social Bundle to provide businesses with the social marketing tools they need to build a successful presence on Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms.  Brian also co-founded Rovrr, Inc., a social media technology and analytics company. For the past five years, Brian has been a frequent speaker at industry events, including small business seminars at the James J. Hill Library and social media strategy presentations to local MBA classes.

Education

Cornell University – S.C Johnson Graduate School of Management

  • August 2011 – May 2013
  • Masters in Business Administration
  • Focus on entrepreneurship and private equity

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

  • August 2000 – May 2004
  • B.A., Journalism & Strategic Communication
  • Focus on marketing, IT and rhetoric

Experience

BR Venture Fund (Seed Stage; AUM 1.6M)

  • September 2011 to present
  • Associate
  • Performed screening and due diligence on an early stage startup by conducting management team interviews, financial valuation, addressable market trend analysis, customer investigations/interviews, and competitive landscape analysis
  • Prepared an investment memorandum and presented investment recommendation to fund managers
  • Sourced deals in the consumer internet and mobile sectors

Growth stage venture fund (name withheld)

  • October 2011 to present
  • Consultant
  • Generated market surveys of both the mobile space and online advertising
  • Provided in depth company reports for investment potential

Rovrr, Inc.

  • March 2007 to present
  • President & Co-Founder
  • Lead fundraising efforts: both venture capital and angel investors
  • Successfully built the proof of concept and first version of the product
  • Coordinated designers, developers, project managers, and legal counsel
  • Primary author on the company patent
  • Maintained positive relationships with key partners: Amazon.com and Facebook
  • Defined and worked to license the underlying technology as a standalone product

AOI Marketing

  • 2004 to July 2011
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Streamlined our company processes
  • Oversee the company IT practice and developers
  • Created our flagship product, SocialBundle.com
  • Co-authored two patents in the company portfolio
  • Specialized in new business development for high price-point clients
  • Built and launched SocialBundle.com
  • Built and launched FlipTravel.com
  • Built and launched OperationWarmFeet.com

Tube Clock Database / ineedcaffeine LLC

  • 2008 to Present
  • Founder
  • Largest vacuum tube clock collector website currently online
  • Implemented a successful monetization strategy for the website
  • Successful community strategy for the niche audience
  • Positive publicity: TubeClockDB.com has been featured on prominent technology blogs
  • TubeClockDB.com

Bitter Girls LLC

  • 2009 to July 2011
  • Marketing & Product Development
  • Developed a successful online-only marketing plan
  • New product development
  • Grew the online audience to significant levels and generated interest from major retailers
  • BitterGirls.com

Other Work

McGraw-Hill Marketing 11th Edition

  • 10/2010 – Present
  • I worked with lead author Professor William Rudelius of the University of Minnesota on content for the Social Marketing chapter in his textbook
  • Provided text to be used in the chapter
  • Researched examples and figures for the chapter

Patch.com

Metropolitan State University

  • 5/2009 – 9/2009
  • Provided an hour long lecture to MBA candidates on uses of social media
  • Worked with two students directly over the semester on their final project
  • Provided a critique on their final project

James J Hill Reference Library

  • 10/2008
  • Lectured on introductory uses of social media
  • Wrote and provided handouts for paying guests
  • Lead a question and answer session for visitors

Operation Warm Feet

  • 2009-Present
  • Built and maintain a website to allow direct donation of good to charities
  • Worked to promote local donation of goods

Patents

  • Inventor on multiple patents (US and PCT/International)
  • 20090037349
  • 20090037257
  • Subject matter: Interactive advertising and tracking, social recommendations, travel technology, loyalty technology and administration

Web Design

  • Launched over 40 distinct websites
  • Currently oversee and maintain 20 websites for multiple clients
  • Provide solutions form simple design to complete end to end solutions

Everything Else

Other Things Worth Noting:

  • I occasionally give lectures of the importance of social media in your organization
  • I’ve been building websites personally and professionally for over 15 years
  • I am currently operating about 10 websites at the moment
  • WordPress: almost-guru, Joomla!: almost-sorta-guru
  • I’m an aspiring photographer. (That is code for not-that-good-but-working-on-it)
  • I have a fascination with vacuum tube / Nixie clocks
  • I collect operating systems (Currently QNX, OpenSolaris, CentOS, Windows 3.1, XP, Vista 64, 7, Mac OS 10.6, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, Haiku, Android x86, Free DOS, Ubuntu, and a few others..)