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Brian R. Stuckey is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and full time student at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.  Over the summer, Brian worked at DFJ Gotham Ventures, a seed and A stage investor in New York. Prior to school, 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

Experience

DFJ Gotham Ventures

  • May 2012 to present
  • Summer Associate & Intern at Large
  • Sourced 20 potential investments from hundreds of potential companies by participating in developer meetups, universities showcase events, and by volunteering at incubators
  • Lead fund value calculations, NAV, IRR, and distributions to LPs, while ensuring proper documentation for audit requirements
  • Produce key documents and research to support fundraising efforts

BR Venture Fund (Seed Stage; AUM 1.6M)

  • September 2011 to present
  • Fund Manager
  • Voting member of investment committee with full investment discretions
  • Performed screening and due diligence on an early stage startups 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

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 July 2011
  • 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

  • 2009-2011
  • Built and maintain a website to allow direct donation of good to charities
  • Worked to promote local donation of goods

Patents

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’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..)