http://www.ignitionpartners.com/ Helping Entrepreneurs Seize Opportunity en Copyright 2008 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:07:20 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss xchange Magazine  June 11, 2008]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/press/sparkplug_ceo_d.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/press/sparkplug_ceo_d.php Press Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:07:20 -0800 ]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/business_it/clearcycle.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/business_it/clearcycle.php Business IT Wed, 14 May 2008 20:11:13 -0800 ]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/communications/gotvoice.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/communications/gotvoice.php Communications Wed, 14 May 2008 16:41:07 -0800 San Jose Mercury News April 26, 2008]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/press/plugging_into_y.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/press/plugging_into_y.php Press Thu, 01 May 2008 10:49:32 -0800 ]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/infrastructure/skytap.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/infrastructure/skytap.php Infrastructure Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:50:53 -0800 Christy is a Staff Accountant with Ignition. Her focus includes assisting with capital investments, distributions and financial reporting as well as handling the company payables.

Prior to Ignition, Christy spent 4 years as an Accountant for Nintendo of America, where she managed the marketing accruals and financial statements for several Nintendo subsidiaries. She also brings 5 years of experience in Cash Management and several years in Public Accounting. Christy holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Oregon, and is a CPA, currently inactive.]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/people/professionals/christy_green.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/people/professionals/christy_green.php Professionals Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:42:04 -0800 ]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/communications/airbiquity.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/communications/airbiquity.php Communications Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:36:05 -0800 ]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/business_it/seomoz.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/business_it/seomoz.php Business IT Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:36:18 -0800 Vanessa Fox, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition, is a noted technology blogger who has been cited in publications such as USA Today and the London Times. She's been building websites since 1995 and has been involved with product strategy in a number of industries including telecom, retail, and wireless. A Google alumnus, she created Google's Webmaster Central, designed to help site owners improve their web sites and gain more visitors from search. Vanessa writes for a variety of publications, particularly as Features Editor for SearchEngineLand.com, hosts a weekly show on webmasterradio.fm, and consults with clients on building online communities and on internet marketing. Read her observerations on the web 2.0 world at vanessafoxnude.com.]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/people/eir/vanessa_fox.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/people/eir/vanessa_fox.php EIR Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:06:13 -0800 Daniel Karr is the Controller at Ignition Partners and is responsible for overseeing the financial accounting and reporting functions across all Ignition funds.

Prior to joining Ignition, Dan spent 5 years at Deloitte & Touche LLP, most recently as a manager in the Seattle audit practice, where he served venture capital firms, hedge funds, and start-up technology and life-science companies in and around the Seattle area. Dan received a B.A. degree from Western Washington University in Accounting and Economics and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Washington.]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/people/professionals/daniel_karr.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/people/professionals/daniel_karr.php Professionals Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:02:24 -0800 ]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/business_it/splunk.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/business_it/splunk.php Business IT Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:56:29 -0800 ]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/business_it/post_2.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/business_it/post_2.php Business IT Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:28:51 -0800 Brian is an Entrepreneur in Residence with Qiming Ventures in Shanghai and its sister fund Ignition Partners in Seattle. He focuses on energy, environment and resource investments. Brian also acts as an independent consultant and advisor to clean energy start-ups and the US Department of Energy. Recent cases include cellulosic ethanol, electrification of cars, synthetic biology for biofuels, nano-materials for clean catalysts and food/air/water quality. Brian came to Qiming from Shanghai New Margin Ventures where he was a Venture Partner.

Brian first came to China in 2003 as founding General Manager for Heritage Technologies Asia, which operates a series of environmental protection joint ventures in South China. Under his management, the company structured its partnerships, built a chemical plant and established a Chinese distribution network. Brian works from a foundation of 2 formative experiences early his career: first, as a hydrogen and alternative fuels engineer for Chevron and, then, as an IT entrepreneur whose company was acquired in pre-bubble popping 2000.

Brian holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and remains active in the global MIT community. He is a judge for the MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize and recently co-founded the Shanghai chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum. During school, he was the Lead Organizer for the MIT $100K Business Plan Competition and dedicated much of his time to developing entrepreneurial programs across campus. He received the Patrick J McGovern, Jr Award for outstanding contribution to entrepreneurship at MIT and the Sloan Senate Award for leadership in the MIT Sloan community. Brian holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA.

Brian is a native Californian splitting time between Shanghai and San Francisco.]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/people/eir/brian_curtis.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/people/eir/brian_curtis.php EIR Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:20:37 -0800 ]]> http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/consumer/earth_class_mai.php http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/consumer/earth_class_mai.php Consumer Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:31:56 -0800
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