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ABOUT Surveys are not sexy. In fact, the whole notion of instantaneous, digital communication is not sexy. Google? Yahoo? Digg? Instapundit? All just a mirage. If you believe the first version of the world wide web had no tangible value and didn't change the world, why would Web 2.0 be any different? Why would this niche play matter? Good questions, actually. We're just trying to advance communications technology in a really, really small way, but it's a way that nobody seems to have done before. So that's cool. It just seemed that conducting surveys online should be easy. That it remains a challenge a full decade after the Internet revolution seemed (in 2004) to be kind of silly. We think (naively) that the key to this business is to enable a community of ideas ... way down the long tail. If you think about it for a while, the capacity to allow user-generated surveys in a "fast, free, fun, and freakishly intuitive" manner can also unlock some even more potent opportunities. For individuals, the appeal is simple: KillerSurvey.com allows anyone to create, view, and clone surveys in an open forum ... for free. Put simply, KillerSurvey.com democratizes surveys. And just maybe it offers an opportuntiy for indivduals to control their own personal profile. At a maximum, we give individuals, not faceless corporations, control of the Web in a few years. At a minimum, it's another cool tool for bloggers. WHO
WE ARE FOUNDERS AND ADVISORY BOARD Tim
Kane, Founder and President - Tim is an economist in Washington, DC,
providing commentary for ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, NBC, and National Public
Radio. He is also a successful entrepreneur. Tim's first company, NeocorTech,
was acquired in 1998; his second, enonymous.com, was venture-financed
in 1998, and recognized as software startup of the year for San Diego
in 1999. A 1990 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Tim later earned
a Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Jim Coyer, Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Advisor- Jim is a senior product manager at Qualcomm. He co-founded two previous software firms with Tim Kane. Jim received his B.A. in physics from the University of Chicago, and spent one year in the computer science Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois in 1994. Jim is an advanced software programmer, with extensive experience in C++, web, and wireless. Erik Bethel, Founder and Advisor - Erik is a partner at Compass Point Capital Partners. His experience spans investment banking, mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts. He was the Director of Finance for Tradeum, and helped sell the business for $500MM. Erik holds an MBA from Wharton and a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy. Bill Coleman, Advisor - Bill is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Cassatt Corporation. Bill founded and was the first Chairman and CEO of BEA Systems. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. He was formerly the VP of system software at Sun. Shawn Olds, Founder and Advisor - Shawn currently works with PRTM, a premier global management strategy consulting firm, in their D.C. office. Shawn is also the founder and current Chairman of the The Veterans for National Security Foundation. Shawn is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. He earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a JD from the Northwestern School of Law. Joe Wolf, Founder and Advisor - Joe is currently a Senior Director of Corporate Strategy at Capital One Financial, responsible for Credit Card and Internet strategy. Prior to that Joe was a consultant in McKinsey & Co.'s Business Technology Office. Joe is a graduate of the University of Michigan MBA program, and holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia. RECRUITING CONTACT |
