Eric Marcoullier Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Co

I assist first- and second-time founders who have not yet achieved product/market fit successfully validate their product, gain traction, raise capital and build thriving companies.I work with founders on a weekly or monthly basis to guide them on how to do the above themselves, with a key focus on customer discovery, quick validation experiments and runway conservation.I can't tell you how to make your company successful, but I can tell you how to keep from killing your… Show more I assist first- and second-time founders who have not yet achieved product/market fit successfully validate their product, gain traction, raise capital and build thriving companies.I work with founders on a weekly or monthly basis to guide them on how to do the above themselves, with a key focus on customer discovery, quick validation experiments and runway conservation.I can't tell you how to make your company successful, but I can tell you how to keep from killing your startup. In general, my advice boils down to the same things over and over -- LESS (hiring, spending, features, code) and MORE (selling, revenue, customers, communication). Show less

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Greater Denver Area

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Enaia is turning the Commercial Real Estate market on its head by building the first truly agent-first software platform. Our CRM (in closed Alpha) provides complete privacy control with ad-hoc teams around individual accounts and deals and provides complete data portability when they move

Denver, Colorado, United States

I teach The Entrepreneurial Mindset I to executive MBA students at DU's Daniels College of Business, focusing on ideation, product/market fit, MVPs, fundraising, sales, growth and exits.

Denver, Co

Manifest is a city-based luxury travel club that takes the effort out of creating memorable travel experiences.

Orlando, Florida Area

New business creation for late-stage startups and established tech and media companies.Opportunity + Urgency. You bring the idea and the unfair advantage, we'll bring the digital strategy and the development team to execute.

Greater Denver Area

Originally hired to consult on Beatport's five-year strategic plan. Determined that the company would be valued significantly higher as a media company than as pure e-commerce. Came aboard as a full-time executive to rapidly build the Media Division, a network of sites to delight the 40M+ fans who visit Beatport each year.Relaunched Beatport's aging Beatportal site as Beatport News and tripled traffic. Oversaw development of the company's mobile Radio product. Created a Video network… Show more Originally hired to consult on Beatport's five-year strategic plan. Determined that the company would be valued significantly higher as a media company than as pure e-commerce. Came aboard as a full-time executive to rapidly build the Media Division, a network of sites to delight the 40M+ fans who visit Beatport each year.Relaunched Beatport's aging Beatportal site as Beatport News and tripled traffic. Oversaw development of the company's mobile Radio product. Created a Video network strategy that leveraged the company's 20,000+ label partnerships. Assumed executive oversight of Beatport's Play and Live platforms.Beatport was acquired by SFXii nine months later at roughly 6X its 2012 valuation. Show less

OneTrueFan aims to bring to light the community that exists at any given site, through a combination of data aggregation, game mechanics and web and browser tools. OneTrueFan's service provides higher engagement for web sites and more a more detailed understanding of their customers for brands.OneTrueFan was acquired by BigDoor Media in 2011.

Enterprise data company focused on simplifying the process of connecting to the hundreds of social data APIs available to businesses.Gnip was acquired by Twitter in 2014.

MyBlogLog is a distributed social network that enables members to effortlessly show up on the web sites and blogs they visit. The company was acquired by Yahoo in early 2007 and became a part of the Platform Division.

Oversaw development of video games, overseeing scope, schedule and manpower:* Playboy: The Mansion for PS2, Xbox and PC* Risk: Global Domination for PS2* MechWarrior: Mercenaries for PCLaunched a serious games division within Cyberlore Studios and eventually bought out the parent company to focus exclusively on training games. Responsible for overall corporate strategy and sales.

Co-founded IGN.com while at Imagine Media and was responsible for overall product and technology strategy through its pre-IPO spinout in early 1999.IGN went public in 2000 and was subsequently acquired by News Corp for $650M.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Sun.ONE was a partnership between the University of Florida's Interactive Media Lab and the Gainesville Sun (a New York Times company). As one of the earliest online newspapers (launching shortly after Raleigh, NC's Nando.net), Sun.ONE originally launched on the Major BBS platform. As a student developer, I was responsible for everything from the logo and layout design to integrating the various news feeds (Reuters, AP, local classifieds) with Major BBS. Sun.ONE moved to a web presence in mid… Show more Sun.ONE was a partnership between the University of Florida's Interactive Media Lab and the Gainesville Sun (a New York Times company). As one of the earliest online newspapers (launching shortly after Raleigh, NC's Nando.net), Sun.ONE originally launched on the Major BBS platform. As a student developer, I was responsible for everything from the logo and layout design to integrating the various news feeds (Reuters, AP, local classifieds) with Major BBS. Sun.ONE moved to a web presence in mid 1995. Show less

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Product And Project Management

Journalism

Activities and Societies: College Radio WRUF, Online Newspaper SunOne.com, Ultimate Frisbee While at UF, I DJed professionally as well.

Education record

Activities and Societies: College Radio (WTUL) At Tulane I was active at the independent college radio station and helped launch Club.