Steve Schaffer Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Work with a select group of CEOs, founders, and startups. * Assists companies and CEOs with strategy, pitching, fundraising, modeling, marketing, financial reporting, operations, resource planning, and many other aspects of growth. Serves as a strategic advisor for companies including: LoudCrowd, CountertopSmart, Fetch Package and more. * Investor in over 25 early stage companies including: Fetch Package, CountertopSmart, LoudCrowd, Student Playbook, Reflex Careers, Grata, Osano, Rocket Dollar, Bold Metrics, SubjectWell, and more. Successful exits include: yourself.online, Gyft and Meta SaaS.

Frequent and regular public speaker, webinar speaker and conference panelist, and guest lecturer. Cover many topics around business strategy, entrepreneurship, marketing and product development. Previous topics include:- Metrics-driven Decision Making - Preparing for an Acquisition- My Entrepreneurial Journey- Product Development: Lessons from the Trenches - An Introduction to Internet Marketing- Is it Time to Pivot?Examples of previous speaking engagements include: Keynote Speeches- Metrics Driven Strategy (Softeq Demo Day - December 5, 2022)Webinars & Online Panel Discussions - The New Business Environment for Start-ups - November 11, 2020 - Is It Time to Pivot - Austin Startup Week — October 8, 2020 - Preparing for an Acquisition - Webinar Panel — July 15, 2020 - Pivot vs. Iterate - Webinar Panel — May 13, 2020 - Is it Time to Pivot - EO Austin/Texas — May 5, 2020 - Is it Time to Pivot - Capital Factory — April 23, 2020Previous Guest Lectures- Over 10 Guest Lectures to colleges and university classes. Previous Industry Conferences- Over 24 speeches and/or panel participant from 2006 - 2014Podcasts- Growing Tech Fast - The Org3D Podcast - Steve Schaffer - February 2, 2021

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

San Antonio, Texas, Us

A 501(c)(3) that oversees FIRST Robotics teams and events across Texas with a focus on increasing accessibility for low-income and underrepresented students. Board duties include providing guidance to the Executive Director and helping with strategy and financial reporting.

Austin, Tx, Us

Mentor Office Hours Monthly. Active participant in Accelerator Assessment Days. Investor in multiple Capital Factory Funds.Assists companies and CEOs with developing strategy, pitching, fundraising, modeling, marketing, financial reporting, resource planning, and many other aspects of operations and growth.

New York City, New York, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Invest directly in start-ups and through select syndicates.

San Francisco, California, Us

Ada, Ok, Us

Consumer’s social media posts and online lives are now stopping them getting jobs, credit, insurance and more. yourself.online is there for them as their online guardian. We're an intelligent assistant for consumers to manage and grow their online persona.Was an Active Advisor to the company until their acquisition in December 2021. Helped with strategy and growth. Focused on assisting with product, marketing, sales, and operations. Also worked closely with the CEO on fundraising.

Austin, Texas, Us

The largest global, peer-to-peer network of more than 14,000+ business owners with 198 chapters in 61 countries. Board duties included co-chairing the EO Austin Accelerator program and sitting on the governance/by-laws committee.

Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Offers.com is an online marketplace connecting millions of consumers with coupons and promo codes, deals, and discounts from thousands of leading merchants. Successfully bootstrapped company before selling a minority stake to Susquehanna Growth Equity in 2010. Served as the CEO until the company was acquired by Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD), in December 2015. * Founded the team and company culture around the core values of: start with the goal, take initiative, decide with data, actively communicate, and focus on results. * Established the company’s exceptional financial performance—ending 2015 with 38% CAGR, 60 employees in the US, and 60+ offshore personnel.* Led the design and development of the Offers.com website. Each day the site serves up the top coupon codes, product deals and other offers from more than 16,000 stores and brands. Offers was also available as a Browser Extension and an iOs and Android App.* Built a highly effective digital marketing operation including: Paid search, SEO, social media, and Email.* Pioneered paid search brand management and provided the services to hundreds of online stores and brands. * Created Vulcan, an internal performance marketing decision reporting system. The pioneering state of the art data analytics and business intelligence system was instrumental in the company’s success. * Fostered strategic partnerships with key affiliate networks including CJ Affiliate, Rakuten Linkshare, Impact, Tune, Avantlink, ShareASale, and more. Developed marketing partnerships with over 5,000 leading companies including: Advance Auto Parts, American Express, Dell, Expedia, FTDHome, Depot, Ugg, Verizon, WSJ, and more.* Earned the industry's most prestigious awards, including Commission Junction’s Publisher of the Year in 2010 and 2015, Publisher of the Year (Retail) in 2015, People's Choice award in 2009, and LinkShare Innovative Publisher award in 2009.

Middletown, Delaware, Us

Non-profit trade association that represents the performance marketing industry by demonstrating the value of this multi-billion marketing channel. Founding president and board director.President and board duties included: Assisting with the creation of the PMA, helped develop the organization's strategy/purpose, led board meetings, and worked with the Executive Director on planning and fundraising.

Pivoted the company from a search marketing consultancy to a leader in the affiliate and performance marketing industry. Published over 20 vertically-focused affiliate websites that connected consumers with information and discounts for online services. * Leader in categories including: Book Clubs, Credit Cards, Subscriptions, Online Dating, Travel and more. * Drove profitable traffic to the websites through effective SEO and Pay Per Click marketing.* Identified, acquired, and developed domain names including: Offers.com (and Offer.com), DailyDeals.com, Subscription.com, CyberMondayDeals.com, HolidaySales.com, and more.* Vertive developed and established Offers.com in February 2009.

Worked with business services and eCommerce companies to implement Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising campaigns and search engine optimization (SEO) strategies for various Web properties and eCommerce sites.

MysteryNet.com was a leading entertainment network and award-winning Website for mystery fans. MysteryNet provided original interactive online mystery stories, games, information, resources, a vibrant community, and an online store.

Consulting services to software and technology companies that included: Banner Blue Software, Hewlett­ Packard, Husdawg Communications (eRegCard), and Sanctuary Woods Multimedia.

Pastel was the award winning developer of DayMaker Organizer. Oversaw marketing, direct sales, product development, operations, technical support, and customer service.

Power Up was a leading software company whose products included Address Book Plus, Calendar Creator Plus and Fast Forms. Responsibilities included product definition, marketing, competitive analysis, market research, business development, budgeting, and working with product development & sales. - Oversaw the development of InstaBook printing feature and technology. - Created the PowerRunner bundle with DayRunner that sold out in 4 weeks.

San Jose, California, Us

Responsibilities included launch strategy, marketing plan, product requirements, product design, competitive analysis and leading team meetings for Q&A for the Mac.

Bba, Finance

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