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    Ben Mappen

    Ben Mappen

    Product leader with background in adtech, data, and lean startup methodologies.

    Entrepreneur San Francisco University of North C...
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    Experience
    LeanLaunchLab
    LeanLaunchLab
    Founder and CEO 2011 - 2015 (over 4 years)

    - Venture funding from Menlo Ventures
    - Grew product to 25K active monthly users
    - Recruited and hired team of 6 engineers and 2 designers
    - Applied custdev and... more lean startup principles to product development cycle
    including customer interviews, landing page experiments, a/b testing, and cohort
    analysis.
    Techcofounder.com
    Techcofounder.com
    Founder, Founder and CEO 2010 - 2012 (over 2 years)
    Techcofounder was a match-making site for entrepreneurs and engineers.

    I designed, coded, and launched application myself. Acquired by CoFoundersLab in 2012.
    Founder
    Armory, Hue Restaurant and Lounge, Techcofounder.com
    Employee
    ShareThis, digital air strike, Adara Media, LeanLaunchLab, Cadreon, Knight Ridder Digital, Armory
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    HelloCollege
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    As an Employee

    At ShareThis, I drove the validation and development of Social A/B, a headline testing tool for large publishers. We launched at Facebook F8 in 2016.

    I am also responsible for $12MM in annual data revenue from ShareThis data products.

    As a Founder

    I built and sold Techcofounder.com, a match-making site for entrepreneurs and engineerings.

    I raised venture funding from Menlo Ventures for LeanLaunchLab.com, launched a product and grew it to 25,000 monthly active users.

    After a few pivots, we abandoned the product and reinvented ourselves as a lean startup consulting business targeting enterprise innovation labs. I hired a team of six developers and designers and we billed over $500k in revenue in 2013.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Product Development PHP MySQL Customer Development Lean Startups UI/UX Design PostgreSQL Online Advertising and Targeting Product Management Direct Marketing Affiliate Marketing Agile Content Management Google Bigquery
    Locations
    San Francisco Silicon Valley San Jose
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