Chris Beaman

Experience

The Foundry

Founder, Chief Product Officer 2015 - 2017 (over 1 year)

The Foundry Huntsville was a B2B SaaS startup studio. We raised a capital fund to invest in and build homegrown SaaS startups. We partnered with career professionals who had... more

Exit

Curse

Senior Product Manager 2015 (7 months)

Curse is a network of gaming media properties. I managed Curse's "Union for Gamers" influencer product, which is home to 5,000 of the world's leading gaming voices across... more

IDG

UX/UI Designer 2009 - 2012 (about 2 years)

- Research demographics, profile users, build personas, conduct usability tests, conduct surveys, and conduct A/B split tests to understand and optimize conversion.
- Conceptualize,... more

Astronomic

CEO and Founder 2020 - Present (over 6 years)

Astronomic helps startups build and scale their web and mobile apps. From UX prototyping and testing, to web and mobile app design and development, we help startup founders... more

Exit

Grapevine Village

Head of Product & Cofounder 2010 - 2014 (almost 5 years)

Grapevine is a Techstars startup that helps consumer brands produce promotional content at scale. We were acquired by Ideanomics.

- Cofounded influencer marketing platform... more

Founder

The Foundry

Employee

Curse, IDG, Growth Spark, Body Bar Systems, AASG, Urban Engine, MyPostOpCare, Grapevine Village, Astronomic

Projects

CoWorking Night

Weekly Free Tech Conference

Every week, we host a free tech conference in downtown Huntsville to help attendees learn, connect, and collaborate on startups and projects.

32/10

Social Startup Club

Founder, Squarespace, CSS, HTML5 · 32/10 socializes entrepreneurship among a tight-knit community of highly driven young… · More

Open Huntsville

Linkedin for Huntsville

Cofounder, HTML5, CSS, Adobe Photoshop · A directory of Huntsville's creative professionals

I founded the organization, did a bunch of… · More

Huntsville Founders

5-Minute Founder Stories

Huntsville Founders publishes bi-weekly 5-minute interviews with Huntsville's entrepreneurs and founders. Tune in to our interviews and get some… · More

Code for Huntsville

Civic Apps Community

Cofounder, React Js, Adobe Photoshop, CSS · Code for Huntsville is an organization for software engineers who want to play a participatory role in… · More

Education

About

Achievements

Founded and sold Grapevine, a Techstars SaaS influencer marketing company in Boston.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Advertising jQuery HTML CSS User Experience Design UI/UX Design User Research User Testing Product Management Web Design Fundraising Business Development Event Management Sales Marketing Management Management Frontend Development QA Testing Graphic Design Android Development Backend Development Full Stack Development Mobile Development Software Architecture Web Development iOS Development

Locations

San Francisco Austin Los Angeles Seattle Boston New York City Raleigh Chicago Houston Boulder

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Right now I'm reading Phil Knight's "Shoe Dog" autobiography (July, 2017) and am really enjoying how much detail he goes into describing the early days before his company became notable.

What's your favorite non-business book?

I loved the Harry Potter series. I've never enjoyed a fictional plot so much as Harry's.

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Exactly what I'm doing now: building startups.

Chris Beaman

Product + Growth. 15 years building software and communities.

Founded and sold Grapevine, a Techstars SaaS influencer marketing company in Boston.