DAVE McCLURE

Entrepreneur / Startup Advisor

Dave McClure’s passion is assisting startup companies with Internet marketing, product strategy, and startup metrics. He has helped develop and bring to market a variety of Internet and e-commerce businesses, and continues to be an active advisor and angel investor in more than 15 startups. He is actively engaged in promoting microfinance awareness and involvement as a co-founder and board member of the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network.

Dave has worked in the high-tech industry for almost 20 years. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences Engineering, Dave worked as a programmer and database consultant for several Silicon Valley companies, including Intel and Microsoft. In 1994, he started Aslan Computing, an Internet and e-commerce consulting firm, which was later acquired by Servinet / Panurgy in 1998.

From 2001 to 2004, Dave was director of marketing for PayPal’s Developer Network program. In January 2005, Dave joined SimplyHired.com as their director of marketing. SimplyHired.com, a “vertical search” startup that runs the world’s largest search engine for jobs, was named one the Top 50 Coolest Web sites for 2005 by Time magazine.

Dave runs conferences on entrepreneurship and technology, has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford University, and is an advisor to microfinance lender Kiva.org. Dave is the founder of Startup2Startup, a monthly dinner series on technology entrepreneurship topics for Silicon Valley geeks & investors.  He is a member of the Full Circle Fund, a San Francisco-based nonprofit formed by Bay Area entrepreneurs addressing local issues in affordable housing, education, and technology access.