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Bob Goodson

British, working in San Francisco on startup YouNoodle. Runaway Oxford medievalist. Former Yelpee.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Industries: Education, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media
Skills: Business, Copy Writing, Design, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Graphic design, Guerrilla marketing, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Languages, Leadership, Management, Product design, Public speaking, Recruitment, Sales, Viral marketing, Web design, Writing
Location: San Francisco, CA
Groups: Building a Business, Cambridge Technology Ventures Conference 2008, Founders Fund, Imperial Entrepreneurs, Inspiration Ventures, MIT GSW 2007, MIT GSW 2008, Oxford Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Comes To Oxford, Social e-challenge Competition 2008, Stanford Innovation Tournament 2008, UEA Entrepreneurs, Univ Entrepreneurs, Web Mission 2008
Visas: U.S. green card holder.
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding engineers, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects
Tags: bouldering, cento, game theory, geocaching, GettingThingsDone system, gymnastics, hipster PDA, human movement (biomechanics), italian, learning, Literary Theory, medieval architecture, memory, micromotives, people, technology, torque, tunnels, typography
Schools: University of East Anglia, University of Oxford

FEATURED STARTUP

YouNoodle

YouNoodle YouNoodle

YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Beta

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Yelp.com
Position: Product Manager, Sales Director
Time period: September 2004 - September 2007
Description: I was the first product manager and subsequently started the sales team. Yelp is a website where people read and write reviews about their favorite local businesses. 2.3 million reviews and more than 8M unique visitors per month (Feb 2008). Funding from Max Levchin ($1M), Bessemer ($5M), Benchmark ($10M) and DAG Ventures ($15M).

Employer: Oxford Entrepreneurs
Position: Founder and Chairman
Time period: October 2002 - Present
Description: Founder and Chairman of Oxford University’s first organisation for student entrepreneurs. Showcased nationally by the Department of Trade and Industry at Living Innovation 2003 as ‘one of the top three organisations in the UK for supporting innovation and enterprise’.

Employer: Prana Publications
Position: Founder
Time period: September 2002 - Present
Description: Relying on a visual guide (DVD or book) to practice yoga is flawed because yoga is all about looking inward, and spinal alignment is key. So after craning my neck to read a headstand description I decided to produce the best audio yoga guide ever made. The guide, Yoga Retreat, is written and narrated by a leading UK instructor, Joan Stonehouse, who learned not to rely on visual communication when teaching yoga to blind students.

Employer: Inspired
Position: Sole proprietor
Time period: January 1999 - December 2002
Description: For three years I freelanced part-time in advertising under the business name Inspired. Clients included a tree surgeon, dramatic group, florist, academic department and a careers centre.

EDUCATION

University: University of Oxford
Time period: 2002 - 2004
Degree: Medieval English Literature 1100-1500, MPhil

University: University of East Anglia
Time period: 1999 - 2002
Degree: English Literature and Philosophy, BA

PUBLICATIONS

INFORMATION

Hobbies: Chinese acrobatics
Awards: AHRB Scholar
Norfolk Scholar
UEA 'Outstanding Performance in Finals' Award

Bob's Startups (1)

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  • YouNoodle YouNoodle

    YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.

Bob's Contacts (259)

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  • Saul  Klein Saul Klein

  • Alex Tew Alex Tew

    British, 23, creator of the Million Dollar Homepage. Based in London. Working on new ideas.

  • Karthik Navaneethan Manimaran Karthik Navaneethan Manimaran

    I am an e-Commerce Consultant working for Bank of America, passionate about scalable architecture design and development, enterprise automation, agile and offshore software development methodologies.

  • Alec Matusis Alec Matusis