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Kirill Makharinsky

Internet entrepreneur. Co-founder of YouNoodle and former Slider. Love working with startups and new technology.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Living The Dream
Website: http://younoodle.com
Industries: Financial, Internet, Media, Real Estate
Skills: Business, Copy Writing, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Guerrilla marketing, Investment, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Russian, Viral marketing
Location: San Francisco, CA
Groups: BASES, Berkeley Hackathon, Building a Business, California Clean Tech Open, Cambridge Technology Ventures Conference 2008, CleanTech Circle Forum, CORE , CUE, DrinkTank London, EO, Excitera Innovation Challenge 2008, Founders Fund, Global Social Venture Competition, Harvard Media Ventures, HBS Entrepreneurship Club, Imperial Entrepreneurs, Inspiration Ventures, LSE Entrepreneurs, Oxford Entrepreneurs, SEEDA Enterprisers, Seedcamp, SF Beta, Silicon Valley Comes To Oxford, ST@B: Startup @ Berkeley, Stanford Innovation Tournament 2008, The SF JavaScript Meetup, Warwick Entrepreneurs, Web Mission 2008, Youniversity Ventures, Zenopy
Interested in: Advising startups, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Getting press, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects
Tags: Angel investing, Facebook apps, Fashion, Heli-skiing, Internet industry, music, Poker, Private Equity, Real Estate
Schools: 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

FULL BIO

Kirill is the co-founder of YouNoodle.com, and until recently managed analytics and metrics at Slide.com, the largest personal media network in the world and the brand behind the most viral and active widgets on Facebook, MySpace and other social networks. Previously he had been established as the #1 Graduate in the UK based on his work while at Oxford University.

Kirill was also the founding member and President of Oxford Entrepreneurs (the largest student enterprise club in the UK) and graduated from Oxford University with a double first in Applied Mathematics. He was soon after recruited by Max Levchin (founder of PayPal) to join the metrics team at Slide, which grew during his time there from under a million total users to over 144 gobal viewers each month and 50 million apps installed on Facebook.

Kirill's full-time job on YouNoodle is to help startups on its network grow, and to help investors find opportunities they're interested in. If you're either of those, get in touch!

And if you're on Twitter or FriendFeed, you can follow Kirill via the links below:
http://twitter.com/kirill
http://friendfeed.com/kirillon...

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: YouNoodle, Inc.
Position: Co-founder
Time period: September 2007 - Present
Description: Building startup predictor model.

Employer: Slide, Inc.
Position: Data and Analytics
Time period: July 2006 - September 2007
Description: Product analytics and data management; virality analysis; data insight; data infrastructure, product analysis, product development, business development, financial modeling, product spec writing, mysql and excel coding, API distribution, product and logging QA.

Employer: Global Equity Partners
Position: New ventures analysis
Time period: July 2005 - September 2005
Description: Analysis of the games of skill market; analysis of the betting platform market; analysis of games of skill web designer; financial modelling; investment decision presentations.

Employer: Meinl Bank
Position: Derivative Analyst
Time period: July 2004 - September 2004
Description: Carried out Monte Carlo simulation to price equity options; categorised risk in highly structured interest rate products; carried out Value at Risk analysis.

Employer: Oxford Entrepreneurs
Position: President and founding team member
Time period: January 2004 - April 2006
Description: Headhunted and led a committee of 14 of 3-year old Society with already 3000 members; raised in excess of £150,000 from sponsors and founding patrons; organised tens of events each involving at least 200 students and entrepreneurs; made contact and successfully invited entrepreneurs such as Sir Alan Sugar and Dame Anita Roddick to speak to members for free; helped create replica societies at 3 other universities; co-ordinated the set up of and advised 5 student start-up companies that together had revenues in excess of £20,000 in their first year; secured PR coverage from The Times, The Economist, New York Times, Guardian. In 2004 the DTI highlighted OE as “one of the top three organisations in the UK for supporting innovation and enterprise”.

EDUCATION

University: University of Oxford
Time period: 2003 - 2006
Degree: Mathematics, BA

PUBLICATIONS

Kirill's Startups (4)

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  • YouNoodle YouNoodle

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

  • Slide Slide

    New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.

  • Enternships.com Enternships.com

    A place for people to find internship opportunities at small companies.

  • Am I Worth It? Am I Worth It?

    A place for students to meet other (hot) students.

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