Sam Purtill
Product manager by day, software engineer by night. Living in San Francisco and working on YouNoodle around the clock.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://sampurtill.com/ |
| Industries: | Education, Entertainment, Financial, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Sports, Travel |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, Databases, Design, Django, Engineering, English, Facebook platform, Flash, HTML / CSS, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, PHP, Product design, Python, Rails, Software Engineering, Spanish, SQL, Web design, Web Development |
| Groups: | BASES, Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University, ST@B: Startup @ Berkeley, Stanford Innovation Tournament 2008, The SF JavaScript Meetup, WebMission 09 |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Investing in projects, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company, Supporting my investments |
FEATURED STARTUP
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
Living in San Francisco and working on YouNoodle.
Looking to do something in a 3rd world country soon, particularly somewhere in Africa.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | YouNoodle |
| Position: | Engineer |
| Time period: | July 2007 - Present |
| Description: | PHP developer and Product Manager |
| Employer: | ClassOwl |
| Position: | Founder |
| Time period: | August 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Took the idea to a product in under 6 months, put it on hold to join YouNoodle. Wrote the application in Python using the Django framework. |
| Employer: | Okapi Studio |
| Position: | Managing Partner |
| Time period: | February 2005 - Present |
| Description: | Okapi is a design studio based in Bucharest, Romania. I was responsible for getting some of our first clients in North America. We have gone from 3 people to over 12 now, with an office in Bucharest, Romania. |
| Employer: | MonVia |
| Position: | Product |
| Time period: | July 2006 - January 2007 |
| Description: | Wrote product specs and managed designers in Romania to build products. |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | skiing, climbing, sailing |
| Hobbies: | reading, coding |
Sam's Startups (3)
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Okapi Studio
Okapi Studio is a multidisciplinary creative shop, encompassing talents that excel in full advertising services, brand strategy, graphic, web and motion design.
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YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
Sam is Following (144)
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SimpleBucket
Simplebucket is photo hosting made easy for everyone! Once you upload your photo, your images gets it own Simplebucket page with a bunch of nice features. Add notes, comments, ratings. Release2 is now live!
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Shred 2 Win
Enabling elite athletes, particularly from X-Games sports to attract sponsorship and fan interest via a media & community website. Sponsor and endorser companies can showcase their team, the equipment they use and the competitions they enter.
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Embrace
Stanford spin-off commercializing a $25 incubator for premature infants in developing countries.
