Homestead Technologies

Paul's passion is for creating jobs for people and their families. Small businesses are by far the major source of job creation in the U.S. and,... increasingly, worldwide. His strengths include organization operations and team-building and market strategy. Prior to USVP, Paul was CEO of HearMe, taking that company public in 1998. His two decades of operations experience include eight years with Adaptec, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the SCSI host adapter division. Paul served as a Resident Entrepreneur for Institutional Venture Partners in 1995 and was an advisor to Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures in the 1990s. Paul received an M.B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. in International Studies from Johns Hopkins and a B.A. from the University of the Pacific. He is currently on the boards of Homestead, Intransa, LimeLife, Piczo, PodTech, Trovix, W5 and Winster, and is a board observer on LV Sensors.
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Timothy Cook Draper is the founder of the global venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Draper is third in a line of venture capitalists. His... father, William Henry Draper III , founded Draper & Johnson Investment Company in 1962, Sutter Hill Ventures in 1968, Draper International India in 1996, and Draper Richards in 2001. His grandfather William Henry Draper Jr., the first Silicon Valley venture capitalist founded Draper, Gaither and Anderson in 1959. Tim Draper is arguably the creator of "viral marketing." His confirmation to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. Although Draper coined the term, "viral marketing," various viral campaigns preceded this invention .
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Prior to joining Gaia Interactive, the world's largest virtual world for teens as CEO, Craig was an Entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital.