Who is Seth Goldstein?

Seth is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Currently he serves as the Chairman of turntable.fm, the social music service that was named top music startup of 2011 by Billboard Magazine.

In 1995, Seth founded Sitespecific, a pioneering online advertising company which was acquired by CKS Group in 1997. In 1999, Seth joined Fred Wilson as Entrepreneur in Residence at Flatiron Partners where he built a practice in “pervasive computing.” In 2002, Seth created Majestic Research, the first Wall Street research firm to mine primary data for hedge funds, which was acquired in 2010 by Investment Technology Group (NYSE: ITG). In 2005, Seth started Root Markets with renowned Salomon Brothers trader Lew Ranieri and the Chicago Board of Trade to create the first financial exchange for Internet mortgage leads. In 2007, Seth started SocialMedia.com, the first company to make advertising social, which was acquired in 2011 by LivingSocial. In 2010, Seth co-founded Stickybits which connected digital media to real-world objects via barcodes. Stickybits was the progenitor to turntable.fm.

In 2007, Seth helped create Pier 38 in SF, a vibrant startup community which gave birth to a number of successful startups including Instagram, Social Gold (Amazon), and CoTweet (Exact Target). He has served on the board of the Internet Advertising Bureau, where he co-chaired its Social Media committee and Valassis (NYSE: VCI) the marketing promotions company. He was a seed investor in Web 2.0 pioneer del.icio.us (acquired by Yahoo! in 2005) and in Etherpad (AppJet) which was purchased by Google in 2009. In 2011, Seth was invited by the US State Department to be part of the GEP Program to help foster Entrepreneurship in Egypt. He joined the GEP Program in Turkey as well in 2012. Seth holds a BA in Literature from Columbia University and lives in Marin, California.

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