- Josh Kopelman
Joshua Kopelman is an American
entrepreneur ,venture capitalist , andphilanthropist .Kopelman is best known as the founder of
Half.com , afixed price marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of used books, movies and music products. In 2000, Kopelman sold Half.com toEBay for US $350 million.Biography
Kopelman was born in
Great Neck ,New York . He attended theWharton School at theUniversity of Pennsylvania . In 1992, during his sophomore year, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Kopelman left Infonautics in 1999 to found Half.com.After selling Half.com to eBay, Kopelman remained with eBay for three years. In early 2004 Josh co-founded
TurnTide , ananti-spam company that acquired and marketed the world's first anti-spamrouter fromePrivacy Group .TurnTide was acquired bySymantec just six months later.In 2001 Josh and his wife created the Kopelman Foundation [http://www.kopelman.org] , a non-profit organization focused on angel philanthropy to provide “start-up” grants to social entrepreneurs. In 2002 the Kopelman Foundation funded a project to digitize and host the complete text of the
Jewish Encyclopedia online.Current Work
Kopelman is currently Managing Director of
First Round Capital [http://www.firstround.com] , a seed-stage venture fund. He is an investor, director and advisor to a variety of businesses, most in thesoftware andInternet domain, includingJingle Networks ,StumbleUpon ,Odeo ,LinkedIn ,Eventful ,Yapta ,Krugle ,Ambient Devices ,del.icio.us ,IronPort ,Ugobe ,RockYou! ,myYearbook ,VideoEgg andWikia and several other firms.While Kopelman has invested in a large number of
Web 2.0 companies, Kopelman warned that too many Web 2.0 entrepreneurs are targeting an audience of 53,651 [http://redeye.firstround.com/2006/05/53651.html] people, the number of then-current subscribers toTechCrunch , a popular weblog that covers the internet industry. In 2007, Kopelman helped to coin the phrase theImplicit Web to better describe theSemantic Web .Kopelman currently lives in a suburb of
Philadelphia ,Pennsylvania .References
External links
* [http://redeye.firstround.com Redeye VC - Josh Kopelman's Blog]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/jkopelman Josh Kopelman's] public profile with his positions and investments
* [http://www.firstround.com First Round Capital]
* [http://www.firstround.com/our_team.html#KOPELMAN First Round Capital management page] including a brief biography of Kopelman
* [http://www.kopelman.org The Kopelman Foundation]
* [http://www.midascapital.com/ Midas Capital] Kopelman's private investment fund, which preceded First Round Capital
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