Dan Grigsby's Bio / Contact Info - What's On Iphone
Contact Info: [email protected], 612-423-3694
Founder, CEO and initial developer Merchant Planet, an early e-commerce provider. The company was acquired by LinkExchange in ’98.
Join LinkExchange’s management team. LinkExchange’s services were use by over a million small business and website owners. Ran all of front-end engineering for the company’s suite of products.
Stayed on after LinkExchange was acquired by Microsoft for $265 million to run the ListBot business, the largest Google Groups-like offering of that era, including all development, product management and business/P&L responsibilities.
Left Microsoft in ’00 to found — and later sell for a 20x return-on-investment — payMe.com, a successful early-days competitor to PayPal and the first Silicon Valley based IdeaLab company.
First hire for the executive “turn-around” team at Qualys, today the $50MM+/year vulnerability management market leader.
Served as served as Interim-CTO for St. Paul based GovDelivery, a “Fast 50” company that is the leading provider of electronic government-to-citizen communication.
Advised hosted e-commerce provider Shopify on strategy.
Founder of Mobile Orchard, the number-one ranked iPhone developer news site and podcast. Mobile Orchard has been featured by CNN/Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Minneapolis StarTribune, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, Finance & Commerce, O’Reilly, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Daring Fireball and Boing Boing.
Co-founded MinneBar and MinneDemo, Minnesota’s two largest software/web community events. An annual conference and periodic networking event respectively, these free-to-attend events serve a community of 700+ local developers, entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Recipient of the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal’s “40 under 40” award. Featured as one of Mpls St. Paul magazine’s 75 “Best Brains.” Recipient of the “40 Minnesotans on the Move” award from Finance and Commerce.
Judge for the “Overnight Web Challenge,” an annual “hack fest” competition that pairs volunteer development teams with non-profit organizations to overhaul their websites in a 24-hour sprint.
Entrepreneur In Residence at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Business’ Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship.
