Putting the Hectic in Hectic.comDavid Hecht is an Internet entrepreneur, startup advisor, and veteran online marketer. He has been marketing and selling Internet services since 1995.
During the dot com bubble, David was Director of Marketing for freelance job site and ASP software startup eWork Exchange. David's extensive Email marketing programs were responsible for much of eWork's rapid growth, attracting over 300,000 registered consultants and hiring managers to the Exchange in less than a year. Prior
to eWork Exchange, David was one of the first employees
at InReach Internet, a regional dialup ISP that brought Internet access to many areas of California for the fist time. As Marketing Director for
four years, his direct marketing strategy enabled the
company to keep acquisition costs low and rapidly attain
profitability. While at InReach, David also wrote a beginners
guide to the Internet, which was published as the 128-page
paperback book "Reach the Internet!"
and given to new subscribers. It explained concepts such as emoticons
and how to connect a PPP modem session in plain English with
accompanying cartoons, and makes hilarious reading today. David
also spent several years at the non-profit SF AIDS
Foundation, where he was instrumental in putting their
public health information online through several Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) just prior to the advent of the web. He began his career
at several early desktop publishing companies in San Francisco and Boston. David received a BA in Humanities from Stanford University. He lives in San Francisco's Mission District with his wife, two children and dog. He enjoys hiking, live music, whiskey and spending too much time on the Internet, not necessarily in that order. Copyright 1996 - 2011 Hectic.com |
Hectic.comMaking Startups Less Hectic Since 1996 Hectic.com is blog and site of David Hecht, a cloud computing entrepreneur, startup advisor and Internet marketing guy based in San Francisco. Most recently I ran sales and marketing at Cloudkick (acquired by Rackspace), and prior to that I was the co-founder and CMO of GoGrid.
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Most recently, David ran sales and marketing at Cloudkick, a Cloud monitoring and management platform (aquired by Rackspace). Prior to that, David was Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of GoGrid / ServePath, the #3 public cloud infrastructure provider and the San Francisco Bay Area's largest managed hosting and cloud computing company. In the 9 years that he ran the Sales, Marketing, and Product Management groups, the company grew from 2 to 150 employees and multiple tens of millions of dollars in recurring revenue on only $1.1m in startup capital. David developed a number of service offerings at ServePath, from the core dedicated server brand to colocation (
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