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BRYAN O’NEIL

Bryan O’Neil is one of the leading experts in the niche of venture capital and private equity. He received his formal education from Cyprus Institute of Marketing and presently he is based out of UK. At Present Bryan is the member of the board at Centurika which is located in Manchester, UK and also holds the designation of business advisor at Flippa. Before that he was the co-founder at Flipping Enterprises Ltd, situated in London, UK.

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At Flippa which is one of the biggest marketplaces for online businesses, Bryan efficiently took its brokerage service called Deal Flow to another level by improving its infrastructure. He also trained staffs in facets like business brokerage and due diligence. Bryan made sure that the sellers and buyers of web businesses are happy with the service by working with them closely.

Bryan co-founded Centurika along with Kaspars Peksens and Justin Gilchrist. After noticing a major loophole in the domain of online business acquisitions he has started providing investors who come with a view to acquiring web properties with website valuation services and top-notch online business due diligence. Apart from being the spearhead of these online establishments Bryan is also highly passionate about business intelligence and cutting-edge technology. Books thathe has penned down so far exude his passion and in-depth knowledge perfectly.

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One of his recent book is called ‘Money Follows Speed – ‘6 Principles a Startup CEO *MUST* Understand – or Face Disaster’ and it discusses about some principles that the owners of a start-up company should follow in order to survive. Among his other books, ‘The Break Up: End Your Love Affair With Organic Traffic!’ and ‘Key Differences in Performing Due Diligence on Online vs. Brick-and-Mortar Businesses’ are the most popular ones. Being a serial entrepreneur, Bryan runs many side projects of his own.

OLIVER ROUP

When it comes to the most influential and successful tech entrepreneurs of the world Oliver Roup would not be too far down the list. He is also a computer scientist with both bachelor and master’s degree in computer science from the MIT. Later, he received a MBA degree from the prestigious Harvard Business School in 2009. It was also the same year when Oliver co-founded VigLink Inc. after 15 years of enriching experience in the software industry. Through the course of this 15 years Oliver has worked with many eminent companies and proved his mettle.

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He has worked with MIT Media Lab as a research assistant and founded some very effective software and hardware tools. One of them is called ‘hive’ which has proved to be a famous toolkit to manufacture distributed software system. Then he shifted from research industry and joined Scient as an associate. Subsequently, Oliver has worked with two start-ups, Echo Network which is the pioneer in online radio as the director of advanced technology and then, with Edudsoft as an architect and engineer.

Consequently, Roup’s career took a huge turn when he started working for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen at Vulcan Inc, for iplayer at BBC and then for Microsoft as a director. At Microsoft he took care of different media properties such as XBOX Live Video Marketplace, MSN Entertainment and Zune Marketplace.

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Oliver also has patents that are issued and pending, covering micro-transactions, metadata and media. Presently, he is running his own company VigLink, a platform that is meant for web publishers to monetize easily the outgoing links to their websites. His company now looks after in excess of 10 billion page views every month. Oliver is well and truly one of the most dominant entrepreneurs with the power to shape the future of the internet industry.