Brian Alvey

Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey
	Brian Alvey in 2009
Born	March 6, 1970 (age 54); Falls Church, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation(s)	American serial entrepreneur, programmer, designer and blogger

Brian Alvey (born March 6, 1970, in

serial entrepreneur, programmer, designer and blogger. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives in San Francisco where he is the CEO of Clipisode. He is best known for co-founding the blog publishing company Weblogs, Inc. with Jason Calacanis

.

Career

Early years

Alvey designed the first

Rising Tide Studios

where he personally developed The Venture Reporter Network.

Alvey has also built publishing systems for sites designed by Jeffrey Zeldman including the Web design magazine A List Apart (in 1998) and the Kansas City Chiefs. He was the architect of the system that powers the redesigned global network of Capgemini websites.

In 2002, Brian Alvey was the creator and co-host of the Meet The Makers conference, a series of talk show-style events with Jason Calacanis. In 2003 he invented and launched Blogstakes, a sweepstakes application for the blogging community. He was an early investor and chairman of the comic book publishing company ComicMix, which he still advises.

Weblogs, Inc./Blogsmith

On September 23, 2003, Alvey, along with

America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc.^[1] in October 2005 for $25–30 million.^[2] While at AOL, Alvey was named the chief architect of Netscape and lead the development team which turned it into a social news aggregator. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging platform Blogsmith, which Alvey had built to power Weblogs, Inc., for a reported $5 million.^[3] At one time, Blogsmith powered 14 of the top 100 blogs.^[4]

Crowd Fusion/Ceros

After AOL, Alvey founded

Extra

.

In June 2012, Crowd Fusion acquired London-based Ceros.[7] Ceros was spun out of Group FMG, a marketing services company based in London and New York. With that deal Crowd Fusion changed its name to Ceros and appointed Ceros CEO Simon Berg as its CEO. Alvey is currently a board advisor and Chief Scientist of Ceros.^[8]

Recurrency/Clipisode

Alvey's startup Recurrency was one of seven companies in the Winter 2014/2015 LAUNCH Incubator. Recurrency debuted at the 2015

LAUNCH Conference.^[11]

References

^ Graham, Nicholas (October 6, 2005). "America Online Acquires Weblogs, Inc". Time Warner. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
^ Arrington, Michael (October 5, 2005). "AOL Acquires Weblogs, Inc". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
^ Douglas, Nick (November 8, 2006). "Scoop: Weblogs Inc. owners sell Blogsmith to AOL". gawker.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-15. Retrieved 2006-08-11.
^ Pingdom (January 15, 2009). "The blog platforms of choice among the top 100 blogs". royal.pingdom.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-16. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
^ Dahlquist, David (February 8, 2008). "Weblogs Co-Founder To Launch new CMS Crowd Fusion". cmswire.com. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
^ Ali, Rafat (July 31, 2008). "Alvey's New Startup CrowdFusion Gets $3M From Velocity, Greycroft and Andreessen". washingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2015. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
^ Swisher, Kara (June 14, 2012). "Crowd Fusion Buys Ceros — And Changes Its Name and Business Model". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2012-06-14.
^ Shandrow, Kim Lachance (2014-03-04). "10 Questions to Ask When Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Users". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
^ Calacanis, Jason (March 8, 2015). "The 11 winners of the LAUNCH Festival 2015 (and why they won)". calacanis.com. Archived from the original on March 12, 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
^ Alvey, Brian (February 20, 2016). "The End of Recurrency". medium.com. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
^ LAUNCH Festival (March 4, 2016). "Clipisode debuts at LAUNCH Festival 2016". youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2016-03-13.

External links

Brian Alvey's blog
Brian Alvey on This Week in Startups (TWiST) Archived 2015-02-18 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Graham, Nicholas (October 6, 2005). "America Online Acquires Weblogs, Inc". Time Warner. Retrieved 2014-06-25.

[2] Arrington, Michael (October 5, 2005). "AOL Acquires Weblogs, Inc". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2010-06-14.

[3] Douglas, Nick (November 8, 2006). "Scoop: Weblogs Inc. owners sell Blogsmith to AOL". gawker.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-15. Retrieved 2006-08-11.

[4] Pingdom (January 15, 2009). "The blog platforms of choice among the top 100 blogs". royal.pingdom.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-16. Retrieved 2009-01-15.

[5] Dahlquist, David (February 8, 2008). "Weblogs Co-Founder To Launch new CMS Crowd Fusion". cmswire.com. Retrieved 2008-02-08.

[6] Ali, Rafat (July 31, 2008). "Alvey's New Startup CrowdFusion Gets $3M From Velocity, Greycroft and Andreessen". washingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2015. Retrieved 2008-07-31.

[7] Swisher, Kara (June 14, 2012). "Crowd Fusion Buys Ceros — And Changes Its Name and Business Model". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2012-06-14.

[8] Shandrow, Kim Lachance (2014-03-04). "10 Questions to Ask When Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Users". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2020-03-22.

[9] Calacanis, Jason (March 8, 2015). "The 11 winners of the LAUNCH Festival 2015 (and why they won)". calacanis.com. Archived from the original on March 12, 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-10.

[10] Alvey, Brian (February 20, 2016). "The End of Recurrency". medium.com. Retrieved 2016-03-12.

[11] LAUNCH Festival (March 4, 2016). "Clipisode debuts at LAUNCH Festival 2016". youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2016-03-13.

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