Tuesday, January 20, 2009

TYE Alumni Profile: Mark Bao

We are thrilled to have a great group of TYE Alumni and from time to time, we'll profile a select few to let you know what kind of progress they are making. Today's entrepreneur in the spotlight is Mark (aka Steven) Bao. Mark is 16-year-old web, software and advertising entrepreneur, and is the President & CEO of Avecora.

He also works at DebateWare.com, a software consultancy firm, that offers its main product DebateNet, a debate organization and event management system. It has provided consulting for customers including the Junior State of America.

Mark is also the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at TickrTalk, a stealth consumer web startup founded in 2008. Mark has also developed several Facebook apps, one of which was sold to Lee Lorenzen at Altura Ventures. Afterwards, with two marketing partners, he developed the application Facebook Idol, which was sold to a private investor in October 2007.

He also is the owner of AdSocial (formerly Cadmium), the targeted social application advertising network available for developers of social applications and advertisers, that extends the social advertising graph to the web, by aggregating social network profile information and targeting advertisements around the web.

1 comment:

Mark Bao said...

Thank you for the great writeup! Hope to inspire other young entrepreneurs.

Though a correction – my main venture is Ramamia, simple and private family sharing.

Don't think that was included in my bio, which I haven't updated in a while.

Thanks, again.