Mark Sigal

I am a seven time entrepreneur and 'platform' guy who has spent the better part of the past 17 years seeding new ventures (as founder, CEO or seed investor) in the networked device (Tribe, Whistle), device management (Rapid Logic/Wind River, UXComm, Kenamea), consumer (CafeNet, Verdada, Me.com) and Real Estate (CBM) spaces.

My focus these days is on digital media services; namely the re-envisioning of traditional video, audio and advertising channels in a mobile broadband-enabled world (think: IPTV, RSS, Podcasting, and Pay Per Click 2.0).

My four primary projects right now are: vSocial, a white label video service targeted at the social media contest/campaign space; Snapp Networks, a social networking platform business (we sold the consumer portion, Me.com, to Apple); Insider Engine, a stock investing service; and Verdi Capital , my angel investing entity.

I have had plenty of professional and financial success but have also endured and overcome enough challenges to understand the role of luck, faith, timing, iteration and just plain resilience in making it all work out in the end.

I have a great wife and two really awesome sons. I have maintained a bikram yoga practice without slippage for the past ten years, and read a bucket-full. To help facilitate really peeling back the onion on interesting topics, I created a topical discussion group called Chatopic with my friend and previous business partner, Steve Lee.

If you think that you are a potential contributor of ideas, skills, deal flow, connections or money to the projects that I am working on, shoot me an email and let’s talk. I can be reached at msigal at gmail dot com.