Matt Coffin

Last updated
Matt Coffin
Education Babson College
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, investor
Height6.8

Matt Coffin is an internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and was the president of LowerMyBills.com, which was sold to Experian in 2005 for $380 million. [1] [2] He was also the president of Experian Online Customer Acquisition Services.

Life and career

Coffin graduated from Babson College in 1990 and was named to the Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2009 by the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship. [3] He was an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of Year award winner in 2007 and Southern California Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006.

Coffin also sat on the board of directors for Business.com, [4] which was started by incubator eCompanies, whose venture arm was an early investor in LowerMyBills.com. He also invested in both Buscape, which was sold in October 2009 for $330M, [5] and HauteLook, which was sold to Nordstrom in February 2011 for $270M. [6]

He currently sits on the board of directors for eBureau [7] Machinima, and Mahalo. [8] [9] [10] [11]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Babson College</span> Business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.

Babson College (Babson) is a private business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Established in 1919, Babson's central focus is on entrepreneurship education and its use in creating economic and social value. The college was founded by Roger W. Babson as an all-male business institute and became coeducational in 1970.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Experian</span> Irish multinational consumer credit reporting company

Experian is a multinational data analytics and consumer credit reporting company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Experian collects and aggregates information on over 1 billion people and businesses including 235 million individual U.S. consumers and more than 25 million U.S. businesses.

LowerMyBills.com is a consumer finance corporate website that connects prospective mortgage borrowers to lenders. The site connects consumers who respond to their marketing with service providers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steve Blank</span> American businessman

Steve Blank is an American entrepreneur, educator, author and speaker based in Pescadero, California.

Tatto Media is an affiliate marketing advertising network based in Boston.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marko Ahtisaari</span> Finnish technology entrepreneur and musician

Marko Ahtisaari is a Finnish technology entrepreneur and musician. Ahtisaari has been CEO and co-founder of two technology companies: Dopplr and Sync Project. After the acquisition of Dopplr, Ahtisaari was executive vice president of Design at Nokia and later a Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. He is a composer, bassist and singer in the band Construction.

Kamran Pourzanjani is an entrepreneur and an early angel investor based in Los Angeles, California. He co-founded and was formerly the CEO of PriceGrabber, a comparison shopping site started in 1999 with less than $1.5 million in angel funding. In October 2006 a Forrester Research independent survey recognized PriceGrabber as the most popular comparison shopping site among active web shoppers. PriceGrabber was acquired by Experian in December 2005 for an enterprise value of $485 million.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lisa Gansky</span> American entrepreneur and author (born 1961)

Lisa Gansky is an American entrepreneur and author.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Isenberg</span>

Daniel Isenberg is a Professor of Entrepreneurship Practice at Babson College Executive Education where he established the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project (BEEP). He is the author of the book Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value. Isenberg was an entrepreneur himself for 16 years and was also a venture capitalist. He is an angel investor in several ventures.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dan Serfaty</span> French entrepreneur and businessman (born 1966)

Dan Serfaty is a French entrepreneur and businessman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Housser</span> Businessman

Andrew Housser is an entrepreneur who co-founded Freedom Financial Network, and who co-founded Bills.com.

The Brightcom Group is a digital marketing company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Hyderabad, India with offices in US, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Ukraine, Serbia, Israel, China, India, and Australia, and with representatives or partners in Poland, and Italy. It ranked 400th in the Fortune India 500 list in 2020.

Trish Costello is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and investor. She is the Founder and CEO of Portfolia, a collaborative equity investing platform. She was named as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2014 by Goldman Sachs and Top Ten Women to Watch in Tech in 2015 by Inc magazine. She is recognized internationally for her pioneering work in educating and preparing venture capital investment partners, through the Kauffman Fellows Program. As the founding CEO and CEO Emeritus of the Center for Venture Education, she led the Kauffman Fellows Program for its first ten years. Costello was on the start-up team of the Kauffman Foundation's entrepreneurship center, where for eight years she directed its efforts in venture capital, angel investing, entrepreneur support programs, and programming to accelerate high potential women entrepreneurs. She played a leading role nationally in obtaining greater financial equity investments in women's businesses and in funding initiatives supporting high-growth women entrepreneurs.

An entrepreneurial ecosystems or entrepreneurship ecosystems are peculiar systems of interdependent actors and relations directly or indirectly supporting the creation and growth of new ventures.

Jake Winebaum is an American entrepreneur. Winebaum is the founder of FamilyFun magazine, Business.com, Brighter.com and co-founder of eCompanies and Applied Cognition.

Alteryx, Inc. is an American computer software company based in Irvine, California, with a development center in Broomfield, Colorado, and offices worldwide. The company's products are used for data science and analytics. The software is designed to make advanced analytics automation accessible to any data worker.

Jeffry A. Timmons (1941–2008) was an American Professor of Entrepreneurship, known as a pioneer of both entrepreneurship research and education. During his career Timmons published several books and over a hundred articles and papers. He lectured on the subjects of entrepreneurship, new ventures, entrepreneurial finance and venture capital. In 2004, Timmons was named Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the United States Association for Small Business Entrepreneurship and is said to be the first to have used the word “entrepreneurial” in a dissertation title, in his 1971 dissertation from Harvard Business School: “Entrepreneurial and Leadership Development in an Inner City Ghetto and a Rural Depressed Area”.

Chuck Davis is an Internet entrepreneur, and Chairman and CEO of Prodege, LLC, an El Segundo, California-based online marketing and consumer research company.

Nevzat Aydın is a Turkish internet entrepreneur, angel investor and a mentor. Aydın is the co-founder and former CEO of Yemeksepeti, the leading online food delivery portal in Turkey.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leonard Schlesinger</span> American author, educator, and business leader

Leonard A. (Len) Schlesinger is an American author, educator, and business leader. He is currently the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and President Emeritus of Babson College where he served as the college's 12th President from 2008 through 2013.

References

  1. ↑ Suster, Mark (April 19, 2011). "Master Of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups" . Retrieved June 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Experian Interactive launches with acquisition of LowerMyBills.com - Split Rock Partners, LLC". Split Rock Partners, LLC. May 5, 2005. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ 2009 Honorees, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship , Babson.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-31
  4. ↑ "Business.com".
  5. ↑ http://thisweekinstartups.com/tag/lowermybills-com. Thisweekinstartups.com. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
  6. ↑ Rao, Leena (2011-17-02). https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/nordstrom-acquires-flash-sales-site-hautelook-for-270-million. Techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
  7. ↑ eBureau
  8. ↑ "Board of Directors - eBureau".
  9. ↑ "Ernst & Young LLP - EOY Program Update". Archived from the original on 2007-09-12. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
  10. ↑ "Technology Council of Southern California > Home".
  11. ↑ mattcoffin.typepad.com http://mattcoffin.typepad.com . Retrieved 2007-05-16.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[ title missing ]
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.