Name: Randy M. Haykin
Stats: Married, 3 children
Born: Brooklyn, NY 1960
Hobbies: family, singing, yoga, coaching, philanthropy
Colleges: Brown, Harvard
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I am an entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist located in the Bay Area.  My career spans 30 years in Consumer, Enterprise and Infrastructure businesses in both technology and consumer services areas.

At the same time, I am a husband, father, writer, artist, educator and philanthropist.

In 1995, I founded Interactive Minds, which later became Outlook Ventures, a SF-based software venture capital family of funds.  With Partner, Carl Nichols, we successfully launched three venture funds including Outlook III $140 million fund in 2002. The firm has funded over 30 early-stage technology firms since inception, including: Overture, Wit Capital, Impulse Buy Network, DotBank, eTeamz, Active Networks, eCirlces/Classmates.com, Epicentric, Lasso Logic, Echopass, Loyalty Lab, Reconnex, Xactly, Digital Chocolate, and Reply.com. I am currently Director or Observer on Boards of Xactly, Digital Chocolate, and Reply Inc.

I have been making angel investments in early-stage during the past ten years and have also been an angel investor (and sometimes Advisor or Board member) in many real estate, software, biotechnology, and consumer services companies. Haykin Capital is my investment vehicle for these.

I am a member of the Faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and teach the “New Venture Finance" in the Spring semester, and “Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship” (ICE) -- featuring creative companies, products and people (guests have included senior execs from: Google, Pixar, Reply, Netflix, Altura, Tesla Motors and more).

As an entrepreneur, I’ve worked at Yahoo (1995, was founding VP Sales & Marketing), Electric Minds (Founding COO with Howard Rheingold in 1996), and Overture (1997, with IdeaLab).  At present, I am assisting 2-3 start-ups at a time, using a "mentor capital" model.

My prior technology work includes:

* Paramount Technology Group - Director, Business Development. Worked with "think-tank" called Media Kitchen to create new business plans and models for the use of content on new technology platforms.

* Apple Computer - 5 years of sales & marketing management experience including channel sales, business dev, director/creator of global Multimedia developer program and higher education schools program.  Senior Editor/Author - Demystifying Multimedia. written while at Apple, published by Random House in 1992.

I attended Brown University (received BA in Organizational Behavior & Management 1985) and Harvard Graduate School of Business (MBA, 1988).

My philanthropic work includes time, treasures and talents devoted to the American Cancer Society (Board Director - SF Region), and Opportunity International (Board of Governors - they do microlending to the poor in 30 countries).