Kevin Kelleher is a writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has worked at Bloomberg, Wired News and The Industry Standard magazine and has written for Wired magazine, Reuters, Fortune, GigaOm, Popular Science, Salon, Portfolio as well as many others.

Bryan is an entrepreneur in San Francisco. He founded Bleacher Report, and currently advises several startups. Previously, he was a failed investment banker. You can follow him on Twitter.

Richard Nieva is a staff writer for PandoDaily, covering startups and technology in Silicon Valley. He was previously a reporter for Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times and on CJR.org. You can follow him on Twitter.

Andrea Huspeni is a recent graduate student of NYU studying business and economic reporting, Andrea oversees the ticker and writes about subjects pertaining to the New York tech scene. She love covering tech, startups, entrepreneurs, and anything that brings innovation and thought provoking ideas to the world. Prior to becoming a journalist, she was involved in marketing in corporate settings and owned an ecommerce store.

Cale graduated from Reed College with a degree in Political Science. He lives in Brooklyn, drinks coffee sometimes, and this is his Twitter.

Hallie Bateman suffers from Chronic Doodling Syndrome, which is less gross than it sounds. She lives in Oakland, California and staves off death illustrating for PandoDaily, NSFWcorp, and The Bygone Bureau. She also Tweets.

Michael Carney has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur and has participated in building companies in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. Ultimately, he is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and is inspired by those who build businesses and regularly tackle difficult problems. You can follow Michael on Twitter @mcarney.

Paul Carr is author of “The Upgrade: A Cautionary Tale of a Life Without Reservations” and “Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore”.

He has written for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, and TechCrunch. He is the founder of NSFW Corporation.

Erin Griffith covers New York startups for PandoDaily. She’s worked as staff writer for Adweek and a private equity blogger for peHUB. Her writing has appeared in VCJ, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, FT.com, and BUST. She plays keyboard in a band called Team Genius and Tweets as @Eringriffith.

Farhad Manjoo graduated from Cornell University in 2000. In 2008, he was hired as a staff writer for Slate magazine, covering technology, journalism and politics.

Farhad is a paid contributor to PandoDaily.

Hamish McKenzie is a Baltimore-based reporter for PandoDaily who covers media, politics, and international startups. His first name is pronounced “hey-mish” and you can follow him on Twitter.

Kym McNicholas is an Emmy Award winning reporter (3x Emmy nominated), with 18 years experience in broadcasting. She has spent most of her career in finance and technology, most recently at Forbes.

Nathaniel Mott is a staff writer for PandoDaily, covering startups and technology from New York.

Adam is the Editor of PandoDaily and a journalism professor at New York University. Author of several books, including the critically acclaimed “Viral Loop”, he has written for The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, as well as many others. Follow him on Twitter @penenberg.

Nathan is the managing editor at PandoDaily. He has written for Forbes, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Boing Boing, among others, and was previously an associate editor for PopMatters. He Tweets, Tumbls, and Facebooks. He does not own a smartphone.

Jason Calacanis is a polarizing and well-known investor, entrepreneur, and conference organizer. He’s the founder and CEO of Mahalo, the host of This Week in Startups, and the organizer of Launch Festival, which runs March 4-6.

Kirk is a writer, former journalist, and media expert, who founded and runs a a global, mostly digital, content-focused ad agency, Story Worldwide. He lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife, Ellen Jacob.

Dan is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, where he majors in philosophy. He’s currently working on a startup called Firefly that helps Web-based businesses cut customer support call times with cobrowsing. He can be found on Twitter or on his blog.

Two-time Sundance winning director Ondi Timoner’s films include “DIG!,” “We Live in Public,” “Join Us,” and “Cool It.” She is currently producing Web-series A TOTAL DISRUPTION, and BYOD which she hosts.

Bob is author of “The Art of Agile Business” and an agile coach for Rally Software, where he specializes in enterprise-level transformations. Follow him on Twitter.

Ben is a two-times founder who previously spent five years in strategy and corporate development focused on the enterprise. He lives in New York and is looking for cool opportunities. You can follow him and contact him via Twitter or LinkedIn.

Dan co-founded Maveron in 1998. Many recognizable consumer brands such as eBay, Capella Education, General Assembly, Julep, Shutterfly, Trupanion, and zulily have tapped Dan’s experience, many from the start, to help build market leading consumer businesses. You can follow him on Twitter.

Houston is the CEO and co-founder of Akimbo Financial, Inc. a prepaid program manager based in San Antonio, TX that specializes in the design and development of custom front-end web and mobile solutions for the financial services industry. Houston worked at JP Morgan in New York City in the fixed-income strategy group which provided research to clients trading US Treasuries and interest rate derivatives.

Chris is a NextAdvisor.com Editor who covers web hosting, online backup, cloud storage, audiobooks, online dating, online video, and pay day loans. Chris is a graduate of University of the Pacific and currently resides in the San Francisco bay area.

As founder of digital-telepathy, Chuck has the ambitious goal of improving the design of the web by introducing new standards for people who give a damn about design. Follow me on Twitter.

Frank leads all Business Development efforts for video across the AOL On Network, the No. 1 curated premium video network on the Web. His role includes content acquisition, distribution & syndication, original content development & production, and oversight of strategic partner relationships.

Long-time entrepreneur and former CEO of Myspace, Michael now serves as the CEO of Science, Inc., a Los Angeles-based technology studio that nurtures successful digital businesses by bringing together the best ideas, talent, resources and financing through a centralized platform. As a serial internet entrepreneur, Jones has founded, advised, invested in and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace.

Rob Sandie is the CEO and co-founder of vidIQ, where he helps brands get more views and subscribers organically on YouTube. Before founding vidIQ, Rob was the CEO and founder of Viddler, and has been in the online video business since his days at Macromedia.

Laura is a social media marketing expert who teaches small businesses how to become well-known and claim their brand online. She is the creator of LKR Social Media Marketer and Creating Fame and author of “Facebook Fame: The Facebook Marketing Bible For The Small Business.” In 2011, Laura was named one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under 30 and was invited to speak at the White House. You can follow her on Twitter.

Sarah is a writer and co-founder of AMP, which is like “Yelp for sustainability resources” and will be launching this July. She has over a decade of experience conducting consumer research within the technology sector and an MBA in sustainability. Follow her on Twitter.

Steven is the SVP of Applications of Go Daddy. Before that he was the CEO of Small Business Bookkeeping startup Outright, which was acquired by Go Daddy in 2012.

Shane is a tech journalist and Chief Creative Officer of Contently, a technology platform that empowers brands and journalists to tell engaging stories. Follow him on Twitter.

Craig operates The Greatest Idea Ever blog. Follow him on Twitter.

Maynard is co-founder of Everwise, a company that uses workforce science to reinvent the way organizations develop their people — starting with mentorship. Webb is the former COO of eBay and board member at salesforce.com, Yahoo, and LiveOps. He is also the best-selling author of “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work In The Age of Entrepreneurship.”

Max does product marketing and content strategy for a mobile health startup, Coach Alba. Follow him on Twitter.

Andy is the cofounder and CEO of Bonobos, a menswear brand focused on fit, fun, and service which is digital at its core. Andy is also the founder of Red Swan, an angel investment firm.

Erin covers New York startups for PandoDaily. She’s worked as staff writer for Adweek and a private equity blogger for peHUB. Her writing has appeared in VCJ, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, FT.com, and BUST. She plays keyboard in a band called Team Genius and tweets as @Eringriffith. Cale graduated from Reed College with a degree in Political Science. He lives in Brooklyn, drinks coffee sometimes, and this is his Twitter.

Glen is the founder and CEO of Handshake. Prior to that, he managed Operations and IT for a global eco-friendly products brand, and worked on a massively multiplayer game engine. He now works twice as hard for half the money and couldn’t be happier.

Veeral is the President and co-founder of J.Hilburn, a luxury lifestyle brand selling custom and ready-to-wear clothing and accessories for men through a combined direct sales and ecommerce business model.

Sean Jacobsohn is a venture partner at Emergence Capital Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm focused on business cloud companies including Salesforce, Yammer, Box, SuccessFactors, and Veeva Systems. Follow him on Twitter: @sjacobsohn.

Adam has been an entrepreneur and investor since 1994 when he founded one of the first Internet record and video stores (acquired by Virgin). Today, Adam is founder and Managing Partner at Plus Capital, an LA based early stage venture fund, and is co-founder of LaunchpadLA.

Mick is head of content at Covestor, which brings the transparency and efficiency of an online marketplace to the world of investment management. He was previously editor in chief of Seeking Alpha for its first five years. The most expensive bottle of wine he ever drank was shared with Sarah at a Tel Aviv restaurant (neither of them paid for it — a VC’s expense account did). You can follow him on Twitter here.

Christopher is a co-founder and partner at Play Bigger Advisors. You can follow him on Twitter here.

Erin Griffith covers New York startups for PandoDaily. She’s worked as staff writer for Adweek and a private equity blogger for peHUB. Her writing has appeared in VCJ, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, FT.com, and BUST. She plays keyboard in a band called Team Genius and tweets as @Eringriffith.

Michael Carney has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur and has participated in building companies in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. Ultimately, he is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and is inspired by those who build businesses and regularly tackle difficult problems. You can follow Michael on Twitter here.