Jeffrey Bussgang

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Mr. Jeffrey Bussgang is a Co-Founder & serves as General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. He serves as Managing Partner at The Graduate Syndicate. He serves as a General Partner at Flybridge. He serves as an Advisor at Stride Funding and Gryps. He serves as an Advisor at Exporta Technologies. He also serves as a Board Member at i4cp, Global EIR, Edx, New England Venture Capital Association, Valore, and Open English. He also serves as a Board Member at Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation. He serves as an Advisor at Infracommerce. He is an angel investor. He also serves as a Board Member at BlueTarp Financial. He serves as a Board Observer at Zest AI. He co-founded & served as Chief Operating Officer, Board Member & President at Upromise. He also served as a Board Member at DataXu. He served as a Board Member at Plastiq and Corvium. He also served as a Board Member at SavingStar. He is a former entrepreneur (Upromise, Open Market) who joined the firm in 2002 and focuses on the consumer, marketing services, e-commerce, software, and mobile start-up markets. On the side, he serves as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School where he teaches a class on entrepreneurship and lean start-ups called Launching Technology Ventures and has co-authored ten HBS cases. In 2010, he wrote and published a book, Mastering the VC Game, as a guide for understanding venture capital. He also currently sits on the board of MITX, the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange, and is a Founding Executive Committee Member of First Growth Venture Network, a network of venture and angel investors supporting entrepreneurs building companies in the New York area. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Harvard University where he graduated magna cum laude and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar and a Ford Scholar. He was also the Co-Founder and served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Board Director at Upromise.