Nationality United States Occupation Entrepreneur, speaker | Years active 1996 - present Name Stephen Meade | |
Known for Chairman- Bigbamboo LLC.
President & CEO- Upperstreet Marketing
Founder- MagMo, Virtual Sellers Alma mater University of Missouri–Kansas City | ||
Tv com interview 1998 stephen meade jeff bezos
Stephen Meade is an American entrepreneur, business executive and strategic adviser. Meade has successfully incubated nine technology-based companies in the past 20 years. Currently, Stephen serves as the Chairman at BigBamboo LLC, a holding company that incubates start-up companies and is also head of MagMo, My Wet Rock, RONAstar and ComCom (Community Commerce) Networks.
Contents
- Tv com interview 1998 stephen meade jeff bezos
- Career
- Virtual Sellers
- Cenoplex
- KnockNOW
- Big Bamboo
- My WetRock
- Leadership
- References
Career
Stephen graduated from the University of Missouri–Kansas City with a bachelor's degree in Business and Marketing. By the age of 21, he had written three books on credit improvement and finance, and an infomercial called "Give Yourself Credit". He then spent 6 years in financial services and in 1996, started his first internet company called Virtual Sellers which became an innovation for an e-commerce based transaction processing system that proved to be an early precursor to PayPal.
Stephen Meade is particularly notable for his contributions to technology based companies, including:
Virtual Sellers
Stephen founded VirtualSellerc, the first Internet based master merchant for eCommerce in 1996, where he helped develop a transaction processing systems for internet based retailers. The VirtualSellerc was sold in 1999 to a public company that assumed the name of Virtualsellers.com. The company provided up to 7 payment options, and easy transaction processing and clearing services for small and medium businesses looking to sell their products online.>
Cenoplex
Stephen Meade was the founder and CEO of Cenoplex, an audio messaging and services company that helps carriers in Lifecycle Management (LCM) efforts to reduce churn, promote Value Added Services (VAS), and increase Revenue (ARPU) with non-intrusive audio content. Fully funded, with an A+ Management team and Advisory Board, Cenoplex is the first company in the world to insert a four-second audio message in the call sequencing gap of an outbound mobile call, all without disrupting the call path.
KnockNOW
In August 2000, Meade and former government commissioner Bob Gerometta founded KnockNOW, a non-profit organization committed to accelerating opportunities for entrepreneurs. Meade and Gerometta wanted to educate and support a community professionals from five key business sectors: service; politics, press and academics; investment; corporate; and entrepreneurial. Today, the KnockNOW community continues to hold regular meetings called "Isolation is a Good Thing".
Big Bamboo
Stephen Meade founded Big Bamboo, LLC as a holding company and incubator for start-up companies. Meade serves as business architect, venture capitalist, and relationship builder.
My WetRock
Stephen Meade created My WetRock, a consumer product that saves a targeted 20 billions of gallons of water per year by reducing the amount of wasted water when flushing toilets. At My WetRock, Meade promotes environmental awareness and provides creative educational tools through a comic character called "Johnny Waterdrop". In March 2011, Meade was named TCVN's FastPitch Winner for his work with My WetRock.
Leadership
Stephen has been a notable speaker and mentor to the Founder Institute, world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program. Meade is also noted for his active participation in the Clinton Global Initiative and Opportunity Green.
Meade has stood as guest lecturer at several universities, including MIT, Harvard, USC, UCLA, Northwestern and Peter Kiewit Institute among others.