PickPockets: Keep Wall Street Out of your Pocket and End Up With More (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615608310)

Stephen Beck and Mitchell Tuchman Stephen Beck is serial entrepreneur who started several successful companies over his twenty-five-year career. Prior to MarketRiders, Steve served as general partner of Integrity Partners, a venture capital firm in Danville, California. He was a founding investor and board member of Baidu, considered the Google of China, and worked closely with other portfolio companies including Hydration Technologies, a pioneer in water purification technologies. Steve was on the founding team of C2B Technologies in 1996 and, after its sale to Inktomi in 1998, he ran business development and pioneered dozen of landmark partnerships. In the 1980s, Steve cofounded CCS, which grew to become the world's largest action sports mail-order and e-commerce business and was acquired by Alloy Inc. He holds a bachelor degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Mitch Tuchman is a Silicon Valley veteran with more than twenty-six years of experience in venture capital, public finance, strategy, and technology. Prior to MarketRiders, Mitch was a subadviser for microcap technology investments for Apex Capital, LLC. From 1997 to 2001, Mitch invested in and advised venture funds focusing primarily on Internet. He began his career at Atari, Inc. and served as an operating executive for several Silicon Valley companies, leading them through strategic transformations. He served as director for several public companies, including Phoenix Technologies and Kintera. Mitch holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Boston University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.