Watch Live: James Hong Founder of Hot Or Not, Angel Investor and Startup Adviser

Posted on Jun 15, 2009 - 6:56 PM PST

When: Thursday, June 18 @ 11 AM Pacific

Where: Here on Mixergy.com. Watch and interact from your desk.

James Hong

About James Hong

James founded HotOrNot.com, which started as an online photo rating site. Users uploaded pictures of themselves and the community voted on each picture. It grew into one of the largest online dating site. He sold the company to a group of private investors in February 2008.

James is also an angel investor and adviser to Alive Not Dead, Bit Torrent, Brondell, Crunchyroll, Frappr, Grouper / Crackle, GreenMango.co.in, Hook Mobile, Mochi Media, Odeo, Raptr, Simply Hired, Slide, and Social Concepts.

Your input

- What you like to learn about James?

- Did you ever post your picture on HotOrNot.com?

- Do you have any anecdotes or facts that I should know?

[Thank you Nils Johnson for introducing me to James.]

Christian

Hi Andrew,
I have a little tip for you when you post the time of a live-event.
Go to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform... insert the date, time and timezone and click "calculate fixed time". You then get a nice page with the time the event happens in different timezones, so your user don't have to do the math.

I'm not affiliate in any kind with them, I just like the service.

Keep up the great work

Greetings from Germany
Christian

Christian

Of course you would link the page you get in your post, have forgotten to mention that

Christian

odna3ra

I'd much rather know about his thoughts moving forward than his past, e.g. where are the angels looking to invest in the upcoming year? It seems that intuition about the next big thing is more valuable than anecdotes about the last.

Andrew Warner

Great idea. I didn't realize how many companies he was backing. I wonder
what he looks for in investments.

Trindaz

I've love to hear details about how James started out, and if the journey has been a constant / gradual one, or were there times of sudden, big growth and success? (And what were they?)

Andrew Warner

Good question.

I want to know that too. It all seems so easy in hindsight. I wonder what
the climb was really like.