Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D.

I now advise exciting startups and consult for established firms including Alibaba, Best Buy, Lufthansa, MySpace, and Nokia, helping some of the most brilliant entrepreneurs and executives around the world leverage user data to create innovative products and business models. I also teach at Stanford and UC Berkeley, and am often invited to speak at international events.

I help my clients understand the principles underlying the social data revolution, and teach them how to transform these principles into measurable results. Together, we define user-centric metrics of engagement, and invent incentives that inspire users to participate. We create new products and business models, anchored in a solid data strategy. One way I engage with my clients is in a workshop setting, where we boil a specific problem down to its fundamentals — and solve it.

I work with carefully selected entrepreneurs as advisor or board member. In an economy where a single decision can make the difference between success and failure, my expertise and my contacts have helped more than a dozen startups to thrive.