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Name
Enrique Allen
Founding Designer
 
Bio
Enrique's mission is to inspire startups to empathize & solve latent needs. Before 500S, he did UX design for Facebook's fbFund & Venrock. He continues to teach with Stanford d.school & Persuasive Tech Lab. As a secret agent for world peace, Enrique meditates, makes art & plays soccer.
 
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Experience
 
 
Company
500 Startups
 
Position
Founding Designer
 
From
Jul. 2010 - Present
 
Description
500 Startups is an early-stage seed fund and accelerator program located in Mountain View, CA. We invest primarily in consumer & SMB internet startups, and related web infrastructure services. Our initial investment size is typically $25K-$250K.

Selected areas of interest include financial services & e-commerce, search/social/mobile platforms, personal & business productivity, education & language, family & healthcare, web infrastructure, and tribbles.
 
Location
Mountain View
 
Website
http://500startups.com
Company
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford
Position
Teaching Assistant
From
Aug. 2009 - Present
Description
http://dmediaproject.com
http://culturalmaps.org
http://dschool.stanford.edu/crosscultural/index.php
http://extreme.stanford.edu
Location
Stanford
Website
http://dschool.stanford.edu
Company
Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab
Position
Researcher, Mobile and Video Applications
From
2007 - Present
Description
TA http://persuasivevideo.org
http://persuasivevideo.com
Published in Persuasive2011

Author in http://texting4health.org

http://peace.stanford.edu
http://peace.facebook.com

http://www.stanford.edu/group/captology/cgi-bin/facebook/
Location
Stanford
Website
http://captology.stanford.edu
Company
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Position
Teaching Assistant
From
Jan. 2010 - Jun. 2010
Description
http://www.powerofsocialtech.com/
Company
Mural Music & Arts Project
Position
Director of Public Relations
From
2006 - 2010
Website
http://muralmusicarts.org
Company
Weigend Associates LLC
Position
Social Media Consultant
From
Apr. 2008 - Jun. 2009
Description
Consulting services to former Amazon.com Chief Scientist, Andreas Weigend

Social Media TA for Stanford STATS 252 Data Mining and E-Business course: http://socialdatarevolution.com
Company
fbFund
Position
Resident Designer
From
May. 2009 - Sep. 2009
Description
Designed Facebook's founding incubator program.

fbFund is a $10M seed fund and joint venture run by Facebook, Founders Fund, and Accel Partners. Investment capital for the fund is provided by both Accel and Founders Fund. For the current fbFund REV 2009 incubator program (our third company competition), selected companies are eligible to receive up to $100K in equity investment.
Website
http://fbfund.com
Company
Venrock
Position
Product Designer
From
Jun. 2008 - Jan. 2009
Website
http://venrock.com
Company
AskMeGo
Position
Product Designer
From
Jun. 2008 - Dec. 2008
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Education
 
 
School
Stanford University
 
From
2008 - 2010
 
Fields of Study
Management Science & Engineering, Entrepreneurship Design
School
Stanford University
From
2004 - 2008
Fields of Study
Human Computer Interaction, Human Biology