Dave Linhardt is currently the Co-Founder & CEO of Datalove.us a leading life event data marketplace and offer recommendation engined based on verified purchase intent behavior. They are changing how omnichannel marketing campaigns are implemented using advanced personalization, anonymous actionable profiles and the largest, most accurate life event data platform in the market today. Dave co-founded the company as a portfolio project within InsightStudios.

We are building 150 startups using a proven methodology for finding product-market fit. InsightStudios is a startup studio. Our solution is a proprietary process for building startups called Insight-Driven Iteration. This proven process provides break-through business model validation and de-leverages the risk of seed-stage investing using deep customer insight. Our proprietary deal flow of validated ideas is derived from problems experienced first hand by our experienced entrepreneurs.

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Dave Linhardt worked as a senior leader developing a new business venture at Merch by Amazon. His responsibilities included identifying the best market opportunities to pursue given internal capabilities, customer requirements and the competitive landscape, developing a comprehensive strategy for entering new markets, defining detailed product requirements, developing a cost-effective go-to-market strategy, developing a detailed financial model and aligning with team members on a new service launch plan.

Maverick Direct Marketing, Inc. was a startup studio focused on customer acquisition technologies. We’ve created, built and scaled five startups. We successfully bootstrapped all startups to profitability without any outside capital. Our best outcome generated a 480x cash-over-cash return