Biography
Yan Huang, full name Yan Sheng Huang, is a serial entrepreneur, Internet marketer and IT consultant. Huang came from China when he was 3 years old and has permanent residence in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in a low income household, which only amplified his drive for success.
Huang built his first website at age 9 and started earning money online at age 14. Since an early age, Huang intuited the Internet as the future for commerce and communication. Through self motivation, self discipline and sheer tenacity, Huang taught himself web design, software programming, Linux, Internet marketing, and an array of other web technologies.
He consulted for 100+ clients prior to the age of 19 doing web design, programming, and Internet marketing. More than 20 of these clients were agencies, firms and companies. In 2007, Huang founded One V8, LLC, an online services company, at which he is currently president and founder.
Professional Experience
President & Founder
One V8, LLC (2007-Present)
Web Design, Search Marketing & IT Services
Technical Sales & Marketing
Sudjam, LLC (2007-2008)
Online Media & Web Hosting
.NET Consultant
Gold Zeppelin, LLC (2007)
Hosted Content Management Solutions
SEO Consultant
Digital Performance, Inc. (2006-2007)
Automotive Industry Parts Directory
Frontend Development Consultant
Weston Mason (2006)
Marketing & Advertising Agency
Linux Intern
Interactive Concepts, LLC (2006-2007)
Web Hosting Company
Affiliate Marketing 2008-2010
Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based business model where the vendor would pay a commission to the affiliate for each customer the affiliate sends to the business and purchases the product or service. This can be done either directly through the vendor or through an affiliate network, which is a web platform that connects vendors and affiliates together.
In 2008, a television show on VH1 came out called The Pick Up Artist, which lead to create a new niche within the dating industry. Huang recognized a market opportunity and created website called Free PUA Videos, a compilation of dating advice videos from the Internet. He launched a YouTube campaign for the website and immediately a weeks after, Amazon sales on dating books and DVDs began to happen. Since 2008, the website has reached over 2 million page views with over $10,000 in sales through Amazon. The website served as a prototype for several future Amazon Associates websites.
Web Proxies 2007-2008
A web proxy service is a website that allows users to surf the Internet with privacy and anonymity. With the avant of viruses, spyware and invasive software, the demand for online privacy was tremendous.
In 2007, Huang saw an opportunity. He built a network of over 30 web proxies and half dozen online security tools, with custom built servers collocated in the Digital Realty Datacenter. One of the more popular tools was MD5 Encryption, which allowed users to encrypt and decrypt passwords that used the MD5 encryption algorithm. This entrepreneurial chapter provided Huang with a comprehensive understanding of how the Internet's underlying technology works, from bandwidth carriers to in-depth database information systems. In 2009, Huang sold the network of proxies along with the tools.
Penny Stock Tools 2006-2007
During the boom of the economy, investing in penny stocks was in high demand. However, the demand also attracted a new culture of novice investors that did not have any prior experience investing. Being a penny stock investor himself at the time, Huang combined technology with simple pragmatism to create a set of tools that would help penny stock investors make smarter stock investment decisions. Stock Pick Tools was a paid interactive portal with mash-ups of 35+ information services. This also included access to a support community called the Stock Pick Forums, where paying members can ask questions and get penny stock advice.
Need for Speed 2004-2005
Need for Speed is a series of racing video games created by Electronic Arts. In 2004, Huang co-founded a Need for Speed fansite called NFSupreme. The website became within the 10 top Need for Speed websites world wide, traffic-wise, within the first 9 months. In 2005, NFSupreme exclusively featured on EA Game's website. The fansite had an excess of 2,500 visitors a day and made over $3,000 through Google Adsense revenue.
Dragon Ball Z Era 1999-2005
Dragon Ball Z pioneered an era of Japanese animations that sweepped through the American market in the 1990s. The term "Dragon Ball Z" made it to the list of top 500 search keywords of all times.
Huang created a fansite in 1999 named Dranet, which was a shortened version of Dragon Ball Z Network. Huang made several strategical decisions that took Dranet from a regular fansite to one of the largest fansites on the Internet. He made a deal to receive exclusive content from FUNimation, the company that owned the rights to Dragon Ball Z in the U.S., as well as reached out to several of the voice actors and music producer of the show for interviews. In 2005, Budokai 3, the biggest Dragon Ball Z video game, came out and Huang saw an opportunity to reach market share. With the exclusive content and arrival of this new video game, Dranet became the leading source of Dragon Ball Z information with over 10,000 visitors per day and several hundred thousand hits per day.
Contact Yan Huang
One V8, LLC
President & Founder
2007 Wilshire Blvd Suite 720
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Office: (877) 477-9324
Direct: (213) 928-6148
Email: yan@onev8.com
Expertise & Qualifications
- Strategic Business Consulting
- Internet Marketing Consulting
- IT Services Consulting
- Social Media Consulting
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Premiere
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook
XHTML/CSS, JavaScript, DOM, XML, JSON, PHP, MySQL, jQuery
Shared & Dedicated Hosting, Collocation, Linux, Cpanel
Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing
Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn
Scholastic Achievements
Ashford University 2011
BA in Business Administration
Santa Monica College 2009
Computer Information Sytems
Mark Keppel High School 2007
3.5 - 4.0 GPA
Football, JV & Varsity
- Founder of MKHS Computer Engineering Club
- Member of National Honor Society
- State Finalist for National History Day 2003
Community Involvement
- Founder & Former Organizer of LA LAMP Meetup
- Founder & Organizer of LA Marketing Meetup
- Speaker on Entrepreneurialism at Pasadena City College
- Speaker on Hosting at LA Web App Developers Group
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