• Model United Nations

• Scholastic honors - Dean’s List with High Honors, Fall 1994
• DAT (Doherty A Tower)
• Member of the Philosophy Brute Squad

• Founder and President of the Salsa Club
• Lead writer of the Student Body Constitution
• MBA Student Body Representative
• President of the Chess Club

I was responsible for the profit and loss of our Full Disk Encryption product. This included making all business decisions including alliances and acquisitions. I also worked with the marketing and sales teams to create the marketing plan and draft the marketing/sales collateral, white papers, presentations, and website material.

I was responsible for the profit and loss of our Full Disk Encryption, email security, and file/folder encryption products. This included making all business decisions including alliances and acquisitions. I also worked with the marketing and sales teams to create the marketing plan and draft the marketing/sales collateral, white papers, presentations, and website material.

Opportunities won't wait. Every entrepreneur knows the frustration of seeing a potential business pass by because they couldn't find the right business partner, funding, or other needed resource. We enable entrepreneurship by creating a space where co-founders can meet one another and brainstorm the next big idea. Then we turn those ideas into businesses by matching them with funding, tools, and services in a virtual marketplace. But we want to go beyond that. We'd like to become a long term business partner who helps companies find the tools, services, and funding they need to thrive. We pledge to continue to push our business model further down the lifecycle of startups and tie our key metrics to the metrics of our customers. We will judge our success on the basis of whether or not we're able to increase the percentage of entrepreneurs on our site who are able to form businesses and the percentage of those businesses that succeed. In short, we want you to get your startup started!

I designed and organized a curriculum for a one month entrepreneurship bootcamp based on lean startup methodology. The program brought entrepreneurs from Mexico to the San Francisco Bay Area for education, networking, and exploring business opportunities in the United States. The work included recruiting speakers, managing knowledge transfer during mentor handovers, and on-site supervision of the program.

The ultimate goal of the program was to help bolster an entrepreneurial eco-system for technology startups in Mexico, and I'm happy to say it was successful. If you visit Monterry, Hermosillo, or Mexico City today and find the local StartupWeekend or Hackers and Founders meetup groups, you will likely find some TechBA graduates.

Speakers included:

• Robert Scoble
• Ariel Poler
• Janice Fraser
• Patrick Vlaskovits
• Hiten Shah
• Dan Martell
• Brant Cooper
• Tim McCoy
• Victor Reyes
• Wee Yen
• Sean Murphy
• Theresa Shafer
• Darius Dunlap

I ran LUXr's accelerator training program. This involved working with accelerators and enterprises in a train the trainer program and helping them design their curriculum. Accelerators learned how to implement and train startups in lean startup methodology using LUXr's core curriculum as a basis.

I've had the opportunity to do this with accelerators such as:

• Startup Wise Guys in Estonia
• Happy Farm in Ukraine
• NEST'up in Belgium
• N-motion in Lincoln, NE
• TechBA Seattle, WA
• Lean Startup Circle organizers
• and a $5.2B USD revenue enterprise organization

...but since LUXr was a small company and a startup itself, I also wound up coaching startups, building LUXr's eCommerce site, evangelizing lean startup methodology, creating new learning frameworks, measuring progress through metrics, and always learning, learning, learning.

I worked in various positions in the music industry. I recorded, produced, and edited three full length CDs and an EP (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003) as well as managed all aspects of CD manufacturing, graphic design, and layout. I established digital and retail distribution outlets, developed marketing campaigns (including print advertisements, CD release parties, and reviews), and booked national concert tours.

• Exchange student program
• Co-founder and marketing manager of The Immortal Dodos, international students’ basketball team.

Originally in Vietnam for a two month period to restructure the marketing department, I was responsible for managing a team of 32.5 staff during the departure of the local GM and global CTO. Local operations included the R&D department for our Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Single Sign-On (SSO) products as well as the marketing department responsible for worldwide marketing support.

I volunteered with BUILD to teach entrepreneurship to high school students at Oakland Tech and help them get into college. My team designed and sold lanyards with the Oakland Tech colors.

This was an experiment for the LUXr.co program with Janice Fraser.

I am simultaneously proud and embarrassed to have created something so profoundly silly. I have now earned my title as Part-time Startup Comedian.

I worked with the sales team to develop and implement marketing campaigns for the North American market focusing on Single Sign-On for the SAP market. This included creating sales collateral including white papers, presentations, and product flyers. This work was done concurrent with advanced studies.

KissMobs was a Startup Weekend project. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only Startup Weekend Project that ended the weekend cash flow positive.

Unfortunately we didn't continue, but there are some posts about it here and here.

I like startups. I like karaoke. Great things go great together.

'nuff said.

Advisor to a mobile app company in product development, user experience (UX) design, and marketing. Their first product was PowerVocab, an iOS app to help students prepare for the GRE. The product line was acquired.

Gregarious Narain and I put together this event to help entrepreneurs learn how to pitch investors in a workshop setting with venture capitalists, angel investors, and other experts giving honest feedback.

I ran two events with Startup Weekend. Chris McCann from StartupDigest said of the last one, "That was the highest quality Startup Weekend I've ever been to!"

I also currently hold the speed record for organizing a StartupWeekend in 14 days. We had 9 days to sell tickets and managed to sell out.

Building lean leaders at Lean Startup Circle.

I help setup new groups, create a world wide network of lean startup organizers, help existing groups find their sustainable business model (even if non-profit), and hack a little bit on leanstartupcircle.com

At the suggestions of Jonathan Nelson from Hackers and Founders, I created a wiki to help people moving to Silicon Valley to start a startup. Then link spammers took it over.

After much pontification, I have created an equation to fully explain the effect of hiring rock stars and ninjas for your startup.

The Invisible Shark is stealthy and hard to see coming.

Which is not to say that I don't think stealth projects are ridiculous, they are. It's just to say I'm not really sure what this is yet.

This is an experiment in the media. Can the crowd tell which news articles are politically biased?

(Yes, I reuse the same logo a lot.)

TweetHerder is a plugin for Wordpress that allows you highlight phrases in your post and turn them into one-click tweet buttons for your readers to tweet. I developed it for my blog.

AdHerder is a Wordpress plugin for A/B testing ads. I use it on my blog.

A Peer-to-Peer accelerator for technology startups.

I coach startups and intrapreneurs on adopting Lean Startup principles into practice.

I've worked with companies as early stage as $0 revenue to larger enterprises with $5.6B in revenue. While the situation changes and tactics must be adapted, the principles remain the same.

I coach using hands on techniques including workshops and ongoing facilitation, not theories and 2x2 business school presentations. I don't send lengthy reports as deliverables from a consulting engagement. So if you're looking for that, keep looking elsewhere.

To supplement this work I spend some time working with various organizations giving talks and advising their startups. I also author the blog GrasshopperHerder.com

Some of the organizations I've worked with include:

• GITpro,
• the LUXr.co Residency,
• Lean Startup Machine,
• StartupWeekend,
• TechBA "Build or Die" Bootcamp,
• Lean Startup Circle,
• Central Oregon Pub Talks,
• Seedcamp San Francisco,
• Startup Monthly,
• Silicon Valley Bleeding Edge Ruby Entrepreneur,
• Bootstrapper's Breakfast,
• Lean Coffee Meetup,
• ...and the Lean Deck Clinic.

Teachers don't scale. Peers do.

This thing is a litte buggy. But we can fix it!

Just in case it hasn't been done yet.

I'm hitching a ride off this rock!