I’m an advisor to the startups Signpost, Slated, Three Day Rule, Starbates, and Pogoseat. I’m also a mentor at the tech incubator, MuckerLab. My background is I used to work for amazon.com and Google as a Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager. As an advisor, I typically focus on product-related issues. However, like most advisors, my role can be quite broad and I’ve worked on everything from strategy to helping devise a sales compensation structure to even more nitty gritty issues like determining holiday bonuses. My role is to provide value to the CEO / founders so I’m happy to help on any issue they want to raise. The typical interactions are 80% around issues they want to talk about and 20% around issues that I see and would like to raise.
I was talking to a friend (and former colleague) yesterday. We were catching up on where some of our old co-workers are now, and it turns out that a lot of them now run pretty sizable divisions of some large companies. The one we referenced now runs a multi-BILLION line of business. Staggering....
James Harden is a well-known and soon to be very well paid professional basketball player. He was on this year's Olympic Basketball team and a key member of the Oklahoma City Thunder which lost to the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. When he wasn't able to come to terms with OKC, he was traded to...
A friend of mine is working on a women's fashion startup -- around helping women sell items in their closet that they're no longer wearing (or just want to sell.) They've achieved quite a bit of great traction -- good team / backers -- and you can see their splash page here: ...
