one-year-back-as-ceo 
Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 5, 2022
In 2016, I was looking for my next big thing after 25 years of operating a marketing business. Now, after pausing for two years of Covid, we’re creating another life-changing event: DX22. The DX event is so powerful because of the networking quality among the MyEO DX community. What is the Needs and Leads Speed Networking event?
Dream It
JULY 31, 2019
The first time, back in 2012, I joined as part of a mobile gaming company. I learned more there than in six years in college and six years in Intel. This business would generate revenue ASAP to avoid depending on investors and rounds of funding. NOT spending time on the accelerator building the product.
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American Entrepreneurship
JUNE 20, 2025
Extend, the AI-native document processing startup, announced the closing of $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding to accelerate its mission of turning complex, unstructured documents into accurate, production-ready data. Performance That Scales with Demand The demand for Extend’s solution has been explosive.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2014
I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs – Cintrifuse. I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future.
StartupNation
JUNE 6, 2025
Leaning back in my chair and pensively staring into the digital whiteness of the Google Doc (about to type this article), I’m thinking how many times I actually pronounced (in my head or out loud), “ If only someone had told me this before ,” as a founding CEO. CEO Lesson #2. Note : 70% of job applicants might be lying.)
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 5, 2015
They''re a career accelerator, which is a pretty neat concept--doing what YC and Techstars do for startups, but for your career. Twenty years ago, I got my first job. Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. Who''s the VC that everyone *isn''t* trying to network with.
StartupNation
JUNE 6, 2025
Leaning back in my chair and pensively staring into the digital whiteness of the Google Doc (about to type this article), I’m thinking how many times I actually pronounced (in my head or out loud), “ If only someone had told me this before ,” as a founding CEO. CEO Lesson #2. Note : 70% of job applicants might be lying.)
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