Share The Asked Out (new name still up for grabs) team has been on the fundraising hustle for the past 4-5 months.  We have had our successes…we have our rejections…and stumbles along the way.  I personally have not been the most integral part of the fundraising process…but I have contributed.  Therefore I have been able [...]

Share Here are some spontaneous thoughts I had leadership and wrote in my note book.  Here they are transcribed and polished (not much) for the blog. Leadership needs to be different…now more than ever.  Many people realize this, many have stated this, some say our world is not working effectively therefore we need to lead differently.  I [...]

Share This is a guest post by my good friend and remote entrepreneur Austin Evarts of FullFoundation.com.  Austin has traveled the world while building Twepto , creating an online course on passive revenue generation called The Remote Entrepreneur, all while getting featured on Tim Ferriss’s blog The Four Hour Work Week. In the early stages of a startup you often need [...]

Share My girlfriend Catherine helps run an after school program in San Jose called Alma Verde.  The kids range from 5 to 12 which makes for some interesting dynamics between young and older kids.  One of the products of those dynamics are their strong opinions and inquisitive nature.  This naturally makes from great after work storytelling from Cath… However [...]

Share Entrepreneurship and self reflection goes hand in hand.  When you’re able to step away from the laptop for a few, you often are confronted by the “whys” of your life.  One of the fundamental “whys” that confronts entrepreneurs is the ‘why am I doing what I do?’.  I mean…your friends think your weird, your parents don’t [...]

Share Few times in history has true good prevailed over all other forces.  Martin Luther King was able to invent a world of true good…free of judgement and prejudice while filling the newly empty space it with love and understanding.  Not everyone would subscribe to this new world, however this new world would change everyone’s world for ever! We [...]

ShareWorking with a startup from the soil up has given me tremendous insights into some of the challenges facing early stage startups (especially working with a startup trying to disrupt the market place).  One challenge (a fun and worthy challenge might I add) is establishing “Product Market Fit” while being in stealth mode.  Start-up marketing consultant and entrepreneur, Sean [...]

Share A little over a month ago I began a stint as a consultant with Rec.fm, a new startup out of the valley that is dedicated to merging social commerce with cause donations.  A month later I am becoming more and more aware of the Non-Profit landscape and the themes of creativity and innovation.  The majority of the charities I talked [...]

Share My mom has always been a huge Neil Young fan…beyond HUGE.  We even watched the Super Bowl at his house when my brother and I were kids since our families had mutual friends.  My whole life I just thought he was a semi-aloof artist with an very interesting voice.  Today I listened…truly listened to Heart of [...]

Share *The Holstee Manifesto…. Thanks Ashil!