“As is the case with many startups, my own endeavor has been gridlocked between the need to fund a product in order to build and needing a product to raise funds. It's a problem that can send big dreams and great ideas to their graves but a problem often predicated upon the popular notion that early-stage investing is a necessity, especially when attracting equity partners proves difficult for much of the same reasons— "Let's see the product, then I'll consider." Thanks to Colin and Equity Directory, there's now a solution. It's not that partners for equity aren't out there; they are! There simply needed to be a platform that brings people from all around together based on the same intents and initiatives. Equity Directory not only facilitates connections far and wide, it does so under a high degree of stewardship that validates the professionalism of all members of the community in the eyes of each other. If you're in Equity Directory, you mean business. Equity Directory has helped me enormously. I highly recommend startups pursue this platform. Colin and co-founder Lisa Magill are extraordinary. They've helped me as if they are part of my team, and I can tell they'd do the same for any startup.”
Experience & Education
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Equity Directory
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Volunteer Experience
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Mentor
Cal Poly Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Present 9 years 10 months
The Cal Poly Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE) helps students acquire the tools, develop the skills and cultivate the mindset of an entrepreneur. While it can mean starting a new business, entrepreneurial careers can be found or created in just about every field, industry and organization.
At the Center, students are immersed in the entrepreneurial process through hands-on innovation programs focused on our three distinct areas: LEARN, PREPARE and LAUNCH. -
Publications
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TED talk - The Equity Economy
TED
See publicationIn the new equity economy, people are coming together as a community, doing work on the side, for a cause they believe in.
Most startups fail because they can't find a product-to-market fit before they die.
Sort of like your first job, where no one will hire you without experience, and you need experience to get hired, start-ups need to develop their product offering to raise needed infusions of cash, yet the infusion of cash is needed to do the development.
Because of this paradox, a…In the new equity economy, people are coming together as a community, doing work on the side, for a cause they believe in.
Most startups fail because they can't find a product-to-market fit before they die.
Sort of like your first job, where no one will hire you without experience, and you need experience to get hired, start-ups need to develop their product offering to raise needed infusions of cash, yet the infusion of cash is needed to do the development.
Because of this paradox, a wealth of opportunity and great ideas are being lost to the world.
Honors & Awards
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Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America
Languages
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Spanish
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