Schools on Facebook and The Big Decision
After months of talking to my parents in depth, as well as advisors and mentors, the decision was pretty clear — my only option was to go to college, and so here I am, ready to go to College of San Mateo in the fall. Now that I know where I’m going to school, I wish I knew more then twenty people that will be attending the same school as me, and would love to find entrepreneurial people like me to meet, and share ideas with.
In the community: Speaking at Gates Foundation Meeting
During the week of March 22, I’ll be traveling to Washington D.C. to represent Inigral at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Postsecondary Business Convening. The conversation will be an important step in understanding how the business community can play a catalytic role to help dramatically increase the number of young adults who earn a degree at a reasonable cost in a reasonable time.
Mentoring at SeedCamp
I was honored to be a part of the mentor team at SeedCamp, Europe’s answer to Y Combinator on Friday, January 22, 2010. I spent most of my advisory time focused on early stage customer development, lean startup practices, and iterative inbound marketing.
Execution is Everything: Start Up Bootcamp
Columbus Day had to offer a bay area style event at MIT, Start Up Bootcamp – #sb. You can check the videos on YouTube here. Now, I’ve been to these things so much I can almost lip sync their presentations, but I hadn’t seen cool folks like Alex Ohanion of Reddit, Adam Smith of Xobni, [...]
Inigral in New York
From June 3rd to June 6th, our CEO Michael Staton and I had the pleasure of attending the first ever Internet Week in New York City. Michael was one of five speakers on the “Beyond Facebook: How Will Today’s Students Use the Web of Tomorrow?” panel, hosted by FindingDulcinea on Thursday afternoon. The entire experience was enlightening.
Inigral/Serious Business Presentation Night
“Hvordan går det?” filled the air Monday night near San Francisco’s Montgomery street Bart Station, as Inigral and Serious Business presented their varying business models to a visiting group of Danish entrepreneurs. Serious Business Founder and CEO Siqi Chen, along with members from Inigral’s founding team including Michael Staton (CEO), Joseph Sofaer, and George Deglin, explained how startups are becoming fully sustainable on top of this emerging platform.
