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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Remote, Us

Levy is the back-office operations provider. World-class founders understand that focus is the key to success. Wasting time on operations is a drag on productivity and success. Hiring levy is when you stop being a founder and become a CEO. Why? You're smart enough to realize doing this work yourself is a terrible investment in time and energy. Your company will move faster with you focusing on your superpowers, not on back-office operations.levy takes on your human resources (HR), finance, and compliance work. Your business will run smoothly while you focus on scale.We save our clients an average of 500 hours and ~$70k a year.

The Entrepreneurial Excellence podcast is hosted by Adam Spector, 4x founder and investor in 150+ startups. Each weekly episode features some of the world's top founders and investors. Topics include:- Top skills of the best entrepreneurs- Biggest entrepreneurial mistakes- Investing & Venture Capital- Hiring, firing and team building

The Autopilot Fund focuses on early-stage companies that serve and accelerate how companies operate. More about us: https://autopilot.fund/Operations span various “departments”: could be in engineering, operations, sales, finance, product, customer success… the questions we ask ourselves are:1. Is this a founding team so capable that others should be afraid to go against them?2. Do they understand the problem better than anyone, and have special “founder-market” fit?3. Will they rest until they have dragged the world kicking & screaming into their vision of the future?4. Is the product “infrastructure” in a manner of speaking: structured data, deeply embedded, sticky?5. Does the advent of AI exponentially increase or decrease their defensibility?Our portfolio includes some pretty special companies like AngelList, Pulley, Puzzle, Levels, Disco, among others. Smart founders focus. Bad founders distract themselves with all the small, non-product, non-customer work that can easily take up hours but not move your startup forward.We are sector agnostic and focus mostly on early stage. Our thesis is simple: the best founders come from anywhere, with any background, working in any industry. Focus, joy, dogged determination, and deep knowledge about your product and how you're changing the world is what leads to success.If you're interested in learning more, drop me a note on LinkedIn.

Angel Investor in ~200 startups. 14 unicorns, 8 of which I invested at seed. Some of my favorites: Datalogue (exit), August Smart Lock (exit), Diamond Foundry, Checkr, OrderAhead (exit), Classkick, Jet.com (exit), Ginkgo Bioworks (public), uBiome (failure), BetterUp, Human Interest, Relativity Space, PayJoy, Ambient.ai, Zoox (exit), Arka, Kush Marketplace, Shyp (failure), AcreTrader, Cleary, Begin, Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), Evenup, Attentive, Metaphor Data, Certn, Boom Supersonic, Otis, Jobox.ai, Mootral, Chia Network, Evernow, Contra, On Deck, Equi, Placer.ai, Vinovest, VoiceOps, Synex, Soot, Inversion Space, AtoB, Blockfi (failure), Superplastic, Rarify, Airmeet, AtoB, Writer, All Blue Labs, Droneseed, Favor, Stashfin, Copilot Money, Sidebar, Function Health, Comprehensive, BetterBrain, HealthArc, Angelist, Tiny Health, Best Practicer (acquired), Release, Anduril, Puzzle, Supliful, Parallel Bio. My preferred focus is on SaaS Enterprise businesses although fantastic, focused founders solving problems aligned with personal theses are always worth meeting. I invest largely at the earliest stages. I prefer to invest directly but also participate in syndicates. I'm still trying to comprehend how some of my failures have gone from the top of the heap to bankruptcy (I have thoughts). #startupinvesting #learning

San Francisco, California, Us

Community of Angel Investors learning from and teaching each other how to invest in and give back to the dynamic startup community we all love (and that is a constant source of inspiration). Added bonus thanks to the fantastic investment opportunities.

World's largest (I believe) community of Post-Exit, building, learning, educating and ideating founders.

Venture Scout for Headline VC.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Network Advisor and Venture Scout for Correlation Ventures

San Francisco, California, Us

On Deck Scale Fellow - Inaugural Class

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Mentor to early stage companies globally. Helping more founders make their dream and idea a reality!

Remote, Us

AbstractOps abstracts away business operations so founders and executives can focus on what matters most: product and sales. We are the OS for the back-office.CEOs and founding teams waste hundreds of hours every year context switching into operational tasks - finance, legal, HR, hiring, and sales ops. These tasks are generally one-off, require a lot of research and education on new tools. At AbstractOps, we think there is a better way. Imagine a single dashboard tying together, automating, and proactively managing your entire back-office so that you can focus on what you do best: building a rocketship company. Businesses that focus win. Founders that distract themselves lose.Sign up on our waitlist at AbstractOps.com or join our operations community (https://www.abstractops.com/ao-community) if you just want to start learning a bit more/get some basic startup operations help. We're hiring! https://work.abstractops.com/

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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Data @Twitter #datadriven

Datalogue’s AI powered pipelines automatically prepare any data from any source or any format, for immediate, compliant use. Time to data is a critical measurement for any business success - how long it takes you to measure and optimize your data is the difference between success and failure. Go from weeks or months to minutes to process and prepare any of your data sources for analysis. We make ETL and data prep a back of the mind problem by using machine learning. Sales and marketing (go-to-market) focus although it's critical to work hand-in-hand with engineering and product to make sure that Datalogue fit the needs of our customers leading to high conversion and low churn. Grew revenue 700x (from a low base ;) in under a year with expectations of 10x growth in 2019. Led Datalogue to become part of Jensen Huang's (CEO of Nvidia) keynote at GTC 2019. Represented Datalogue at both RedHerring North America and Red Herring Global - winner both times.

Châtillon, Fr

Orange Fab is a three-month accelerator program that supports U.S.-based start-ups with an existing product which changes the way people connect and communicate. M&A is the new R&D and Orange Fab is an ideal way for companies like Orange to find, interact, and learn from risk-taking entrepreneurial startups around the world. My company, Virtrue was in Orange Fab's first batch (Summer 2013).

Datalogue (AI for ETL), Dispatchr (mobile resource management), Shipsi (same day shipping & delivery)

San Bruno, California, Us

[Acquired by Maven] LiftIgniter is the personalization API. We algorithmically personalize your website or app using machine learning. Personalization leads to more engaged, sticky, and high value users. YCombinator w14 and raised seed and series A from a fantastic list of top tier investors (total of $8.4m). I oversaw the business and product side of the company. For the first 2 years, it was me plus 5 amazing engineers. We grew the business from $0 in revenue, $0 in marketing, 0 customers, 0 case studies to profitability, billions of data points, negative mrr churn, and a successful series A fundraise with top VC firms. As a member of the Board and leadership team, I worked on long-term strategy, quarterly and yearly goal-setting, and senior employment decisions. Culture was and always is a part of my focus, as well. On a daily basis, my focus was on hiring and managing a high velocity sales, customer success, BD, and marketing team. Our goal was high performance at the top of the funnel all the way to close and renewal.Small fun story from these years: A very famous hedge fund manager flew my co-founder and I from SF to CT on his private jet for a full day of meetings with him and his team. He then put us on his helicopter to JFK and a first class flight home.

Key Largo, Fl, Us

The Coral Restoration Foundation ("CRF") and its sister organization AdoptACoral (which I founded) is a 501c3 non-profit organization focused on rebuilding coral reefs throughout the world. We have the only viable method for replanting coral reefs, which in many parts of the world have lost upwards of 90% of their hard coral cover (especially in the Florida Keys).We have 22,000 coral "nubbins" in our nursery. We have put 2,000 full, nursery-grown, corals back onto the depleted reefs. We work closely with N.O.A.A., The Nature Conservancy and other major governmental and non-profit organization. CRF has received national press attention including from the New York Times, CNN, The Discovery Channel and much more. My work includes:- Fundraising activities- Legal support/advice/contract creation- Marketing & website advice (I built the first version of AdoptACoral.com, which is no longer active)

Virtrue is building the next generation identity resolution and reputation platform utilizing alternative data sources, big data science and algorithmic machine learning. We focus on verifying core identity attributes & variables so that you can transact securely in every marketplace. We eliminate fraud & provide global transactional security. Launched in early 2012, we work with payment companies, marketplaces, human resources, collaborative consumption companies, and a variety of other businesses. We enable them to quickly strengthen their security by instantly verifying customer/user information. Virtrue is language agnostic and works globally with over 1.1 billion verifiable profiles.Our core products include:- Identity verification (global, local, instant, low-cost)- Social knowledge based authentication- Fraud prevention- Two-factor authentication- Device fingerprinting- Algorithmic reputation- Alternative credit scores

Los Angeles, California, Us

- Safi Water Works: fixing water problems in developing countries.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Henge Docks builds the world's best docking solutions for all things Apple. Welcome home, Apple.Joined the team to improve specific areas including website re-launch, online advertising & marketing, Enterprise sales, distributors/channels, and future-focused customer support. Helped shepherd in the best product launch in the company's history!

Arlington, Virginia, Us

The world's best docking stations and products for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. We love all things Apple & hardware.

San Francisco, California, Us

Founders Network is a private community of tech startup founders committed to helping each other succeed through peer mentorship. Members gain a support network featuring peer advice based on experience and personal introductions to key individuals like investors, customers and vetted service providers. The benefits are faster, smarter decision making; increased access to growth opportunities; and peace of mind from minimizing personal and management risk.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Symantec acquired Clearwell Systems for $400 million.During the acquisition, I was tasked with helping to lead the transition and integration for business development and sales. In this role, I work directly with my counterparts at Symantec to efficiently and transparently integrate Clearwell's Channel into the Symantec system while minimizing all disruptions to the business. The acquisition also exposed Clearwell's technology to Symantec's VARs, which produce a majority of Symantec's ~$6.5B in revenues. Those VARs required training, new contracts, and a sales support to successfully integrate Clearwell into their offerings. I managed a select list of the top Symantec VARs and 50+ litigation support & law firm relationships in all the major cities West of the Mississippi.Other roles & responsibilities include:- Manage the partner and law firm relationships West of the Mississippi. Work includes sales, support, training, and identification and prioritization of old and new partners.- Pricing strategy, market analysis- Deal negotiation - Interface with direct and indirect sales team on deals vis-a-vis the Channel- Align channel & VAR marketing strategy to fit product roadmap and increase customer usage and sales- Work closely with marketing team on the creation and roll-out of collateral- Present at events, roadshows.- And, of course, a lot of travel! :)

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Clearwell was a leading provider of machine intelligent e-discovery software. Clearwell sold product via two methods: direct to the Enterprise or via the Channel. The Channel represented nearly 50% of revenue despite having a far small team. I managed Clearwell's Channel Partners for the United States (focusing on the West as the team continued to grow). The work included interfacing with all of our partners, VARs, and law firms in my territory, selling our product to and with them, signing up and identifying new partners, training, roadmap/technical understanding, and strategic initiatives to increase revenue, margins, and success vis-a-vis the competition. The Channel team worked closely with our sales and engineering groups as they are critical to our success given the large territory and partners with very different needs and abilities. Understanding the technology, competition, and city/state level market dynamics is required for top performance.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Project manage all aspects of Neustar's $200 million plus NPAC/Number portability Re-bid project. This project was the most important strategic focus as it represented, at the time, a majority of the companies revenue and nearly all of its profit. Tools used:- Microsoft Project- Microsoft Visio* Polaris Award winner - "most prestigious employee honor recognized by Neustar"* Chairman's Award winner - "for recognized excellence above and beyond my peers"

Reston, Virginia, Us

I founded and ran the Corporate Social Responsibility program at Neustar. The focus of the program was to reduce our environmental impact in a business-positive manner. I received executive sign-off and budget to create the new group, which touched all parts of the organization: - HR: empowering greater employee involvement in company affairs via working group led by me. The group included people from all parts of the organization (and titles) who had rarely interacted in the past. I also created the first CSA-delivery program in the company's history. - Physical footprint: reduction in facility waste from the datacenter/NOC down to paper, printing, and lighting. Included detailed work with our landlord, architects, and consultants. - Sales: growing RFP sustainability requirement, which the program enabled us to answer in a positive light- Marketing: to customers, potential new hires, and others interested in our impact on the local environment In the course of ten months from when the program started, Neustar was recognized as an environmental leader by the Northern Virginia Tech Council and Loudon County.

Reston, Virginia, Us

I was a member of the Corporate Development team working on mergers and acquisitions for Neustar - a $500M revenue publicly traded corporation. I worked on everything from small ($1M) to large ($200M +) deals, and strategy. The role included detailed financial analysis, heavy due diligence/data room management, integration planning, earnout management, and strategic market analysis.Heavy focus on Excel modeling, market analysis, and target interaction.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

I split my work between legal work in the General Counsel's office and with the WiMax strategy & rollout team. - Internet & mobile privacy- Mobile social networking including early location check-in- The "Internet of Things" before it was cool- e911- Next-generation WiMax (4G) technology strategic rollout including pricing analysis, customer segmentation, and initial marketing. We thought WiMax would be the next big thing. It was not but working on next generation technology and thinking about the possibilities of the future bit me hard. I have yet to shake that enjoyment.

- Corporate law- Offering documents/memoranda- Employee contracts- Intellectual property

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Summer clerk for the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (DC), the Honorable Thomas F. Hogan. - Litigation- Research & writing- Legal analyses

B.S., Business Administration, Political Science, Philosophy (Double Major, Minor) - Cum Laude

Juris Doctor, Business/Commerce, General

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Finance, Marketing

Political Science And Government

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