Coaching Social Impact startups on Strategy, Leadership and Culture(tl;dr; find traction, exploit leverage, kill for customers)

Raised $1.25m Seed round

BixData built innovative autonomous distributed framework for large-scale cluster management.Hundreds of (free) production-level users, and proven at 20,000-scale at the Internet Archive.

Company made accessories for hard-core professional video gamers. Raised $1.25M seed round

Company made an EAI appliance. Drove process leading to $5m funding

Wide-area networking company, built a router whose success in IBM customers' branch-office networks made it the preferred choice for large customers and market partners, including IBM. - Won big customers (AT&T, Visa, BofA, Wells Fargo, Boeing,). - Sought-after market partner (IBM, MCI, Sprint, EDS, 3Com , others) - Raised $15 million (Whitney, Menlo , Canaan , Hancock and 3Com ) - Sustained profitability, revenue growth - $100 million IPO, peak market cap of $1BEmployee #1Designed initial embedded networking OSGrew to 150 teammates, $40M/yr run-rateExternal spokesman (Wall Street, industry)

Programmed at the birth of microprocessors. Wrote a ton of assember, including mainframe; designed/implemented custom communications front-ends, embedded systems. Lots of physical chip and device drivers. Wrote in C before it had Classes. .Contracts included Boeing, Crowley Maritime, BofA, Visa, Datapoint (the original microprocessor), Amdahl, Arthur Anderson.