Also known as: "Rev" and "People for Products, Inc."

HG Ventures accelerates your customer acquisition and helps you reach your growth potential faster.Acquiring new customers is always in season. The best growth tactics are now accessible to everyone. New platforms and strategies emerge daily. Marketing and sales have changed. Early adopters leverage new platforms and strategies to achieve fantastic results. However, continuous customer growth proves to be elusive for many.We asked ourselves, “How can we consistently turn new growth opportunities into actionable growth strategies?”Customer acquisition is intimate and personalized. Everyone knows that you need to be on social, mobile, video – everyone knows you need to be “growth hacking”. However, your “success story” is unique: having a presence on social, mobile, and video means something different to everyone. Understanding these differences is hard. HG Ventures makes it possible to consistently unlock new growth opportunities through "Calibrated Bets". We use an assumption-based model: every new sales and marketing effort for a company is an assumption about how to either acquire more customers or how to increase overall awareness and brand recognition. We define structured assumptions, identify simple ways to test, implement the test, collect data, iterate, and scale. Our Calibrated bets result in a data-backed strategy for acquiring customers and growing your business.We use Calibrated Bets to:- Create customer acquisition strategies- Design and implement websites- Succeed with organic and paid social- And overall sales strategyWe are 10X innovation award winners.- Team founded and sold one of the first-ever venture-backed bitcoin startups- Have led or advised sales, marketing, and product for 8+ high growth companies- Formerly at Global Brand and Marketing and Marketing Consulting at Visa- Marketing at McKinney Ad Agency- Strategy at the Department of DefenseStart your next stage of accelerated growth with a partner committed to you.

The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of early-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises. The Alchemist combines venture-funding, structured enterprise sales curriculum, coaches that have built, scaled, and sold some of the world's most successful companies, and access to the world's best enterprise mentor and investor network.As a CEO Coach, I advise founding CEOs on their startup journey, with a primary focus on accelerating customer acquisition, business development strategy, and fundraising.I am thrilled to be CEO Coach to the following startups:Raxel is a smart mobility platform – their SDK makes it easy for the gig economy, transportation companies, and any entity managing a fleet of vehicles and drivers to collect and interpret location, behavior, and performance data.Rubilabs is an on-demand essential services platform for hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and drug stores in Sub-Saharan Africa. They receive requests for essential medical products and optimize delivery in real-time via their network of drivers and autonomous drones (for rural locations).Evera has reimagined at-home health, starting with COVID. Evera makes it easy to get your COVID test from the comfort of your home with same day appointments. Their mobile testing specialists come to you on demand so that you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home or office.Bludot is a govtech startup that provides business retention software to the teams managing city and counties' economic development. They are on a mission to help cities around the country to supercharge their economic development and support their local businesses and community to the fullest.Insera Health is a voice-enabled platform that accelerates the process of collecting a patient's medical history in order to improve patient wait-times and make it easy for health practitioners to focus on the patient and not the paperwork.

Lil' Heroes is a web3 venture backed by:- A world-renowned artist: Edgar Plans- Global content production leaders: Exile Content Studio and Candle Media- A tremendous community: thousands of enthusiasts owning 7,777 Lil Heroes' NFTs- Superstar creatives: Carmelo Anthony and his production studio are helping produce an animated show- Emmy Award-winning writer, author, and show runner: Kevin Shinick- And a passionate team of web3 enthusiasts and leadersAs reported by Variety, the Lil’ Heroes NFT collection has "generated over $60 million in trading volume and reached over 80,000 members on Discord, with ambassadors including 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa, J Balvin, DJ Khaled, Will I Am, and [Carmelo] Anthony who all had Lil’ Heroes likenesses made in their honor."

Loyalty is a currency, and the three key pillars of this currency are trust, convenience, and meaningful rewards. Watch Out! is a safety, loyalty, and rewards platform. By curating information from hundreds of disparate product safety, recall, and alert sources, customizing these alerts to your lifestyle and needs, and providing tailored rewards, Watch Out! saves time, saves money, and saves lives. Watch Out!'s patented technology couples loyalty and security into an anonymous, personalized, and real-time platform that reimagines loyalty and your relationship with the brands of your life. Watch Out! was born out of i3 Brands, Inc. and its deep portfolio of technology companies that specialize in software and data-driven solutions across several verticals. Watch Out! acquired BitWall to help accelerate its loyalty and rewards ecosystem.

BitWall has been acquired! https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/13/watch-out-acquires-bitwall/BitWall was one of the first venture-backed Bitcoin startups. BitWall helped pioneer Bitcoin micropayments by making it easy for publishers to accept Bitcoin and other alternate payments. BitWall also was one of the pioneers of social currency, allowing people to pay for content through a Tweet and the subsequent traffic each Tweet sends to a publisher. By consistently introducing innovative monetization, loyalty, and reward models, BitWall grew a great network of customers and was ultimately acquired by one of the customers it worked most closely with.Press:Digiday: http://digiday.com/publishers/bitcoin-newspapers/PandoDaily: http://pando.com/2014/01/14/bitwall-gets-its-big-break-with-the-chicago-sun-times-not-too-shabby/PandoDaily: http://pandodaily.com/2013/11/18/pay-by-tweet-how-new-startup-bitwall-is-using-bitcoins-and-social-currency-to-monetize-the-web/Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/3026071/tweet-for-your-supper-and-handbag-brands-customers-and-the-new-social-currencyFast Company: http://www.fastcompany.com/3021745/fast-feed/the-dish-daily-installs-bitwall-a-paywall-that-accepts-tweets-bitcoinsPaymentsSource: http://www.paymentssource.com/news/daily-dish-launches-bitwalls-social-paywall-for-online-content-3016049-1.htmlPYMNTS.com: http://www.pymnts.com/briefing-room/issuers/virtual-currency/2013/BitWall-s-Tall-Task-Of-Returning-Value-To-Publishing/TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/21/bitwall-launch/PaymentsSource: http://www.paymentssource.com/news/bitwall-aims-to-tear-down-a-pricing-barrier-in-micropayments-3015008-1.htmlThe Dish Daily: http://thedishdaily.com/news/2013/09/24/san-mateos-boost-demo-day

Purchace is a mobile wallet and money management system for parents and teens. Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.purchaceWebsite: http://purchacewallet.com/

Global Brand and MarketingConducted analytics on internal marketing website to drive greater site activity and improve Marketing team's access to most important resources.Assisted with qualitative interviews to determine best practices for marketing site and made recommendations for site revamp. Managed site redesign, which included coordinating content and feedback between Visa's Global Brand and Marketing team and the agency. Managed the monthly internal marketing site release. Visa Marketing Consulting (part of the Sales organization)Created recommendation for new information hierarchy for team's inventory of best practices, case studies, white papers, webinars, and other key documents in their knowledge management system (999 documents in total). VMC team has begun implementation. Wrote the VMC Knowledge Round Up (quarterly release), which consisted of compiling key resources, consumer market insights and trends, marketing innovations, and competitor analysis.Published in ICBA Bancard Confidential for "Portfolio Playbook for a Winning 2012".

Co-founded the Ujamaa Project - an after-school program for the teens of Northeast Central Durham that provides a set of transformative learning experiences through project-based and community-immersive programming. Wrote an 80 page business plan and a 130 page “FLY: Fostering Leadership in Youth” curriculum and gave an investor presentation to community leaders to receive $7,500 in total grant money as seed funds for the project

Part of the Enterprising Leadership Initiative in Duke's Hart Leadership Program. Through the program I learned about driving change and creating positive impact through innovative solutions. I learned about entrepreneurship and how to develop compelling executive summaries and business plans. I ultimately was able to complement these in the class experience with live investor presentations.

Assisted Head of Treasury in daily reports providing macroeconomic insight into short and long term market viewsCreated and delivered a 35-slide Powerpoint Presentation on a 5-person team deciding whether to buy or sell Verso Paper’s bonds by analyzing and recreating its income statement, cash flow statement, and balance sheetCreated daily Emerging Market morning highlights documents that analyzed both global news and local market occurrences while focusing on their impact on currencies, sovereign debt, rates, and local creditReceived Bloomberg, Kaplan Financial, and Excel training to provide a concrete foundation for work in finance