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Big Head creates strange and marvelous NFTs that stand the test of time. Examples include Stoner Cats, the first TV show green-lit by its viewers; Ghostbusters, the first NFTs that "haunt" wallets and must be trapped; and Oni Ronin, an experiment in mechanisms that make collectors feel fear and bravery that matches the world-building/narrative of the art

Fundraising can be hard, emotionally draining, and isolating even for a 2nd or 3rd-time founder. The Pitch Crew is a community of founders in similar stages, giving each other pitch feedback and ongoing support, as they raise & grow their companies.

San Francisco (Or Remote), California, Us

In customer development interviews, I heard Seed and Series A founders saying their #1 goal is growth, but interestingly, heard VC's saying the #1 mistake founders make is hiring the wrong growth leader. But there's no need to take on this step-function increase in cost, time, and risk of full-time hires. We see this solved with part-time CFOs, HR, and legal. It’s time we bring that concept to marketing and growth. Hence the name, Step Function. We guide founders through that period via research and experimentation in a low-risk Part-Time CMO model. As channel-specific work grows, we hire world-class experts to take over part-time, similar to agency engagements. Unlike agencies, we choose from the world's best in your niche, not just who happens to be our employee. And when it makes sense to hire, Step Function switches to a recruiting fee model, so incentives stay aligned. Our goals are your goals: hit your milestones, raise your next round, and hire your full-time team.

San Francisco, California, Us

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Advisory board of Habitu8.io, UseBounce.com, Hypercube.video, SohoTokenLabs.com, FaithX.netI also run 1-2 day growth workshops with exec & product teams to improve existing funnels, or brainstorm new growth initiatives. Typical result is a 2+ month growth experiment roadmap, to hit the company's goals and long-term strategy and stand out, without sacrificing user experience.Occasional longer-term engagements to help implement that roadmap plan. Examples include:- Advising an NYC startup in detail on product-market fit- Fundraising strategy and intros- Advising Highly.co on customer development and onboarding- Pitched, and led Kaliber Labs through, a pivot that helped get them acquired- Designed the first sales process for NexTravel with their exec team and marketer, so they could hire and scale to next phase of growth. Built the Salesforce integration from scratch, including automated lead qualification & assignment

Bend, Oregon, Us

Oct-Jan: Technical Advisor* With the MVP and product management in a good place, transitioning to advisor role to return to contract workFeb-Oct: Promoted to CTO* Coordinating MVP launch with 5 other engineers, in node, react, electron and postgres* Wrote white paper, helped craft fundraising pitch & deckDec-Feb: Head of Product* Advised exec team on strategic decisions on product direction, growth strategy, and pitch deck * Defined consensus on MVP with existing team of 8 remote volunteers

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Growth consulting workshop resulted in a major company pivot, and a more involved role as Interim COO to help execute that pivot. In ~6 weeks, working with exec team, built new strategy & financial projections, and new positioning/pitch deck/marketing copy to reflect that. Also designed & coded new homepage, and set up company's first B2B sales pipeline ready for CEO to take over. Now Advisor to CEO after smooth handoff.

Joined as Dir of Growth when Primer acquired Emissary. Lead our team and reported to the CEO on a number of areas: Lead customer development, plus prototyping, events, and growth planning for a major company pivot. Contributed to go-to-market strategy, positioning, and a new homepage.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Hundreds of people come to our site each day because they can't afford the out of pocket cost for medical or dental treatment they need. We’re building the first global medical tourism marketplace that focuses first on trust & quality care. Our clients can see their options all over the world, with transparent pricing, ratings, testimonials, HD photographs, and a dedicated account executive from our U.S. team to answer questions and guide them through the process.While you're planning your trip, your Emissary account exec is available any time via phone or email to make everything dead-simple. While you're abroad, our mobile app keeps you connected to us, our partners, and your loved ones 24/7, and our English-fluent partners at the destination hospital make sure everything goes smoothly while you're there.Medical tourism you can trust.https://www.emissarymed.com

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Growth engineer for Marketing, Finance, and Biz Dev. Launched all new Minted products from July 2011 through January 2013 (either solo or with eng team of 2-4) including entering two new $5+ billion markets in Party goods and Art Prints.End to end web development. Python, MySQL, Memcached, Javascript + jQuery and Backbone, HTML, CSS. Some PHP, APIs to real-world printers as needed.

Hong Kong, Hk

http://www.lolapps.comEnd to end feature dev: Actionscript, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, Memcached, MySQL, MongoDB.Feb '10 - LOLcoding for the Monetization teamSpring '10 - Pre-launch engineer on Garden Life (330K DAU, 1.3M MAU)Summer '10 - 3rd engineer on Ravenwood Fair (1.3M DAU, 12M MAU, nominated for AIAS Social Networking Game of the Year)Winter '10 - Lead engineer on upcoming stealth title

My team of 3 architected and implemented a Social Network Application Content Management System that enables people with no technical background to create an application on multiple social networks in minutes, by dragging and dropping objects/widgets onto pages, with one-click publishing. My focus was on the UI design/implementation, and building our comprehensive CMS object library. In true startup fashion, we worked 100-hr weeks and had a stable, enterprise level V1 in 3 months.Since then, I've worn almost every hat possible at FreeCause -- from database design, system design, and core tech programming, to art direction and front-end engineering, to project management -- bringing 10+ other web properties to market.

The IssueDictionary.com community is a comprehensive and unbiased source of information on United States politics. It exists as a sincere counter to the politics-as-entertainment landscape that we currently get from candidates and the media.We don't take money from any political group. Everything on the site is contributed, fact-checked, and approved by the growing IssueDictionary community. We also require citations for every claim, so you can double check everything yourself and learn more. (Or add new citations of your own.)Furthermore, we only use first hand sources, such as a video of a politician speaking, an online interview, or voting records. The end result is a source of sincere, unbiased political information. A source you can trust.

I wear two hats for the University. As art director, I'm leading a team of artists to modify Forterra’s OLIVE game engine for highway incident response training. My responsibilities include interviewing and hiring decisions, research & development for the art pipeline, custom art tools, modeling, texturing, and level design.This work has been featured on the History Channel show "Modern Marvels," as well as online at: http://www.cattlab.umd.edu/index.php?page=research&a=00028I'm also one of two engineering leads on a team of about 12, building a 4D Traffic Visualization System with the capacity to display aerial photography, weather, roads, incidents, AVL data, and more, for the entire Earth. Responsibilities in this role include hiring, task delegation, research paper publication, as well as implementing large systems, such as flight/AVL visualization, bird flocking AI, style checking, and a unit-testing suite.http://www.cattlab.umd.edu/index.php?page=research&a=00013

EscapeRL is a Wii-targeted Flash gaming community. We are currently in our alpha release: a large and growing collection of Flash games compatible with the Wii. (You can play on your computer too!)In my mind, Flash has a unique ability to bring new people into gaming. It's support is almost ubiquitous on the web, and it's incredibly easy to make small-scale, polished, and addicting games. However, learning Flash game development is still a relatively tricky thing for newcomers, and sophisticated feedback comments are few and far between. The EscapeRL community was created to fill this gap.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Created a 3D content pipeline for Lively (www.lively.com) a product that combines innovative web technology with social networking with 3D virtual customizable environments.Acted as a liaison between the engineers, the art director, and the 3D content developers to communicate artists’ needs while continually iterating on the pipeline.

Worked part-time during school on a real-time 3D animated simulation of live traffic data. (http://www.cattlab.umd.edu/index.php?page=research&a=00013)Implemented artificial intelligence to visualize realistic traffic patterns from streaming traffic data for the entire DC-area highway system.Rewrote the traffic visualization components to enable the realistic driving AI (i.e. vehicles explicitly attaching to their environments and detecting drivers on the road ahead.Collaborated with the team’s artist to create a content pipeline and solve technical workflow issues.