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Helping early-stage startups, nonprofits and individuals who are trying to create a more joyful, equitable world. 

(akaPug.net is my personal site; an additional AI-era consulting site is underway at @ MinusculeVentures.com)

Industries: sharing economy, web publishing, crowdfunding, digital currency, non-profit

Topics: ideation, hypothesis formation and testing, incorporation/entity-choice, messaging, prioritization, budgeting (time & $), fundraising strategy, all early strategic & tactical priorities, process design, project management, website development (WordPress), product management (custom development).

Paid & Volunteer Clients:
Arising Ventures & portfolio companies (UpCounsel.com, Abstract.com, Jyve.com, Enduring Retail Audit), 2022 – Present
Heart of Avalon, Inc. (Raveler Software/GoBeyond game), 2018 – present
Community Development Finance, Inc. 501(c)(3) dba Community Check Cashing, Aug 2015 – 2022
Dreaming Stone Arts And Ecology Center, 2022 - Present
Berkeley Zen Cent

Consultant

I quit this job after only a few weeks because it gave me the direct inspiration for my first attempt at a startup, which led to GreenOptions.com. Took a while to get GO started, but what do you expect from a kid right out of college?

Technical Writer

I covered operations for 1BOG until the the right ops people were hired post-fundraising. Acquired by Pure Energies, Inc.

Interim VP Operations

GO Media was the first green blog network, at a time when everyone thought everyone would have to centralize everything to one domain, like Treehugger. Acquired by Virgance.

Founder, Publisher

First incarnation of a new startup that will tackle how people navigate the relationship between trust and value. (on pause pending conditions coalescing)

Founder

Renewzle was a new way to generate consumer leads for clean energy professionals. Unfortunately, it was a little early for its time, and never took off. Acquired by 1BOG.org.

The ultimate social network, for ultimate frisbee players. Development did not continue, but you never know what may emerge...

I helped advise on tough strategic and business issues, even though I wasn't able to commit as much time as I would have liked.

business guy

Sold to Sustainable Enterprises Media, Inc.

Relaunched the original 10 blogs of Green Options Media as Important Media, and growing from there. Up to 15 sites, including the #1 Cleantech blog in the world according to Technorati, CleanTechnica.com

GreenOptions.com has become a full-fledged community, running on the innovative Huddler platform.

Got introduced to web startups vis a vis sustainability.

Founder, CEO

Virgance acquired Green Options Media. Since I was on the business side with GO, for Virgance I did operations: HR, payroll, accounting, etc. And sometimes I did fun stuff too.

VP Operations

As Head of Product Engineering and Operations at Softgen.ai, I lead the comprehensive strategy and execution across our product lifecycle, software quality assurance, and operational frameworks. My core mission is to ensure Softgen.ai not only innovates rapidly but also delivers an exceptionally reliable, intuitive, and powerful AI application building experience for everyone.

AI says that my leadership responsibilities and approach include:

Driving Product Strategy & User-Centric Development: I spearhead Softgen.ai's product vision and roadmap, translating market opportunities and deep user understanding into actionable development plans. To ensure our product truly resonates, I actively engage as an internal 'super-user'—immersing myself in the end-to-end experience of building and deploying apps on our platform. These first-hand insights are critical for shaping features that deliver outstanding usability and power.

Overseeing Engineering Quality & AI Effectiveness: While guiding

Head of Product Engineering and Operations

Creating momentum (via crowdfunding, to start) for projects with ambitious plans to disrupt existing systems and create value for everyone, whether they have a private investor ROI story or not.

What we care about is a project's ROA -- return on awesome. =)

Cofounder & CEO

Simbi's mission is to facilitate community and individual development by helping people share their talents with each other. Simbi.com provides a web-based community platform to help non-profit projects find and reward volunteers, promoting community development, mutual aid among those in need, and the development of individual skills.

President & Lead Volunteer

social entrepreneur, pretty good vibe coder, building tools for bad vibe coders

medium

github

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