Officially…
I’m the Co-founder of EmberTribe, an agency of about 40 (and growing) focused on customer acquisition for early and growth stage startups. We’ve worked with companies from Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Techstars and other similar communities.
I’m also an active mentor to entrepreneurs in Techstars, MIT, and Harvard Business School. My work has been cited in Entrepreneur, Wired, and TheNextWeb.
I haven’t “arrived’ (whatever that means, anyways).
But I have gained a reputation over the last decade of being a creative problem-solver for founders and their teams by questioning “best practices” and flipping the bird to conventional wisdom.
That’s probably because my journey into entrepreneurship has followed a winding, circuitous path from the start.
Weird highlights include: earning a Master’s degree in theology, running a music studio for young students and working door-to-door sales for a dying phonebook company.
Memorizing dead languages in the morning and learning to code at night, while sneaking in time to prep a guitar lesson for a five-year-old student. That was an average day at one time in my life.
I used to be embarrassed by this scattered background.
I thought “successful” people could all trace a consistent through-line from their childhood all the way to an IPO or a Grammy.
But now, I embrace the whacky past.
I realized that my relentless curiosity and desire to build and create is a strength. But more important, it’s a core part of who I am as a person. And to deny it, is to masquerade as someone I’m not.
My goal for this blog is simple: deliver value for readers across multiple domains: entrepreneurship, marketing, personal growth, productivity, and more.
I needed a flexible container where I can give up the gold as I uncover it in my own life.
So here it is. Enjoy!