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SeeClickFix, the citizen engagement software company I co-founded in 2008, has been acquired by CivicPlus. In celebration, I wanted to share a few of my memories and offer the deepest thanks to everyone who was a part of the journey.

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Bottom Up Sales is a venture pattern where individual employees start using or buy a version of a product and when enough employees of a company do so, then the…

I was asked to write a short submission for a Yale entrepreneurship book. Here are a few.

Outlook (a haiku)

Within a startup
Team have future optimism
pessimism re: now

For Want of a Customer

Grow users! More cashflow! ‘s my creed.
And to get it, a product I need.
Employees want salary, to build.
To pay, I must woo VC guild.
But investors seek traction indeed!

The Benefit of Co-Founders

With a cofounder,
highs and low in startup land
hit each off cycle.

Begin Now

A startup like a
sailboat can only rightly
steer when moving. Start!

What started an idea inspired by JR’s Inside Out Project, a Sunday planning session with Ben Berkowitz and then a simple blog post, grew into a movement, a living piece of art and a community.

Here was the pitch we gave:

A multi-lane freeway divides what once was one neighborhood…

For the past year or so, I’ve been working to help create a Humanist Community at Yale University. As an alum living in New Haven, I feel connected to the university and wanted to contribute in another way. …