I opened my mailbox today and I found this between a Nordstrom catalogue and a 20% off coupon from Bed Bath & Beyond. Pretty cool eh. You’re welcome Mr. President.
White House visit and Awards ceremony
Man, I consider myself so lucky. This weekend, I was invited to the White House where I was recognized as one of the Top 100 entrepreneurs in America under 30 by Empact, Startup America and the Kauffman Foundation. The Awards ceremony took place during National Entrepreneurship Month, which happens every year in Washington. I’d been [...]
TEDx How Getting Fired From McDonalds Changed My Life
A few weeks ago, I was invited to open for Guy Kawasaki at TEDxHarkerSchool. This was a completely student-led event for about 200 highschool students interested in entrepreneurship. There were a number of students who were (openly) running businesses of their own after hours (as you know, I had to hide mine from my parents). [...]
Startup Weekend in Post-Revolution Egypt
The startup scene is thriving in Egypt. Thanks to USAID, I got to see this firsthand. I was fortunate to spend a full week in Cairo and Alexandria immersing myself in the energy and optimism of a post revolution country. And I couldn’t have picked a better place. Nowhere was there more enthusiasm then in [...]
Explosive growth and hiring a new CEO!
There’s a New CEO in Town When we started Involver in 2007, Noah Horton and I knew this company would take off one day. It was my third startup, but something felt special. Something felt big about Involver. Noah and I started Involver because we felt there had to be a better way for brands [...]
SML: The first-ever programming language for Social Media
The last four years building Involver have been the best years of my life. I’ve developed a great passion for trying to solve a very difficult and lucrative problem: designing and enabling standardized ad formats for social media. Today, we launched perhaps our greatest innovation to-date: SML – the world’s first programming language for developers [...]
Involver Celebrates 100,000 Customers with $8 Million Series C Funding Round
Involver Inc., the web’s most widely used social-media platform, announced today that it has surpassed 100,000 customers and closed an $8M series C funding round, led by venture firm Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investors Cervin Ventures and Western Technology Investment also participated. The new capital will be used to fuel Involver’s growth initiatives and continue [...]