CURRENT MISSION

Starting a technology business to fund my trip to Africa

ABOUT ME

I stole this from my blog because I am being lazy. Sorry.

I spent the past two years on a Fulbright scholarship in Milano, Italia studying entrepreneurial resource allocation in early stage investors. Thanks to my adviser Thanos and to all of the gracious VCs and entrepreneurs that made my study possible.

Prior to the Fulbright, I learned about Internet marketing at an IPTV startup and started an indie rock band in NYC. Thanks to my talented musician friends for letting me play the bass (poorly) with them.

Before the music, I sailed the a 40 year old 30ft Ketch 6,000 miles at 4 knots per hour from Maine to Dominica to Ft. Lauderdale. Thanks to the Seapearl and to my shipmate for keeping us alive.

Before setting sail, I got my first post-college job (Dartmouth), as an equity research associate at Thomas Weisel Partners in NYC. Thanks to Wall St. for providing the seed capital for my adult life.

Thanks to my parents for getting me through first 17 years.

PHILOSOPHY

"What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hang out. I am working harder to keep the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Lemme know how i'm doing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Informally for the past 4 years. I haven't had a lease since 2005.

Interests

Traveling (Duh), Photography, Bass Guitar, Basketball, Surfing, Hemingway, Salinger, and Internet-based business models

• photography
• boating
• technology
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• guitar
• surfing
• sailing
• basketball
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

Well it's high time we stepped outside
drop the gloves and settle this like a man
Well we might stomp and hem and haw
we might not fight but we won't walk away
no we won't walk away

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sailed 6,000 miles from Maine to Dominica on a 30ft ketch. Had never stepped foot on a boat before. Upon arriving in Dominica, hiked up a volcano, through the Valley of Desolation, to a 400ft precipice above the Boiling Lake.

Teach, Learn, Share

If I get old, I will not give in
But if I do, remind me of this.
Remind me that, once I was free,
Once I was cool, once I was me.

And if I sat down, and crossed my arms,
Hold me into, this song.

Knock me out, smash out my brains,
If I take a chair, start to talk shit.....

If I get old, remind me of this:
That night we kissed, and I really meant it.

Whatever happens, if we're still speaking.
Pick up the phone, play me this song.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bermuda, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Saint Lucia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, Italy, United States