Founded / co-founded two industry leading companies in different industries, construction and public accounting.
Founded, co-founded, or helped others found over 100 companies in a couple dozen industries.
Founded or co-founded companies in software (2), construction (2), retail (2), CPA firm (1), landscaping-septic repair (1), oil spill cleanup (1).
Produced useful work in about 50 disciplines. Probably the first person in history to come close to that.
Depth and breath of experience across industries and disciplines results in a huge tool box of concepts that are available for ideation and developing conceptual frameworks for business models.
A business pioneer in the Soviet Union and Russia (1989 – 1997).
A pioneer in desktop computing and related business processes (1977 – present). Tried to interest Steve Jobs in building a computer for construction job costing and launch Apple for business.
CPA firm included an in-house startup incubator with office space – in 1984. Possibly pioneered this concept.
A pioneer in two new professions; business valuation and litigation support. Previously they were skills but not professions.
Defining traits:
Intellectual curiosity, study- and work-aholic.
High cognitive energy, high ethical standards, highly communicative.
Proven ability to pivot and adapt to new circumstances.
Comfortable with ambiguity, enjoys disruptive tech, business processes and models.
SV Startup Lab
2012 – present.
A lab for researching, developing, and testing new uses of the Internet platform business model.
Small bootstrapped self-funded operation in Santa Clara, Silicon Valley, CA hiring freelance contractors when needed.
The goal is to develop innovative online and mobile minimum viable products, gain significant market traction, then sell to a well-funded team.
Over 20 projects from conceptual design stage to active development and market testing.
Product development primarily for Blue Ocean business opportunities that disrupt one or more industries.
Lab functions:
Problem => Solution ideation.
Business model and process design.
User experience research and application design including user interface design, interaction design, visual design, etc.
Front-end development with Google’s Angular 2 and Angular Material 2 frameworks.
Back-end or server side application development, currently with Node.js and the Sails.js framework.
Market promotion and testing.
Personal
Married to Katya, no kids, no pets.
Mountain biking.
Road trips.
Most sciences, technologies.
Politics, macro economics.
Design – Web application, business model, product, interior, architectural, urban.
Foreign policy, international relations.
Wilderness backpacking.
Backpack travel – 28 countries with extensive travel in the Western U.S. and Alaska, Mexico, Central America, and Russia.
Sailing, cruising, river rafting, canoeing.
Volunteer trail work.
SCUBA diving, snow skiing.
Some Spanish and Russian language ability.
The scientific study of religious belief systems – cross-disciplinary.
Ancient Maya archeology and architecture including reading glyphs.
