The Early Hustle

My first “venture” was selling raffle tickets for a gingerbread house as a kid. By high school I was taking on side jobs for friends and neighbors, and in college I worked to keep a few bucks in my pocket. I never waited for opportunities, I made them.

Feeding the Entrepreneurial Soul

Even when I had “real jobs,” I always had something on the side. I have always needed to feed that creative, problem-solving itch. A colleague once described me as “genuinely curious about everything.” Guilty.

A Career of Solving Problems

Since leaving the ad agency world in 2000, I have built or advised ventures in online marketing, restaurant tech, insurance, retirement planning, and, most meaningfully, the past 16 years working with hundreds of nonprofits and impact-first companies. Not all of my ideas made it to market: America Clicks! in 1992, Coffee Shops of the World in 2001, Recommended Advisors in 2006. Each one was aimed at solving real problems. My partner still jokes she is going to write a book about them called A Day Early and a Dollar Short.

Making the Invisible Visible

Which brings us to LiveImpact.io. This is the most fully realized thing I have ever built, and it is solving a problem most people do not even realize exists. Every day, people donate, volunteer, vote, or show up for causes they care about. And yet, those acts often feel like they vanish into the void. Did it matter? Did anyone notice? Did it add up?

LiveImpact.io makes the invisible visible. It is like Strava for civic action, a platform where you can log your actions, see how they combine with others, and watch the bigger picture of change emerge in real time. No algorithms. No noise. Just people taking real action together.

Why Now?

Because we need better ways to act, not just react. To show up in ways that matter beyond a post or a like. And because I am not done. A lot of people my age are thinking about retirement. For me, retirement has always meant doing what I want, when I want, with money not being the point. And what I want is this: solving problems, connecting dots, building win-wins, and working with a small but mighty group of fellow travelers.

Behind the Camera

When I step away from building platforms, I turn to Tiny Desk Photos, a project that pairs portraits of wildlife with the witty thoughts they seem to be having. It is nature’s inner monologue, captured one photo at a time.

Right on Time

This time, I do not think I am a day early or a dollar short. I think we are right on time.

Join us and let’s ctrl+alt IMPACT.