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Benjamin Von Wong and his team, in partnership with the Embassy of Canada in France, built the latest in his environmentally conscious installations-- a giant faucet "leaking" tons of single-use plast...

bootstrap | adjective | (of a project) using one's own resources rather than external help. [1] Bootstrapping refers to a self-starting process that is supposed to proceed without external input, a pr...

What evidence do you have that shows this will be successful? According to Get Backed, the traction slide of a pitch deck should demonstrate that each of your assumptions about the venture is proving ...

According to Get Backed, there are an almost infinite number of slides you might add to your pitch deck, depending on your venture and the way you tell your story. Here's a list of forty-one slides be...

What do you want and why? According to Get Backed, the use of funds slide of a pitch deck should have a clear ask of the contributor. This is unified with an understanding of what the investor gets in...

Executive Founders are entrepreneurs who have previously held a high-level, executive role at a startup or enterprise (COO, CMO, CTO, etc.) who are now playing a CEO role in their new venture. Executi...

In Operant Conditioning, positive reinforcement involves the addition of a reinforcing stimulus following a behavior that makes it more likely that the behavior will occur again in the future. When a ...

Operant conditioning, sometimes referred to as instrumental conditioning, is a method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior. Through operant conditioning, an association is mad...

BuiltOnAir is a #podcast and #slack-community for Airtable nerds. Created and hosted by the founder of On2Air.

Matt and Meredith from The Boardwalk Podcast spotted my Stoned and Single ads on Reddit and reached out for an interview. A week later, they dropped in me Conversation Studio and we recorded their Val...

In the first five days and for just $66 in advertising spend, my Stoned and Single experiment has generated 50.3k impressions of My Hinge Profile, 276 clicks, 88 comments, 8 dates (offers), 2 podcast ...

Here are some of my favorite comments from Stoned and Single, listed in chronological order to illustrate how the conversation thread took form. The 'first' comment came within minutes of the advertis...

Below are the private messages received, with my first reply, in response to Stoned and Single.

The Stoned and Single advertisement, created as Contemporary Art, was well-received, but it was clear that the audience would be limited by my available advertising budget. This made way for the quest...

Reddit for Romance is the use of Reddit as a platform for dating other like-minded Redditors. The concept originated from Stoned and Single; my Meticulously Ridiculous experiment using Reddit Advertis...

This exchange from within the Stoned and Single—my experiment using Reddit advertising to promote my Hinge dating profile—started cute and ended up kind. As far as an outcome goes, for something inten...

A thought collective, a term originated in German as "Denkkollektiv" by the Polish and Israeli physician Ludwik Fleck, is a community of researchers who interact collectively towards the production or...

⚠ If you wrote to me and didn't hear back, please send me a reminder! I'm often traveling and sometimes miss messages. I tend to be blunt and overly honest in my feedback. It happens because I try to...

A donor-advised fund (commonly called, a DAF) is a charitable giving vehicle to manage charitable donations on behalf of organizations, families, or individuals. To participate in a donor-advised fund...

Max Stossel is an Award-winning poet, filmmaker, and speaker, named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. He was head of education at the Center for Humane Technology from 2016-2020. ...