Feb 1My Gift to You: Spirituality Week Festival in NYC June 2–11TL;DR — I’ve co-founded Spirituality Week, a community produced, city-wide festival to nourish the spiritual needs of New Yorkers & its visitors. Register, host, sponsor, practice…🙏🏻 Updates to follow on Twitter, Instagram, and via newsletter. The “post-exit founder” life is a strange one. If you’ve read along over these past…Mindfulness2 min readMindfulness2 min read
Sep 26, 2022The Coach, The CEO, The FacilitatorTLDR Summary: [1] You can hire me (here) for CEO / Executive coaching and facilitation if you like. [2] I’m open to exploring formal roles as a GP of a venture fund, and/or as a part time Venture Partner as I am at Up.Partners. …CEO7 min readCEO7 min read
Dec 7, 2020From CEO to NobodyA couple years ago, I wrote of an Ego Death I was experiencing, which was precipitated by the sale of the company I’d founded, my relinquishment of the CEO role inside a publicly traded company and subsequent retirement from business at age 37. As is the way of the internet…Entrepreneurship4 min readEntrepreneurship4 min read
Mar 6, 2020I’m Infected and You Are TooThe world is consumed with a virus. Some think a the novel corona virus is the dangerous one. The Big One. It’s said that it will kill a few percent of people along the way, disrupting global economies. And yes, that’s a lot of suffering. So very much! …Corona2 min readCorona2 min read
Dec 28, 20192020–2030: Predictions for the New Decade (Tech, Politics & Drugs)I don’t believe it’s possible to foretell the future, but I sure think it’s fun to make predictions and see how they turn out. …Psychedelics6 min readPsychedelics6 min read
Dec 23, 2019Member-onlyHow I Failed as Founder of ISLToday, after more than 12 years, the company I founded no longer exists except in scattered remains of content strewn across the internet — and of course in the hearts and minds of those who engaged with iStrategyLabs (ISL) in some way. It’s been 18 months since my retirement from…Entrepreneurship4 min readEntrepreneurship4 min read
Sep 3, 2019Spiritual Hotspots in New York City + Buddhist Hospice WorkI’ve lived in NYC on and off over the past 16 years, and during that time the city and I have both changed a lot. In the 2000s you couldn’t pay me to go into a spiritually oriented “woo woo” shop or event. I was too focused on “#crushingit” to…Spirituality4 min readSpirituality4 min read
Dec 11, 2018The Year My Ego Died (+18 Book Recommendations)At the end of June this year I retired from the company I had founded. Being a 38 year old retiree has its perks for sure, but I’m assuming most people don’t have a perspective on the challenges associated with giving up the profession/status/context/wealth-generation-machine that they’d been managing for decades…Spirituality6 min readSpirituality6 min read
Jun 13, 2018A Founder Moves OnIn 2007, I founded iStrategyLabs in my apartment in Washington DC after getting laid off from an ad agency. I had always been entrepreneurial, so with about 3 months of living expenses in the bank I figured I’d try my hand at not having a job as long as I…Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Apr 28, 2016What I Learned About Sales from Pitching and Closing Facebook, Nickelodeon and NBCIf you’re interested in this topic, I’m doing a full day free live stream on it soon. More details here. What follows is an interview from the producers of that show. Today’s post is an interview with Peter Corbett, the founder and CEO of iStrategyLabs, a digital agency that develops…Marketing4 min readMarketing4 min read
