Startup Guru
Greater Denver Area
- Current
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- Founder at Startup Guru
- Past
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- Founder/CEO at Walking Orbit
- Independent Consultant- Sales & Marketing at Catch4, Inc.
- President/CEO at The Moving World- TMW
- Founder/CEO at The Moving World
- Education
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- University of Tennessee-Knoxville
- Connections
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- Professional Training & Coaching
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Brian Tsuchiya’s Summary
My life purpose is to live in alignment while expressing my creativity with confidence in the service of others. For the first 40 years of my life I served primarily myself and lived an unconscious life. I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit however I did not fully express this until I started my first real business at 27 years old. Unfortunately for the next 15 years I found myself launching successful businesses only to shut them down in less than 2 years. I did not understand this pattern until it was too late.
Then in June of 2006 I read a book that would change my life forever. I embarked on a journey that connected with my life purpose with my entrepreneurial career. I understood my patterns and defined my life in a way that revealed my purpose. Forged in me was the way of the entrepreneur.
On my 43rd birthday I created and launched Startup Guru™ using the E-Quest™ cycles it advocates to create the business. Direct experience is the foundation for what I teach.
I am a single dad and co-parent two precious little boys. I spend much of my free time on personal development and exploration. I enjoy physical training, meditation and living consciously. My formal education is a B.S. degree in Marketing from the University of Tennessee where I was also an All-American swimmer.
Purpose: To stimulate the free flow of entrepreneurial ideas and share practical wisdom. Some events will have sponsors and some events will promote a specific program, when the meetup is created the description will disclose that information. http://www.meetup.com/StartupandFounderMeetup/
Contact me at 303-625-4035 or brian at startupguru dot com
Brian Tsuchiya’s Specialties:
Startups, business model development, life coaching, startup consulting, compliance documentation for startups, entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, technology
Brian Tsuchiya’s Experience
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Founder
Startup Guru
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Startup Guru™ exists to guide people to express their genius through entrepreneurship. We believe the journey into entrepreneurship does not start solely with the idea but rather the entrepreneur themselves. While the passion for a business idea is important it is the entrepreneur’s life purpose that fuels the real business success. To support this Startup Guru™ guides entrepreneurs to align and integrate their own life purpose with their business vision thus creating their core ideology. Pushing their limits we work with entrepreneurs on a business model that is big and bold enough to contain their full passion. We call this process of identifying, aligning, and integrating life purpose with the business model the VisionQuest™.
After completing their VisionQuest™, the entrepreneur is now ready to create their masterpiece. We work with them to develop the multiple layers of their business blueprint—the structure, brand, funding, people and other strategies. This blueprint becomes the foundation for turning their initial dream into a practical reality. With our experience in launching businesses into the marketplace, we know that this is only the beginning of the entrepreneur’s quest to find paying clients. We also help them properly adjust their strategies until the business is on a solid path of sustainable growth. This is the VentureQuest™ process—an ongoing series of cycles that create the blueprint, bring the business into the world, and nurture it to sustainability.
Creating and growing a sustainable company requires constant integration between the Vision and the Venture. Guiding entrepreneurs through the six natural cycles of creating a business is what we call the E-Quest™. We label these six cycles LIVE, DREAM, CREATE, BUILD, LAUNCH, and GROW. Through our E-Quest™ process, the entrepreneur creates a successful independent business that is fully balanced and in alignment with their true life purpose. -
Founder/CEO
Walking Orbit
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — December 2006 (3 years )
Walking Orbit is a GPS based fleet tracking company with a unique sales and distribution model. Our research indicated we were the first company to use the Human Capitalist model for funding. Over 100 people worked on building Walking Orbit in a distributed manner over the two year period. Each of them becoming shareholders.
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Independent Consultant- Sales & Marketing
Catch4, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2003 — October 2003 (7 months)
Created an internet marketing plan which consistently generated over 70 leads per month at a cost of $35/lead, in the first 60 days of selling closed 10% of all proposals. Created a financial model and set up a strategic plan for growth. Conducted extensive analysis around competition, pricing, strategic positioning, product analysis and financial modeling.
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President/CEO
The Moving World- TMW
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
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Founder/CEO
The Moving World
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
January 2001 — December 2002 (2 years )
We were the largest online moving network in the world. Grew monthly sales from zero to $1.5M in 18 months with no capital, led a 10 person senior team with 150 employees.
Brian Tsuchiya’s Education
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University of Tennessee-Knoxville
BS , Marketing , 1982 — 1987
- Activities and Societies:
- I was a swimmer for the Vols.
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