Entrepreneur, Millennial - Passionate about eliminating inequality with empathy and technology
Austin, Texas Area
- Current
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- Co-Founder at Conjunctured
- Board Member / Co-Founder at Texas Ventures
- Liaison at Think27 (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Ambassador / Heavy Thinker at Tiny Pictures Inc.
- Module at UT's Science, Technology, and Society Program
- Rallying Force at Mr. Youth
- Nomad at T3
- Branch Manager at College Works Painting
- Rover at Fiserv Health / Benefit Planners
- Education
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- The University of Texas at Austin
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John Erik Metcalf’s Summary
I love the language of enthusiasm. I live for it. For excitement. That's really what attracts me to technology startups and the people involved in them.
Mission #1: Mercilessly beating and outsmarting life; forcing it to bend into the reality I choose.
How I'm doing this:
- I'm constantly on the hunt for people with gusto. When I find them, we stick together.
- I compete with these people each day to see who's created the most value or done something ridiculous.
- Follow me on twitter or via my blog to keep up :)
(http://twitter.com/johnerik | http://blog.think27.com)
Mission #2: Making damn sure Austin is technologically progressive and competitive.
How I'm doing this:
- Meeting with people in the city who share this desire/vision (read more - http://is.gd/phr).
- Opening a coworking space (it's like a gym for entrepreneurs - http://is.gd/piT).
- Leading the creation of the Startup District (http://startupdistrict.com).
50,000ft Mission: Eliminate inequality with empathy and technology.
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Friend me up on Facebook: http://facebook.com/addfriend.php?id=7913093
Shoot me an email, let's talk - preferably in the real world - john(at)conjunctured(dot)com
- Are you are on my radar? http://radar.net/people/johnerik
- Twitter much?: http://twitter.com/johnerik
- For more: http://think27.com
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Passions:
increasing people's self-confidence ...promoting empathy (talking about why it's important), critical thinking and awareness, spearheading conceptual ideas, building relationships
Strengths:
connecting people ...working with/in the public, patience, diligence, conversation
John Erik Metcalf’s Specialties:
vision, organizing people, match-making (not the dating kinda), seeing deals/opportunities, social media, teh internets
John Erik Metcalf’s Experience
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Co-Founder
Conjunctured
(Think Tanks industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Conjunctured is a coworking company.
Our coworking space is on on East 7th, here in Austin TX. We offer web development and social media services. nice!
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"Co-company” – it’s a term we came up with that describes how the company is structured – we don’t employ people.
I work primarily on creating the vision for our projects and the company. -
Board Member / Co-Founder
Texas Ventures
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Nonprofit focused on accelerating young businesses and entrepreneurs in the state of Texas.
Texas Ventures is under the guidance of Dr. John Sibley Butler, Director of The IC2 Institute and supported by the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship. -
Liaison
Think27 (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — Present (6 years 5 months)
Solo consulting gig.
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Ambassador / Heavy Thinker
Tiny Pictures Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)
November 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 1 month)
radar.net -- A superbly executed and addicting picture and video sharing service that helps me feel close and up-to-date with my friends and family. Even my grandmother uses radar.
This company and the people that work here have taught me so much about how to treat customers and employees -- embrace them, communicate with them, show them you love them and they will love you back. -
Module
UT's Science, Technology, and Society Program
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Conducted general research on the topic of surveillance for the civic forum "Surveillance and You."
I love this stuff. Wanna talk about reputation systems, digital identity, game theory? - let's do it. -
Rallying Force
Mr. Youth
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2006 — December 2006 (7 months)
Headed up the General Motors Axis Program for Austin.
Matt and Brandon are tearing it up in the youth marketing and word of mouth scene - you should work with them. -
Nomad
T3
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2004 — January 2005 (7 months)
Integrated marketing firm with offices in Austin, New York and San Francisco. "Part advertising agency. Part marketing consultancy. Full-time idea factory."
I was an IT guy here while I was in college. The people I worked with are awesome (Russell, Jill, Todd). Because I was constantly walking around to fix blue-screens, show people how to print or help them move cubes, I got to meet and hangout with most of the company. Me being me, I asked a million questions to everyone and came out thinking "pshh, I could run this place."
I got to know the founder, Gay Gaddis, at a company dance party after work. She knows how to build a company and tear-up the dance floor - what more can you ask for? Somehow we roped her into being an Advisor to Texas Ventures. :) -
Branch Manager
College Works Painting
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Construction industry)
January 2004 — September 2004 (9 months)
This was the most educating internship I had in college. Basically I worked 10 hours a day going door-to-door in the Texas heat asking people if I could paint their house. Then I hired 6 of my friends with no prior painting experience and 2 "professional" painters whom I found on craigslist. I learned more about business in this one summer than I did taking several marketing/business classes.
This is what they tell you to put in your resume:
Hired, trained, and managed an 8 employee branch of this residential painting company. Designed and implemented marketing plans. Estimated painting projects and presented proposals. Responsible for production, customer relations, and quality control. Created revenue exceeding $45,000 over the summer months of 2004. CWP, a subsidiary of National Services Group, has been rated by the Princeton Review as one of the highest compensating internships in the U.S. -
Rover
Fiserv Health / Benefit Planners
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; FISV; Insurance industry)
August 2000 — July 2003 (3 years )
Oh yeah! This what my high school/early college job.
Worked in the ITS department for a year, conducted daily quality control tests on servers and the network and presented weekly results, ghosted computers, ...I could rock a PBX and punch those wires like nobody else, ...walked around and fixed or moved everyone's computer - I swear I knew like all 1000 employees. Used Visio to create floor plans of three big buildings. I even made a little intranet system for the help desk.
When I was in college I moved to the marketing department and worked on making their presentations, advertisements, and brochures look like they weren't a hold over from the '90's. Really liked working with Martha Wells there.
John Erik Metcalf’s Education
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The University of Texas at Austin
BS , Advertising, Computer Science , 2002 — 2007
- Activities and Societies:
- Texas Ventures (creating the group I always wanted as an underclassman),
Texas Crew (rowing my heart out for 1 year),
Texas Entrepreneurs (feeling very elite),
Texas Cheer (tried to be a college cheerleader, instead I quit and dated one)
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John Erik Metcalf’s Websites:
John Erik Metcalf’s Interests:
Research: digital identity, cloud computing, semantic web General: architecture, BIKING, interface design, rowing, skydiving
John Erik Metcalf’s Groups:
Texas Ventures, Texas Entrepreneurs
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The DEMO Conference -
TechEntrepSoc -
IP Multimedia Subsystem - IMS -
Jelly -
Texas Ventures -
Conjunctured -
Semantic Web Austin -
NetworkInAustin.com -
RepNation Alumni Group -
Texas Crew Foundation
John Erik Metcalf’s Honors:
University of Texas:
Joanne Sharp and Jack R. Crosby Endowment Scholarship for student entrepreneurs,
Accepted in to the Texas Creative sequence (famed honors sequence in advertising that puts out killer Art Directors - I got in, but dropped out - not for me),
"Most Promising" - Texas Crew 2003 (proud of this one)
John Erik Metcalf’s Contact Settings
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