David Siegel

David Siegel

The business agility and blockchain expert

Location
Zürich Area, Switzerland
Industry
Internet
Current
  1. Business Agility Workshop,
  2. SuperBricks, LLC,
  3. Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI)
Previous
  1. Parlay Labs, DBA Highfive.com,
  2. CM2 Limited,
  3. Siegel Ventures
Education
  1. Harvard Business School
Recommendations14 people have recommended David
Websites
  1. Blog
  2. Company Website
  3. Personal Website
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Summary

I'm a full-stack decentralization/innovation coach, helping organizations facing significant change. How agile are you? If your biggest business problem is in one of the following two categories, we should talk:

1. The pace of change is increasing.
2. The people problems aren't going away.

My workshops and coaching service will help change your culture to fix these problems through autonomy, communication, and systems. Let's talk about how I can help.

Blockchain/Ethereum are incredibly disruptive: it's estimated that ten percent of world GDP will be on the blockchain by 2025, for good reason. Ask me what it is and why it's so important. Start at www.decentralstation.com

A teaser for my introduction to blockchain is just below this text box. I will be happy to come to your organization and explain it in simple terms.

Founder/CEO of a 25-person digital agency. Thought leader: wrote 5 books and gave over 100 professional speeches. Stanford computer science and Harvard business.

EVERYTHING I'VE EVER WRITTEN: http://dsiegel.com

Previous clients: Amazon, Sony, NASA, Hewlett Packard, Office Depot, CSC, Motorola, Lucent, Gartner, KPMG, etc.

Projects

  • Agile Investing General Principles

    Starting

    A two-minute teaser for my lecture series on agile investing. Enjoy!

    Team members:
  • My new YouTube channel on business agility

    Starting

    A series of short 5-minute videos on various aspects of business agility.

    Team members:
  • My workshop on business agility

    Starting

    I'm now leading 1- and 2-day workshops for corporate clients to learn the frameworks and basics of business agility. Please see the topic list and tell me if you think this is needed.

    Team members:
  • Global Beta Ventures

    Starting

    Working on designing a new kind of venture fund that will provide strong consistent returns to investors while helping launch thousands of new start-ups. Contact me to learn more.

    Team members:

Experience

  • Founder

    Business Agility Workshop
    – Present (3 years 3 months)

    I'm now leading workshops and coaching: helping managers and executives create a resilient culture.

    I'm also leading workshops on blockchain and ethereum, which you MUST know about and plan for.

    Contact me to discuss how I can help you and your company become more effective: david@businessagilityworkshop.com

  • Board Member

    SuperBricks, LLC
    – Present (7 years 6 months)

    Superbricks is the only concrete brick/block/paver company in Cambodia that sells international-quality products to all businesses.

  • Start-up Coach

    Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI)
    – Present (1 year 2 months)

    Helping Swiss entrepreneurs and the Swiss start-up ecosystem.

  • Consultant

    Parlay Labs, DBA Highfive.com
    (1 year 6 months)

    advisor

  • Senior Advisor

    CM2 Limited
    (2 months)Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Consulting and advising a very experienced team on strategic projects for clients from industry and government.

  • Angel Investor

    Siegel Ventures
    (11 years 7 months)

    Invest in startups, hedge funds, and VC funds. Investing my own money in alternatives since 1999. I have helped seed new funds, start new companies, and helped build several portfolios. I have sat on many boards and helped dozens of entrepreneurs innovate.

  • Author/Public Speaker

    Siegel Vision
    (13 years 1 month)

    I have written a book on the semantic web and business. You can learn more at http://thepowerofpull.com

    Books I've written:
    What is Worth Doing? (1991)
    Creating Killer Web Sites, editions I and II (Macmillan, 1995, 1997)
    Secrets of Successful Web Sites (New Riders, 1997)
    Futurize Your Enterprise (Wiley, 1999)
    Pull (Penguin, 2009)

    Represented by the Leigh Bureau - have given over 100 speeches worldwide, keynote addresses on technology and the future of the Internet.

  • author

    Macmillan Computer Publishing USA
    (15 years)

    Wrote 4 books about the web and business: "Creating Killer Web Sites," "Secrets of Successful Web Sites," "Futurize Your Enterprise," and "Pull."

  • CEO

    LTR.com
    (2 years 11 months)

    I'm the founder of LTR.com, the world's best (unreleased) dating site.

  • Founder

    Cresta Capital Strategies
    (1 year 3 months)Greater New York City Area

    Founded Cresta Capital, a "nickel BD," to help with capital introductions to hedge funds. Sold the BD to its current owners.

  • Investor

    Giantchair
    (4 years)

    Advisor

  • Board member

    Futurize Now
    (2 years)
  • Consultant

    Siegel Vision
    (3 years 1 month)

    I have done high-level strategic consulting to Hewlett Packard, CSC (on retainer), Lucent, Amazon.com, the United Nations, NASA's Misson to Mars, Travel Planet, and many others. Based on my business books, I have had the opportunity to work on high-level strategy and business-design issues. I am available to work with companies both in the US and Europe.

  • CEO

    Studio Verso
    (6 years 7 months)

    Founded one of the first web strategy and design boutique agencies in San Francisco. Built to 22 people and sold to KPMG in 2000.

  • Typeface designer

    Siegel Vision
    (6 years 8 months)

    I designed 2 of the world's bestselling typefaces: Tekton and Graphite. I also produced one of the world's most popular new typefaces: Zapfino.

  • Instructor

    PRATT INSTITUTE
    (6 months)

    I taught graduate-level digital color prepress at Pratt. Every student who finished my course got an A. One got an A+.

Publications

  • Creating Killer Web Sites

    Macmillan

    First book on web design. #1 bestseller on Amazon.com for 1 year.

    Authors:
  • Secrets of Successful Web Sites

    New Riders

    First book on web-based project management.

    Authors:
  • Futurize Your Enterprise

    Wiley Business

    Customer segmentation, customer listening, and predictions for the future (read it to see if they came true).

    Authors:
  • Pull

    Penguin/Portfolio

    Pull describes the business transformation of the semantic web, linked data, and meaningful data. It's what comes after social networking and is just getting started now. See the video on the web site for a quick introduction.

    Authors:

Languages

  • French

Skills

Education

  • Harvard Business School

    Executive Ed course, "Making Corporate Boards More Effective"

    This is a short executive education course on corporate boards.

  • Stanford University

    MS, Computer Graphics

    Received my master's degree in computer graphics under Donald Knuth.

    Activities and Societies: Lecture on dark chocolate, blog on technology

  • University of Colorado Boulder

    Applied Math, Computer Science, Math

    Studied algorithms under Hal Gabow.

Interests

Volunteer Experience & Causes

Causes David cares about:

  • Arts and Culture
  • Children
  • Economic Empowerment
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Poverty Alleviation
  • Science and Technology

Recommendations

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  • David is one of the most progressive thinkers I have ever met. He has helped me personally much more than he himself can imagine in getting clarity into how I run my company. He has taught me to make a lot of experiments with my employees (e.g. put everything on the wall, implement kanban in every department, put agile thinking into every project, etc.) then pull instead of push and roll it out as soon as you see employees liking it. David is a true frontier. His thoughts will be standard in the business world in 10-15 years from now.
  • A conversation with David Siegel will change your perspective. On what? It depends what you're talking about... But your perspective on something will change forever.

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