FOUNDUPS® Michael J. Trout, CEO
We are an OPEN YCOMBINATOR! Do you know that 99.9% of PRE-SEED STARTUPS fail to become EARLY-STAGE STARTUPS! Over 70% of validated FOUNDUPS® however, we believe will SUCCEED! Read our FOUNDUP MANIFESTO AND O!F MANUAL intro: http://j.mp/investin
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.foundups.org |
| Industries: | Biotech, Cleantech, Computing, Education, Entertainment, Financial, Food and Drink, Gaming, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Mobile, Nanotech, Real Estate, Retail, Travel |
| Skills: | Business, Copy Writing, Design, Editing, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Guerrilla marketing, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Sales, Viral marketing, Web design, Writing |
| Next step: | FOUNDUP LEVELS: (talk: http://j.mp/FUlevels)
Level 0 - founding™ idea - February 2, 2010 Level 1 - Advisors secured -- ACHIEVED! Level 2 - Team Members Secured -- ACHIEVED! (see http:foundups.org) Level 3 - CODING Prototype (PLAYFOUNDUP$ MOBILE APP and FOUNDUPS.COM Started -- ACHIEVED! (unlock: $50K Micro-seed Round) Level 4 - Raise $50K+ in Micro-seed funding -- ACHIEVED! (unlock write BP Plan) Level 5 - Launch Foundups.com Alpha and PlayFoundup$ Mobile Apps. -- GOAL OCT 15, |
| Location: | Fukui, Japan |
| Groups: | 2011 FoundupWeek Global Entrepreneur Fringe Festival, Girls In Tech (GIT), Start-Up Chile, Startup Now! Oregon |
| Visas: | Japan and US Citizen |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments, Trading services |
| Tags: | autonomous, dc, e30, e3o, eduit, eduitorg, entrepreneur, expert, festival, foundup, foundup scrum, foundup:startup o!f open:incubator early:stage, lean startup, learning, michael:j:trout, open incubator, pivot, shakespeare, solutions, southern, startup, washington |
| Schools: | Florida State University, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa |
FEATURED STARTUP
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Foundups.com
"A foundup® is a founder with an idea for a lean startup bootstrapping a prototype using the Open Incubator™ "collaborative" Framework - it's that simple!
- Startup type: Social Enterprise
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
We are pioneering a FREE collaborative solution called the Open Incubator Framework (O!F).
I have spent 16 years FAILING... I am determined to eradicate the systemic problems and help other succeed. Are you tired of failing and spinning your wheels? We will help you VALIDATE, TEAM BUILD, RAISE MONEY and SECURE CUSTOMERS... We are suspending application costs for 100ALPHA FOUNDUPS! -- WE REJECT NO ONE! :)
GET THE FOUNDUP MANIFESTO AND O!F MANUAL intro from here: http://j.mp/investin
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | KareBid.com (6th FOUNDUP) -- ACTIVE @ L1 |
| Position: | TEAM MEMBER |
| Time period: | June 2011 - Present |
| Employer: | FOUNDUP CORP., (5th FOUNDUP) -- ACTIVE @ L4 |
| Position: | CEO & Chairman |
| Time period: | January 2010 - August 2011 |
| Description: | I lead the efforts in moving the Foundup vision into reality... As Chief "Evangelist" Officer my role is to share passionately with all that will listen a solution for all Startups!
Foundup Corp pilot foundups include: - Wikitube.TV (L4 - on hold) -- January 2010 -- prototype was built in 3 months... 1st to continuously stream YouTube and 1st to create YouTube Playlists. Google YouTube rolled out "Leanback" in April 2010 a nicely duped full screen version of Wikitube.TV. The process Trout pioneered to develop Wikitube lead to the idea of Foundups and the Open Incubator (tm) Framework. - IndiaVerified.com (L4 - Failed) -- prototype was executed in one month. Foundups partnered with NOSTOPS.org in developing their prototype using the Open Incubator (tm) Framework - ePrize (L3 - on hold) is a partnership with EDUIT to establish an prize for encouraging the development of FOSS platforms delivery of Open Education content autonomously to via smart devices. - Crowd Funding Association of America (L1 - on Hold) -- is a foundup up to unite US entrepreneurs to provide an industry governing board for US crowd funding and to weaken SEC restrictions on non-accredited investors. |
| Employer: | EDUIT, Inc ( 4th FOUNDUP) ON HOLD @ L3 |
| Position: | Achievement: perfect social media and team building |
| Time period: | August 2001 - August 2009 |
| Description: | Private foundation.
Formed out of an idea to support The Digital Arena efforts as a 501c3 for contributions to cover student cert exp. EDUIT evolved into a vision of combining gaming and education. Most recently it is pursuing, in partnership with Foundups Corp, the establishment of the ePrize for the development of autonomous learning technology for learning. |
| Employer: | The Digital Arena, Inc (3rd FOUNDUP) - FAILED @ L5 |
| Position: | Built a prototype, Bad timing (tech bubble crash) |
| Time period: | January 2000 - March 2001 |
| Description: | Located in Fredericks MD. The TDA goal was to provide corporations inexpensive IT talent they needed to run their networks.., Our idea was to ID top high school student talent, Pay for their IT certs and then find them positions in companies... By day TDA was to provide IT training and cert opportunities, by night it become a cool gaming arena for high school kids to come and have fun! We built TDA by the MBA startup rules... leveraged the crap out of it... secured all the friends family and fool investments we could and BOMBED because of timing... 2000 was a bad year for IT!
What I leaned... the current startup system is a crap shoot! |
| Employer: | Genesis Productions Worldwide, LLC (2nd FOUNDUP) - FAILED @ L2 |
| Position: | Client: NCDSinc.net raised nearly $7m |
| Time period: | August 1999 - July 2000 |
| Description: | Arts Specialist for NCDS did feasibility studies and Strategic capital campaign secured close to $7m for various npos... wanted to offer the solutions to mid-level DC NPOs -- FAILED.
Lesson learned: 1. Strategic Capital Campaigns are Powerful and Simple 2. Mid-levels NPOs have no money :) |
| Employer: | Southern Shakespeare Festival, Inc (1st FOUNDUP) -- FAILED @ L5 |
| Position: | 30K attended event inaugural year. Raised ~$100K |
| Time period: | November 1994 - August 1997 |
| Description: | PROVED: N1 and do a Foundup. I had no experience in any of the below and was able to pull it off! I LOVED THE RIDE!
Conceived, raised the money and produced a full fledged festival and renaissance faire. Interacted with agents, hired international talent and secured the sponsors and sat on the Board of Directors. (bit.ly/SSFmedia). The event lasted 3 more years after I left. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa |
| Time period: | 1997 - 1999 |
| Degree: | Arts Admin & Management, MFA |
| University: | Florida State University |
| Time period: | 1992 - 1996 |
| Degree: | Acting, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | Numerous articles have been written about my accomplishments (bit.ly/SSFmedia) |
| Papers: | Foundups Lab (http://bit.ly/foundup); eSingularity White Paper. |
| Books: | The Natural Taoist free ePub; THE FOUNDUP MANIFESTO AND O!F MANUAL (http://j.mp/investin) - currently writing. eSingularity is Coming (On hold). |
| Patents: | Open Incubator™ Framework (in the process of writing), US TRADEMARK FOUNDUP® awarded in March 2011 |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Tennis |
| Hobbies: | Writing and metaphysics |
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Graduated in Bachelor’s in Business Administration from University of Madras, Technology Consultant and Solution Consultant for Couriers, Logistics Companies Since 03, System Analyst ‘n’ Technology Analyst of Condor Technology Associates since 2002.
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