Jay Clouse

<a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2021/01/28/jay-clouse-unreal-collective-acquired-by-spi-media.html" target="_blank">Digital publisher SPI Media acquires Jay Clouse's Unreal Collective - Columbus Business First</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#6f6f6f">Columbus Business First</font>

Digital publisher SPI Media acquires Jay Clouse's Unreal Collective - Columbus Business First - Columbus Business First

The Ohio State University

Seth Godin's altMBA

The Marketing Seminar

Founder of Creator Science — studying today’s top creators

Columbus, Ohio, United States

The more I've studied creators, the more I've come to one major realization:

Today's top creators aren't just artists. They're scientists.

The creators you look up to don't leave growth to chance. They are constantly forming new hypotheses, testing things, and changing direction based on the results. Not only that, but they share their results with their creator friends!

Creator Science is your new creator friend.

We do the work of compiling shared knowledge here as well as acquiring NEW knowledge. That may be through interviews, first-hand experience running this business, or off-the-record conversations.

Creator Science's content, courses, and membership community are built to help you shorten the learning curve to becoming a professional creator.

Learn more and join 14,000+ readers at <a href="http://creatorscience.com">creatorscience.com</a> or click the link below 👇

Creator Science

Founder

Gumroad is a powerful, but simple, e-commerce platform. We make it easy to earn your first dollar online by selling digital products, memberships and more.

I participated in their Crowd SAFE on Republic alongside co-investors like First Round Capital.

Gumroad

Investor

Maven empowers the world’s experts to offer cohort-based courses directly to their audience. I was an early Instructor on the platform and participated in their Crowd SAFE on Republic.

Funded by First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, along with angels like Naval Ravikant, Sahil Lavingia, Li Jin, Arlan Hamilton and co-founders from Lambda School, Outschool, and Superhuman.

Maven

Commsor integrates with all the tools you already use, tying your community together and enabling you to unlock insights, measure impact, and build a Community-Led company.

Commsor

Advisor

With over a million downloads, Creative Elements talks with today’s top creators.

Through narrative interviews, Jay Clouse explores how creators like Tim Urban, James Clear, Tori Dunlap, and Codie Sanchez are building their audiences today. Not what worked 2, 5, or 10 years ago, but specific strategies and tactics that are working for them today.

You'll also hear the specific elements of their personality, style, or approach that have helped them succeed – elements like focus, vulnerability, revision, and constraints.

By learning how these creators make a living with their art and creativity, you'll gain the tools and confidence to do the same.

Learn more at creativeelements.fm or click the link below 👇

Creative Elements

Host and Producer

Most people find themselves drawn to freelancing for one reason: control.

Successful freelancers:
- Make their own schedules
- Live and work wherever they want
-  Choose who they work with
-  Have plenty of time to themselves
-  Earn more money than they did at a job
-  LOVE. THEIR. LIFE.

It's an incredible way to earn a living if you're doing it well.

But so many people quickly find themselves in the same vicious cycle of going project to project.

If you don't get comfortable marketing yourself, selling projects, and running a business, you'll find yourself strapped for both time and cash.

It doesn't have to be that way!

Freelancing School will help you succeed as a freelancer.

After years of freelancing (several of which were a struggle) I've broken the coveted 6-figure mark working with clients like Atlassian, Pat Flynn and Smart Passive Income, The Ohio State University, and LinkedIn.

I've created systems that make the business stuff easy, while also understanding how to market and sell yourself as the best choice.

You can have the freelance business of your dreams. I can show you how.

Visit → freelancing.school or click the link below 👇

Freelancing School

Creator

upside // the first podcast dedicated to startups outside of silicon valley

The Up Company is a media production company. Our flagship podcast, upside, was named a Top Business podcast by Fortune Magazine and was called "Almost as Good as Getting an MBA" by Business Insider.

With over 100 episodes, we interview founders, investors, and community builders in startup ecosystems outside of Silicon Valley.

In 2019, we produced our first full-length documentary, "Test City, USA," about the growing startup ecosystem of Columbus, Ohio. The film premiered at the Film Festival of Columbus, where it won Best Ohio Feature. It was also accepted into the 2020 Columbus International Film Festival.

<a href="https://upside.fm">https://upside.fm</a>

upside.fm

Co-host and Producer

I write and appear in training videos for Linkedin Learning and <a href="http://Lynda.com">Lynda.com</a>. My courses focus on freelancing, small business, raising capital, and product management.

LinkedIn

Author for Linkedin Learning / Lynda.com

In December 2020, Unreal Collective was acquired by Smart Passive Income.

I lead our efforts to create and implement exceptional experiences for the SPI community. We believe in the power of community for personal, organization, and societal change, and we want to be a leading participant in the conversation of how community can positively impact entrepreneurial loneliness and isolation.

SPI Media exists to elevate online entrepreneurs to within reach of their dreams. The company is powered by the Smart Passive Income (SPI) brand created by Pat Flynn. Our learning and development ecosystem comprises in-depth guides, popular podcasts, best-in-class courses, insightful publications, and more. Our content, trainings, and experiences focus on the needs and problems facing entrepreneurs in the startup phase of their new ventures—whether it be a freelance career, agency business, tech startup, side hustle project, or personal brand. We're grateful for our community of over 200,000 people and tens of thousands of students.

Read about the acquisition:
<a href="https://jayclouse.com/unreal-collective-acquired-smart-passive-income/">https://jayclouse.com/unreal-collective-acquired-smart-passive-income/</a>

Learn more about SPI Pro:
<a href="https://smartpassiveincome.com/pro">https://smartpassiveincome.com/pro</a>

SPI Media

Community Experience Director

I act as a scout for Indie.vc and can help make an introduction if you feel they're funding model is a fit for your company.

Indie.vc is a program designed to fund and support founders on a path to profitability.

They believe deeply that there are hundreds, even thousands, of businesses that could be thriving, at scale, if they focused on revenue growth over raising another round of funding. On average, the companies Indie.vc has backed have increased revenues over 100% in the first 12 months of the program and around 300% after 24 months post-investment.

They aim to be the last investment our founders need to take.

Learn more at indie.vc

Indie.vc

Venture Scout

I facilitate connections between great business owners looking towards retirement and/or expansion with adventur.es, a family of companies that acquires family-owned businesses.

Please send an email or direct message if you'd like to learn more.

adventur.es

Scout

Create Columbus Commission

Commissioner

As the sole winner of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Smart Cities Challenge, Columbus was awarded more than funding and designation as America’s Smart City; but more importantly the coveted job of a global teacher for cities around the world on how to “become Smart” by embracing the reinvention of transportation to accelerate human progress. Columbus received a total of $50 million in the form of two grants, $40 million from USDOT and $10 million from Vulcan, Inc., a Paul Allen company. These dollars provide the seed funding for Smart Columbus, a region-wide Smart City initiative co-led by the City of Columbus and Columbus Partnership. The City of Columbus, under the leadership of Mayor Andrew J. Ginther, is the lead recipient of the $50 million and will administer the deployment of these funds for the duration of the grant period, which concludes at the end of 2020.

The Columbus Partnership, representing the Columbus Region’s private sector, is the lead implementation partner for the grant program and is responsible for the initiative’s Acceleration Fund, which is credited as a significant factor in Columbus’ winning of the challenge. The Acceleration Fund, which started out as $90 million now totals more than $360 million and is composed of coordinated and aligned investments by the private and public sector to compliment, scale, and sustain Smart Columbus projects and programs.

I get to help startups engage with Smart Columbus and create programs, like the Smart City Hackathon, to engage our entrepreneur community and get startups involved with local smart city innovation.

Smart Columbus

Entrepreneur In Residence

The Create Columbus Commission (CCC) is a board of young professionals (YP), appointed and funded by the Mayor and City Council President to serve as the community’s foremost thought leader on young professional interests, experiences, and priorities. Through strategic community building efforts and a targeted YP grants program, the CCC strives to make Columbus the next great American city and the nation’s number one place for YPs to live, work, and play.

The CCC believes that the City of Columbus will be better positioned to attract and retain talent if there are YPs at the decision making table co-creating a forward-thinking city with a vibrant, accessible, and integrated urban environment that is a magnet for talent.

Vice Chair

- Acquired in Dec. 2020 by Smart Passive Income)

Unreal Collective is a community of creators.

The Unreal Collective Accelerator creates a place for founders, freelancers, and creators to help each other move faster. The accelerator is intentionally light on "curriculum" and heavy on structure.

It's all about clarity and action. No added "work" -- just helping you organize, prioritize, and take action on what matters.

Together, we create a three-month roadmap and meet weekly to help you see it through.

That may be:
-  Starting your project
-  Validating your business idea
-  Building your MVP
-  Finding your first customer
-  Opening your online store
-  Writing a book
-  Launching your podcast
- and more

Learn more or apply at <a href="http://unrealcollective.com">unrealcollective.com</a>

Unreal Collective

CrossChx is on a mission to build an identity layer for healthcare so people can connect and share information about their health.

Our Connect Network Products suite includes Connect for Practices, Connect for Hospitals, and our mobile app, Connect for Patients.

<a href="http://www.crosschx.com">www.crosschx.com</a>

Olive

Head of Connect Network Products

CrossChx is on a mission to build an identity later for healthcare so people can connect and share information about their health.

Connect digitizes the patient intake process to provide instant, up-to-date information on your patients in real-time without the need for paper forms.

<a href="http://www.crosschx.com/practices">www.crosschx.com/practices</a>

Head of Connect for Practices

CrossChx is building the first global identity layer for better, smarter healthcare through innovative, data-driven products that create operational efficiencies and advance the patient experience. Our proprietary identity resolution system instantly verifies a patient’s identity and links them to their medical benefits to ensure the right person receives the right care. CrossChx prevents medical identity fraud, eliminates duplicate medical records, combats prescription drug abuse, and improves health outcomes.

Connect gives you a direct link to your patient's health info, so you always have the most up-to-date information and they never have to fill out another form. <a href="http://www.crosschx.com/practices">www.crosschx.com/practices</a>

Director of Strategic Growth

Commissioner, Forum Lead

- Acquired by OneUp Sports April, 2015)

Innovative solutions focused on saving time, minimizing risk, reducing waste, and providing more value for all ticket holders

Tixers allows customers to trade tickets that would otherwise go into waste or need to be resold into the site in exchange for immediate value in the form of credits on the site. We also facilitate traditional ticket brokerage paired with flexibility for customers to request they seats the like at the price they want.

Tixers was a member of the second class of the UpTech Accelerator based in Covington, Kentucky right across the river from downtown Cincinnati.

Tixers

Chief Operating Officer

- Wrote a definitive guide for predominantly first-time entrepreneurs who are beginning a startup. The guide covers ideation, finding validation, gaining traction, the art of selling, necessary pitch assets, marketing, and a whole host of tools and resources.

-  Perform diligence in researching potential Fundable clients

Fundable

Business Development

The Business Builders Club connects current and aspiring entrepreneurs with the knowledge, mentors, and funding to build successful businesses and social ventures. As President, it is my responsibility to coordinate meetings, events, fundraise for the club and its functions, as well as further the club's mission by being an ambassador within the community.

Business Builders Club

President

Ohio State's largest student-only marketplace for buying and selling used textbooks, sport and event tickets, and more.

MarketOSU LLC

I handled grassroots marketing efforts as well as some social marketing, seeding conversations within forums, social sharing sites, and Twitter. I also did a lot of content creation for projects, such as press releases and pitch emails. I contributed to outreach efforts, reaching out to media contacts and secured several media placements.

Marketing & PR Intern

I handle writing press releases and emails for the club. I maintain relationships with sponsors and partners, as well keep the members and other students in the know by handling the mailing list. Co-coordinator for the first annual IdeaBox competition and coordinator for Seeds for Social Change. I have also presented in the Spring IdeaPitch competition.

VP of Public Relations

I spoke with potential and incoming freshman on behalf of the Ohio State University Exploration Program.

College of Exploration Honors Ambassador

I helped create content for all of Moritz's publications by interviewing students, faculty and staff. I also spoke to several keynote speakers. I interviewed nearly three dozen alumni for the Moritz Book Project and did some work maintaining the website.

Communications Intern - The Michael E. Mortiz College of Law

Paid intern at The Daily Standard newspaper. Large readership stretching across the Grand Lake area, including Auglaize and Mercer counties.

The Daily Standard

Reporter

Sports reporter for the Ohio State University's student newspaper, The Lantern, covering football, men's soccer and wrestling teams.