UC San Diego

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Nonprofit & Social Entrepreneur

Simbi's mission is to facilitate community and individual development by helping people share their talents with each other. Simbi.com provides a web-based community platform to help non-profit projects find and reward volunteers, promoting community development, mutual aid among those in need, and the development of individual skills.

Simbi

President & Lead Volunteer

Helping early-stage startups, nonprofits and individuals who are trying to create a more joyful, equitable world.

Industries: sharing economy, web publishing, crowdfunding, digital currency, non-profit

Topics: ideation, hypothesis formation and testing, incorporation/entity-choice, messaging, prioritization, budgeting (time & $), fundraising strategy, all early strategic & tactical priorities, process design, project management, website development (WordPress), product management (custom development).

Paid & Volunteer Clients:
Arising Ventures & portfolio companies (UpCounsel, Abstract, Jyve, Enduring Retail Audit), 2022 – Present
Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center, 2019 – 2020
Heart of Avalon, Inc., 2018 – 2024
Covenant Solar Initiative, 2018 – 2022
Volunteer: SF Hair Esteem Learning Project (H.E.L.P.), 2018 – Present
Volunteer: The Electric Smooth Lab Apothecary (TELSA), 2018 – Present
California Association of Building Energy Consultants, 2016 – 2020
Community Development Finance, Inc. 501(c)(3) dba Community Check Cashing, Aug 2015 – 2022
Criterion Institute, 501(c)(3), 2012 – 2022
Hawaii Engineering Services, Inc., 2015 – 2018
Simbi.com Social Currency, 2014 – 2015
Ken Anderson for Utah House, District 71, May 2014 – Nov 2014
mCred: Las Vegas Social Currency, Feb 2014 – Apr 2014
Save The Huntridge ($200k+ Crowdfunding campaign), May 2013 – Jul 2013

DavidRyalAnderson.com

Consultant

First incarnation of a new startup that will tackle how people navigate the relationship between trust and value. (on pause pending conditions coalescing)

Trust Labs

Founder

Creating momentum (via crowdfunding, to start) for projects with ambitious plans to disrupt existing systems and create value for everyone, whether they have a private investor ROI story or not.

What we care about is a project's ROA -- return on awesome. =)

openfi.re

Cofounder & CEO

Sold to Sustainable Enterprises Media, Inc.

Relaunched the original 10 blogs of Green Options Media as Important Media, and growing from there. Up to 15 sites, including the #1 Cleantech blog in the world according to Technorati, CleanTechnica.com

GreenOptions.com has become a full-fledged community, running on the innovative Huddler platform.

Important Media

Founder, Publisher

The ultimate social network, for ultimate frisbee players. Development did not continue, but you never know what may emerge...

I helped advise on tough strategic and business issues, even though I wasn't able to commit as much time as I would have liked.

DiscSpace

business guy

I covered operations for 1BOG until the the right ops people were hired post-fundraising. Acquired by Pure Energies, Inc.

One Block Off the Grid

Interim VP Operations

Virgance acquired Green Options Media. Since I was on the business side with GO, for Virgance I did operations: HR, payroll, accounting, etc. And sometimes I did fun stuff too.

Virgance

VP Operations

Renewzle was a new way to generate consumer leads for clean energy professionals. Unfortunately, it was a little early for its time, and never took off. Acquired by 1BOG.org.

Renewzle, Inc.

GO Media was the first green blog network, at a time when everyone thought everyone would have to centralize everything to one domain, like Treehugger. Acquired by Virgance.

Green Options Media

Got introduced to web startups vis a vis sustainability.

Founder, CEO

I quit this job after only a few weeks because it gave me the direct inspiration for my first attempt at a startup, which led to GreenOptions.com. Took a while to get GO started, but what do you expect from a kid right out of college?

David Ryal Anderson