Assuming you create stories (daydreams) in your head, what might a typical one entail?
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I have a curious brain that is constantly stimulating a voracious appetite for knowledge and data, which comes handy when assessing business prospects from a structural point of view.
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Solving customer needs in a smart way!
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Problem solver, critical thinker, business background (MBA), engineer by trade, team member, family oriented, opportunity-driven, profit-seeking mindset.
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In the process of selling my coffee subscription (CEO and Co-Founder) business for a 3X revenue multiple. Also, just finished a Data Analytics certificate program at Cornell University.
Born and raised in Colombia (South America), I went to a K-12 German school. I have played several sports during my life, a couple of them competitively, but golf has been a passion of mine since childhood. It evolved into a sort of therapy for me. I got an engineering (industrial) degree from Universidad de Los Andes (top 10 in LatAm), after I lived and worked in Germany for almost two years,. I have worked for both big multinational companies as well as small businesses and I tend to prefer small, young companies where the thrill of action and impact is most rewarding.
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Currently working at a startup that surveys Oil & Gas assets with spectrometry equipment mounted on drones and pickup trucks measuring methane concentrations, processing the data, and providing business intelligence on it.
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8NewVenture Established: 08/06/2019
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Assuming you create stories (daydreams) in your head, what might a typical one entail?
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Good question! I tend to daydream BIG - life accomplishments, personal struggles I will conquer, career achievements, mountains I see myself summiting, seas I would like to sail, battles I get hardened by after emerging victorious. A typical one entails winning the recognition of a group of people for a feat, earning self-respect for what I have done/learned, beating my worst instincts and becoming a better person, and leaving a family legacy which generations to come will pass on to their loved ones. In other words, I have big plans for myself.
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/Answer Posted By: Craig
Assuming you create stories (daydreams) in your head, what might a typical one entail?
I daydream about starting a company or non-profit that helps others bring their ideas to life. The space would have all the equipment, technology, and staff to be able to prototype anything. The idea is similar to a maker space, just on a whole other level in terms of professionalism and quality of the space. The daydream also includes a whole program for bringing in college and high school students so that they really understand what STEM looks like in the real world, and to peak their interest around science and technology.
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/Answer Posted By: David
Assuming you create stories (daydreams) in your head, what might a typical one entail?
It always starts with intervention. For example a guy just enjoying a newspaper and drinking his coffee unexpectedly gets a helicopter visit in his driveway. Then it follows with the guy being asked to get in the helicopter, there's no time, etc. If the guy says no then further pressure will push him out his current situation. Almost like Bilbo Baggins and his visit from the dwarves after he rejects Gandalf. If he accepts, then he's given an explanation and his life turns upside down. Said guy must abandon his core beliefs in order to embrace a new truth. This is of course all symbolic of religious conversion, and -- ironically -- it is used in most stories almost religiously. Once accepting the truth, guy proceeds onto journey where he must fight one or more source of "evil" in order to protect the ones he loves. In the end, the evil is triumphantly overcome and guy is able to return to his normal life. Almost normal anyway; the taste of his coffee just isn't the same as it used to be.
Looking For: Find someone with a common goal and try to unite our strengths as one.
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/Answer Posted By: J .
Assuming you create stories (daydreams) in your head, what might a typical one entail?
I stopped daydreaming in kindergarten after the teacher complained. The world is a poorer place because of it but I liked my short-signted vision-less teacher anyway. I recently started daydreaming again after a lifetime of avoiding such activity and my stories are always the same: Making the world pristine again, free of pollution, throwing all the national leaders (they are all sociopaths) into prison and welding the bars shut, abolishing war by bankrupting the aerospace companies that pour billions into lobbying for war (it is how they make a profit), enforcing the space treaties that ban militarization of space so that people can peacefully settle other world without fear of being blown to bits by military or by terrorists, privacy of consumers & citizens up to European standards, no famine, no hunger, clean water for all humans, clean air for all humans, no micro-plastic in rain, and much more great things. My motives for creating this better world are wanting to be a decent person, practicality (hey, I'm exposed to land, air and water pollution and carcinogens same as you), and becoming extremely rich by doing all this. Oh, and I don't want any thanks or credit or fame. Let other people take the bows. I prefer to do the work and keep my privacy.
Looking For: I am looking for a co-founder. I am here to find a Co Founder.
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/Answer Posted By: Adishetu
Assuming you create stories (daydreams) in your head, what might a typical one entail?
WorldPeace, Preservation of Life and Financial Freedom for all.
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/Answer Posted By: Kate
Assuming you create stories (daydreams) in your head, what might a typical one entail?
Me having any kind of experience go the way that it would for Liz Lemon on 30 Rock - embarrassingly hilarious.
Looking For: A job in the UX/Frontend Web Developer field
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/Answer Posted By: Manish
Assuming you create stories (daydreams) in your head, what might a typical one entail?
Redesign the world, together science and nature.
Looking For: Co-founder
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/Answer Posted By: Phillip
Assuming you create stories (daydreams) in your head, what might a typical one entail?
They'll be some sort of problem or injustice and I imagine a fix. I usually come up with something that would only be a solution to a few people. That's the productive 1% of my daydreams. Then there's 99% scatterbrained nonsense where I'm equal parts procrastinating, having fun, and dealing with my emotions.
Looking For: To meet programmer(s) interested in my startup and network in general
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