How I Make Investments
What I Invest In
How do you invest yourself: your time...your financial and proprietary resources...your mental, emotional, and intellectual rigor?
Aside from the traditional needs I serve and roles I fulfill as an investor, I devote the above-mentioned assets in things I can "get behind" and be passionate about at any level - not just projects and start-ups, but people. In fact, I'm more apt to become involved in something because of its backbone: the person or people that drive it.
Of course, as a serial entrepreneur, I am also attracted to new opportunities; but mostly those which are built of my own crafting.
Some examples of how/what I invest in:
- Mobile Technology - mostly within, or related to, the Entertainment Industry
- Arts & Culture
- Film & Television Projects
- Startup Ventures
- Live and Recorded Entertainment Verticals:
- 360-degree Artist Development and Management
- Publishing and IP
- Record Production and Distribution
- Tour Funding
That being said, I have always been more focused on using the majority of my brain trust and other proprietary assets for my own philanthropic interests.
Causes I care about:
- Arts & Culture
- Community Arts Programs
- Cultural Heritage and American Indian Language Preservation
- Music Education
- Drum & Bugle Corps - financial stability and sustainability
- Human Rights
- Education
- US Military Service Veterans Affairs
- The "Underdog" in virtually any situation
Some organizations my companies and I both support: