Garrett Dunham

Right now I'm focused on two things.

I'm helping launch the startup accelerator for Singularity University.

So we've got seven startups that we just gave $100,000 a piece to.

And they're doing some pretty crazy stuff.

One's putting a satellite into space that through imagery can track pollution.

Another one is doing biosensors for water detection remotely.

helping around the fracking industry who now currently throws people on a helicopter to do any actual testing.

So lots of things there.

And then after my own personal burnout with my last startup accelerator at the

put together a framework that helped pull me out of it and had a bunch of my fellow entrepreneur friends ask for help there.

So I created a site called Ignite the Drive.

I do some posting on just things to help with the mental fortitude around entrepreneurism.

So it was called pre-backed, and it was really almost a counter accelerator.

I was not focused on any of the things that you would think of in an accelerator.

I would work specifically with multi-billion dollar corporations like Blue Shield of California, Covidian, Amgen.

These are multi, multi-billion dollar healthcare companies.

And I would help startups...

get a contract with them in four months which in the healthcare industry could take them 24 months to get about a hundred hundred fifty thousand dollars as revenue not as funding

Yeah, I actually successfully accelerated that sales cycle down through a whole lot of social engineering.

But you asked about the failure and that was the one thing I was never able to solve was how to make my own sales cycles shorter because it took a lot of very, very high level input