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Benedict T. Casnocha
Entrepreneur & Author
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I am an entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. Click here to view my speaking info.
Entrepreneurship
I founded Comcate, Inc in 2001, currently a leading e-government software provider for local governments around the United States. Before hiring a full-time team, I wore many hats: sales and marketing, product development, account management, strategic planning, communications, recruiting, among other things.
I'm a partner at Wasabi Ventures. Wasabi is a different kind of venture capital firm made up of three distinct, but connected aspects: venture funding, start-up advising, and incubation.
From January through March 2007 I worked for the partners of a venture capital firm in Boulder, CO. While there I also helped market the launch of TechStars, a start-up bootcamp. In Silicon Valley I run a discussion group for entrepreneurs and advise various start-ups.
Writing
In 2007 I wrote the book My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley. Here are my best blog posts from the past five years. Here are links to some of my freelance writing:
- Start-Up Town: How Boulder, CO Developed Its Entrepreneurial Culture (American Enterprise Institute)
- Success on the Side: Side Projects in Innovation (American Enterprise Institute)
- RSSted Development: Information Culture on the Internet (American Enterprise Institute)
- You can't generalize about Gen Y (Marketplace public radio / NPR)
- What's the benefit of national service? The case against (Marketplace public radio / NPR)
- It's a transparent society, so get naked (Marketplace public radio / NPR)
- An entrepreneurial approach to college (Marketplace public radio / NPR)
- Starting a High Technology Start-Up (U.S. State Department)