ActSeed is for Entrepreneurs and Startups

What’s behind the curtain?  Well, that depends on which side of the curtain you’re standing.

ActSeed’s forthcoming application sits at one of the most innovative intersections of social media and business.  Our home page will continue to drive content that reflects leading thinking on new business creation from within and beyond the ActSeed team, but in a few short weeks, ActSeed will offer much more.

Business applications of social media aren’t new.  LinkedIn is a shining example of how professionals are leveraging a social media model to expand and enrich their networks.  Never has a professional “six degrees of separation” been as handy.  Our first meetings can be much more productive when we know a bit about the person we’re meeting. We are avid users of social media, from Facebook to LinkedIn to Twitter and beyond and we definitely appreciate the value these venues provide.

ActSeed is establishing a new intersection of social media and business where online community behavior is focused on new business creation, small businesses and the core processes around building durable and successful companies.  Instead of giving you another platform to network almost endlessly among 50 million or 300 million others, we are building an application that gives you an opportunity to find the few key individuals who matter to you right now to help you with the critical needs that need your attention.

For a couple of decades now, we’ve been living the life of The Entrepreneur.  We intimately and personally understand the world of business creation at the most nascent stages.  We all have lots of needs.  We’re always short on time and have limited resources at our disposal.  We understand the high level of chaos.  Actually, we thrive on most of the chaos; it’s a large part of what makes us entrepreneurs.  We are very aware of the almost endless number of networks, clubs, lists, newsletters, books, directories and other forms of assistance designed to help us be successful, but we sometimes wonder if the saturation and noise doesn’t bog us down instead of fueling us forward. 

Thus, on the top of our wish list is to find a way to condense these possibities into a “dashboard of opportunity” – a tool that allows us to prepare our companies within a methodical preparatory framework and identify / engage the folks who matter to what we need right now, whether that’s investor capital, advisory wisdom, inexpensive and youthful labor, mentoring or some sort of professional services.

We couldn’t find the “dashboard” that we wanted, so we’re building it.  Stay tuned.  It’s almost “curtain time”, and we hope you’ll allow us to be part of your command performance.