Sean’s early career was spent consulting to the largest companies in the world designing incentive compensation systems that rewards behaviors for both senior executives and employees.
Since then, he has founded 3 technology startups and advised many others on how to humanize innovations created by people who want to help others change the world.
More recently, he has conceptualized, designed, developed, and marketed two iPhone apps that he owns, a game mechanics system for a social media advertising startup, written the story of the most interesting cow in the world, and developed a cultural system that makes slavery in your career obsolete.
He’s a futurist who’s love of mathematical simplicity is only matched by his fascination of art with layered meaning and emotional storytelling. He believes in the power of finding your dreams and the freedom of living them, so you too can experience what it’s like to not work a day in your life.
Sean has an Bachelors of Science in Mathematics & Actuarial Science from the University of Iowa and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, which he will be paying off for many, many, many years.
The work below represents a fraction of the things I've helped bring to life in the last two years.
Plyfe is a game for your social media activity that rewards you with real stuff. We raised $1 million in seed capital in early 2012.
The best apps are the ones you only need to open once, what I call Invisible Software.
I love the iPhone and I believe it creates the best user experience, but the web is easier for the entire world's population to access (and not as expensive). Now if we can only make apps for the web easier to build.
I'm fortunate enough to work with two of the world's best storytellers, a Storyboard Artist who breathed life into the highest grossing animated films of all time (think billions) and a Concept Artist who's work has appeared at Disney, Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, and 50+ other studios. They're able to tell a story without words and make ideas stick.
Whether it's for logos, print advertisements, offering memorandums, or flyers for events, it all comes down to core principles: what's the story?
I've had the special opportunity to work for some of the world's greatest professional athletes. Below is just a tiny sample of some of that work.
Email is the first, broadest, and still king of social networking. It's saddens the soul that more companies don't take cues from Apple's elegant email designs.
Some artwork I put together to boil down complex topics into simple things or to connect with people on a deeper level. Hopefully.
There's a bunch of other creative stuff on this page. I may as well throw some photography on here for good measure. Holla!
There's a reason that so many "normal" people love Comic Sans. Because it's playful. Similarly, people are delighted and remember those websites where things change based on where and how their mouse interacts with the webpage, so why do most web developers try to downplay it in their work? I believe that the web should be more playful, not less.
There's only two functions in any business. Make a product, then sell it. Being an entrepreneur means you're forced to confront the beast that is consumer behavior and marketing.
I mean, I was a Math major, Actuary, and got an MBA from the University of Chicago. You didn't think I was going to keep my portfolio free from Free Cash Flow models and excel files overflowing with vlookups, pivot tables, and regressions, did you? Command + S.
I write one post every day on my blog, but I've also written more in-depth books on consumer behavior, startups, and gamification. Sadly, there's never enough time in the day so I end up helping other people more than myself. As such, the startup book is still very much in draft form, but am making decent progress on the Gamification How-To guide.
A Daily Email + 85-page eBook Tutorial to Build Your Idea Into A Product
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The full sales piece for prospective real estate buyers of the property
Something simple to convey a simple yet brilliant concept: health food in vending machines
A one-page magazine ad to show the concept and the products so potential buyers can contact.
Monthly email to the most influential people in sports
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Concept we were building to help startups get, well, started.
Download the Draft Startup Starter Book
A small app that ranked how early of an early adopter you actually are for various large social sites.
A wallpaper I made for Harley Davidson on the iPhone. Retina-ized, of course.
Download the Harley iPhone Wallpaper
Set the time and the city, then get notified of the weather every day. Wake up to the weather!
Market research and proposed future strategy to keep existing customers and attract new ones.
Download the Market Research PDF
A spreadsheet that calculates the sales growth rate embedded in Wal-Mart's current stock price.
Download the Wal-Mart Free Cash Flow Excel File
Calculates the current year's present value of total compensation, including salary, bonus, equity, perquisites, and accrued retirement benefits, as well as the wealth accumulated from those vehicles.
An analysis of short-term and long-term incentive practices, equity / stock option valuation, peer group selection and analysis, suggested approach for future long-term incentives, and the client versus the market 50th percentile.
There's a lot of great information in here, but it's not quite organized optimally yet. Also, flip ahead to the last few pages to get some inside VC info.
Download the Startup Starter Book PDF
Learn about Game Mechanics and how to apply it to anything from doing the laundry to incentivizing behavior in the workplace.
Download the In-Progress Interactive iBook
Whether for startups or a big brand, learn how to nudge consumers in the right direction.
Download the Consumer Behavior & Virality PDF
