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Jake de Grazia

Been working on The Carrot Project since spring '07. Did the EIR thing for a while in the energy tech space. But the startup got too crazy. So it's almost all carrots these days. And I try write about it as much as I can.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Living The Dream
Website: http://www.moreperfectmarket.com
Industries: Cleantech, Education, Information Technology, Internet, Media
Skills: Chinese, English, Languages
Next step: Carrots and more carrots.
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Giving back, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Trading services
Tags: blogging, carrots, Cleantech, crunchy, Django, Energy, environmental responsibility, online community, social responsibility, sustainable business, transparency
Schools: Brown University

FEATURED STARTUP

The Carrot Project

The Carrot Project The Carrot Project

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  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Beta

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: The Carrot Project
Position: Founder
Time period: September 2008 - Present
Description: Been working on this since much earlier than October, but now it's official.

Employer: Acorn Energy
Position: Entrepreneur in Residence
Time period: January 2008 - September 2008
Description: Acorn is a publicly traded holding company that makes early stage venture investments in energy technology companies (non-sexy cleantech investing). The work I do includes: vetting new investment opportunities, working on strategy and marketing with our portfolio companies, industry research, writing, and keeping our CEO tuned in to the world outside Wall St.

Employer: LanguageCalls
Position: Project Manager
Time period: March 2006 - November 2007
Description: Joined when LC was tiny. Did everything the founders asked me to, from managing IT development priorities to creating a proto customer service department, to, eventually, taking over the education department and pretending that I knew heaps more about one on one education than I actually do.

Employer: PlaNet Finance China
Position: Project Development Consultant
Time period: October 2005 - November 2007
Description: PF China provides microfinance capacity building services to grassroots nonprofits in poor, rural China. I joined as a translator/interpreter, moved into fundraising, and ended up managing the project on which I'd worked the most. That project was in support of the Ningxia Center for the Environment and Poverty Alleviation, a hugely inspiring group providing integrated community development services to intensely resource poor (no water, no trees, no grass, mostly just scrubby desert weeds) villages in north central China. I went to work for LanguageCalls after 8 months full time at PF China but continued to contribute as a volunteer until I left Beijing in late 2007.

EDUCATION

University: Brown University
Time period: 1999 - 2003
Degree: Religious Studies - Eastern Traditions, BA

Jake de Grazia

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  • The Carrot Project

    The Carrot Project

    Brand comparisons for busy ducksqueezers. When we buy things we support businesses. We should support the businesses that are doing the best things for the world.

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    Embrace

    Stanford spin-off commercializing a $25 incubator for premature infants in developing countries.

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