About Us

[NOTE: The ActSeed Community Platform is nearing completion.  We will soon be inviting a limited number of beta users to join us as Founding Members of the ActSeed Community.  In 2010, we will open our application to everyone.  If you're interested in being a Founding Member, please email us at FoundingMember@ActSeed.com.] 

ActSeed Exists to Serve You.

If you’re part of the new business creation ecosystem, we want you to be involved in the ActSeed community.  ActSeed exists to serve the common interests, common challenges and reciprocal needs within small business and new business creation.  Our soon-to-launch application is designed to double or triple the success rate of businesses through simple but effective preparation combined with a community of others who matter to your success.

The ecosystem that drives new business creation in the US centers on the initiative and tenacity of the entrepreneur, but the entrepreneur must engage others to survive and thrive.  Success depends upon the right mix of labor, capital and services – coupled with a well-planned and highly-prepared leadership team.  A significant symbiosis must exist within our community.  

Survival and success depend upon connecting your needs with appropriate resources, having a clear idea what those needs actually are, and succinctly defining your value proposition to meet the needs of your clients.

Entrepreneurs need a framework that addresses critical factors for preparing their business for market while being involved in a dynamic community full of people who want to contribute.  They have enough topical advice blogs and self-organizing professional networking sites. What they need most is to communicate preparedness to those who matter and get things done quickly and efficiently.

Investors don’t want to waste time talking to unprepared entrepreneurs. They want deals ready for dollars. Matching prepared business owners with relevant investors should help many of the 98% of startups not currently securing funding. We need to at least double or triple the success rate of new businesses in the US.

Service providers want to engage businesses at inception and become the trusted incumbent.

Education and public outreach programs that are dedicated to business creation constantly look for tools that can (1) expand their customer base while reducing transaction costs of reaching qualifying businesses and (2) increase the success rate of small business.

The rest of us just want to work. Over 15 million of us are jobless at the moment. Millions more are greatly underemployed. Part time, full time, for a salary, for experience, for equity, etc. – our professional needs are as different as our desire to work is common.

“The key to creating lasting growth through social networks is real life connections, which is one of the primary missions of our community. ActSeed is a new market maker in the idea economy. It’s not about how many people are in your network, but have you found the “ideal few” who are ready to contribute?

We look forward to helping people create disciplined businesses, jobs and networking opportunities so they can personally and professionally thrive.

We reap what we sow, and five years from now, we’ll consider ourselves wildly successful if we are serving 50,000 of the 8 million entrepreneurs in the US and helping millions of others find work.”

                                                                                                              - Bill Attinger, CEO

ActSeed Founders

Bill Attinger, CEO   http://www.linkedin.com/in/billattinger

Bill authored the vision of the company and is responsible for executing the corporate formation, application design, community outreach, member acquisition and marketing frameworks.  Yes indeed, he’s “eating what he’s cooking” and applying the same planning / preparation principals that are being offered to the ActSeed community.  A former venture-backed CEO or COO of numerous startups, Bill has helped companies prepare for rapid and disciplined core business events, such as business creation, team building, product launches, financing and market entry / sales. He has helped position cutting edge products and services for market acceptance and distribution across many industries.  Before focusing his career on startups, Bill structured over $1billion of publicly offered securities as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in the early 1990’s.

Dan Jacobson, CTO   http://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldjacobson 

I am committed to the success of ActSeed’s modern-era marketplace for new business and job creation.  In ancient times the marketplace was a physical environment for the exchange of goods, services, and money.  But more importantly it was a forum for the exchange of new ideas, technology,and global culture.  During my 20+ year career in Big 4 consulting and industry I’ve lead many transformation and technology programs for emerging and global companies, always with a personal interest in innovating and adapting leading practice concepts and technology to new situations.  ActSeed is a natural extension of what I’ve learned and pursued throughout my career.  Our design for ActSeed puts the entrepreneur in the center of the marketplace – surrounded by investors, talent, professional and vendor services, and education non/profit support.  And in the spirit of the ancient marketplace we’ve leveraged new technology concepts to enable efficient interaction, sharing of ideas, personal control over information, and access to valuable, leading practice content.  We believe that this new marketplace will benefit new as well as experienced entrepreneurs.  We’ve built the marketplace.  Now we ask you to become involved, contribute, and help build a new, dynamic on-line community.