AviMuchnick
hey Chris! I was so excited when Victoria told me you were one of the founders of Cake. I love the simplicity of the platform! Your company lunches at Smugmug were an inspiration for us to do the same at Aviary. Regards to Don!
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AviMuchnick
Joined- AviMuchnickhttps://twitter.com/avimuchnick You can follow me on Twitter @avimuchnick.4
- AviMuchnickBe super open. Share your idea with literally everyone, especially people in your target market. Get their feedback on whether it's a need-to-have, not a nice-to-have. Don’t keep your idea to yourself and hide behind NDAs. Secrecy at the ideation …4
- AviMuchnickI’m currently reading THE SHINING by Stephen King. I saw a trailer for Dr Sleep, the sequel to THE SHINING, and it brought back so much nostalgia I had to go reread it. So good!4
- AviMuchnickI just love seeing makers fulfilled. Whenever I work on a project, no matter what it is, no matter how small, I get such an intense feeling of fulfillment when I’m done that can carry me for weeks. So knowing we’re providing that feeling for other …4
- AviMuchnickI’ve spent a lot of time with VR during my time at Adobe, and even in the gaming space a bit too, trying to understand if there are ways to use gaming for creativity. I think that there are tremendous opportunities, especially in the realm of …5
- AviMuchnickWhile the idea is important, I tend to focus mostly on the people pitching them. I give a lot of weight to anyone that I know personally and have worked with. My basic secret sauce in making an investment decision is “would I hire this person to …4
- AviMuchnickI think the biggest question we’ve always wrestled with is “how do we make everyone in the world aware of the power of 3D printing, and then get them to come to Shapeways to do it?” That's a doubly hard challenge to solve, so the next evolution of …4
- AviMuchnickI've seen people use Shapeways to prototype a new mode of transportation - for confidentiality reasons, I can't talk about it too much except to say that it's a mode of transportation I have been waiting for since I was a child. One story I can …
4 - AviMuchnickWe enable businesses and people to 3d print anything, at scale. Plastics, industrial metals, precious metals... you name it. We do it all for them, acting as their 3d printing expert and backend fulfillment partner behind the scenes, so they don’t …
5 - AviMuchnickFeeling like I'm contributing a small part to the massive amounts of productivity that flows through the platforms I help build. Aviary had more than 1% of the entire planet actively using their technology before Adobe acquired it. That blows my …6
- AviMuchnickCreativity is a life-passion for me, so I tend to gravitate towards creative ventures. I’ve always found the most success in doing things I’m passionate about. That pattern has followed my career - I founded Worth1000 and Aviary, which were built …5