Overview
He is the author of Startup Wealth: How the Best Angel Investors Make Money in Startups. Startup Wealth delivers engaging interviews with early-stage investors in Google, Invisalign, ZipCar, Uber, Twilio, Localytics, and other successful and not so successful companies. You can learn more about the book and get additional material on the Startup Wealth website.
Josh collaborated on his second book, How to Make Money Investing in Pre-IPO Stocks: An Investors' Guide to Building Wealth in Private Companies, with serial entrepreneur Manny Fernandez. Manny is also a sought after speaker, leading expert on crowdfunding, and CEO and co-founder of.
He's a passionate supporter of the Seattle startup community, President of Seattle Angel, a non-profit focused on education at the intersection of startups and angel investing. Seattle Angel launched the highly successful Seattle Angel Conference and recently launched the Seattle Angel Fund. He regularly teaches local courses on angel investing, raising capital, and portfolio management around the world.
Josh is a regular keynote speaker at conferences and private angel and entrepreneurial meetings and workshops. An angel investor himself, is an advisor to Flight.vc, a collection of syndicates lead by Gil Penchina, has been consulting, mentoring, and advising startups since 2007.
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Microsoft
- Own the content experience for Office 365 enterprise onboarding.
- Building content customization and automation system as a modern form of software documentation.
- Develop storyboards and curriculum for web and in-person learning.
Self-employed
- Freelance technical writer developing professional exams, coursework, and whitepapers for Fortune 500 companies.
- Author of two books on investing in early stage businesses (2015, 2016)
- Blog and article writer for TechCrunch, StartupGrind, GeekWire, Benzinga, SeekingAlpha, and other media outlets.
- Author of two technical books on Exchange Server 2007 (2008)
- Technical editor of two books on Microsoft technology
- Analyst for Ziff Davis and Ferris Research