Rolling Fun Partners
Partners in Fun
For a single (minority) spot on your cap table, you get three partners’ networks, expertise, and support.
Al Doan
Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of the biggest quilting company in the world. Creativity, Inc is an e-commerce giant at $100m+ annually. They bought a whole town.
- Founder & (fmr) CEO of Missouri Star Quilt Co. (opens in a new tab)
- Chairman of the board of Creativity, Inc.
- Angel Investor in 40+ cos.
- Founder of Pretzel.io
- Founder of Let’s Make Art
- Owner/Pres Mgmt @ Harvard Business School
- Info Systems & Political Science @ BYU Hawaii.
Fun factBuilt a suspension bridge after watching some Youtube videos.
ListenHear his guest appearance on My First Million (opens in a new tab).
Bo Fishback
Founder. Founder. Founder. Founder. Bo has been starting, scaling, and selling companies his entire career. He knows how to raise money, recruit, manage boards, and position for sale.
- Founder of Zaarly (acquired by ASX:ART)
- Founder of Orbis Biosciences (acq by Adare Pharma)
- Angel investor in 30+ companies
- VP Entrepreneurship Kauffman Foundation.
- Founder Lightspeed Genomics (acq Biosearch)
- Founder of early social network (acq $RENN)
- 2013 BTC buyer.
- MBA @ Harvard Business School
- Biomedical Engineering at SMU
Fun factCompleted “impossible” Gallon Challenge, drinking a whole gallon of milk in an hour. It’s real. We saw it.
Eric Jorgenson
Collecting an audience of tech-focused builders, doers, and founders around the world. Writing, recording, publishing, and connecting since he was 17.
- Author of Almanack of Naval Ravikant (opens in a new tab) and Anthology of Balaji (opens in a new tab)
- CEO of Scribe Media (opens in a new tab)
- 10 years of growth and strategy experience in startups.
- Angel Investor in 5 cos.
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20,000+ on his Smart Friends newsletter.
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1 million readers on the Blog.
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Podcast with 4k listeners/episode.
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62k on Twitter (opens in a new tab).
GP Networks
Bo and Al both know the secret handshake from HBS.
Eric writes books read by hundreds of thousands of people, including many founders, investors, and startup people.
Al is in the Mormon Mafia.
The Kauffman Foundation connects entrepreneurs locally and globally.
In Kansas City, we see deals in the midwest others may not, but we invest globally thanks to our wide networks.
Techstars/
StartupBootcamp connects us to founders all over the world.Twitter has turned out extremely useful (sometimes).
From the founder FAQ
Whatever your current challenge, one of us will have a way to help — if you ask for it.
(This goes to all partners)