Arta Finance (formerly Arbo Works)

Joined Arta Finance via the acquisition of Money Minx to be part of the founding product team.

Founding Team | Product

Startup Beach

Hosting startup events in San Diego and enabling event hosts to use a matchmaking algorithm to make sure they attendees always come out with at least two new business connections.

Founder

Techstars

Mentor

GPT Hacks

GPT Hacks is my weekly newsletter, where I share tips, resources, and deep dives on how to leverage AI to grow and streamline your business. Over 9,400 startup founders and entrepreneurs get my AI tips, join them 👉 https://www.gpthacks.com/subscribe.

Money Minx

Founded Money Minx to help investors track all of their Investments, Alts, Crypto, and more in one place. Exited to Arta Finance

eCapital Corp.

eCapital is an industry leader in the freight factoring space. We service and help keep thousands of truckings companies stay on the road moving freight that makes our every day lives possible. 
As CIO and Head of Strategic Initiatives I am responsible for all things IT and Technology used by our employees, customers and partners.

CIO and Head of Strategic Initiatives

My team delivers the simplest factoring experience to the transportation industry, from owner operators to large fleets. We do this through the technology and products we build combined with customer-focused service.

Chief Experience Officer (CXO)

Responsible for the product and technology vision, roadmap and development of the company.

VP Product & Technology / CTO

appsplit

- Founded AppSplit: Positioned as one of the earliest crowdfunding platforms, timed to take advantage of the beginnings of the AppStore and Google Play.

- Innovative Mechanism: Created a network for developers to offer discounts, ownership, and rewards to investors interested in app ownership.

- Media Coverage: Featured in leading tech and fintech publications like TechCrunch and The Next Web.

- Successful Exit: Led the company to a successful acquisition by an investment group.

DiamPrice

- Launched DiamPrice: Developed the industry's first mobile app dedicated to the evaluation of loose diamonds, as well as gold, silver, and platinum jewelry.
- Target Audience: Primarily designed for industry professionals seeking accurate, real-time appraisals.
- Market Disruption: Introduced a first-of-its-kind tool that revolutionized the traditional appraisal process, offering a digital solution in a predominantly manual industry.
- Successful Exit: Sold the business to a private equity group.

OneRoof Energy, Inc.

LPL Financial

Managed team of project managers, established project management best practices and lead delivery of large projects.

Assistant Vice President Program Management

Developed test strategies and lead teams of QA engineers on projects.

Lead QA Engineer

Developed requirements and research for products.

Senior Product Analyst

Stuff I am currently focused on:

#1 Bring new financial advisory products to market at Arta Finance. 

#2 Build a startup ecosystem in San Diego via Startup Beach and mentoring for TechStars San Diego & Anywhere. 

#3 Help others with AI via GPT Hacks. 

#4 Help my youngest develop his soccer skills, my second work on her basketball game and my oldest shine like his sax.

#5 Spend more time with my awesome wife doing fun things in San Diego and around the world.

Hussein Yahfoufi

Stoked for two things... and a bonus!

First, my good friend Ryan Berman packed out Barnes & Noble, Inc. last night and sold out his new book Headamentals.

Second, this was the first book signing hosted on Eventship. Excited to see more authors, creators, and communities using the platform for events like this.

And on a personal note, my amazing wife Jessica Yahfoufi is getting close to releasing her new novel. Stay tuned for that launch party! 💃

Founder, Eventship • Helping event hosts grow everywhere • Host of San Diego’s Startup Mixer

What do you get when you have 200 incredible founders, investors and people working hard to help us all grow at the same place and at the same time?

Great connections, business deals, investments, new jobs and a great ol' time. Especially when you also add in our authentic tacos made by hand on site courtesy of Isaac Pollock, CFP® and Robert Goodyear.

See you there!

Emily Kramer's ecosystem strategy in today's Lenny's Newsletter is brilliant, but I have a different take on one point which is worth unpacking.


You don't get tired of events the same way you do as flooded email inboxes if the events are done right. The problem isn’t too many events, it’s too many of the wrong ones.

With over one thousand events behind me, I can tell you what makes a great event and how events are actually a growth node in your ecosystem flywheel not something people get tired from.

1. Events have to be from trusted hosts (think innovation hubs, accelerators, community leaders, founders, etc).

2. The right people have to be at the event, the attendee list must be curated and focused on the right groups for that event.

3. Sponsors of the event must be true ecosystem partners, not just logos on a wall. e.g. Isaac Pollock, CFP® is the taco guy for my mixer, not just our banker. He is part of the community and cares about it.

4. The event must be designed for connection, not attendance. This is what Neal Bloom🎩, Jonah Peake 🐺 and I talked about in our LinkedIn Live last week. It's also the reason why Eventship invests heavily in our matchmaking AI.

When you get those right, events aren’t fatiguing or tiring. They’re energizing. They are the ecosystem.

When you attend the right event, meet the right person, and the right sponsor supports it, that event becomes a node that strengthens the whole network.

Hussein Yahfoufi’s North County Startup Mixer — every month keeps getting better and better. 😎

Thank you to this month’s sponsors!!!
Isaac Pollock, CFP® 
Kimberly Drozdoff 
Emily D. 
Tyler Hastings 

See you next month 😎

Neo4j

Neo4j is one of the first and most feature rich graph databases for individual and Enterprise use.
- Create and present various meetup talks and conference presentations introducing Python developers to graph databases
- Write or helped write and produce developer focused blogs, videos, and social media content
- Co-host the local Graph Technologies Meetup
- Co-host Graphstuff.fm
- Develop and maintain various demos and graph related tools

Developer Advocate

Sendbird

Sendbird is a real-time messaging platform for mobile and web application developers.
- Wrote and code-reviewed various demo applications
- Produced instructional videos for developing with developer SDKs
- Attended and presented at developer conferences to promote and illustrate product use cases

alwaysAI

alwaysAI brings deep learning computer vision (CV) to embedded devices. We provide developers an easy-to-use platform to quickly build and deploy deep learning CV applications on “IoT” devices like cameras, drones, wearables, robots and transportation units. We give ‘intelligent sight’ to these devices and enable them to autonomously make smart decisions in real-time.

- Engage with developer community in-person and online, write blog articles and showcase features in marketing videos
- Attend and present at developer events to spread brand awareness and assess market needs
- Coordinate event sponsorships and onsite presentations, workshops and provide other technical assistance
- Propose, set up and lead marketing analytics integrations and analysis of data
- Manage interns in the production of reference and sample applications

Tealium

Helping drive a small team of skilled marketing specialist with the planning and implementation of various technologies to expand and scale the wider Marketing team's capabilities and reach.

MarTech Innovation Group Manager

Help familiarize developers with Tealium technologies in real-world and experimental use-cases.

Developer Evangelist

Engage Financial Technology

Increase team development bandwidth through direct support, education, and implementation of scalable tooling (i.e. TDD methodologies, unit & UI tests,  continuous integration technologies, multi-product SCM workflows).

iOS Software Architect at Engage FT

- Coordinate goals and workload of the Device Integrations Team, tasked with developing and maintaining all mobile, IoT, OTT and Web services integration libraries.
- Propose & manage new development feature efforts
- Respond to technical inquiries regarding current & future Tealium device integration capabilities
- Built Tealium's iOS auto-tracking framework & patented Mobile Companion feature
- Code iOS Framework unit & performance tests
- Assist in code-level team development efforts where needed
- Oversee QA of all Tealium Mobile, Iot, OTT libraries & web plugins

Software Development Manager

Darkwater Studios

COO & lead iOS programmer of Darkwater mobile applications development. Assist clients in project conceptualization, planning, build, testing and app submissions.

Chief Operating Officer

The Film and Music Company

- Developed & maintained custom Filemaker CRM and asset database
- Primary point of contact for clients & vendors
- Coordinated small teams on research & operations projects
- Substantially reduced operating costs through improved workflows & automation.
- Managed general office administration and operations

Administrator

Helping developers build for developers. 

- Developer Relations Advocate with 5+ years experience building vibrant developer communities and driving adoption of emerging technologies like computer vision and graph databases

- Initiated and continue to run a variety of joint demos, webinars, and in-person events with technology partners  

- Crafted and produced instructional, educational, and inspirational videos for beginners and advanced users of various products ranging from marketing software technologies, real-time messaging, and graph technologies.

- Conceptualized and delivered conference talks, meetup presentations, and hands-on workshops that empowered developers to enhance skills ranging from Objective-C, Swift, to Python for mobile apps, IoT projects, and complex data applications.

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