Entrepreneur Educator, Program Developer, UTexas Prof

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👋 Howdy! I’m Cam.

I’m a 4x founder (2 wins, 2 losses) obsessed with helping communities of founders and knowledge workers grow their companies and careers.

This site has writing and random other stuff. My work site is a little more formal.

I do this for a living—mostly through building entrepreneurship programs and running my own cohort based course.

Stuff I’ve built:

Minimum Viable Video: The project that I’m most passionate about these days is a cohort-based course that teaches entrepreneurs how to make videos to get customers and create opportunities.

Minimum Viable Video is an online cohort-based course. But we took an in-person version to Ecuador.

Actionworks: Consultancy building entrepreneurship programs for Apple, the U.S. Department of State, the University of Texas, and dozens more.

Previously: 3 Day Startup: 10-year CEO journey scaling an education company to 50 countries.

Personal

  • My partner and I (and her ridiculous cats) split our time between Austin, TX and Savannah, GA.
  • Interests: Formula 1, Mexican food, Alvvays, coffee, Nolan films, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman’s theory of reality.
  • I’ve had a hell of a lot easier time building companies than figuring out vulnerability; that came with Personal Boards of Directors.
  • I have a mysterious health condition. Sharing this because I’m out of ideas. Maybe you have some.

Contact

DM me on Twitter or email me at my name at actionworks dot co (not dot com).

Blog


  • Beating Perfectionism Means Striving For Collisions, Not Beauty

    Beating Perfectionism Means Striving For Collisions, Not Beauty

    Tuning forks produce ethereal, harmonically pure musical tones. Musicians use them to tune their instruments. The crystal clear, frequency-perfect note vibration is a precursor to a violinist or cellist producing a dazzling piece of music. But what comes before that gorgeous, sustained ringing of the tuning fork? A big, dumb collision. A gesture devoid of […]

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  • Be Careful What You Carry

    Be Careful What You Carry

    I was sitting on the trunk of my beat up Honda in a nondescript apartment complex parking spot. Waiting for my bass player Monty to hop in my car so we could drive to practice. My amplifier was in the backseat poking out of the open window. The scene was an accurate depiction of life […]

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  • Seeing is Believing? Not According to Donald Hoffman.

    Seeing is Believing? Not According to Donald Hoffman.

    Consider the light blue folder on your computer desktop. You drag that folder to the trash bin icon at the bottom right of your screen.  Your MacBook emits the familiar, satisfying sound of paper getting scrunched into a ball.  That folder is now deleted and hard drive space has freed up. Inside of your computer, […]

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