Daniel Curran
Founder of CustEx
Daniel Curran
Founder of CustEx
Santa Monica, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2012 - Current
Globally hiring social media, coders, testers - no agencies. CustEx is a global organic sponge for all fan/voter/customer/wishes/needs. It stops Celebrities, Politicians, and Vendors from ignoring you while paying you in a video TikTok interface. Instead of the 1%, the 99% masses decide. Built with opted-in passionate 99% users who crowdsource exact needs, called custexes. Brand Managers and Ad Buyers crave accurate, total data on what Customers want today and tomorrow. ServiceNow, Qualtrics, Facebook, Pinterest, BazaarVoice, & Lithium don't provide this with opt-in permission. Vendors love our co-creation, competitors' Customers access, and branding value-adds that no competitor has. PROBLEM: 95% of all new products fail or suck, because they were built with partial, biased, or AI data. SOLUTION: We increase success, connecting Vendors/Politicians with all opted-in Customers/Voters, not just current ones. Low Risk Bus Model markets: $123B Ads + 16 Enterprise rev streams: Vendor Page fees & Analytics in $650B R&D mkt TECH Users find better alternatives/suggest/review/improve millions of mass-products, earning fame + $. We share crowd-sourced needs with Vendors & their rivals, enabling competition & accountability. Vendors act or lose share, Hunger-Games style. Market Proof: OUT = ServiceNow, Qualtrics, Bazaarvoice, Lithium, & Facebook Vendor pages serve 1 Vendor @ a time / only present customers. Pinterest = guesses using AI IN = CustEx for ALL co.'s, bringing P&G's customers to Unilever ->$B markets! CustEx = sticky for Vendors/Advertisers: co-creation w/Customers because we are 1st/only cloud for outsourced Vendor product dev. w/new QR code tracking We own user relationships! Custexes sent to Vendors & search engines as URL’s/QR/NFT's codes > new product/service standard. Sell ads with NFT & QR code-precision, replacing ALL bar codes, even 4 services! Viral: Users follow others. Vendors pay Customers. Customer Rank stars viewable @ retail sites
Business, Strategy, and Fundraising Advisor. Investor.
2019
Investor and Strategic Advisor, helping with fund raising, go to market strategy. Nickelytics democratizes OOH Ad buying by leveraging an extensive pool of ‘ready-to-engage’ assets that can be managed, deployed, and measured through our self-service portal. We make launching out-of-home advertising as easy as putting up a Facebook ad, solving the modern outdoor marketing puzzle for national brands and local advertisers.
Business, Strategy, and Fundraising Advisor. Investor.
2016
Allset is Dining out for busy restaurant lovers. Book a table and order your meal before you arrive at the restaurant. Served hot when you arrive. Cut ahead of everyone else in line. No waiting anymore! Vaildated by Uber entering the market 4 years late. First Silicon Valley Angel to endorse Allset, which led to $2.5M 2016 A16Z seed and $5M 2017 Greylock A-round funding from multiple world-class vc's below. Drove cap 11x since. B round closing soon. http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/20/andreessen-horowitz-backed-allset-raises-2-35-million-to-cut-your-restaurant-wait-in-half/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/10/17/allset-raises-5-million/#1d3142ff26ea Jun 17, 2020 https://www.socaltech.com/allset_launches_new_app_website_after_8_3_m_in_funding/s-0079983.html https://allsetnow.com
Angel Investor Panel Member
2016 - 2022
Analyze and provide constructive feedback on Silicon Valley startups under FC review. FundersClub is the 2nd largest Silicon Valley platform for accredited angels and vc's to access vetted world-class deals. https://fundersclub.com/danielcurran/
Managing Director
2010 - 2022
Discuss technology companies of interest with institutional investors. Architect data center solutions for social networking and eBusiness clients.
Technology Council Leader
2010 - 2022
Since 2000, have served GLG ranked in the top 1% of all advisers as an internationally recognized authority with 36 years experience in Angel Investing, Technology Startups, Internet services, social networks, IT, data centers, storage components, storage area networks, network attached storage, and storage applications. Based on 2 Unicorn exits, 115 deals, and tenure as Vice President and acting COO of Western Digital's Connex & SANavigator Silicon Valley subsidiaries, which were sold to Adaptec and Brocade; also as CEO of AlaStor Networks, a Stanford iSCSI/FC bridge startup that led the way for CSCO's UCS, and EVP at a data center, with active contacts at customers, systems integrators, and vendors. Follow inventory, pricing, & margins in hard [HDD] and solid state [SSD] disk drives, and covers software, cloud computing, data center, internet, and enterprise storage tech sectors. GLG is the #1 expert network to all major hedge funds.
Sr. Tech Industry Analyst at Guidepoint Global Advisors [spinoff]
2010 - 2022
Years of inside operations experience as CEO, COO, & VP makes Dan a favored consultant on the entire technology sector to hundreds of top money managers, institutions, hedge & mutual funds, startup firms, and vc's.
Environmental Intranet Manager & Programmer
2011 - 2013
Deployed Malcom Baldridge business process re-engineering effort worldwide, resulting in environmental intranet system with 500 indirect reports to increase productivity. Prepared major environmental reports for air, water, and waste agencies based on streamlined system. Promoted from Software Structural Engineer to Senior Technical Specialist to Environmental Project Manager, with New Business Development contributions and awards over 8 years. Was last hired in Environmental Group of 25, but next to last to go, due to outstanding productivity, when Division was downsized. • Cost Management: Introduced business process software re-engineering, which saved $18M/year in a $100M program. • HR Management Training: Completed Northrop Management Development Program. • Industry Leadership: As designated Industry representative, saved over $30M/year curbing detrimental environmental regulations costing $150M/year.
Structural Engineer Specialist, F/A-18E Super Hornet Fighter Aircraft
2011 - 2012
Designed fighters and rockets.
Rocket Scientist
2010 - 2012
Designed aircraft & rockets.
Sr. Rocket Scientist
2011 - 2013
Designed rockets and aircraft.
Sr. Rocket Scientist
2010 - 2012
Designed satellites and rockets.