I’m a life-long learner & leadership junkie who’s focused on learning how to build and scale great businesses. I love comparing notes, trading book recommendations and connecting with other hungry entrepreneurs.
I’m helping KISSmetrics build a great, customer-driven product using Lean principles and a passion for customer happiness. I’ve written about many of my learnings, which you can read here.
I also co-founded Greenhorn Connect, which has everything a Boston entrepreneur needs: an events calendar, resource listing, community blog, and an innovative startup job board.
I love helping and learning from others, so please feel free to contact me through any of the channels you find on my About.me profile or at evanish dot j at gmail dot com.
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In the press:
I’ve been very fortunate to have some really cool press coverage. See some of it here:
Jason Evanish shares his process for understanding customers
- ProductPeople.TV Interview (Part II) with Kyle Fox and Justin Jackson March 27, 2013
Jason Evanish moves to San Francisco
- ProductPeople.TV Interview (Part I) with Kyle Fox and Justin Jackson March 20, 2013
How to Interview Customers
- Mixergy Interview with Andrew Warner August 16, 2012
Catching up with Young Mass Innovators
- WGBH Boston’s Innovation Hub with Kara Miller March 25, 2012
Boston’s Young Entrepreneurs
- WGBH Boston’s Innovation Hub with Kara Miller December 3, 2011
For Facebook and Zuckerberg, location matters
- NPR Market Radio by Curt Nickisch November 7, 2011
Facebook Founder Gives a Shout-Out to Boston
- NPR on WBUR Boston by Curt Nickisch, November 1, 2011
A Need-to-Know Guy: How one young Bostonian became a networking king
- Fast Company Magazine by Curt Nickisch, November 2011 Issue
Unlimited Vacation, but can you take it?
- The Wall Street Journal by Sue Shellenbarger, July, 20, 2011
Person of Interest: Jason Evanish
- Boston Magazine by Curt Nickisch, July 2011 Issue
Hello Jason,
Great work you’re doing here and at Greenhorn. Speaking with my colleagues this morning about a way we can work together. Trying to find your number so I can talk with you via phone… I know, old fashioned… I’m at NCIIA Headquarters: 413-587-2172.
Humera.
Hello Jason,
First and foremost, thank you for the excellent and inspiring work you do at Greenhorn. I am a new entrepreneur working on a very exciting startup ecommerce company. I was introduced to Greenhorn and have learned alot from its articles and overall content. I was hoping to talk to you about the company and share with you my ideas and my obstacles. I hope that I will hear from you and will inspire you with my new idea.
Regards,
jonathan
Hey Jason,
Last Thusday I breifly met you at Mead Hall. You may recall I am the “designer/hustler” at NeighbFav.com
Today I was reading Fast Company and saw the featured article about what you are doing in the Boston community. Props on what you are doing and making the tech community more accessible. Hope to see you around in Boston soon.
Cheers,
-Zac
Thanks Zac.
Good luck with your project. There’s obviously some real monster startups with a head start on you, but that never stopped Google in their early days.
Remember that nothing matters more than team; with the right team you can accomplish anything, while an imperfect team can be crippling. I feel very fortunate to have a great team to work with at Greenhorn Connect and hope you are able to build a great one too.
Thanks,
Jason
Jason,
Just finished watching your course on Mixergy.
Giant kudos. You delivered a ton of value. I really appreciate your enthusiasm.
My wife and I are considering a new direction after 5 years online, and I was designing a rough process in my head like you outlined for interviewing potential customers. You confirmed that the basics of what I was thinking are right on, but more importantly: you gave me all sorts of insights. Surely saved me a ton of time and improved the process before I even got off the ground.
You’re also a great spokesman for the vision of KISS metrics.
Keep rockin it.
Zach
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Hello Jason,
I’ve been reading your article about living in San Francisco, and I noticed the part about the rental prices.
I’m moving in to San Francisco with my wife next September, and I’ve checking the rental prices on some websites (Ex. zillow.com) and I found some good looking apartments for as much as 1,000$ per month, which is very different from the numbers you mentioned.
It would be very helpful if you tell me if there’s some sort of trick or some hidden costs that makes prices this low on the mentioned sites?
Mohamed,
I don’t know what part of town you may have been looking in, so that’s tough to answer. All I can tell you is that I used the sites I listed in my post and I focused on places in the northern half of the city, which are the most expensive but also the most urban environments: http://jasonevanish.com/2012/05/20/sf-startup-survival-guide-how-to-find-an-apartment-in-san-francisco/
Good luck on the move!
Thanks,
Jason