Sean Glass

Current

Founder at To Be Announced
Advisor at happier.com
Advisor at GoCrossCampus / GXStudios, LLC

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Education

University of Pennsylvania
Yale University

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Sean Glass’s Summary

Sean Glass is an entrepreneur, investor, and student of positive psychology. He currently completing a Master's in Applied Positive Psychology at UPenn, is a Managing Director at Top Floor Capital, and is serving in founding roles at two new organizations, one for profit, and one social venture. Prior to that he lived in London while working on Pikum, a social gaming business. Prior to Pikum, Sean founded the higher education focused online financial services firm, Higher One. At Higher One he served as founding president and then as part of the executive team as Chief Marketing Officer for 8 years. During that time, Higher One reached profitability and in 2008 was ranked #85 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing U.S. private companies. Sean has been an active member of the word of mouth marketing association, having published articles in the first two WOMMA research journal publications. Prior to Higher One, Sean helped found the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (yes.yale.edu), and somehow graduated from Yale with a B.S. in Engineering Sciences. He enjoys helping young entrepreneurs get started, serving as a founding board member of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, and being an angel investor. Sean recently published a book called Starting Hands, which shows how poker skills can help you succeed at starting a new company. Sean is an avid sports fan and participant. Sean blogs at www.thoughtsintime.com and can be reached at sean at topfloorcapital dot com.

Sean Glass’s Specialties:

Entrpreneurial planning, fundraising, low-cost marketing, PR, Higher Education marketing, word of mouth marketing, team building. web 2.0, internet startups, angel investing, financial services, term sheet negotiation, positive psychology