About Young Go Getter
YGG began as a small forum back in August of 2005. It was originally created as an alternative to the other entrepreneur forums available at that time.
Since then, it’s grown into a large community of young go getters spread across the globe. It’s no longer just a forum. It’s exactly what our tagline says it is, the business playground for entrepreneurs young at heart.
The latest version of YGG was built on the lessons learned from the mistakes we made in the previous versions and the invaluable feedback from all of our members. It will continuously evolve as we make more mistakes and experiment with the standards implied upon most communities.
We hope you enjoy version 3 of YGG and welcome all the current and future members to contribute and make this community their own.
About Eric Windsor - Founding Partner
Eric’s worn a lot of hats, and not figuratively, he actually has - to cover up his balding dome. But after reading Seth Godin’s blog he realized that you can still kick serious ass and be bald. Upon this realization, he ditched the caps and shaved it off. Happiness ensued.
An internet entrepreneur from the get go at a ripe age of 17, and most recently a specialized auto dealer and real estate developer, he continues to wear many hats (now figuratively speaking). He started YGG out of pure lust for business, both online and off.
He’s an avid Mac user. He has a beautiful, loving wife. His only children thus far are two dogs, both small critters (a pomeranian, Wesley, and a Yorkie-pom, Elizabeth). He like’s big dogs too, but with as much time as he spends on his boat, he can’t keep up with the extra dootie at home.
He attributes most of his success to surrounding himself with ambitious, like-minded people (*cough* Travis), taking risks, and being a tight wad.
About Travis - Partner
Travis is a successful entrepreneur who can only attribute his success to attention defecit disorder. Were it not for ADD, he’d still be just a magazine publisher, or just a graphic designer, or just an art director, among many other things. But thanks to his glorious sickness, he was and is an insane culmination of all of the above.
Like Eric, he is slightly obsessed with the prophecy named Seth and also the initials C, P, and B. He can name the agency and client behind almost every ad that’s run in the past three years and you’ll find a copy of Comm Arts on each of his nightstands.
If you can’t find him in his office, you’ll catch him at the arena, on the greens, or in the closet he calls a “studio” playing a little blues.
Without Eric and all the other great people he’s met through YGG and his other projects, he’d probably be doing something else. ; )
About Darius A Monsef IV - Partner
Darius recently joined the YGG team with the fresh, real world experience of running a successful internet start-up. His site, COLOURlovers.com, was nominated for Community Website of 2007 by the Webby Awards and an Official Honoree for the Social Networking Category. COLOURlovers was also the first site to be unveiled in the new Graphic Arts Federation by Federated Media.
He is the co-founder of Hands On Worldwide and in the past 2 years has spent 11 months volunteering in disaster zones and leading relief projects. He was the operations of the Hands On USA Katrina Relief project where he organized more than 2,000 volunteers and delivered over $2,000,000 in aid and volunteer labor. He still serves as a operations director for Hands On Worldwide.