Subject: Re: State of the Union Spend Consciously Style
From: "Matthew Colbert" <[email-masked]>
To: "Karen Tramontano" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Joan Peugh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:03:31 -0500

2:30 works.  Which office should we meet at?

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> On Jan 21, 2015, at 10:19 PM, Karen Tramontano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> 2:30 or 3? 
> 
>> On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, Matthew Colbert <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> How does Friday anytime between 1 and 4 work for you?
>> 
>> 
>> 	
>> Matthew Colbert
>> Founder & CEO
>> p: 202.642.5751 | e: [email-masked] w: www.spendconsciously.coma: 1133 15th Street NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20005
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>>  
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>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Karen Tramontano <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> I'm around tomorrow and Friday this week 
>>> Wednesday next week 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, Matthew Colbert <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> 
>>>> I hope that all is well and that everyone had a wonderful holiday.  Now that we are back from the Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas and recovered from my Vegas illness, I would love to reconnect and plan out this next quarter.  I have included below our end of year report that I thought you would find interesting.  In particular, please take a look at what Pope Francis said in his Xmas sermon -- highly relevant and shows that this is not just a progressive or left of center thing.
>>>> 
>>>> Please let me know how your schedules look as it would be great to bring over a couple new members of our team who should hopefully help show our major league team.  In particular, our new CFO who was previously CFO at Washington Gas and before that with Freddie Mac and Stanley Tools.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> 
>>>> Matt
>>>> 
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> 
>>>> Wow what a year!  In honor of the State of the Union – the State of Spend Consciously is strong.
>>>> 
>>>> In fact, talk about hitting a year with a bang -- we certainly did that.  And I must say that I could not have done it without each one of you.  But that is just the tip of the iceberg.  2015 is going to make what we achieved in 2014 look like just the first inning of the baseball game because now the game has officially started. 
>>>> 
>>>> So just to recap what we have achieved because it is important to stop and smell the roses:
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Downloads: We went from 175 users on August 10th to more than 250k users on both IOS and Android
>>>> 
>>>> Platforms: We have gone from a working prototype on IOS only to now have fully developed products on two platforms (Android and IOS).
>>>> 
>>>> Database: We went from 92 companies with almost 2,000 products to very soon having covered the full Fortune 500 with more than 15,000 products.
>>>> 
>>>> Press:  We went from one story by our dear friend, mentor and now team member, Monika Jenson, in UberStories to more than 200 different national and international stories on every platform possible.  We were on TV, radio, newspapers and magazines.  We had comedians getting comic relief, we had top literary publications espousing the game-changing implications of what we are doing and we had mainstream media finding daily interest in the power of a startup.  We even had a full editorial board of one of the leading national daily papers weighing in on our company (they had only previously commented on two other tech companies, Uber and Living Social).
>>>> 
>>>> Team:  We went from three people working on this to now having more than fifteen.  We will be starting payroll for the fist time after the New Year.  And the team is so very impressive -- we have people who have led technology operations for major companies, run sales teams for Fortune 500 companies, been the CFO for a major utility company, come from Wall Street and the legal world.  They have been well versed in the tech world and won major awards for UI and UX and done communication work for the President as well as corporate clients from the Fortune 500 to the Catholic Church.  I could not be more proud of the team that has come together.
>>>> 
>>>> Outreach:  We have started partnerships with companies and organizations.  These include the Consumer Electronic Association, Planned Parenthood and the British Embassy on the organization side and several leading companies like American Airlines and Microsoft with more to announce in the first quarter.  Companies like Wal-Mart, Target, Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Unilever are finalizing talks to become paying customers of Spend Consciously in various capacities.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> 2015 is set for explosive growth. 
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Pope Francis in his end of the year speech spoke of the need for a company to be doing exactly what we are doing:
>>>> 
>>>> “Businesses[6] have a duty to ensure dignified working conditions and adequate salaries for their employees, but they must also be vigilant that forms of subjugation or human trafficking do not find their way into the distribution chain. Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that “purchasing is always a moral – and not simply an economic – act”.[7]
>>>> 
>>>> Organizations in civil society, for their part, have the task of awakening consciences and promoting whatever steps are necessary for combating and uprooting the culture of enslavement. (http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/peace/documents/papa-francesco_20141208_messaggio-xlviii-giornata-mondiale-pace-2015.html)"
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> We are beginning outreach to have a Papal audience as well as inclusion in Davos at the World Economic Summit.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Corporate outreach:  We are expanding our team and bringing on the former head of the Chamber of Commerce CSR initiatives, the former CSR of Hershey and one of the leaders of the CSR movement (who was formerly an advisor to the company) to help lead our corporate and organizational outreach efforts.  We will be finalizing deals with major Fortune 50 companies and continuing through our pipeline of open sales deals with many of the Fortune 500.  These deals will start out with our traditional on-boarding as Charter Members of Spend Consciously but will for many include white labeling and other exciting initiatives.
>>>> 
>>>> Technology:  We are continuing the development of the first product, BuyPartisan, to capitalize on the early 2016 Presidential cycle and the widespread fervent interest that many will have for political empowerment.  In addition, we unveiled an early release of our much more robust mobile platform, Eye$pend, at CES to widespread approval.  We will continue to develop this on the mobile and web platform side to make a more formal release come Q2.
>>>> 
>>>> Organizational outreach: We have significant meetings with leadership of many of the leading political, social and member-based organizations and associations.  Many of these groups have actually reached out to us to meet and figure out how best we can work with them to better engage their membership.  These members will help expand our initial user base and provide additional revenue for the company.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> And it just begins there.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Everything is continuing to explode with new stories emerging in publications like Time and People and the overall media even more excited about the release of our main product and focus of the company.  We are going to be raising our Series A round of capital shortly.  
>>>> 
>>>> We are very excited about where we are and where we are going.  We could not have done it without your early support and involvement.  I cannot thank you enough.  I look forward to talking to you soon.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Please reach out to me and let me know when is a good time to connect.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> All the best,
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Matt
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 	
>>>> Matthew Colbert
>>>> Founder & CEO
>>>> p: 202.642.5751 | e: [email-masked] w: www.spendconsciously.coma: 1133 15th Street NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20005
>>>>      Download BuyPartisan today!
>>>>  
>>>> 
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