About
My name is Jay Grossman. I have worn a lot of different hats over the years – husband, father, son, entrepreneur, software developer, manager, mentor, coach, student, tag team partner, etc. All have shaped me in different ways and this site is where I plan to share those experiences on this site.
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Ever since I was 9 years old, I have been fascinated by how people behave related to collecting things and how they decide what they are willing to pay for it. At the time, I was in love with collecting baseball cards (as were many boys in the mid 1980′s). So I would spend more time than reasonable trying to understand why a card that one person would buy for $1 could then be sold to another person for 50 cents or $10. Or why my friend who was a Mets fan was willing to pay 10x more for a Dwight Gooden rookie card than I would. It sparked interests into math, statistics, and basic economics principles. I was completely hooked.
My interest in this problem space only grew as I attended college and beyond. That drew me to learning how to program so I could build software to further test my theories and find solutions. After searching for answers and not finding the solutions I was looking for, I have built some interesting projects that I have shared:
Projects
SportsCollectors.Net |
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Description: Largest Community for Sports Autograph Collectors. 70K+ members and 16K+ subscribers Timeframe: 2000-Present |
Collectz.com |
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Description: Research and Arbitrage Platform for collectibles categories. Timeframe: 2012-Present |
SportsCardDatabase |
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Description: Sports card reference provides market values, comparison shopping, deal finder (arbitrage), and collection tracking functions. Timeframe: 2009-Present |
AuctionCapture |
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Description: Comparison shopping and product recommendation engine (leveraged item based collaborative filtering) for auction items. Timeframe: 2006-2013 |
Hipstir |
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Description: Social Network and lifestyle site with over 600k+ users. We were the first to offer games, events, and other cool features. Timeframe: 2003-2008 |
TrainingMe |
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Description: Online learning and courseware solution that allowed users to run their own curriculums. Timeframe: 2002-2004 |
BigTrades |
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Description: Online collection management and trading platform for collectibles. Timeframe: 2001-2003 |
Personal Auction Manager |
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Description: Tool set for sellers to list and track product offerings across a variety of marketplaces and formats. Timeframe: 2001-2002 |
CodeAndHacks |
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Description: Code repository and document management platform for development solutions. Contained a custom content management solution. Timeframe: 2000-2008 |
All of these projects were built from the ground up and each was created to fill specific need that I could not find in other sites (at that time period). Each has delivered different but valuable opportunities to explore different problem spaces.
These have allowed me to get hands-on experience for so many interesting technical and business topics…. customer service, predictive analytics, collective intelligence, market pricing algorithms, gauging demand, real time data/application integration, data mining, database design, implementing a search platform, content/document management, service based architecture, task automation, marketing, public relations, etc. Through these projects I’ve met so many interesting, smart, passionate, and fun people – with the hope of helping them solve some of their problems/voids along the way.
Thanks for taking a look and hopefully some of the topics on this blog will be worth the read for some of you.
TLDR;
techie / entrepreneur that enjoys:
1) my kids + awesome wife
2) building software projects / products
3) looking for signal in data sets
4) my various day jobs
5) collecting sports cards + autographs
6) playing sports (baseball + hoops)
7) rooting for my Boston sports teams:
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