Evan J.

Over $1 Billion in Amazon sales

My Why: Helping Good People Grow Good Online Businesses

I have always had a strong preference for working with the most reputable firms that offer the best services or products in their market.  The desire to help my clients grow by increasing their new business development efficiencies and find venture capital to fuel their growth is what drives me.

Learn more about us at StraightUpGrowth.com

CEO and Co-Founder

Over $500 Million in Amazon Sales and $25 Million on Amazon Ads Spent
Straight Up Growth will empower you to execute a strategy to meet your tough sales targets

Frontwave Arena

Frontwave Arena, in Oceanside, is the new home of the San Diego Clippers G League, San Diego Sockers, along with a number of additional sports and music events.

Strategic Advisor

STACT App 

STACT is a solution for sports event organizers to deliver live scores, live streaming, stats and video replay directly to the fans. It provides tools for organizers to produce their competitions and an application for fans to watch, follow and engage with their favorite sports and athletes.

The technology allows sport organizations the ability to, manage and own data/content using our STACT Event Manager solution. The consumer app can be white labeled and has the ability to run nearly any sport on the planet. STACT is the perfect solution to any small or large sports organization looking to aggregate and distribute stats and content.

Co-Founder - Lead Investor

The Social Standard

The Social Standard is both a brand and creator focused agency. My role is specifically focused on influencer and athlete management. As SVP of Strategy, I provide ideas that merge talent/brand through engaging concepts and activations, utilizing technology and experiences. Innovation is key in an ever evolving world of social media algorithms. My job is to make sure that our agency remains at the forefront of innovation and strategy on both sides of the brand/creator equation.

SVP of Strategy

The Vertical Collective

As an investor in brands, content creators and athletes, I have partnered with The Vertical Collective to be the product extension arm to design and launch products.

Strategic Partner

Corral Canyon Resources

Corral Canyon Resources is a 100% privately held company that controls approximately 4,400 acres ofprivate and BLM land. This land package is not only a prime lode target, but upon successful drill results may have proven to be part of a larger district-level gold deposit.

Managing Partner - Lead Investor

Fraser Capital Management

Managing a portfolio of sports technology, fitness, CPG and real estate investments.

Managing Partner

Influenced Ventures

Influenced Ventures is merging influencers, brands and innovation. We work directly with influencers to create and launch brands, while managing them to grow their brand partnership portfolio.

The focus is in sports, wellness and technology. We are currently working with our team of creators to launch various new consumer technology platforms, CPG products and an NFT Marketplace for creators and athletes.

Chief Executive Officer

Incubate Ventures

Incubate Ventures is a creative space in Carlsbad, CA with a built in support system to help companies grow. Together we are merging a coworking model with a fund. This will allow creative entrepreneurs to be around some of the most successful startups in San Diego in an environment that provides resources, capital and mentoring.

Reserve Land Management, Inc.

We work in certain high growth areas throughout the US developing large acreage for future growth.  The majority of our clients are investors, but we also work with a number of industrial, residential and commercial developers.

They tried to put me in a box, but I was too awkward, extremely social and fought being under stimulated. I surfed, I studied business and I tried my hand at multiple startups before I finished high school.

Then I got to college and things changed. I wanted to do two things, surf and work for myself. I did both and started my first successful venture my junior year in college. I launched a real estate development company in 1998 at 21 years old. I started with $800 and scaled up to be one of the largest private land owners in the State of Nevada by the age of 24. Somehow amassing over 60,000 acres. I didn’t borrow money, I just scaled intelligently. I was  extremely blessed on all levels of business and with that I had hustle and drive.

Somewhere in the middle of all of that I built a surf camp with two close friends and ran the US Surf Team for Dakine. Being attached to the surf industry was my crutch and at times what saved me from the stress of being involved in real estate deals I was probably far too young to be involved in. 

In 2008, I got hustled by the real estate market collapse. I had to rebuild, but it didn’t take me long because I wasn’t over leveraged. I ended up working on creative projects in alternative energy from geothermal to solar and was bold enough to put holes in the ground and dig for gold. 

By 2011 I decided to try my hand at investing in startups. I was a pretend software engineer with a short background in HTML. That got me as far as developing ads for Ebay, but outside of that I had a keen interest in tech. 

In 2015 I launched an incubator for startups called Collab Loft, which eventually became Incubate Ventures. That concept was both real estate and investment related. I launched several concepts out of our flagship building in Carlsbad, from sports technology to CPG brands with social media creators.  

Then 2020 hit and it reminded of a place I’d been before. Misery loves company and that’s not where I wanted to spend my time, so I partnered with a few content creators on social media and I launched Influenced Ventures. 

The next 3 years I spent partnering on concepts, investing in new ideas from music to merch.    That has lead me to 2023 where my focus is managing a portfolio of personal investments of real estate, tech and CPG brands. And in between that I study global economics, so that I can fully grasp what 3-5 years from now will look like. It’s not glamorous, but it’s full of opportunities. 

I am on a unique journey to find good humans, good ideas and great country music….

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