Meet Zac DelVecchio | Founder

We had the good fortune of connecting with Zac DelVecchio and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Zac, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking
I think people over complicate risk. Often I hear people describe risk as something to be fearful of or even something to be proud of. To me, if one chooses to enter the world of entrepreneurialism, risk is something that just occurs every day and should be accepted and embraced. For any circumstance, one must look at all the facts honestly then make the best decision even if it goes against one’s initial thoughts. After you made your decision you simply have to see how it plays out! You know what? sometimes you’re wrong and that’s ok. One can’t beat themselves up over it, just learn from the lessons and move on until the right outcome is achieved. In my career, every day I am presented with new opportunities and I have found that the risk of failure is no longer on my brain. What worries me now is the risk of investing time into projects that ultimately fail when that same time can go towards nurturing and improving my other existing projects and businesses.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Rubber Arrow: Strategic marketing and web development company based on human-centered design and creative problem solving. artistpass: artistpass simplifies the visa application process, so artists can concentrate on their music. Using a proprietary algorithm and a deep network of entertainment immigration lawyers artistpass pairs international artists and streamlines the visa application process. Indie Music Funding: The first all music crowdfunding platform. Musicians can raise funds for any of their projects all at the lowest funding fees currently on the internet. Starting one business nevertheless, 3 ventures was certainly something I was not expecting! I started my career as a guitar player and luthier and accidentally found myself co-founding my first startup in 2015. Luckily, I was incredibly fortunate to have unbelievable mentors who helped me fill the gaps and challenged me to grow. Since then I have been a part of over 15 ventures and the biggest lessons I have learned is to trust your intuitions and ignore the white noise that distracts you from your real goals. Business is no different than creating art it just has more logical rules that need to balance the creative parts. There is nothing more exciting than the moment an idea becomes so strong that it needs to be a real business. The trick however is making that creative idea work in real-world conditions. Sometimes the venture works and other times it doesn’t. Trust your gut when the signs are not there, do not fabricate them to appease your emotions. Some ideas are just not sustainable in the real world, or just don’t make sense at that time. Don’t chase those, let them go. These side concepts often consume so much of your time and brainpower often at the expense of not being able to get closer to your primary goals. That being said, create! Fail fast, learn faster and always dream as big as your imagination can and don’t stop until you’re there.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
First, I’d start the day with coffee at Menotti in Venice Beach. After that I’d be going vintage guitar shopping at Norm’s Rare Guitars and True Tone Music. For dinner we’d have to go to Madeo’s for the best Italian in the city. No night is complete without going to a great bar such as Lono.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I have to thank my very first mentors Corey Stanford and Frank De Fina. If it was not for these two men I would still be just a guitar player and never would have seen the world through the entrepreneurial world I see now. Corey, thank you for teaching a man to fish. You unlocked a side of my brain that I never knew existed and then gave me the tools, knowledge and wisdom to be where I am now. I’ll never be able to thank you enough for what you have done for me. You have truly changed my life and am now honored that you consider me a colleague. Frank De Fina was one of the most brilliant minds I have ever been fortunate enough to meet. Frank gave me my very first professional job within the music industry and taught me more business and life lessons then I can count. I’ll forever miss you and the impact you have had on my life. Thank you for always believing in me. I’ll make you proud.

Website: rubberarrow.com, artistpass.io, Indiemusicfunding.com
Instagram: @ZacDelVecchio