A major milestone for SokoSquare this week.  We turned in the final draft of our business plan for the Stern Business Plan Competition.  Now we just need to refine our 15 minute pitch for the semi finalist pitch round on April 16.  We had a very successful feedback session in the pitch dress rehearsal last [...]

My second paper for Social Facts with Clay Shirky at ITP: Study of the OpenStreetMap community. Download PDF

A quick update on the status of SokoSquare:  Catherine, Peter, and I went to a “how to pitch” workshop at Stern this Tuesday and got some practice presenting and feedback from other teams.  We have a dress rehearsal of the full pitch next Wednesday. We will also be participating in an ITP pitch-off this Saturday, [...]

Lots of development on SokoSquare this week, but haven’t had time to reflect. Tuesday: presented Soko in a trade show-like format at the Stern New Venture Fair for biz plan semifinalist teams. It was cool to see what the competition was up to and to practice the pitch to different audiences. Met some potential advisers [...]

Some more pictures of my Mumbo Jumbo Maracas performance at NIME 2009. Photos by Daniel in the Lion’s Den via Flickr.