Hi #Vegastech! My names David. Some of you know me, and many, especially new faces, dont. I moved Downtown just over a year ago to help build the local community (whatever that might have ended up looking like), and build openfire, a crowdfunding platform for tech-based social good projects. It didnt work out, but my how time flies! Ive lived in DTLV over a year now, watched this community grow and change almost from bud to blossom to flower... and experienced so many crazy awesome moments: $1PBR-fueled massive Jellies spilling into the early DTPodcasts, SXSW w/ #Vegastech, crowdfunding to Save the Huntridge, multiple awesome StartupWeekends, plus #startupblock!...jam sessions & barter swaps at the Pit and pool parties at the Manor -- I could go on forever! Im now in the midst of starting my next company, Trust Labs, and was offered a Q1 residency at the incredible Makeshift Society in SF, which I just couldnt pass up. In general, the bay area is gonna be necessary for the technical and theory expertise Trust Labs needs as we tackle the reinvention of private money. But Ive come to love this place and the people Ive met dearly, and I appreciate everything DTLV has taught me over the last year. Based on my time here, and what Ive learned working on trust-based currencies, I believe that a complementary community currency is just what Downtown needs to bring people together around all the ways that they need each other, and save money by getting help without formal dollars, too! Plus, the bay already has multiple successful local currencies (not at scale, but thats another matter). So, from the beginning, DTLV has been my #1 choice to help our first users find new ways to engage with others in their community. But Ill be honest -- I dont have the money to self-fund this pilot project, even with the incredibly compressed timeline were looking at (we built the current prototype [ cclv.meteor ] over the last
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:02:59 +0000
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