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Investing @ USV. Student of cities and the internet.
For the past year or so, the group at TOPP that I manage has been known as TOPP Labs. TOPP Labs was originally chosen not because it was the best or most compelling name, but because as we were dialing back work on the OpenCore project, we needed a name that was better than "The Team Formerly Known as OpenCore," or "Non-geo TOPP" (since OpenGeo is TOPP's other main software group). Without a whole lot of thought, we settled quickly on TOPP Labs, as it was better than nothing and it generally evoked the spirit of experimentation and innovation we were hoping to embody after working for a long time on a single, large project. Since then, TOPP Labs has come a long way. We've re-imagined ourselves as an incubator for new enterprises and initiatives that
For the past year or so, the group at TOPP that I manage has been known as TOPP Labs. TOPP Labs was originally chosen not because it was the best or most compelling name, but because as we were dialing back work on the OpenCore project, we needed a name that was better than "The Team Formerly Known as OpenCore," or "Non-geo TOPP" (since OpenGeo is TOPP's other main software group). Without a whole lot of thought, we settled quickly on TOPP Labs, as it was better than nothing and it generally evoked the spirit of experimentation and innovation we were hoping to embody after working for a long time on a single, large project. Since then, TOPP Labs has come a long way. We've re-imagined ourselves as an incubator for new enterprises and initiatives that
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The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanFrom Crypto-Native to Crypto-Enabled
I’m not one to make big annual predictions, but one thing that seems likely to me is that 2024 will mark the emergence of mainstream apps powered by ...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanBitcoin as Battery
One of my favorite things about crypto is that, every so often, your conception of what it is changes.Bitcoin at first was "weird internet money...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanThe Internet's Next Business Model: A Conversation with Cloudflare's Matthew Prince
I just released a new episode of The Slow Hunch with Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare. Since we invested in their Series C back in 2013, I've watched Matthew and his team build one of the most critical pieces of internet infrastructure—protecting and accelerating vast portions of global web traffic. Our conversation traces Matthew's journey from his early "slow hunch" that the internet was fundamentally broken and needed fixing. We start with his law school days in 2000, when ...
Technology, innovation, and creativity
A strong commitment to civic issues and the goal of making cities work better
A serious, competent organization that can deliver quality products & services
Second, here's what we'd like to avoid:
Terms or phrases that could easily become cliche or dated (for example, Labs, or e, or i)
Anything that sounds overly silly and not business-y enough (e.g., the Super Awesome Group)
Anything that sounds overly business-y and not creative enough
Open Abuse -- there's only so much "open" people can handle
Lastly, it should be informed by the things that we actually do, such as:
Find opportunities for software and technology to help make cities more livable, communities more engaged, and government more effective.
Develop open source software products that accomplish the above, selling our services to government agencies, foundations, and other partners.
Cultivate communities of open source developers and other civic technologists.
Help liberate data for the public good.
So far, the strongest contenders for names have been something like the Civic ____ Group, where the blank is "tech," "dev," "data," or something similar. I'm not opposed to those approaches, but I still haven't fallen in love-at-first-sight with a name, which I'm hoping is still in the cards. Other names I've noticed lately that I like are the Office of New Urban Mechanics, which is Boston's new office for civic technology innovation, led by their innovation director, Nigel Jacobs. Also, I dig John Tolva's title at IBM of Director of Citizenship and Technology. We could go the city-analog route and name ourselves the Department of Public Networks or the Department of Civic Hacking (I could be Commissioner), but that's almost certainly too cheeky. So, that's where I'm at. The clock is ticking, as I need to make a decision by the end of the day tomorrow, Friday 2/19. What do you think, intertubes?
Technology, innovation, and creativity
A strong commitment to civic issues and the goal of making cities work better
A serious, competent organization that can deliver quality products & services
Second, here's what we'd like to avoid:
Terms or phrases that could easily become cliche or dated (for example, Labs, or e, or i)
Anything that sounds overly silly and not business-y enough (e.g., the Super Awesome Group)
Anything that sounds overly business-y and not creative enough
Open Abuse -- there's only so much "open" people can handle
Lastly, it should be informed by the things that we actually do, such as:
Find opportunities for software and technology to help make cities more livable, communities more engaged, and government more effective.
Develop open source software products that accomplish the above, selling our services to government agencies, foundations, and other partners.
Cultivate communities of open source developers and other civic technologists.
Help liberate data for the public good.
So far, the strongest contenders for names have been something like the Civic ____ Group, where the blank is "tech," "dev," "data," or something similar. I'm not opposed to those approaches, but I still haven't fallen in love-at-first-sight with a name, which I'm hoping is still in the cards. Other names I've noticed lately that I like are the Office of New Urban Mechanics, which is Boston's new office for civic technology innovation, led by their innovation director, Nigel Jacobs. Also, I dig John Tolva's title at IBM of Director of Citizenship and Technology. We could go the city-analog route and name ourselves the Department of Public Networks or the Department of Civic Hacking (I could be Commissioner), but that's almost certainly too cheeky. So, that's where I'm at. The clock is ticking, as I need to make a decision by the end of the day tomorrow, Friday 2/19. What do you think, intertubes?
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