“Very cool things are starting to happen with IRS’s open 990 data” Jed Sundwall, #OpenData lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS) tweeted that statement last month and I couldn’t agree more. 🙏 🚀 For the unfamiliar, Jed was referring to the electronic IRS Form 990 dataset released last year. The…

A community project demonstrating how open source technologies and hosted search can be leveraged to minimize the cost of hosting and sharing philanthropic data — Wait, what?!? You’re telling me you have to go to your local library to access on ONLINE database?!? As a former COO of tiny technology startups, I’m empathetic to nonprofit Executive Directors and the struggle to balance limited resources, particularly staff time. Thus, I was floored when a good friend…

Getting to first revenues with $90 and 18 months of my time Four years ago I didn’t know the difference between git and Github. Eighteen months ago I was at best a front-end hack (note the missing “er”). Last week our startup, Kyn, brought in its first revenues in the…

A checklist for technical co-founders from a (formerly) non-technical founder — Image Credit: Pixabay Anyone that hangs out on Hacker News or /r/startups on Reddit has seen the classic post from an entrepreneur seeking advice on how to find a technical co-founder: “I’ve got the next blockbuster idea, I just need someone to build the app” yada yada yada. …