Billions With Zero Knowledge

I know it’s been almost a week since I’ve posted anything on my blog.

I hope for this not to be a regular thing, but it’s been one of those weeks. Fun, exciting, at times stressful but always enjoyable.

The reason I’ve been off the blog is due to a financing that we are in the middle of closing (Someday soon I’m going to post about my experiences raising this round of angel financing. It has been very unique due to the nature of Project Ojibwe and should be of interest to other social entrepreneurs raising angel financing.)

In addition we are on a hiring push. I’ll be posting some details of what type of people we are looking for. Hopefully it might be of interest to someone my readers might know. (Graphic Designers, Javascript Developers, Python (Django experience an asset) developers)

Most of all we have been preparing a special holiday project, that we consider our little gift to the Internet community. We didn’t want to send out holiday cards this season (cost & time mostly). I didn’t like the thought of spamming thousands of my contacts with a note about how I left Radialpoint and am now working on some stealth project with a code name like Ojibwe.

We decided to do something special which I’ll be launching in a couple of hours. It should make for an interesting holidays.

Before things get really crazy and I get caught up in managing what we are releasing, I wanted to thank some of my friends who I tested various part of this idea with. My conversations with you all have helped me plan, improve and refine my thinking about these social experiment projects. Your questions, suggestions and enthusiasm for the ideas I shared with you provided me the confidence to plunge forward with these experiments.

Specifically thanks to Hugh McGuire, Julien Smith, Sylvain Carle, Chris Messina, Tara Hunt, Mitch Joel and Andy Nulman.

I would especially like to thank my buddy Ben Yoskovitz. The release of these projects wouldn’t have occurred with out his incredible assistance and support.

Finally, none of this would be possible with out the great support of my guys at Project Ojibwe.

(My girlfriend Kelly, who’s been a great support as well. Thanks babe.)

On Mon 18 Dec 2006.