Hi, friends! We’ve created this (semi-regular) newsletter in an effort to keep you up to date on our progress launching Tumml, the urban ventures accelerator. We’ve also included some of our random urban musing… enjoy!
Tumml updates: We recently published a blog on the Meeting of the Minds website about mobilizing entrepreneurs to make an urban impact and would love to get your feedback on it. Also, Rackspace has agreed to donate $24K worth of free web/hosting services to any company that participates in the Tumml accelerator (woot woot). Please follow us on Twitter for more regular updates and interesting tidbits.
Have you seen?
Street Fight: The Academy Award-nominateddocumentary about the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark, NJ between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law grad, and Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent.
The Future of Cities, Information, and Inclusion: The Institute for the Future’s ten-yearforecast map, which charts the important intersections and key tensions between urbanization and digitalization.
Have you read?
Top 7 Websites for Creating the Future City
Cities are Vital to the Future of Sustainability
The Role of Place in Discovery and Innovation
Done Right, Downtown Growth Can Be Good For All
Taxi Apps Are Facing a Bumpy Ride
Are you going?
Inner City Advisors’ ALL OUT 2012 event
Nov. 8, 2012 in San Francisco, CA
MIT DUSP lecture on Public Transportation for Personal Freedom
Nov. 19, 2012 in Cambridge, MA
Detroit Nation (Re)Discover Detroit event
Nov. 24, 2012 in Detroit, MI
Urban Hiker SF Thanksgiving Detox Urban Hike in the Presidio
Nov 25, 2012 in San Francisco, CA
TEDxSiliconAlley 2012
Dec. 3, 2012 in New York, NY
CityAge’s Summit on the New American City
Dec. 3-4, 2012 in Kansas City, KS
UIC forum on Metropolitan Resilience
Dec. 6, 2012 in Chicago, IL
UT Austin’s Food and the City Conference
Feb 1-2, 2013 in Austin, TX
Have you met?
In each newsletter, we’ll introduce you to an urban impact entrepreneur working on a transformational consumer product or service. So please meet Ben Miller, Co-Founder of Washington, DC-based Popularise.
What your company does: It’s a place-based crowdsourcing platform that helps real estate groups reach out to stakeholders – communities, customers, and residents – for input and involvement.
Another city where you’d like to live: San Francisco or Brooklyn. It’s where the most amount of creativity seems to be happening anywhere in the US. Plus, best food culture.
Favorite urban product or service (other than yours!): Getaround.
Craziest story about getting your company off of the ground: We let a community organization trying to save an old firehouse in Seattle use Popularise and, as a result, the mayor took the building off the demo list and allocated it $1 million for renovations.
