OurCommonPlace
OurCommonPlace makes it delightfully easy for neighbors and local leaders to share with the community around them.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location Cambridge, MA, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded July 2011
- Employees 8
- Website ourcommonplace.com
Company Summary
OurCommonPlace is a web platform that helps neighbors and community leaders share needs, events, announcements, questions, and used stuff with their real-life local communities. Think: one part "safe and friendly social network for great families in your community" and one part "publishing platform for local leaders, local government, and local businesses in town."
Team
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Max NovendsternFounder
Max is a recent Harvard graduate. He has extensive experience with organization-building, tech development and community organizing.
He founded Directly From Peru, an artisan cooperative in the highland of Peru. He was a principal project manager at Warriorgate.org, a government-sponsored effort to organize service info for veterans. He was the Editor/President of The Harvard Political Review, one of the largest student journals in the countr
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Peter DavisFounder
Peter is a recent Harvard graduate. He has likewise extensive experience with organization-building and community organizing.
He founded Harvard Thinks Big, Harvard's largest online open education initiative to date, among many other community-oriented initiatives. He was profiled by Harvard's newspaper because of the impact he had on campus life: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/12/1/davis-occupy-facts/
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Jeffrey LuDeveloper
Jeffrey is a recent Carnegie Mellon grad. There he studied Computer Science, with a focus on system-level design. He's a systems administrator at OurCommonPlace.
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Bryan KerriganDeveloper
Bryan is a fullstack developer from Silicon Valley with experience working for both big companies and spright startups.
After graduating with a BA in Computer Science from Wisconsin-Madison, Bryan worked for Cisco for five years before joining two different mobile gaming companies.
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Mark MalazarteArt Director
Mark is an art-school graduate who does branding and frontend development work for OurCommonPlace.
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Chava KennyCommunity Organizer
Chava is a fulltime "community organizer" at OurCommonPlace. A recent Harvard grad, she works to help launch our new networks.
Advisors
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David Kantaros - Foley & Lardner LLPLawyerUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Nicco Mele - Founder of EchoDittoUnconfirmedDon McLagan - Former CEO of Compete.comUnconfirmedKnight Foundation - Largest civic media investor in the countryUnconfirmed
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