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Joe Edelman

Berlin, Germany

Designed successful products in: stranger-stranger networking (incl CouchSurfing), workforce coordination, games, programming languages, and event listings.

Last company raised from McClure, Dyson, Calacanis, Knight Foundation, etc.

Lived in SF, Berlin, Boston.

$2.50/min

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Code It Your Damn Self -- Prototyping Social Apps

In consumer products, the riskiest thing is new social behaviors. You can often test whether people will be interested in your behavior with very little programming. I'll get you started.

Raising Your Seed Round

I raised from the best angels in the business -- Esther Dyson, Dave McClure, Joshua Schachter, the Knight Foundation, etc. Check my AngelList profile: https://angel.co/groundcrew/fundraising

Games and User Experiences That Connect People

Over 20 years I've designed scores of experiences that create feelings of strong affiliation and teamwork and surprise among strangers or teams. They go from major websites to small group games during events, and from utilitarian projects around volunteering, mobile workforces, and teaching to theater and art projects. See http://nxhx.org for some of my projects -- I'd love to help you with yours.

What's Wrong With Your Plan

I've been watching idealistic startups fail since 2003, and I probably know of some people who tried your idea and what happened to them. OR YOUR MONEY BACK.

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Joe is one of the most brilliant minds of the century, technically savvy, socially inspiring, devoted and principled. I've had the pleasure of working with Joe on several events; he is on-time, under-budget, thorough, disciplined, and gets the job done with a smile on his face. And with smiles on the faces of everyone around him! Joe is a one-man think-tank, an asset to any creative team, persistently finding balanced and optimal outcomes for clients, workers, and management. If you're considering adding Joe's prodigious talent to your project, I wholeheartedly recommend him!

Root Cuthbertson Source: LinkedIn

Joe is one of the smartest and fastest people I've worked with. His mind is as sharp as a new knife. His skills have kept the couchsurfing servers from crashing more than once and opened up many new horizons to hospitality exchange and real life sharing.

Kasper Souren Source: LinkedIn

Joe has a phenomenal technical and creative mind. His breadth of knowledge within technology and at its peripheries is startling. He is also a pleasure to work with on a personal level, something of a rare specimen for a deep programmer. I would highly recommend Joe for any project requiring architectural expertise, understanding of scalability, and experience/intuition when it comes to application development.

Chris Amato Source: LinkedIn

Member since July 2014