Danny Spitzberg
Far-flung experience and world travel all coming together in school for sociology at UW-Madison; currently Co-Director of Slow Food UW and launching the Honeycomb Cafe
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Website: | http://www.slowfooduw.org |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Food and Drink, Health |
| Location: | Madison, WI |
| Groups: | Win $11,000 funding, $20,000 pro-bono consulting, and mentoring from entrepreneurs & executives |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company |
| Tags: | agriculture, community service, food, Philanthropy, prizes, science and technology studies |
FEATURED STARTUP
Honeycomb Cafe
Honeycomb Cafe
Honeycomb Cafe features delicious, locally sourced food to celebrate and support the people and places our food comes from. Our cafe is a catalyst for community service.
- Startup type: Competition Entry
- Status: Active
- Stage: Prototyping
FULL BIO
Danny Spitzberg studies prizes and the coming rumbling in philanthropy and science funding. He is currently a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also Co-Director of Slow Food UW.
In 2009, he was a fellow at The Breakthrough Institute. His ongoing project, ‘Smart Deployment Policy’, is drawing lessons from past cases of technological progress to accelerate innovation and make clean energy cheap.
Danny works (travels) as a freelance photojournalist and reporter on science breakthroughs, emphasizing the often obscured value to society of breakthrough science research(ers). He also co-edits and publishes Ox Family Magazine.
On land, Danny bikes. On water, he rows on the Charles River.
Danny's Startups (1)
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Honeycomb Cafe
Honeycomb Cafe features delicious, locally sourced food to celebrate and support the people and places our food comes from. Our cafe is a catalyst for community service.
Danny is Following (7)
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The Oberlin College Sustainability Project
Our mission this summer will be to increase the number of on-the-ground developments in local sustainable development projects. Small-scale sustainable growth investment and seed starting around Oberlin, 2010. #help #Sparkseed
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Sparkseed
Sparkseed provides funding, guidance, and professional services to college social entrepreneurs.
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RootOrganic Finca Modelo
Research into organic #farm technique, extension to #small farmers, and market management for sustainable development in Costa Rica.
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FREEtraid.org Cafe
We create self funding café hubs that encourage, support and cultivate multiple Social Enterprise Start-ups (so we are a modern day version of the Lloyds Café’s where modern day capitalism was born) but where EVERYONE can participate.
Danny's Contacts (2)
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Dan Steketee
Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .
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Edward Miller
Eddie Miller, Economics and International Relations, Senior at Boston University. Work in farming; organizing; sales; and agriculture around Massachusetts/Oberlin. Web: http://eddiemill.wordpress.com/ or send a message? http://facebook.com/eddiemill