Perfect Party
Founder, Founder and CEO
Perfect Party Playlist automatically generates a playlist based on who is attending your event and what music they love.
Daniel J. Dufour
Founded Perfect Party Playlist and First Draft GIS. Also, graduate of UC Berkeley and Georgetown University.
Founded Perfect Party Playlist and First Draft GIS. Also, graduate of UC Berkeley and Georgetown University.
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Experience
GeoSurge
Founder, CEO
GeoSpatial Technology Company that builds web maps, including:
- https://atlanticbb.com/business/carrier/network-coverage
- http://geosurge.github.io/get-the-lead-out-map
- https://atlanticbb.com/business/carrier/network-coverage
- http://geosurge.github.io/get-the-lead-out-map
First Draft GIS
Founder, CEO
First Draft GIS is a website that automatically generates maps from news articles, reports, and spreadsheets. All code is open source and can be found here: https://github.com/FirstDraftGIS/firstdraft
Founder
Projects
Map of Atlantic Broadband Fiber Lines and Data Centers
Developer, Javascript, OpenLayers · Atlantic Broadband is located in eleven states and around the following areas. The Atlantic Broadband Network Over… · More 7,000 fiber route miles. More than 25,000 on-net and 7,500 near-net serviceable buildings. Interconnection points in 20 Tier-1 Data Centers along the East Coast, and growing.
Automatically generates the first draft of maps for you!
Welcome to First Draft, a website that automatically creates the first drafts of maps for you. You give it information and it returns a map of that information.
Saves names and coordinates of places mentioned on web pages
First Draft GIS is an open-source Chrome Extension that saves the name and coordinates of places mentioned on websites you visit. It also stores the source… · More of the information which can be used later for attribution. Currently, it works with Wikipedia and Flickr. We hope to expand this to more sites later
You can also download the list of places that you have visited as a CSV or GeoJSON.
You can also download the list of places that you have visited as a CSV or GeoJSON.
Automatically generates the perfect playlist for your events
Perfect Party Playlist automatically generates the perfect playlist for all your events by looking at who is attending and what they like. It integrates… · More seamlessly with Facebook and Spotify.
Education
About
Achievements
The thing that I am most proud of is helping resettle over 1 thousand refugees in the greater San Diego Area from 2009 to 2011.
The achievement most relative to technology is my voluminous contributions to open source including First Draft GIS, an open-source project that is revolutionizing how maps are made.
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
Skills
What I'm Looking For
Seed money for Perfect Party Playlist in order to create mobile apps for Android and the iPhone.
Seed money for First Draft GIS in order to develop a super fast artificial intelligence and to add features to web-based map making.
Describe what you're looking for in a company.
Locations
Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
Getting to Yes
What's your favorite non-business book?
Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Working full-time on revolutionizing GIS and event planning.
What words of advice would you give your younger self?
Don't Stop Believin'
What's the most creative thing you've ever done?
Make random art out of household items
Which founders or startups do you most admire?
Companies: Duolingo, HandStack, GeoMakers, Global Forest Watch, MapStory, and Tesla
Founders: Elon Musk and Jessica Hyejin Lee
What's your super power?
Empathy
What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?
What words of wisdom do you live by?
c'est la vie
What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?
Talking with clients and developing technology strategies
What was the most impactful class you took in school?
Data Mining
What's something you wish you had done years earlier?
Go all in
What's an obstacle you've overcome?
Learned Spanish after a lot of work
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