Key information
The SWORL Team
Here is a less-than-comprehensive list of the people who helped make this event happen.
Judges
These are the (probably) kind souls who will be deciding your fate on Sunday night...
Tricia Edris
AdventHealth
Curtis Michelson
INFOdj
Ben Patz
DeepWork Capital
Mentors
Full list of mentors coming soon...
Organizer team
These people have been working for months to make this event happen:
Rajiv Menon
Informulate
Jacques Fu
Stax
Ashley Elliott
Walt Disney Parks
If you heard about the event on social media, then you have these people to thank:
Sarah Mountain
Informulate
Nam N
DeepWork Capital
Facilitator
Hey — that's me 👋
I’m JDM, aka Josh David Miller, an entrepreneur and startup advisor based in Sacramento, CA. I’m the founder of The Right Box, where we use design thinking to help venture-backed startups find product-market fit.
Over the past decade, I helped startup founders and innovators launch or grow 100+ products. Those founders call me “the shredder of business models”.
I think that’s probably a compliment, but I choose not to validate that.
I fashion myself an instigator on something of a quixotic quest to fix entrepreneurship by challenging how we think about our craft. And you can expect me to challenge you during this Startup Weekend.
Or, as one founder recently put it: “Josh makes it easy to get rejected and built up at the same time.”