Blitz Bazaar: Everybody a Changemaker
This entry has been selected as a finalist in the
We Media PitchIt! Challenge: How can we use media to inspire a better world? competition.
Blitz Bazaar is a web platform designed to irreversibly transform the way people mass-organize and drive social change, making it easier than ever before. We consider ourselves part of a broader civic participation movement that is democratizing power and rapidly gaining momentum on the back of new web-based technology.
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
Lloyd
Last Name
Nimetz
Website
Organization
Blitz Bazaar
Country
United States
Section 2: About Your Organization
Organization Name
Blitz Bazaaar
Organization Website
Organization Phone
(971) 414-7095
Organization Address
979 Guerrero St., San Francisco, CA 94109
Organization Country
United States
Your idea
Name Your Project
Blitz Bazaar: Everybody a Changemaker
What is your idea? What makes it innovative? Why is it important?
Blitz Bazaar is a web platform designed to irreversibly transform the way people mass-organize and drive social change, making it easier than ever before. We consider ourselves part of a broader civic participation movement that is democratizing power and rapidly gaining momentum on the back of new web-based technology.
Will you launch your idea as a business or non-profit?
Business
Country your work focuses on
United States
What will be the impact of your idea?
What is the impact of the civil rights movement? A woman's empowerment group? A youth initiative to clean up their neighborhood? Or countless other more personal micro-campaigns e.g. people coming together to procure type-O blood for a dying crash victim?
1. Blitz Bazaar will democratize power: dramatically lowering the cost of entry to campaigning gives everybody unprecedented access to the tools they need to run effective campaigns.
2. Blitz Bazaar will dramatically help speed up the pace of “macro”-movement formation by making it easier for “micro”-movements to discover each other and unify around a shared goal.
3. Blitz Bazaar will usher in a period during which citizen participation stops being primarily passive (donations, membership and voting) and becomes active – about co-leading change.
Blitz Bazaar has the potential to increase civic participation throughout the world by an order of magnitude.
Within the greater goal of everybody a changemaker, Blitz Bazaar aims to galvanize 1 million changemakers by 2012 to be registered on Blitz Bazaar and actively changing their worlds.
Who will help you develop your idea? Why are you the one to make this happen?
Lloyd Nimetz, Founder
Lloyd’s social entrepreneurship experience, business training & payments know-how make him a uniquely qualified candidate to execute this business. He bootstrapped HelpArgentina for four years during the Argentine financial crisis into what’s now the #1 fiscal sponsorship enterprise in Argentina. Lloyd went on to earn an MBA from the Stanford in 2008 and since then has committed himself fully to this venture.
Landon Springer, System Architect
Alessandra Jochum, Community Manager
Advisors:
Sarah Soule (Stanford Business School Professor)
Huggy Rao (Stanford Business School Professor )
Paula Goldman (Organizer and Social Movements Expert)
Freddy Mangum (Managing Partner, Cleantech Circle)
Shira Levine (Founding Community Manager, eBay Inc.)
Carissa Carter (Social Media Director, Herman Miller Inc.)
Kriss Deigelmeier (Director, Stanford Center for Social Innovation)
Christine Hung (Finance, Apple Inc.)
Matthew Nimetz (General Atlantic)
How much will it cost to launch your idea? (This can be an estimate)
Our business plan estimates an operating budget in the first year of approx. $700K would be required primarily for salary, rent and administrative fees related to the set-up of our online payments back-end. Over the last year, the founder has already absorbed significant costs to develop the platform.significant founder capital has funded the development and release of Blitz Bazaar version alpha and beta have subsequently been released. The latter was recently deployed at Stanford University, powering the campus-wide Social-M Challenge. As a result of this Eco-Challenge, the first of its kind in the world, Blitz Bazaar is gaining user-traction with over 500 Stanford users on the site one week less than a week after launch.
Our business plan estimates an operating budget in the first year of approx. $700K primarily for salary, rent and administrative fees related to the set-up of our online payments back-end. We intend to bootstrap the company to the fullest extent, using outside financing to accelerate our growth.
Our fundraising efforts would be significantly enhanced with the recognition of having won the We Media Competition.
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 | 171 weeks ago Lloyd Nimetz said: thx u 'a'. glad you're feeling alright this morning. about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 171 weeks ago a. b said: Aloha Lloyd, Disappointed NO MORE eh? 50 words or less & you've made it into the finals. BUT please feel free to "flush it out some ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 171 weeks ago a. b said: IT'S A NEW DAY...FOR ONE of SEVEN...IT'S A NEW DAY...TO BLITZ HEAVEN & bring EVERYONE as A CHANGEMAKER down to earth. Congratulations ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 173 weeks ago Lloyd Nimetz said: Hi E WhymanDesign. (am I the only one with my name on here?) Feel free to contact me at lloyd@blitzbazaar.com to discuss further. ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 173 weeks ago Lloyd Nimetz said: Hi. I had a little trouble understanding what you were asking and who you are. Is this somebody from my former colleagues at Ashoka? ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 173 weeks ago E Whymandesign.com said: Maybe you could work with Frontlinesms? Your work looks great and I hope it might be possible to work together somehow ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 173 weeks ago a. b said: EVERYONE A CHANGEMAKER™ world, ASHOKA's new signature (sign of nature) is a welcoming sign of a BETTER WORLD! You've caused a BIZARRE ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 173 weeks ago Lloyd Nimetz updated this Competition Entry. |
| 173 weeks ago Lloyd Nimetz submitted this idea. |
