At the first Open Gov Chicago meetings, Justin Massa was still working for the non-profit MCIC but he made an impression on me, because he was thinking about data and the commons. He’s moved into the for-profit sector, and now even Giga-Om is writing about him. Go Justin, go. 

Justin has agreed to talk to my Mobile Journalism class next semester about entrepreneurism, and that should be a good session.

Justin Massa, Food Genius co-founder and CEO. The startup gets its data from some key menu aggregation partners, the biggest being fellow Chicago food outfit GrubHub. It also takes in readily available menu data from the national and regional restaurant chains, sometimes manually scraping data off of restaurants websites.