As he has worked to bring his nonprofit startup to scale recently, David Cohn hasn’t encountered any shortage of people willing to help. Cohn is the founder and director of Spot.us, a web-based platform for community-funded journalism that we reported on last week. Spot.us allows the public to commission and participate with journalists to report…

David Cohn didn’t necessarily set out looking to launch a startup when he entered the working world. But it wasn’t long before Cohn’s line of work led him down an entrepreneurial path. “I was writing about technology all the time and how technology was influencing culture and different industries, etc.,” Cohn said. “Eventually I started…