Startup

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Our next shot is a product called OpportunityInbox and it’s essentially twitter for opportunities.

We invite about 20 people to try it, but most just don’t have anything to post. One of the funded TechStars teams…

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My phone rings and before I even answer, I know. It’s my roommate letting me know that he’s moving in with his girlfriend and i’ll need to find a new roommate. Great, just the distraction I need as we go through…

I’ve got exciting news to share. We’ve closed a seed round of investment to build Timehop into the ultimate digital history experience.

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A recap: We came into Techstars convinced that our MVP (minimal viable product) was just a rebuild of Facebook Groups with the right messaging/landing page on top to fit the classifieds use case.

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When we last left off, our protagonist’s existential crisis had taken a turn for the wor… oops, wrong story.

To recap: conversations with Techstars were going strong. I was more excited than…

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“Sa-ke Bomb! Sa-ke Bomb!” shouted the coeds at Miyake, a popular Stanford hangout. I poked at my sushi and tried to not think about the news that would arrive any second. Finally my pocket vibrated. “I’m sorry to say…

[continued from chapter 1] …so we had a concept for a ‘build your own craigslist’ that would take over the world. After talking through the concept in detail with a few trusted friends and advisors, there was only one thing left to do: actually build something.

As you may know, Benny and I have killed off Friendslist and refocused our efforts on 4SquareAnd7yearsAgo/Timehop. The Friendslist product was live for about 6 months. In that time we disproved our core hypothesis: that we can compel people to…

As a recent graduate of the first TechStars NYC class, I thought I’d take a moment to share some of my thoughts. This blog post isn’t going to sing the praises of TechStars — Eli (Thinknear), Kevin (Red Rover), Matt (Nestio) and Vin (not even part of…