New York

Meetup.com Yearly Revenue Tops $30MM

February 21, 2012 by Derek Andersen

Exclusive: Meetup.com is one of my top seven websites for two reasons. First, they have simple and effective tools to manage and update a like-minded community. Second, they are one of the best sites to help you move from the online space and into the real world. When you sign up a group you have to check a box that says you will have real world in-person meetings. Meetup is also a poster child for the NYC tech scene and tech companies that emerged from the dot-com ashes. Now ten years since the site was conceived and under development, Meetup.com is printing money every single day. I conservatively estimate they’re doing somewhere between $25MM-$30MM each year and here’s why. Read more →

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Events

When @FAKEGRIMLOCK Brings His Talents To A Twitter Chat

February 15, 2012 by Joel Fernandes

Startup advice is easy to come by, but great startup advice is like a helicopter during the apocalypse - you can’t underestimate the value. So when @FAKEGRIMLOCK decided to grace the Startup Grind stage with a Twitter Live chat, everyone got behind it. Only a few people asked questions in advance, but we had dozens of people led by Perri Gorman getting in deep on Twitter. Below is some of the priceless advice that The Giant Robot spued out.

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Drama

Get Inspired: NY Knick (Palo Alto HS Star) Jeremy Lin Survives And Wins

February 12, 2012 by Derek Andersen

“This is it. This is my dream being lived out.”

The name ‘Jeremy Lin’ has been gracing every sports talk show, every blog, and every highlight reel since he jumped onto the NY Knicks starting lineup 10 days ago when he put together a 25 point, five rebound, and seven assets night off the bench! The next game he started and scored 28 points and eight points – both career highs. The next game he set another career high with 10 assists and 23 points. Then four days ago the Lakers came to town and Lin bested The Black Mamba outscoring him 38 to 34 and winning the game to cap off a five game win streak. This all comes after he was called back up from the D-League (the minor league for the NBA) where he was sent to play, and the fact that he’s been living on his brother’s couch in NY. Read more →

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Events

Live in NYC – Mike Yanvonditte CEO of Hashable

January 24, 2012 by Derek Andersen

When you sell a company for $340M you generally have some pretty interesting things to say. Excited to announce Mike Yanvonditte, the CEO of Hashable is our next guest speaker for SG Live in NYC. Mike has a track record that includes Ziff-Davis Publishing, Pace University, AltaVista, Quigo, and Hashable.

Hashable was funded by one of New York’s top VC funds Union Square in 2010, and has evolved from a Twitter based introduction service to a mobile application to manage your address book. He’ll be interviewed by the awesome Perri Blake Gorman (she asked me to say that) who manages our growing NYC community. Reserve your spot today.

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Los Angeles

Kevin Rose Coming To Startup Grind Silicon Valley 1/26

January 18, 2012 by Derek Andersen

Kevin Rose is probably the most requested speaker that we had in 2011.  He has been a prolific founder starting companies like Digg, Revision3, WeFollow, and now Oink the first product incubated at Milk Inc. He has invested in companies including About.me, Path, Square, Foursquare, ngmoco, Twitter, Zynga, Formspring, Fab, Dailybooth, Foodzie, and many others.

Reserve a ticket today and join us for the biggest event yet. Big thanks to Google Places for sponsoring.

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