While in Vermont last August, I attended one of the Dean meetups, which are held the first Wednesday of every month.
Thanks, in part, to an unsolicited assist from an ardent blogger in Oregon, more than five hundred people registered for Dean meetups by early February — far more than for any other candidate.
After the alpha launch in May, Sharp Skirts' meetups were met with such a positive response that the interactive community actually became a real startup with bigger ambitions.
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This article was developed through a series of interviews generously granted by the following general counsels: Sarah Reed, Charles River Ventures Brian Chasee, Foursquare; David Pashman, Meetup; John Geschke, Zendesk; Sarah Feingold, Etsy; Doug Hicks, AVOS Systems; Jared Cohen, Kickstarter.
Jon Bradford, Ignite100 Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation Shakil Khan, Path Alec Ross, Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Kathryn Fink, Meetup Riccardo Zacconi, King.com Mauro Del Rio, Buongiorno Pauloo Ainio, Virgilio & Banzai Luca Ascani, Populis Roberto Bonanmzinga, Balderton Marco Marinucci, Mind the Bridge Zaryn Dentzel, Tuenti Giovanni Alemanno, Mayor of Rome.
Users are on pace to conduct more than three times the number of meetings they did in the first quarter of 2006, according to Scott Heiferman, Meetup's chief executive, and company revenues have spiked by about 40percentt in the last three months alone.
Scott: Meetup Everywhere lets you sort meetups by number of people attending, location and date.
The cable cuts have resulted in more conspiracy theories than a Ron Paul meetup.
Mentors include Matt Meeker (Meetup co-founder), Aaron Skonnard (Pluralsight co-founder), and Mikaal Abdulla (8Securities co-founder and CEO).
