The $100k Taxi Ride
Landing your first “professional” investor usually doesn’t start with Twitter and a #pitchvctaxi hashtag. Of course, most investors aren’t quite as accessible, or as crazy, as Dave McClure. At 9:15 AM...
View Article5 Tips for a Silicon Valley Fundraising Trip
I took my first trip to San Francisco as an entrepreneur in July, and I wish I’d gone to visit the west coast a lot sooner. If you are a Boston area first-time entrepreneur looking to raise money, you...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Boomerang 1.0 and Pricing Q&A
Hey everybody! Just wanted to share the email we sent to our beta customers, hopefully it answers some of your questions and gives you a kick… We are excited to announce that Boomerang for Gmail has...
View ArticleThe Baydin T-Shirt: Searching for Inspiration
We decided it was time to put together a shirt for the team here at Baydin and a few of our special Boomerang users. I started the project as I usually do, with a Google search to get the juices...
View ArticleThe $100K Taxi Ride, One Year Later
I can’t believe that it’s already been a year since a 45-minute trip in a rented Chevy Cobalt changed everything. On September 1, 2010, we had 50,000 Boomerang downloads. I had $4000 in the bank, $3000...
View ArticleWhen Software Jumps the Shark
Are you one of the million hipsters clogging my stream with Tweets about Arrested Development’s reunion for a half series and a following feature movie? If so, did you ever think that the right time...
View ArticleBaydin Gives Back: Tea Shops and a Used School Bus
When we started Baydin, we wanted to build a company that included charitable contributions as part of its DNA. Four years ago, we decided that we would donate a portion of our profits (if we ever...
View ArticleProving Incentivized Tweets Work with the Twitter Streaming API
Word of mouth recommendations are among the most effective ways to get new users. But they can be an elusive element of a marketing mix. Aye Moah (our Chief of Product) wrote a piece a few years ago on...
View ArticleMy Startup Internship Experience at Boomerang
During my last two weeks as a summer intern at Boomerang, there was a running joke about how I cried every day. While this may seem a bit ridiculous, the truth is that I could not imagine my summer and...
View ArticleFrom the Beltway to the Bay: My Experience Joining Boomerang
For a few people at Boomerang, this is the only company they’ve known since graduating college. They lucked out. For most of us, we found our way here by navigating career paths that meandered through...
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