Wednesday, September 17, 2014

12 Years on, Meetup Still Envisions Powerful Communities

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Think about all the change and growth Meetup has witnessed in the social-media space, since the company's birth in 2002


That was the era of Friendster. One year later, in 2003, Meetup was just passing the 12-month mark when MySpace began its meteoric rise. The company had pulled together two years of connecting people by the time Facebook first appeared on Harvard University students' screens, and, in 2006, Meetup said hello to Twitter (but probably only in 140 characters or less).


The group-building and networking platform now boasts nearly 20 million members, according to Scott Heiferman, its co-founder and CEO. Approximately half a million events per month flow through its system, all of this managed by about 130 employees Read more...


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