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That’s It. We’re Calling It. The Healthy Start-Up Office Craze Is Official.
Not here yet, but getting close. When GroupMe co-founder Steve Martocci threw out his desk chair for a Bosu ball to lose "the founder fifteen," we had an inkling it was only the beginning. After all,...
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Happy Anniversary GroupMe! Ron Conway in the VIP, Aviary Saves Lives
Bachelorette 25 + Bachelor 18 = Magic Betabeat pulled an all-nighter in midtown last night. First a quick roll at the Renzo Gracie's academy, then back to the office for a dinner of street meat, change...
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The Agony, the Ecstasy, and the Karaoke: Twitter Reactions to the...
The wizard Martocci casts a spell over Twitter (via Steve Spillman) When the news broke yesterday evening that Skype acquired hometown start-up GroupMe, New York's digerati took the party to Twitter....
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GroupMe Founders: Business As Usual After Skype Acquisition, Just With Hella...
GroupMe co-founders Jared Hecht (left) and Steve Martocci (right), with GroupMe app model (and Mr. Hecht's fiance) Carrie Weprin. "We feel fantastic! It's great. We feel very good about it, it's a...
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Wanna Drink and Play Pinball With GroupMe? That’ll Be $20
GroupMe, the humble startup that went from hackathon to $85 million exit in less than two years, is now officially owned by Microsoft. But they're still GroupMe from the block! The startup is offering...
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GroupMe ‘Experiences’ Helps Friends with the Dreaded Task of Splitting the...
A little less than a year after being acquired by Skype for an estimated $80 million, GroupMe's* founders Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci are still in startup mode. Today the company released...
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An Evening of Diversions at the Launch Party for Experiences by GroupMe
There's a stylish skeleton just outside the frame, btw. When Betabeat arrived downtown at a hulking brownstone bathed in red light with a double-digit Fifth Avenue address, there was already a line out...
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Rumor Roundup: iPad Mini Funding Favors, a Field Trip to Phish, and an Art.sy...
You get an iPad! And you get an iPad! BuzzFeed cofounder Jonah Peretti has certainly been in the celebrating mood this week (and for good reason). Emily Fleischaker, editor of BuzzFeed’s Food vertical,...
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Rumor Roundup: Bedhopping at Sundance, Kissing and Telling in the Carribbean
Naptime! Sundancing in the Dark South by Southwest is basically right around the corner, but it seems several techies needed a break before March offers the excuse for a tax-deductible trip to Austin....
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Mayor Bloomberg Stops By Yext, Picks Up a Hoodie
That's a lot of lanyards. "Mr. Mayor, I know you're wearing a suit on the outside. But this industry is all about hoodies, and I know based on who you are you're a hoodie on the inside," CEO Howard...
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