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• Founded in Twitter’s original office
• Bootstrapped as 71Miles.com and a Facebook app for two years
• In 2008, we won a grant from Facebook's fbFund
• Current funding from 14 “angel” investors from SF, NYC, LA, DC
Trips... hand-picked, concise, compellingly written slices of life that pull the reader into a real experience.
• Localization (weekend getaways)
• Personalization
• Social media integration
• Contests and semi-pro writers
• Good in West Coast, East Coast. Improvingeverywhere else...