Forrst - AngelList

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Forrst is an invitation-only community of developers and designers with a heavy emphasis on critique and quality feedback. The community of 40k+ is heavily engaged (~50% monthly actives - this is more than just logging in), and over 15k are waiting to get in.

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Kyle Bragger

Created Forrst (acquired by COLOURlovers 3/12). Made Tinyproj. Formerly engineer at mSnap, Huffington Post. Product guy, dev, swashbuckler.
Keith Holjencin

I'm the Lead Designer at Forrst, and have been working on the web with wireframes, user interfaces, front-end development and grid-based designs for 12 years.

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Family 1st! but after that, Businessman, @winelibrary, @Vaynermedia, Author of @TYEbook and a dude that Loves the hustle (hard work), people and the @nyjets
Dave McClure

Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Sahil Lavingia

Making Gumroad. Previously @ Pinterest.
Nate Westheimer

Maker of Things. Lover of People. Creator of Ohours.org. Organizer of the NY Tech Meetup. Advisor to Flybridge Capital Partners. http://innonate.com/
Adam Schwartz

Founder/CEO Articulate
AJ Vaynerchuk

Co-founder of VaynerMedia. Working with Fortune 500 brands on their social media strategy.

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500 Startups

Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Family 1st! but after that, Businessman, @winelibrary, @Vaynermedia, Author of @TYEbook and a dude that Loves the hustle (hard work), people and the @nyjets
Joe Stump

Co-founder SimpleGeo, former lead architect at Digg
Brady Brim-DeForest

Product Designer, Startup Advisor, Brand Strategist, and Open Web Advocate
Matt Meeker

Co-founder Meetup.com and BarkBox.com • Former EIR at Polaris Ventures • Organizer, Dogpatch Labs
Jacob DeHart

Cofounder of Skinnycorp and Threadless

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David Lifson

CEO at Postling
Matt Meeker

Co-founder Meetup.com

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David Lifson

CEO at Postling

“Happy to say we've been acquired by COLOURlovers: http://blog.forrst.com/post...”

1 month ago

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Matt Meeker Forrst is a community with unusually high engagement levels due to the brilliant construction and management of that community by Kyle and Keith.

Most investors will tell you they're looking to invest in great people, so with that in mind, you won't find higher quality product designers and technologists than in this team. Kyle is a unique talent to build great products and relate to a super valuable... more

5 months ago · Kyle Bragger likes this

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