OwnLocal - AngelList

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OwnLocal is the App Store for Local.

We give small businesses a one-stop-shop to finally be successful online. Our customers get great Websites, SEO, E-Mail Marketing, Daily Deals, Social Media Management, Directory Listings, and more.

OwnLocal succeeds where others have failed because we work with trusted community partners like newspapers, chambers of commerce, and even governments to offer small businesses products that perform well.

Since last May, we have signed 500+ paying customers.

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Lloyd Armbrust

Founder and CEO of OwnLocal; Y Combinator W10; 10+ years in the newspaper industry.
Jeremy Mims

Founder at OwnLocal, Y Combinator Founder (Summer 2008).
Lamar Romero

VP Strategy and Sales of OwnLocal. Extreme sales,operations, and "numbers" guy who loves to create and optimize better ways to get it done.
Jason Novek

CTO and Founder of OwnLocal, Y-Combinator Winter 2010.

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Joshua Schachter

CEO at Tasty Labs; Member of Technical Staff at Google; Director Engineering del.icio.us at Yahoo; founder at del.icio.us
Paul Buchheit

Partner at YCombinator, Founder of FriendFeed, Creator of GMail
Bill Boebel

Entrepreneur/engineer. CTO/co-founder Webmail.us (acq RAX). I also help a few amazing companies, including via Capital Factory, 500 Startups, TechStars & 21212
Justin Kitch

Founder and CEO Homestead (sold to Intuit)
500 Startups

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

Founded 3 email companies and Capital Factory. Teaching 1 Semester Startup at University of Texas. Trilogy Alumni 1999. CS Carnegie Mellon.

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Y Combinator

Y Combinator runs two three-month funding cycles a year. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, at which the startups present to the world's top startup investors.

Advisors

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Alexis Ohanian

Co-Founder of Reddit, launched Hipmunk as marketing guy (now advisor), Chief Swine Defender at Breadpig,
Paul Singh

Partner at 500 Startups
Garry Tan

Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Tim Cederman-Haysom

Angel investor with focus on consumer internet. Product manager at SurveyMonkey. PhD in HCI.
Josh Fromson

Publisher, SF Weekly. Publisher, Village Voice NYC.
Jennifer 8. Lee
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Lloyd Armbrust
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Founder and CEO of OwnLocal; Y Combinator W10; 10+ years in the newspaper industry.
Jeremy Mims

Partner at OwnLocal, Y Combinator Founder (Summer 2008)
Andrew Latimer

Rails Developer, Foosball Handicap
Hunter Hastings

I'm an Entrepreneur with an extensive background in UX, UI, Product Design & Front-end Development.

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Jude Gomila

Co founder of Heyzap, YC Alum, entrepreneur

“Join us at SXSW for PB&J: Beer, Pancakes, and talk of Journalism... http://guestlistapp.com/eve...”

3 months ago

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Alexis Ohanian They're building the software companies need. It's not hip photo-sharing software, but it makes money because it's something people want, which is a beautiful (although maybe not sexy) thing.

3 months ago

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