About Us
Socialguides is the open conversation stream around local businesses. A sort of location based twitter client, where you can eavesdrop on the dialog between consumers and businesses. Or even contribute to the conversation, by joining the dialog about the places that matter most to you. Our service takes the realtime social stream and structures it by community, restaurant, hotel, or nightclub. Log into the app and you will be joining a community where participants share their local experiences in real time conversation.
You can discover trending places including restaurants, hotels and nightclubs, mark that you wantto go there, save it for later, checkin, rate, or share a quick note. The beauty is the simplicity. Messages are short and allow a person to read several interesting bits of information about a place from various sources all at a quick glance, while you are on the go. Discovery is a key focus of the app, it’s important for people to find new places while they are hot and socialguides is the easiest way to so.
In essence, Socialguides helps people socialize location. Whether you are a simply looking for a new restaurant, hotel, or nightclub or are a power twitter user, whether you want to eavesdrop or participate, you will find a wealth of information streaming at your fingertips.
FOUNDING TEAM
We believe in the concept of the “Startup Triad”. We are really excited about our founding team - we’ve worked together in differing capacities before and have been having a blast working together on SocialGuides - plus startups are damn hard work so it is important to enjoy and believe in your team.
Jeremy Almond. Founder. Globe Trotter. Entrepreneur. Hacker. CEO.
Has lead technology-based companies from napkin based startups, to multi-million dollar engineering firms, to publicly traded global corporations. Prior to SocialGuides, Jeremy was cofounder and CTO of Travature a travel search company. He started his career as an engineer at Digital Instruments while still in college. Digital Instruments was purchased by Veeco Instruments, the leading nanotech provider, where Jeremy lead the enterprise architecture for the corporation. Jeremy holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara, and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.
Scott Campbell. Cofounder. Poet. Entrepreneur. Legomaker. Chief of Product.
Has led several groundbreaking projects, startups, and companies, most recently at Google, refining their LocalSearch product in the area of data quality, taxonomy, and user generated content. He also helped build dynamic ad insertion into streaming media (in 1999), was developer & lead network engineer for the MTV product Urge, and Lead Engineer at ContextWeb one of the leading real-time ad exchange solutions. He holds both a BA in business administration and BS in computer information systems from New York University.
Christian Gammill. Serial Entrepreneur. Problem Solver. Business Guy. Advisor. Strategist. President.
Has extensive startup experience as COO, VP, consultant and advisor across a range of consumer internet/mobile categories. Previously he was a strategist at IBM focused on marketing and innovation with global scope and responsibility. He started his career as a chemist at a pharma startup lab (sold to Eurofins) working with Upjohn & Parke-Davis (both now Pfizer). Christian holds an MBA from University of Michigan and a BS in Chemistry from Michigan State University
Extended Team. Interns and Friends of SG – PR/Mkt, Community and Developers.
ADVISORS
We are honored to have the following successful startup veterans helping us out. It is all about surrounding yourself with successful people and these guys set the bar high. We will be adding a few more in the coming months.
Anderee Berengian. Active investor and advisor focused on early and mid stage companies. 15+ years in tech in including successes at GoTo/Overture/Yahoo. Global experience in 30+ countries. Expertise in dealmaking, strategy and monetization. UCLA Biochemistry and MBA.
Sanjay Parakh. Founder of Startup Riot, investor, board member for a number of startup companies. Previously founder and CEO of Digital Envoy, geolocation based IP intelligence (acquired in 2007). Inventor and patent holder for location based IP technology. Acknowledged on MIT’s top innovators list and named a technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
Dave Williams. Founder & CEO of BLiNQ (social advertising). Previously founded 360i (search marketing firm sold in 2007). Active investor through his investment company Nicol Capital LLC.
INVESTORS
ShotputVentures. Technology startup accelerator fund that focuses on early stage, capital-light web services companies.