Monday, 14 May 2007

Going to Boston!! and moving on from revmap

As of today I have started work with Peter Nixey and Pete Couldridge as a co-founder of a new startup.

This brings my work on revmap.com to an end. Revmap has been a great learning experience for both Tony (my co-founder) and I, but for various reasons Tony and I wanted to go our separate ways and some opportunities are too good to miss. We are planning to leave revmap.com running, and might pass on the management to someone else, so if you loved it, you aren't loosing it.

I will be in Boston for 3 months on the Y Combinator program, which is going to be amazing, read about it here (titled "Bootcamp for Next Tech Billionaire", but what the hell is a bootcamp? :P, gets a bit boring after the first page). But basically I am going to be working with some of the best young entrepreneurs in the world, in an intense environment to get something cool built in 3 months. With loads of input and advise from Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston and Robert Morris, and some fun dinners where we meet some great web entrepreneurs and other people in the industry.

If that wasn't good enough, the startup I am joining is also great, Peter and Pete are pretty cool to work with and what we are building is going to blow you away. We are improving openid, that's all we are saying for now. I love working on ideas with endless potential.

After 3 months in Boston we are probably going to head to Silicon Valley, for some promised "Surfing and Sailing".. and maybe some more entrepreneuring :-).

4 comments:

walid said...

Just wanted to wish you, Peter, and Pete the best of luck.

Immad Akhund said...

no I haven't heard of The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and neither has Peter but maybe Pete has. We should create our own TV show; "The Adventures of Pete, Pete and Immad", lol.

Langer said...

congrats getting on ycombinator mate. good luck!

p.s. i'll probably be heading out to sf with some guys in july/aug.

Matthew Rudy said...

Pete & Pete was a great show.
If only you'd had Nickelodeon in the middle-to-late 90s.