Meetup Had Its First Profitable Month In July

Meetup cofounder and CEO Scott Heiferman has a nice column in today's New York Times, as part of its "The Boss" feature.

It describes how he got his start in New York -- first, working for Sony in New Jersey, then as founder of i-traffic, an online ad agency. And it has two bits of news that may be interesting to the New York tech community:

• Meetup had its first profitable month in July. (Most of the company's revenue comes from monthly fees that meetup organizers pay.)


• Scott, who got married last year, hopes to move away from New York in a few years to a developing country, perhaps in Africa. There, he says, his wife can "continue her human-rights work while I will help expand Meetup’s operations around the world."

Read the whole thing at the New York Times >

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