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Matt Galligan

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Matt Galligan, 25, is the CEO and Co-Founder of SimpleGeo, based out of Boulder, CO that provides comprehensive solutions to enable location-based services in mobile, web and desktop applications. He previously founded Socialthing, a company that was chosen to be part of the inaugural year of TechStars. Socialthing.com went into private beta in March, 2008 at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. The company was acquired five months later by AOL.

As part of AOL, Matt acted as Product Manager for Socialthing for Websites (now known as AIM Connect), a web platform that brought social features to sites that otherwise didn’t have them.

His background is in graphic design and user experience, working for MonsterCommerce (acquired by Network Solutions), based out of St. Louis, MO. He got his start in the internet and design while working for a disaster restoration company out of Illinois before he turned 16.

Matt currently resides in Boulder, CO and is an active member of the startup community there.

Milestones

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  Matt Galligan — Matt starts new mobile gaming company, Crash Corp (5/15/09)
  Posted 5/16/09 at 4:26am
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  Matt Galligan — Matt's company, Socialthing gets acquired by AOL (8/21/08)
  Posted 5/13/09 at 9:16pm
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  Matt Galligan — Socialthing announces funding. (10/21/07)
  Posted 5/13/09 at 9:15pm
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  Matt Galligan — Socialthing, a company Matt founded, is part of inaugural year of TechStars (4/18/07)
  Posted 8/24/08 at 6:21am
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  Matt Galligan added a position as Founder & CEO at Socialthing.
  Posted 8/17/07 at 4:15am
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  Matt Galligan added a position as Product Manager, Socialthing at AOL.
  Posted 8/24/08 at 6:14am
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  Matt Galligan added a position as Founder & CEO at SimpleGeo.
  Posted 5/15/09 at 10:59pm

Videos

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1. What I’ve been waiting to tell you all (blog.socialthing.com) [edit]
2. Socialthing Raises $300K in Early-Stage Funding (mashable.com) [edit]
3. Suddenly, AOL Loves Lifestreaming; Buys Socialthing! (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/16/digg-chief-architect-joe-stump-leaves-to-found-crash-corp/ (techcrunch.com) [edit]