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Philip Kaplan

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Philip Kaplan (@pud) is a programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor in San Francisco, CA. He is the founder of TinyLetter (email service provider, acquired by MailChimp), Blippy (venture-backed social commerce company), and AdBrite (a large Internet ad network). He also developed several iPhone apps, including the best selling “Punch Your Friends.”

In 2010, Philip was entrepreneur-in-residence at Charles River Ventures. Philip founded and sold several other businesses including F-ckedcompany.com and PK Interactive, a software company that developed web-based applications for Fortune 500 clients. Philip is the bestselling author of F’d Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts (Simon & Schuster). He is an active angel investor and advisor to numerous startups and has been on the Board of Advisors of Syracuse University since 2006.

Milestones

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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Founder at Faqme. (7/25/11)
  Posted 7/25/11 at 7:32pm
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Founder at Punch Your Friends.
  Posted 2/10/11 at 7:26pm
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Founder at Mobog. (1/10/02)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 12:16am
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Advisor at BranchOut.
  Posted 7/20/10 at 12:15am
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Mentor at i/o Ventures.
  Posted 1/6/10 at 10:47am
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Co-Founder at Blippy.
  Posted 12/11/09 at 4:23pm
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Adviser at SuperFan.
  Posted 6/22/09 at 5:05pm
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Founder at FuckedCompany.
  Posted 6/19/09 at 3:45pm
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Founder at fast140.
  Posted 5/12/09 at 6:15pm
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Founder at Flirt140.
  Posted 5/12/09 at 4:26pm
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  Philip Kaplan added to Tweetname.
  Posted 4/27/09 at 12:08pm
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as founder at Kaplan Index.
  Posted 12/27/08 at 9:18am
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Co-Founder & Chairman at adBrite.
  Posted 7/14/07 at 3:40am
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  Philip Kaplan invested in Beautylish. (11/16/10)
  Posted 11/17/10 at 2:42am via dowjones.com
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  Philip Kaplan invested in Milk. (4/1/11)
  Posted 4/26/11 at 4:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Philip Kaplan invested in BranchOut. (9/17/10)
  Posted 9/17/10 at 2:24pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. Charles River Ventures Hires That FuckedCompany Guy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Techcrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Beauty Commerce Site Beautylish Struts With $1M From Angels (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. techcrunch.com [edit]