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Philip Kaplan

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Philip Kaplan (@pud) is a programmer and entrepreneur in San Francisco, CA. He is the founder of Fandalism (social network for musicians), 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.

Recent Milestones

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  Philip Kaplan invested in 9GAG. (7/30/12)
  Posted 7/30/12 at 7:46pm via venturebeat.com
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Founder at Fandalism. (2/1/12)
  Posted 6/4/12 at 3:59pm
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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 invested in Milk. (4/1/11)
  Posted 4/26/11 at 4:09pm via techcrunch.com
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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 Beautylish (11/16/10)
  Posted 11/21/10 at 10:11pm 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
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  Philip Kaplan invested in Blippy. (1/14/10)
  Posted 1/14/10 at 1:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Philip Kaplan — Joined Charles River Ventures as Entrepreneur in Residence. (6/19/09)
  Posted 12/2/09 at 11:42am via techcrunch.com
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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 Adviser at SuperFan.
  Posted 6/22/09 at 5:05pm
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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 added a position as Founder at FuckedCompany.
  Posted 6/19/09 at 3:45pm
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  Philip Kaplan added a position as Co-Founder at Blippy.
  Posted 12/11/09 at 4:23pm

Investments

Videos

Sources

Charles River Ventures Hires That FuckedCompany Guy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Techcrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
1. 9GAG releases mobile app, raises $2.8M to spread giggles like the flu (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Beauty Commerce Site Beautylish Struts With $1M From Angels (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
4. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. techcrunch.com [edit]