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		<title>Onepager Raises $350 K. from New York Angels</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:38:44 -0400</pubDate>
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<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://onepagerapp.com">Onepager</a>, the startup from Matt Shampine and the design team formerly known as Simande, just announced a seed funding round: $350,000 from New York angel investors Daniel Eskapa and Mark Birch. Mr. Birch, who has a similar portfolio of startups targeting small business, is now an adviser to the company.</p>
<p dir="ltr">With their launch party already behind them, Onepager is planning to use the money to market the product--a dead simple website builder for small businesses--and continue adding features. Next up: an embeddable widget that pulls in what people are saying about your company on social media.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Oh, and maybe use some cash to buy the coveted onepager.com, which is owned by a large financial research company, Factset, that is essentially squatting on it. In the meantime, at least onepagerapp.com, the startup's current URL, is the top result in Google for "onepager."<!--more--></p>
<p>"We have a decent amount of free users and a growing amount of paid users," Mr. Shampine told Betabeat. "They're international--one of our first customers was in the U.K.. I was just helping one today in Spain. We were just going back and forth on Skype for half an hour."</p>
<p>Onepager takes customer service very seriously, he said, although the goal is to make the product intuitive enough that people can figure out how to use it on their own. "The number of customers that we've actually had to deal with on a one-on-one basis, I think I could count on two hands," he said.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Onepager is getting popular with small churches and pastors, he said. "It makes sense because when you move to a city like New York and you want to find a church the first thing you do is turn to the internet."</p>
<p>He said the site is also gaining traction among real estate brokers including <a href="http://kenkader.com/">Ken Kader</a>, the father of New York entrepreneur Tawheed Kader, of Tout.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Originally, Mr. Shampine described the app as an "About.me for small business." Now he's taken to comparing it to Tumblr. For a while, the model was a 14-day free trial. But the startup was pushing out features so fast that they realized it was undermining their ability to upsell. Now users can sign up for Onepager for free, or pay $8 a month for a custom URL, analytics and integration with MailChimp. The company was founded by Matt Shampine, Matt Moore, Eric Tarn, and Yin Yin Chan, formerly the design agency Simande, and operates out of WeWork Labs.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://onepagerapp.com">Onepager</a>, the startup from Matt Shampine and the design team formerly known as Simande, just announced a seed funding round: $350,000 from New York angel investors Daniel Eskapa and Mark Birch. Mr. Birch, who has a similar portfolio of startups targeting small business, is now an adviser to the company.</p>
<p dir="ltr">With their launch party already behind them, Onepager is planning to use the money to market the product--a dead simple website builder for small businesses--and continue adding features. Next up: an embeddable widget that pulls in what people are saying about your company on social media.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Oh, and maybe use some cash to buy the coveted onepager.com, which is owned by a large financial research company, Factset, that is essentially squatting on it. In the meantime, at least onepagerapp.com, the startup's current URL, is the top result in Google for "onepager."<!--more--></p>
<p>"We have a decent amount of free users and a growing amount of paid users," Mr. Shampine told Betabeat. "They're international--one of our first customers was in the U.K.. I was just helping one today in Spain. We were just going back and forth on Skype for half an hour."</p>
<p>Onepager takes customer service very seriously, he said, although the goal is to make the product intuitive enough that people can figure out how to use it on their own. "The number of customers that we've actually had to deal with on a one-on-one basis, I think I could count on two hands," he said.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Onepager is getting popular with small churches and pastors, he said. "It makes sense because when you move to a city like New York and you want to find a church the first thing you do is turn to the internet."</p>
<p>He said the site is also gaining traction among real estate brokers including <a href="http://kenkader.com/">Ken Kader</a>, the father of New York entrepreneur Tawheed Kader, of Tout.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Originally, Mr. Shampine described the app as an "About.me for small business." Now he's taken to comparing it to Tumblr. For a while, the model was a 14-day free trial. But the startup was pushing out features so fast that they realized it was undermining their ability to upsell. Now users can sign up for Onepager for free, or pay $8 a month for a custom URL, analytics and integration with MailChimp. The company was founded by Matt Shampine, Matt Moore, Eric Tarn, and Yin Yin Chan, formerly the design agency Simande, and operates out of WeWork Labs.</p>
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		<title>We Are NY Tech&#8211;Profiles of Local Techsters&#8211;Hits 2K Followers; Planning Job Listings</title>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 14:41:33 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Adrianne Jeffries</dc:creator>
				
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<p><a href="http://wearenytech.com/">We Are NY Tech</a>, the blog that has featured a profile of someone in the New York tech scene every day since November 13 and which was <a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/12/we-are-ny-tech.html">praised</a> as "democratic, wonderful to look at and read, and is exactly the kind of service we need in NYC" by Fred Wilson, just hit 2,000 followers on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/wearenytech">Twitter</a>.<!--more--></p>
<p>More than 150 New Yorkers have been featured so far on the site, designed by the creative WeWork-based shop Simande and managed by founder Matt Shampine, who still writes the questions, picks the subjects and posts them to the site. (Note: He objected when we tried to give him credit. "It was a team effort to put it together," he said.)</p>
<p>The profiles are just the beginning. We Are NY Tech is also hosting a <a href="http://wearenytech.com/152-internet-week-new-york-panel">panel</a> about the local tech industry for Internet Week and putting together a "highly-curated" job board that will launch in the next few weeks, Mr. Shampine told Betabeat.</p>
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<p><a href="http://wearenytech.com/">We Are NY Tech</a>, the blog that has featured a profile of someone in the New York tech scene every day since November 13 and which was <a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/12/we-are-ny-tech.html">praised</a> as "democratic, wonderful to look at and read, and is exactly the kind of service we need in NYC" by Fred Wilson, just hit 2,000 followers on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/wearenytech">Twitter</a>.<!--more--></p>
<p>More than 150 New Yorkers have been featured so far on the site, designed by the creative WeWork-based shop Simande and managed by founder Matt Shampine, who still writes the questions, picks the subjects and posts them to the site. (Note: He objected when we tried to give him credit. "It was a team effort to put it together," he said.)</p>
<p>The profiles are just the beginning. We Are NY Tech is also hosting a <a href="http://wearenytech.com/152-internet-week-new-york-panel">panel</a> about the local tech industry for Internet Week and putting together a "highly-curated" job board that will launch in the next few weeks, Mr. Shampine told Betabeat.</p>
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