Kate Spivak Founded BlendAbout to Socially Network People in the Real World
Many social networking sites claim to connect people and bring them together, but these connections often exist only in the virtual world of the Internet. Cool person in technology Kate Spivak believes that connections, whether professional or personal, are much stronger when made in the flesh. That’s why this cool person founded BlendAbout, a new Internet startup that connects people of similar interests online and then also connects them in the real world. Spivak’s company accomplishes this by matching up people with similar interests and placing them into group dinners designed for personal and professional networking. BlendAbout meetings connect six people with similar interests according to their profiles and reserve a meal for them at a restaurant they can all travel to conveniently. People can use these dinners to meet other people in their professional field or others who share their hobbies. Rather than only posting comments back and forth in a forum or chat room on the web, Spivak’s startup aims to connect people in the physical world as well. Read more »
