Weave

Nice TC coverage this morning, @zealoustiger :)

Thanks! Haha, just read it - really great article. Ryan at TC did a great job. Awesome that we connected via Weave, that helps.

Haha, that's awesome. Did you hear about Weave through Product Hunt by chance, @ryanlawler? ;)

Weave is one of my favorite networking apps - if not my favorite. I have tried Treatings and unfortunately people on there aren't as responsive, since it's more one-sided. With Weave, when you find that two people want to meet each other, it makes the process a little more exciting. I may be a little biased, but I've met so many great people through Weave, and the people on Weave generally seem to be more open about meeting than do people on Treatings.

Thanks Ryan - I've been obsessed with professional networking since founding my first startup. (Decide was my second). While Decide was going through the acquisition process, I started going to a ton more Seattle startup events and the initial pain I had of walking into a room full of people I don't know inspired this.

@zealoustiger - That makes sense. Communities usually form around the founder(s) early one. How do you plan to acquire users?

I think events/conferences and places with high densities of people already there open to networking is the most straightforward route, so that means working with event organizers and giving them value add on top of their events. Seeing how quickly it's spreading via just word of mouth in Seattle though, I think I may have to wait on the user acquisition a bit and figure out a better way for people to sift through and find the people they'd most likely want to connect with first.