Don't you want to be a part of a company that accounted for a whopping 5% of all e-commerce spending on Thanksgiving and drove over 3% of e-commerce during through Cyber Monday?
At Pushpins we are building a revolutionary digital advertisement platform allowing users to save money on their retail purchases. We were recently acquired by Performance Marketing Brands (parent of Ebates/Fatwallet) and will be leading their mobile efforts going forward.
This program was an amazing experience for us. I don't think we would be where we are today without it. Feel free to email me at [email protected] if you have questions.
Tell us what you think! If you have questions -- shoot me an email at [email protected].
We have over 120,000 products from 15,000 brands and nearly 5,000 manufacturers. The closest thing to this is from a company that charges nearly $100K/yr.
We want this to be accessible to app and web developers.
Pushpins – an venture-backed startup founded by two Harvard graduates who have previously started companies focused on retail point of sale systems and commerce analytics.
Our goal is to create a massively scalable self-service digital coupon platform to shift the 400 billion paper grocery coupon business to mobile.
We have developed and integrated a cloud-based solution into thousands of grocery and drug stores across the country. Our iOS application was the #2 productivity application on iTunes and has been featured by Apple multiple times.
We are looking for strong strong object-oriented developers with experience with PHP/Java and MySQL
Wait? I can redeem on my phone and money comes off at the register. No scanning of the screen, no codes to enter, it's instant and on the spot? Yep!
Pushpins (www.pushpinsapp.com) wants to make sure you never have to clip another paper coupon again.
You're smart and we're a venture-backed SF-based company looking for Senior PHP/LAMP Developers to help bring instant savings in thousands of grocery stores. We were the #2 productivity app on iTunes and have been featured by Apple multiple times.
If you're interested - shoot us an email at [email protected] with favorite cereal. Mine's Fruity Pebbles.
There were a lot of questions and concerns about this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380567) in the original post on why LSVP gives away money, office space, etc. in exchange for no equity. John Vronis - who runs the program gives a really good explanation of this here.
It's more than just the money and the office space, it's also about mentorship.
Each team is given a partner who works with them throughout the summer. The partner helps with intros and getting you in front of the right people, vetting your pitch deck, etc.
They also bring in incredible founders and mentors for lunch each week.
Last year we had:
- Liam Casey (PCH)
- Dave Lieb (Bump)
- Wences Casares (Bling Nation)
- Joe Greenstein (Flixster)
- Jedidiah Yueh (Delphix)
- John Schroeder (MapR)
- Max Simkoff (Evolv)
Plus, they ran the best presentation I've seen on fundraising. It was basically the stuff that a VC is thinking, but they will never tell you.
This should help clarify. You need one engineer, but they do not have to be a student.
· Each team must include at least one individual who was a student (graduate or undergraduate) in the 2010-2011 academic school year
· At least ONE member of the team must have a degree in Computer Science or Engineering
It honestly is a great way for them to learn about what's going on out there and meet some up-and-coming entrepreneurs. Whether it is this company or the next, it gives them a chance to build a relationship with great founders.
We participated last summer. Being an east coast startup, it gave us the chance to get a great feel for startup life in the Valley, prove out our model, and build a beta version of our iPhone app which we launch in November (www.bit.ly/IHeartPushpins). Most importantly though, I learned more from doing the program than any summer internship I ever had.
If you want an honest review of the experience, shoot me an email [email protected].
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