From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Scott Heiferman
Scott Heiferman
up originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone
of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. As
of December 2011, ten million people have registered on
Meetup, and people self-organize over 100,000 Meetups
each week.[citation needed] Meetup’s investors include eBay,
Omidyar Network, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Esther
Dyson, Union Square Ventures and others. Heiferman al-
so co-founded Fotolog and i-traffic. Prior to founding i-
traffic, Heiferman was employed by Sony with the title
"Interactive Marketing Frontiersman." In 2005, Scott re-
ceived the Jane Addams Award from the National Con-
ference on Citizenship. In 2004 M.I.T. Technology Review
awarded Scott "Innovator of the Year" for his work with
Meetup.[citation needed] He graduated from The University
of Iowa in 1994 and posted a photo on his personal Fo-
tolog for every day between 2001-2008.
External links
• Scott’s home on the web
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Name Heiferman,Scott
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Scott Heiferman at TechCrunch Disrupt in May 2010
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Scott Heiferman is CEO and a co-founder of Meetup, a Place of death
service that helps people use the internet to organize lo-
cal community groups with local offline meetings. Meet-
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