Category Archives: Start-ups

Thumbtack raises $4.5MM Series A financing

by Thumbtack | January 9, 2012 at 9:03 am

Today we’re thrilled to announce some great news for our community of small businesses and consumers nationwide: Thumbtack has raised a $4.5 million Series A financing. We’ll now be able to significantly accelerate our growth, simplifying more lives and connecting many more people with great local professionals. Founded in 2009, Thumbtack is a community marketplace [...]

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Hurricane Irene: Thumbtack Seeks to Help

by Sander | August 27, 2011 at 5:40 pm

Like everyone else, we’ve been closely following all of the coverage of Hurricane Irene. Our thoughts go out to all the people on the East Coast affected by the storm, and we hope the storm brings as little damage and harm as possible. Thumbtack and our 5,000+ storm clean-up and repair professionals on the East [...]

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Raising money as a first-time entrepreneur

by Thumbtack | July 23, 2010 at 5:21 pm

We recently closed an angel round a couple of weeks ago, and I thought that I’d share my thoughts on the process. As a first-time entrepreneur, you will initially be judged by proxy. The main criteria people will use to evaluate you and your business is what other people think about you and your business. Frustrating? [...]

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The Value of Advisors

by Thumbtack | July 20, 2010 at 9:59 pm

When we were first getting started, I kept wondering about the value of advisors.  Every company proudly displays their advisors somewhere in their about us (and so do we).  But I couldn’t quite understand what, exactly, advisors brought to the table.  Were they primarily intended as a signaling mechanism?  For introductions?  For domain experience?  After a couple [...]

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