Nine Startup Scaling Secrets from Eventbrite | Xconomy

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Judging from my own experience, there’s hardly an organization in Silicon Valley, Boston, or other U.S. tech hubs that doesn’t use the company’s Web-based event registration system to track and monetize attendance at conferences, seminars, or cocktail parties. But I was also aware of Kevin Hartz’s connections to what’s been called the “PayPal Mafia”—the group of engineers and investors who helped launch the foundational online payments company in 1998—and I wanted to know how he’d profited at Eventbrite from the lessons he learned as a Paypal investor and subsequently as CEO of Xoom, the international money transfer company he co-founded prior to Eventbrite. The company provided high-speed Internet access to hotels, and was almost immediately bought by LodgeNet (NASDAQ: LNET), still one of the largest players in hospitality broadband. One of his Stanford connections, through student government activities, was Peter Thiel, who had recently returned from the East Coast to set up a small private equity fund on Menlo Park’s Sand Hill Road. “We went to Hobee’s one day, and … Next Page » Wade Roush is a freelance science and technology journalist and the producer and host of the podcast Soonish.

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