baseloop.com
Location: 316 W 2nd St. Suite 1110, Los Angeles, California 90012, United States United States
Founded in: 2007
Stage: Not applicable
Number of employees: 1-5
Short URL: vator.co/baseloop-com
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baseloop.com

what's going on
Startup/business
California, United States United States United States
http://baseloop.com
About
Company description

Baseloop’s mission is to help friends get together more often.  Baseloop answers the question: “What’s going on?”

The idea for Baseloop came from our professional experience with Microsoft Outlook.  We noticed how quickly our Outlook calendars would fill up with meetings and deadlines – why couldn’t our social calendars fill up just as easily and quickly with fun things to do.

Baseloop is a platform for sharing all things event related: things I have planned, things I want to do, places I want to go.  Baseloop adds a new category to the online event space: “micro-events”.

In addition to events normally posted online, Baseloop encourages users to also share their mundane daily activities, like getting coffee, going to lunch or dinner, having drinks or watching a movie. By sharing these micro-events, friends now have access to events that were otherwise buried offline, unorganized or disaggregated. When friends share their daily activities, it creates serendipitous opportunities to get together more often.  For example, if you log-in to Baseloop one evening and see some friends are having dinner a couple blocks from your office, you just might join them, rather than eat alone.  Baseloop creates a hub for friends to share and find out “what’s going on”.

Team

Spencer L., President – Spencer was formerly VicePresident, Finance at Classmates.com where he managed financial planning andcorporate development.  Prior toClassmates, Spencer was Vice President, Corporate Development at United Onlinewhere he led the company’s acquisitions of FTD.com, Classmates.com,MyPoints.com, photosite.com and mysite.com. Prior to United Online, Spencer was an investment banker with WachoviaSecurities and Lehman Brothers.

 

Mitsu W., Lead Engineer – Mitsu was formerly SeniorSoftware Engineer at MySpace, where he managed the development of MySpace'suser search functionality and led the effort to convert MySpace’s codebase fromColdfusion to ASP.Net.  Prior to MySpace,Mitsu was Senior Software Developer at H.W.Wilson, where he led a team ofdevelopers in the infrastructure design of the company’s e-commercewebsite. 

 

PJ C., Lead Engineer – PJ was formerly SeniorDeveloper with Creative Channel Services, a subsidiary of Omnicom Group, wherehe led various teams in the development of specialized internet tools for data aggregation,storage, and analysis.  Prior to CreativeChannel Services, PJ was Software Developer at eat2getfit, a personalized nutritionstartup.
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