Socialbomb moves to Brooklyn!
In May of 2008, Scott, Adam and I graduated from NYU ITP. Just a month before, we’d won the Stern Business Plan Competition, and with that, a grant to start a company. A month later, we had incorporated ourselves and laid the groundwork for our fledgling startup. We met in a room at our alma mater, worked from home and coffee shops, and mapped out plans for world domination for hours on end.
Within a few months, we moved into the just-getting-started Rose Tech Ventures Incubator on 23rd., with the three of us crammed into a room the size of a reasonable closet and a view of Shake Shack. We toiled away there, and over our two-year tenure, we took over two additional office spaces on the same floor. Our daily body-count went from three to four, then five, then six. In our last weeks there, we had up to ten folks in the office at any given time, depending on the day.
The incubator was a great place to raise a company, so to speak, and gave us a starting point from which to launch our many-threaded creative endeavors. However, as we reach the end of 2010, we’ve found ourselves stable, happy, and continuously growing. We’ve grown enough, in fact, that it finally made sense to go get an office of our own. We looked at a wide variety of places in a bunch of different neighborhoods, but we fell in love with the Dumbo area of Brooklyn.
So, we’re now calling Jay Street our home. The space is great, the views are incredible, there are a stack of tech and design companies in the area, and the neighborhood is lively and full of great toy, vinyl, and coffee shops (all very important!). We’ve got room for all our full-time employees as well as our cast of freelancers and then some. Hell, the hamster has his own desk for now. And that’s important!
What I’m getting at is that we’ve got a great space with an amazing view, and we’re really happy here now. Expect to hear much more from us about this in the near future, but for now, check out the pictures!
-Mike
