Yardbarker launches
Two friends of mine, Jack Kloster and Pete Vlastelica, have been working their asses off (along with their excellent team) to start Yardbarker, and today they went to their first public beta. I have been an occasional advisor to Pete and Jack, and I am writing a case about them for the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, so I have to give some link love.
Yardbarker is a social media site for sports enthusiasts — “Sports 2.0″ as they like to say (though, I suggested they don’t say that, but what can you do?). The site is pretty slick, and given that it was built almost entirely by one person in a very small number of months is doubly impressive. I’m going long on Pete and Jack and their team — one to watch….
I have been using the site since it first launched. Yardbarker is by far the best place to get detailed information on sports.
Comment by Stephen B — February 26, 2007 @ 4:05 pm
[…] I wrote last August about the launch of Yardbarker, a social-media sports site created by my friends Pete Vlastelica and Jack Kloster (along with Jack’s brother Jeff and Mark Johns). This week Yardbarker announced additional financing from such notables as Russell Siegelman, Ron Conway, Steve Blank, and several others. […]
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