Regator’s start-up culture, business cards in bathroom lines

Written on 15th August 2008                                                                                                              1 COMMENT
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Every week we publish an interview with a start-up. We ask five questions, hoping the answers will give you inspiration and new views.

This time we’re interviewing the team of Regator, an Atlanta-based start-up that aims to mainstream RSS. They’ve created a great collection of good blogs, all hand-picked, for you to browse, read, and share. So here they are, Scott Lockhart, Chris Turner, Kimberly Turner, and Team Captain Reg, from their little green house in Georgia, US.

Scott, Kimberly, Chris, and Reg

How did you come up with the idea of Regator?

“When the idea was forming about ten months ago, we didn’t plan to gather the best blogs on everything from archeology to beekeeping to celeb gossip. And we certainly didn’t plan to have built-in audio and video players, Twitter and Facebook sharing, or the level of social interaction we ended up with. Scott was working in real estate (not in an I-want-to-sell-you-a-house kind of capacity, but in a I-want-to-use-technology-to-improve-the-industry sort of way) and noticed there was no site where he could go to see the best real estate blog posts without all the rubbish. He decided to build one and call it Regator. Meanwhile, Chris was learning PHP for a billiards video game he was working on. He was discovering that he could do all sorts of nifty stuff pretty easily with the new language, and after talking with Scott about Regator, he spent a couple weeks teaching himself mySQL and Ajax so he could start building the site. It wasn’t long before it moved beyond Scott’s initial real estate focus. When Kimberly, who is a magazine editor and therefore used to being picky about writing and content, was asked to select a few blogs for the site, the team was complete, and the idea has been evolving ever since. Regator’s three founders live together in a little green house in Georgia (the U.S. state, not the nation), and our constant access to one another for brainstorming probably caused it to go in directions that it might not have otherwise gone.” (more…)

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