Dabble was written up in USA Today!
Silicon Valley starts to party like it’s 1999
The eight employees of digital media start-up Dabble work out of a cheap office, decorated mainly with sticky notes, not far from San Francisco.
They work long hours for below-market rates. Their boss, CEO Mary Hodder, is a 39-year-old Internet expert who has never started or run a company before.
Dabble has received funding from angel investors. But it must fight dozens of other start-ups for attention. And when they finally get off work, the Dabble team grapples with heavy traffic, crowded restaurants and outrageous housing prices.
But it’s all OK, because Hodder and her crew are convinced that their company offers a compelling online service that will be a huge success – and will make their stock options pay off.
Sound a lot like 1999? Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area, the world’s technology hub, is starting to buzz again for the first time since the dot-com bust. The Valley’s infamous start-up community is coming back, thanks to Dabble and its contemporaries. New powerhouses such as Google, eBay and Yahoo are driving growth and hiring workers. Stalwarts such as Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are reporting stronger sales and posting higher stock prices.
Here is the full text of the article in case the link goes bad:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-09-11-tech-valley_x.htm
The eight employees of digital media start-up Dabble work out of a cheap office, decorated mainly with sticky notes, not far from San Francisco.
They work long hours for below-market rates. Their boss, CEO Mary Hodder, is a 39-year-old Internet expert who has never started or run a company before.
Dabble has received funding from angel investors. But it must fight dozens of other start-ups for attention. And when they finally get off work, the Dabble team grapples with heavy traffic, crowded restaurants and outrageous housing prices.
But it’s all OK, because Hodder and her crew are convinced that their company offers a compelling online service that will be a huge success