An Important Shift
On April 2, I will start at Raleigh, NC-based ChannelAdvisor.
ChannelAdvisor is a mid-stage company whose business is to help merchants sell online. It was co-founded by Scot Wingo, who started and sold Stingray Software and AuctionRover. AuctionRover was acquired by GoTo, becoming GoTo Auctions. GoTo then rebranded as Overture, which was then acquired by Yahoo!
Scot is an amazing person and entrepreneur, and is a huge Star wars fan. There are, in fact, Star Wars props all around the CA offices (note: they’re awesome).
My interview in mid-Feb consisted of a 2-hr Starbucks run with COO Michael Jones and Scot. Needless to say, it went well and I felt immediately at home (esp. if you know how much I like Starbucks).
ChannelAdvisor is a Kodiak Venture Partners portfolio company. John Abraham, my sponsoring partner at KVP for my EIR stint sits on their board and is the lead partner at Kodiak for this company. I’m grateful to John for introducing me to the company and to Scot.
So I’ll be moving to Raleigh the last weekend of March. Furthermore, I’m apartment hunting this week. But before that, I’m actually heading down to Pinehurst for the Catalyst 2007 conference.
Do you know anyone in Raleigh? Do you know where to live in Raleigh? Do you live in Raleigh? Talk to me! scotthurff (at) gmail (dot) com or 614 562 5086.
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Hey Scott,
It looks like we’ll be working together. I work with Aris in the CA Labs group.
As for where to live, I’d suggest the northern part of Cary and western Raleigh near the Lumley Road exit of I-540. I know there are lots of apartments off of Dynasty Road/Drive? near Harrison Avenue in Cary. I’d avoid being further east on I-40 than Harrison Avenue unless you work odd hours or love traffic
Good luck with the move. Feel free to email with me any questions.