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Posterous is a Y Combinator startup that was founded in mid 2008. It’s a simple web publishing platform via email. Text and files can be uploaded to the site via email.

Users are not required to create an account to use Posterous. To start, users simply email content to post@posterous.com and a “blog” is autocreated and sent back to the user. Registered users can tailor the blog URL, post via the website, subscribe to other users.

Posterous embeds video, MP3s and other media into a player and turns images into image galleries. PDFs and other office documents are displayed in a Scribd embedded widget.

Users can also add friends and family’s email address to any Posterous site they control. When the emails have been added, users can post by sending content they want to publish to post@sitename.posterous.com.

The company officially went into beta in June 2008 and raised an angel round in December 2008.

Milestones

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  Posterous added Gus Tai as Investor. (1/1/10)
  Posted 6/23/10 at 1:36pm
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  Posterous added Rich Pearson as VP Marketing.
  Posted 6/18/10 at 11:37pm
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  Posterous added Satish Dharmaraj as board of directors.
  Posted 3/5/10 at 11:50am
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  Posterous added Brett Gibson as Co-Founder. (6/1/09)
  Posted 1/16/10 at 3:23pm
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  Posterous added Chris Sacca as Advisor.
  Posted 1/16/10 at 3:19pm
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  Posterous added Timothy Ferriss as Advisor.
  Posted 1/4/10 at 10:59pm
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  Posterous added Garry Tan as Co-Founder.
  Posted 6/28/08 at 1:04pm
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  Posterous added Sachin Agarwal as Founder, CEO, Board of Directors.
  Posted 6/28/08 at 1:04pm
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  Posterous received $4.4M in Series A funding. (3/5/10)
  Posted 3/5/10 at 12:05pm
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  Posterous received $725k in Angel funding. (12/1/08)
  Posted 12/22/08 at 2:57am via thealarmclock.com
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  Posterous received $15k in Seed funding. (5/1/08)
  Posted 6/28/08 at 1:04pm
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  Posterous acquired slinkset. (6/23/09)
  Posted 6/23/09 at 9:25pm via techcrunch.com
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  Posterous — Posterous named in Lead411's Hottest San Francisco Companies list (5/18/10) ⁵
  Posted 8/27/10 at 5:28am via lead411.com

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1. Posterous Acquires Fellow Y Combinator Alum Slinkset (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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3. Group Blogging Via Email's Posterous Raises $725K (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
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5. Lead411 launches "Hottest Companies in San Francisco" awards (lead411.com) [edit]

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