Halloween is Kevin Ryan’s favorite holiday. The Gilt Groupe CEO plans the company Halloween party personally, with a little help from Kym Ganade, head of design and development. Parties get more elaborate each year. The first one, in 2008, was held a Lower East Side bar. Last year’s party cost [Full Story…]
Kevin Ryan Seeks Best NY Tech People
September 11, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Kevin Ryan, head of Gilt Groupe, is one of the tech scene’s most influential people. Ryan and Dwight Merriman run AlleyCorp, a factory for startups. The firm started companies such as Business Insider, 10gen, and Gilt Groupe. The pair had early success with DoubleClick, which Google bought in [Full Story…]
Kevin Ryan Believes Startup 10gen Will Get At Least $1 Billion
July 25, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Kevin Ryan, founder and CEO of Gilt Group and DoubleClick, is the only executive to create a $1 billion NY startup, and he has done it twice. Ryan is now telling the New York Post that his third startup, 10gen, is also heading into the billion-dollar direction. 10gen is focused on tech support and [Full Story…]
NY Fashion Sites Receive Top Investments Last Quarter
July 25, 2011 at 3:03 pm
A recent trend has revealed that fashion websites are the top industry in terms of money invested. NY area "shopping facilitators" brought in $209.31 million in invested money last quarter, according to Dow Jones. The top earners recently have been Gilt Group with $136 million, Foursquare with [Full Story…]
Gilt Groupe Keeps Up on the Competition
December 10, 2009 at 10:15 am
In a recent interview with BusinessWeek, Susan Lyne, the CEO of Gilt Groupe an e-tailer based in New York, mentioned that Black Friday and Cyber Monday do not really affect her company's business, which is offering mostly women's luxury fashion lines at discount prices. She does [Full Story…]
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