Lanyrd

The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.

Founded2010

Event year2013

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01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

Lanyrd (named after 'lanyard') was a London-based conference directory website created by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe and launched in 2010 (the idea was first hacked together on their honeymoon in Casablanca). Users logged in via the Twitter API; the site compiled blog posts, photos and coverage from events organized by session and speaker, and showed which of a user's Twitter contacts were attending. It launched an iOS app in 2011, raised $1.4 million in seed funding in September 2011, and went through the Y Combinator incubator.

02 / FAILURE REASONS

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03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

2010
Company founded
Lanyrd was founded.
2013
Acquisition
Lanyrd was acquired.

04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT

Difficulty of rebuilding this project today

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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH

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