Metroproper Beta Launch And Party Saturday

July 14, 2006
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I just got a sneak peak of Metroproper from founder Phil Tadros and Jason Pettus, a new Chicago-based web 2.0 interactive and social business network, voter based journalism and classifieds product that is launching this Saturday afternoon. This will roll out to other markets after a brief Chicago beta. There is a launch party with Motorola as event sponsor on Saturday evening at the Motorola Q store downtown.
So what makes Metroproper different?
- It combines elements of Craigslist, Linkedin, Myspace and Digg into a one stop shopping experience
- They have some unique, though as yet unproven, monetization ideas. It’s good to see someone actually thinking about this issue before launching a site. I have a few monetization ideas of my own for their platform actually…
- Though I didn’t get to surf it, the pages look very clean and hopefully it will surf as good as it looks.

The Metroproper login page

A screenshot of a Metroproper.com profile

Classifieds are a feature that figures prominently in the community.

While there is considerable competition in this space, there is certainly room for improvement. If unmet customer needs are satisfied with a world-class customer experience, the world may in fact beat a path to Metroproper’s door.

Speaking of beating a path to their door, you should do just that. Phil runs a coffee shop on the north side of the city called Dollop, it is located at 4181 North Claredon, the venture capital lines are open at 773.755.1955 - the wireless Internet is free, they are open late and Hoosier Mama Pies are quite tasty!

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Comments

4 Responses to “Metroproper Beta Launch And Party Saturday”

Philip Tadros on July 16th, 2006 7:25 pm

Ha’ hey thanks for the attention and making it to the event.

vc’s might wanna try 708.655.6753 it’s my mobile;)

Good party, the site is on it’s way, and i’m really excited about the recent changes ican share with the public in about a weeks time.

Angel, the artist’ come on, she’s amazing!

To everyone who help out at the unoffical launch party, thank you so much, i think everyone can say that the vibes were good and the people were great’
Philip Tadros on August 2nd, 2006 3:48 pm

we have had such a great little wave with our metroproper vison, we now have a way stronger team, with an enhanced vison, and we are stokt about what’s to come in the next 2 weeks’ it’s a new ballgame behing the scene right now and i’m really proud of the people involved and i can’t wait to share it with everyone’
Sabra on July 13th, 2007 6:20 pm

Hey Phil! Congrats! Show them how it’s done!
phil tadros on July 15th, 2007 12:01 pm

now giving out small handful of invites to our private testing (mostly testing) beta.

If you want let me know
phil@metroproper.com