Wanderfly: Celebrating One Year Of Travel Inspiration

CELEBRATING ONE YEAR wanderfly People need to travel more, experience more, and do more. When Wanderfly launched one year ago, that was our vision – to help travelers discover new experiences and inspire them to take that next trip. One year and millions of trips later, this is our story. OF INSPIRATION ОСТ 19 2010 WANDERFLY LAUNCHED at 1am as a groundbreaking travel inspiration site ОСТ 20 2010 TRAFFIC SPIKED beyond expectations and servers temporarily went down ОСТ 2010 4 FULL-TIMERS on the team DEC 2010 FOLDED 254 MINI PAPER AIRPLANES for NY Tech Meetup presentation JAN 2011 EXPANDED OFFICE SPACE by taking over next door FEB 2011 CLOSED $1MM IN FUNDING $$ from VCs to grow the company FEB 2011 INTEGRATED FACEBOOK CONNECT and empowered users to see friends who live in, have been to, or want to go to a destination APR 2011 APRIL FOOLS SPOOF named alongside Google, Hulu and Grooveshark APR 2011 NOMINATED FOR A WEBBY as the only startup alongside BBC, Lonely Planet, Jetsetter and NY Times MAY NAMED ONE OF 100 BRILLIANT COMPANIES by Entrepreneur Magazine 2011 MAY 2011 100 FIRST MAJOR DESIGN EVOLUTION unveiled, along with user-curated lists JUN 2011 FIRST EMPLOYEE DRESSES UP AS JANE FONDA for WanderflyTV JUN 2011 NAMED ONE OF TOP 10 NYC startups by Time Inc. 10 JUN 2011 PARTNERED WITH 16 LIFESTYLE BRANDS HISTORY including Mashable, HISTORY®, UrbanDaddy and Mint URBANDADDY on branded pages (wanderfly.com/curators) omint Mashable JUL 2011 with Telegraph UK and Jeep (telegraph.co.uk/grandadventures) LAUNCHED FIRST MICROSITE AUG 2011 BEGAN WORK ON WANDERFLY 2.0 upon realizing Wanderfly 1.0 was just the tip of the iceberg 2.0 ОСТ 2011 LAUNCHED “ALSO RECOMMENDED" WIDGET across 1,000 nytimes.com travel pages (nyti.ms/ıxw8ac) ОСТ 2011 TRAFFIC INCREASES 40% from prior month The New York Times ОСТ 2011 12 FULL-TIMERS on the team ОСТ 19 2011 ONEYEARONEMINUTE.COM CREATED as a collaborative project between the company and fellow travelers everywhere 4 MILLION TRIPS INSPIRED USERS FROM 217 COUNTRIES 30 BRAND PARTNERS 1400 CITIES ON SITE CELEBRATING ONE YEAR wanderfly People need to travel more, experience more, and do more. When Wanderfly launched one year ago, that was our vision – to help travelers discover new experiences and inspire them to take that next trip. One year and millions of trips later, this is our story. OF INSPIRATION ОСТ 19 2010 WANDERFLY LAUNCHED at 1am as a groundbreaking travel inspiration site ОСТ 20 2010 TRAFFIC SPIKED beyond expectations and servers temporarily went down ОСТ 2010 4 FULL-TIMERS on the team DEC 2010 FOLDED 254 MINI PAPER AIRPLANES for NY Tech Meetup presentation JAN 2011 EXPANDED OFFICE SPACE by taking over next door FEB 2011 CLOSED $1MM IN FUNDING $$ from VCs to grow the company FEB 2011 INTEGRATED FACEBOOK CONNECT and empowered users to see friends who live in, have been to, or want to go to a destination APR 2011 APRIL FOOLS SPOOF named alongside Google, Hulu and Grooveshark APR 2011 NOMINATED FOR A WEBBY as the only startup alongside BBC, Lonely Planet, Jetsetter and NY Times MAY NAMED ONE OF 100 BRILLIANT COMPANIES by Entrepreneur Magazine 2011 MAY 2011 100 FIRST MAJOR DESIGN EVOLUTION unveiled, along with user-curated lists JUN 2011 FIRST EMPLOYEE DRESSES UP AS JANE FONDA for WanderflyTV JUN 2011 NAMED ONE OF TOP 10 NYC startups by Time Inc. 10 JUN 2011 PARTNERED WITH 16 LIFESTYLE BRANDS HISTORY including Mashable, HISTORY®, UrbanDaddy and Mint URBANDADDY on branded pages (wanderfly.com/curators) omint Mashable JUL 2011 with Telegraph UK and Jeep (telegraph.co.uk/grandadventures) LAUNCHED FIRST MICROSITE AUG 2011 BEGAN WORK ON WANDERFLY 2.0 upon realizing Wanderfly 1.0 was just the tip of the iceberg 2.0 ОСТ 2011 LAUNCHED “ALSO RECOMMENDED" WIDGET across 1,000 nytimes.com travel pages (nyti.ms/ıxw8ac) ОСТ 2011 TRAFFIC INCREASES 40% from prior month The New York Times ОСТ 2011 12 FULL-TIMERS on the team ОСТ 19 2011 ONEYEARONEMINUTE.COM CREATED as a collaborative project between the company and fellow travelers everywhere 4 MILLION TRIPS INSPIRED USERS FROM 217 COUNTRIES 30 BRAND PARTNERS 1400 CITIES ON SITE CELEBRATING ONE YEAR wanderfly People need to travel more, experience more, and do more. When Wanderfly launched one year ago, that was our vision – to help travelers discover new experiences and inspire them to take that next trip. One year and millions of trips later, this is our story. OF INSPIRATION ОСТ 19 2010 WANDERFLY LAUNCHED at 1am as a groundbreaking travel inspiration site ОСТ 20 2010 TRAFFIC SPIKED beyond expectations and servers temporarily went down ОСТ 2010 4 FULL-TIMERS on the team DEC 2010 FOLDED 254 MINI PAPER AIRPLANES for NY Tech Meetup presentation JAN 2011 EXPANDED OFFICE SPACE by taking over next door FEB 2011 CLOSED $1MM IN FUNDING $$ from VCs to grow the company FEB 2011 INTEGRATED FACEBOOK CONNECT and empowered users to see friends who live in, have been to, or want to go to a destination APR 2011 APRIL FOOLS SPOOF named alongside Google, Hulu and Grooveshark APR 2011 NOMINATED FOR A WEBBY as the only startup alongside BBC, Lonely Planet, Jetsetter and NY Times MAY NAMED ONE OF 100 BRILLIANT COMPANIES by Entrepreneur Magazine 2011 MAY 2011 100 FIRST MAJOR DESIGN EVOLUTION unveiled, along with user-curated lists JUN 2011 FIRST EMPLOYEE DRESSES UP AS JANE FONDA for WanderflyTV JUN 2011 NAMED ONE OF TOP 10 NYC startups by Time Inc. 10 JUN 2011 PARTNERED WITH 16 LIFESTYLE BRANDS HISTORY including Mashable, HISTORY®, UrbanDaddy and Mint URBANDADDY on branded pages (wanderfly.com/curators) omint Mashable JUL 2011 with Telegraph UK and Jeep (telegraph.co.uk/grandadventures) LAUNCHED FIRST MICROSITE AUG 2011 BEGAN WORK ON WANDERFLY 2.0 upon realizing Wanderfly 1.0 was just the tip of the iceberg 2.0 ОСТ 2011 LAUNCHED “ALSO RECOMMENDED" WIDGET across 1,000 nytimes.com travel pages (nyti.ms/ıxw8ac) ОСТ 2011 TRAFFIC INCREASES 40% from prior month The New York Times ОСТ 2011 12 FULL-TIMERS on the team ОСТ 19 2011 ONEYEARONEMINUTE.COM CREATED as a collaborative project between the company and fellow travelers everywhere 4 MILLION TRIPS INSPIRED USERS FROM 217 COUNTRIES 30 BRAND PARTNERS 1400 CITIES ON SITE CELEBRATING ONE YEAR wanderfly People need to travel more, experience more, and do more. When Wanderfly launched one year ago, that was our vision – to help travelers discover new experiences and inspire them to take that next trip. One year and millions of trips later, this is our story. OF INSPIRATION ОСТ 19 2010 WANDERFLY LAUNCHED at 1am as a groundbreaking travel inspiration site ОСТ 20 2010 TRAFFIC SPIKED beyond expectations and servers temporarily went down ОСТ 2010 4 FULL-TIMERS on the team DEC 2010 FOLDED 254 MINI PAPER AIRPLANES for NY Tech Meetup presentation JAN 2011 EXPANDED OFFICE SPACE by taking over next door FEB 2011 CLOSED $1MM IN FUNDING $$ from VCs to grow the company FEB 2011 INTEGRATED FACEBOOK CONNECT and empowered users to see friends who live in, have been to, or want to go to a destination APR 2011 APRIL FOOLS SPOOF named alongside Google, Hulu and Grooveshark APR 2011 NOMINATED FOR A WEBBY as the only startup alongside BBC, Lonely Planet, Jetsetter and NY Times MAY NAMED ONE OF 100 BRILLIANT COMPANIES by Entrepreneur Magazine 2011 MAY 2011 100 FIRST MAJOR DESIGN EVOLUTION unveiled, along with user-curated lists JUN 2011 FIRST EMPLOYEE DRESSES UP AS JANE FONDA for WanderflyTV JUN 2011 NAMED ONE OF TOP 10 NYC startups by Time Inc. 10 JUN 2011 PARTNERED WITH 16 LIFESTYLE BRANDS HISTORY including Mashable, HISTORY®, UrbanDaddy and Mint URBANDADDY on branded pages (wanderfly.com/curators) omint Mashable JUL 2011 with Telegraph UK and Jeep (telegraph.co.uk/grandadventures) LAUNCHED FIRST MICROSITE AUG 2011 BEGAN WORK ON WANDERFLY 2.0 upon realizing Wanderfly 1.0 was just the tip of the iceberg 2.0 ОСТ 2011 LAUNCHED “ALSO RECOMMENDED" WIDGET across 1,000 nytimes.com travel pages (nyti.ms/ıxw8ac) ОСТ 2011 TRAFFIC INCREASES 40% from prior month The New York Times ОСТ 2011 12 FULL-TIMERS on the team ОСТ 19 2011 ONEYEARONEMINUTE.COM CREATED as a collaborative project between the company and fellow travelers everywhere 4 MILLION TRIPS INSPIRED USERS FROM 217 COUNTRIES 30 BRAND PARTNERS 1400 CITIES ON SITE CELEBRATING ONE YEAR wanderfly People need to travel more, experience more, and do more. When Wanderfly launched one year ago, that was our vision – to help travelers discover new experiences and inspire them to take that next trip. One year and millions of trips later, this is our story. OF INSPIRATION ОСТ 19 2010 WANDERFLY LAUNCHED at 1am as a groundbreaking travel inspiration site ОСТ 20 2010 TRAFFIC SPIKED beyond expectations and servers temporarily went down ОСТ 2010 4 FULL-TIMERS on the team DEC 2010 FOLDED 254 MINI PAPER AIRPLANES for NY Tech Meetup presentation JAN 2011 EXPANDED OFFICE SPACE by taking over next door FEB 2011 CLOSED $1MM IN FUNDING $$ from VCs to grow the company FEB 2011 INTEGRATED FACEBOOK CONNECT and empowered users to see friends who live in, have been to, or want to go to a destination APR 2011 APRIL FOOLS SPOOF named alongside Google, Hulu and Grooveshark APR 2011 NOMINATED FOR A WEBBY as the only startup alongside BBC, Lonely Planet, Jetsetter and NY Times MAY NAMED ONE OF 100 BRILLIANT COMPANIES by Entrepreneur Magazine 2011 MAY 2011 100 FIRST MAJOR DESIGN EVOLUTION unveiled, along with user-curated lists JUN 2011 FIRST EMPLOYEE DRESSES UP AS JANE FONDA for WanderflyTV JUN 2011 NAMED ONE OF TOP 10 NYC startups by Time Inc. 10 JUN 2011 PARTNERED WITH 16 LIFESTYLE BRANDS HISTORY including Mashable, HISTORY®, UrbanDaddy and Mint URBANDADDY on branded pages (wanderfly.com/curators) omint Mashable JUL 2011 with Telegraph UK and Jeep (telegraph.co.uk/grandadventures) LAUNCHED FIRST MICROSITE AUG 2011 BEGAN WORK ON WANDERFLY 2.0 upon realizing Wanderfly 1.0 was just the tip of the iceberg 2.0 ОСТ 2011 LAUNCHED “ALSO RECOMMENDED" WIDGET across 1,000 nytimes.com travel pages (nyti.ms/ıxw8ac) ОСТ 2011 TRAFFIC INCREASES 40% from prior month The New York Times ОСТ 2011 12 FULL-TIMERS on the team ОСТ 19 2011 ONEYEARONEMINUTE.COM CREATED as a collaborative project between the company and fellow travelers everywhere 4 MILLION TRIPS INSPIRED USERS FROM 217 COUNTRIES 30 BRAND PARTNERS 1400 CITIES ON SITE CELEBRATING ONE YEAR wanderfly People need to travel more, experience more, and do more. When Wanderfly launched one year ago, that was our vision – to help travelers discover new experiences and inspire them to take that next trip. One year and millions of trips later, this is our story. OF INSPIRATION ОСТ 19 2010 WANDERFLY LAUNCHED at 1am as a groundbreaking travel inspiration site ОСТ 20 2010 TRAFFIC SPIKED beyond expectations and servers temporarily went down ОСТ 2010 4 FULL-TIMERS on the team DEC 2010 FOLDED 254 MINI PAPER AIRPLANES for NY Tech Meetup presentation JAN 2011 EXPANDED OFFICE SPACE by taking over next door FEB 2011 CLOSED $1MM IN FUNDING $$ from VCs to grow the company FEB 2011 INTEGRATED FACEBOOK CONNECT and empowered users to see friends who live in, have been to, or want to go to a destination APR 2011 APRIL FOOLS SPOOF named alongside Google, Hulu and Grooveshark APR 2011 NOMINATED FOR A WEBBY as the only startup alongside BBC, Lonely Planet, Jetsetter and NY Times MAY NAMED ONE OF 100 BRILLIANT COMPANIES by Entrepreneur Magazine 2011 MAY 2011 100 FIRST MAJOR DESIGN EVOLUTION unveiled, along with user-curated lists JUN 2011 FIRST EMPLOYEE DRESSES UP AS JANE FONDA for WanderflyTV JUN 2011 NAMED ONE OF TOP 10 NYC startups by Time Inc. 10 JUN 2011 PARTNERED WITH 16 LIFESTYLE BRANDS HISTORY including Mashable, HISTORY®, UrbanDaddy and Mint URBANDADDY on branded pages (wanderfly.com/curators) omint Mashable JUL 2011 with Telegraph UK and Jeep (telegraph.co.uk/grandadventures) LAUNCHED FIRST MICROSITE AUG 2011 BEGAN WORK ON WANDERFLY 2.0 upon realizing Wanderfly 1.0 was just the tip of the iceberg 2.0 ОСТ 2011 LAUNCHED “ALSO RECOMMENDED" WIDGET across 1,000 nytimes.com travel pages (nyti.ms/ıxw8ac) ОСТ 2011 TRAFFIC INCREASES 40% from prior month The New York Times ОСТ 2011 12 FULL-TIMERS on the team ОСТ 19 2011 ONEYEARONEMINUTE.COM CREATED as a collaborative project between the company and fellow travelers everywhere 4 MILLION TRIPS INSPIRED USERS FROM 217 COUNTRIES 30 BRAND PARTNERS 1400 CITIES ON SITE