Sam Parr
San Francisco, California
Apartment List : 2013 - May 2014 : One of the creators of Roommates, the app.
- BunkSF merged with Apartment List, creating Roommates
- Designed the product
- Lead marketing and user acquisiton: our version content marketing
- Huffinton Post : Roommates App Could Be Match Made In Heaven For LA Renters
- Techcrunch: Apartment List Releases Roommates App
BunkSF : July 2012 - May 2013 : Co-Founder.
- Acquired by Apartment List
- Bunk hosted mixers for apartment seekers with similiar budgets and helped them form groups and move into their own place. We charged each user $300 after they signed a lease.
- Inspiration for Roommates, the app.
- Wall Street Journal: Bunk gets a little love in the WSJ.
Southern Sam's Hot Dog Stand : December 2011 - August 2012 : Owner.
- Slogan: Wieners as big as a baby's arm
- Customers got discounts when they sent in photos of their baby's arm in a bun with mustard on their arm. No, I am not joking. Yes, many peoplem did it.
- Marketing: Hired a few of my beautiful girl friends as Southern Sam's Bikini Weenie Girls. Spoiler alert... beautiful women sell more hot dogs.
- I'm constantly asked how I started a brick and motar business in college, so I create a step-by-step guide on how I did it: Southern Sam's Hot Dog Startup
- Some photos from the Southern Sam's era
Moonshine Online : 2011 - Present : Owner.
- Moonshine Online is an online liquor store specializing in white whiskey, aka moonshine..
- Learned how to bootstrap an online business
- First company that paid the bills.