Welcome to TeachStreet — we’re live in Seattle!

Hello World — we’re so excited to welcome you to TeachStreet!

The last 6-9 months have been an incredible experience. While the TeachStreet idea is about a year old, the team has actually been developing the website for only about seven months, and we’re incredibly excited to share our efforts with you. We launched today with a directory of more than 25,000 classes, teachers, and schools across the Seattle metropolitan area. While building that directory was a herculean effort, we’re even more excited about the easy-to-use tools we’ve built, to help make it incredibly convenient for teachers and schools everywhere to get themselves set up on the web with a professional presence that helps them find more local students, more quickly.

First, we’d like to thank our friends and family for all of their support — we couldn’t have done it without you.

We’d also like to say a special thank you to our early investors and advisors — your belief in us is truly humbling. Thank you Erik and Maryam, Joel and Karen, Mike, Chris and Regan, Kim, Mom & Dad S., Jeff and Anne, Jason and Jamie, Dave and Saya, John and Sally, Dave and Sharon, Auntie Maine, and Gregg. To our later investors, we are equally humbled — thank you to Scott, Matt and Geoff at Madrona Venture Group and to Melinda, Steve and Jeff at Bezos Expeditions — we are so excited about your involvement in what we’re trying to build.

Wow… It’s starting to feel like an awards acceptance speech around here… I promise, I’ll sign off soon.

Next, thank you to the Seattle startup community — we’ve been propped up with advice and assistance on a moment’s notice over and over — thank you — we’ll strive to return the favor. And, to our advisors and consultants, you’ve been unbelievable.

Finally, I’d like to personally thank the members of the TeachStreet team: Katie, Fred, Scott, Leandra, Jon, Sam and Jim; plus Amanda toiling away at Grinnell. You’ve been unbelievable. I’m so excited about what we’ll be building together.

Onward!

Dave (and Zach the Dog)

p.s. We’ll leave you with two TeachStreet Launch Limericks, courtesy of Mama Gruv, Penny Gruver (proud ‘mom’ to our wonderful Katie Gruver!):

Is there something you’re itching to know?
Come on and give teachstreet a go
Just settle right in
and give us a spin
It won’t even cost any dough

There once was a place about teaching–
you could get there without any preaching
you just sit in your house
and you work that old ‘mouse’
and soon EVERYWHERE you are reaching!