Andy Baio wants to crowdfund $30,000 to relaunch community event site Upcoming

Serial co-founder Andy Baio re-introduced Upcoming the collaborative events site. Purchased by Yahoo and shutdown last year, Baio is relaunching the site via Kickstarter. A month ago Baio was contacted by Yahoo. The company offered to sell him the Upcoming.com domain. The goal of $30,000 should be relatively easy to achieve. With in eight minutes of the announcement, the Kickstarter has already generated $2,600. Baio is co-founder of the arts and technology XOXO Festival, former CTO of crowd-sourcing site Kickstarter, former Technical Director at Yahoo, and all around nice guy.



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