The Social Butterfly of Start-ups

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> If there’s such a thing as a socialite in the start-up community, Chris McCann, the co-founder of Startup Digest, would be it.

don't these guys run a startup too? I'm not sure if being called a socialite is a compliment :)

StartupDigest is our startup, its a media company.

So being called that is definitely a compliment :)

Not a word I have ever used. Here are some of the definitions I discovered:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/socialite socialite: a person who is or seeks to be prominent in fashionable society

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialite?jss=0 socialite: (Word Origin & History) 1928, probably a coinage among writers and editors at "Time" magazine, perhaps as a contraction of social light, in imitation of words in -ite.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=socialite (n) A person who is rich and unemployed. Must be in active contact with the media and other rich and unemployed people

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