Polaris Ventures Makes A Hire To Bolster Its Dog Patch Labs

August 2, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News

Dog Patch Labs is the name of Polaris Ventures‘ San Francisco-based startup incubator, that it launched a little by a year ago. So far, it has helped launch LOLapps and Thing Labs, the startup behind Brizzly, a new Twitter app that was first shown at our Real-time Stream CrunchUp last month. And now they’re adding to the team.

Ryan Spoon, previously the Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Widgetbox, is joining Polaris as a senior associate, with Dog Patch Labs being one of his key areas of focus. Like other senior associates, Spoon will plus be helping to generally assess investment opportunities and work with portfolio companies, but he will be working out of the Dog Patch Labs at Pier 38 in San Francisco.

Polaris general partner Mike Hirshland describes the space, which they share with the startup Social Media, as sort of a “frat house for geeks.” It offers space for promising young entrepreneurs to work out of, giving them

desks, bandwidth, lunch and coffee. And it offers all of that for free, with no commitment to Polaris called for. The notion is that many of these startups aren’t quite at the investment-ready yet, but they can use the labs to work towards that.

Hirshland expects Spoon, who is plus the founder of the sports social network InGameNow and the high school althete college recruiting service beRecruited, to be a great resource for the entrepreneurs that hang out at the Dog Patch Labs. And he certainly has the right experience for the labs, Spoon is plus the founder of sfEntrepreneurs, and SF-based collective for young entreprenuers. He additionally worked at eBay for nearly 5 years as the manager of the Net marketing efforts.

Here’s Spoon’s own post on the move.

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