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SpotHero buys ParkPlease in attempt to bolster San Francisco presence

We are happy to announce that our ParkPlease community of users will be joining the great team and network at SpotHero! For more information visit ParkPlease.com

chicagotribune.com Chicago-based on-demand parking app SpotHero on Tuesday announced the acquisition of ParkPlease, a San Francisco-based company that will help it expand in that city. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Just half a block from #OutsideLands Which lucky commuter is going to snag this sweet deal of a spot?! #parking #SF #GoldenGatePark

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[08/09/13]   Don't forget to rent your driveway for outside lands! #SF #Outsidelands

[07/12/13]   Stay tuned for some exciting news!

Shareable: How to Share a Cow

The 'meat sharing economy'? Discover how you can participate in this local meat movement.

shareable.net “You’re keeping money in the community, supporting small farmers and having a reduced environmental impact because your food doesn’t get trucked as far,†says Mark Markovich, who joins with friends in Oakland, California, to buy a cow direct from a rancher.

Wheelz takes keys out of car sharing

Congrats to our friends @Wheelz on their SF launch! If you live in the city and need the occasional set of wheelz you should definitely check them out!

sfgate.com [...] another San Francisco startup called Wheelz is betting that car owners will want to make money with their vehicles in the same way. Wheelz joins a list of sometimes controversial services - such as Uber, SideCar, Tickengo and Lyft - that are trying to reshape ridesharing and public transporta...

Mobilizing Entrepreneurs To Make An Urban Impact - Meeting of the Minds

We are excited for the 2013 launch of our friends @Tumml as they lead the way and accelerate smart growth solutions to urban problems.

cityminded.org Having trouble finding a parking space? San Francisco-based Park Please takes the AirBNB model and applies it to help frustrated city drivers find parkin

[10/25/12]   Pandas > Tigers

Our wall of shame is getting bigger! Parking tickets and tow truck receipts now go around the whole pillar. @Ed Park, our CTO, fell victim to the latest one today.

[10/12/12]   @mayoredlee Thank you for the mention last night! #ParkPlease is excited to help the people of SF find a smarter way to park. #innovateSF #opencosf

ConsumerWatch: Busy SF Weekend Has Some Renting Parking Spaces

Discover how San Franciscans are discovering extra income from their driveways @parkplz #ParkPlease @CBS News Consumer Watch.

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com Julie Watts reports on a new trend toward renting out home parking spaces through websites like Park Please, and idea that may be popular this busy San Francisco weekend.

Pave paradise and put up a parking lot. Check all the secret spots to park for today's events across the city. #parkplease #americascup #fleetweek #hardlystrictly

The ultimate Park & Ride. Park and #rideinstyle to the Blue Angels and America's Cup. @Limos.com @PrkPlz

[10/05/12]   Tune in & check out CBS News this afternoon. @ParkPlease will tell you how to cash in on your driveway and how to avoid the stress of parking.

ParkPlease Partners With Limos.com To Help Users Avoid This Weekend’s ParkApocalypse In San Francisc

@TechCrunch: We are stoked to let everyone know that we have partnered with @Limos.com to offer free party bus service to Fleet Week and America's cup this weekend. Can you say parking and fun in the same sentence?

techcrunch.com Altogether, some estimate San Francisco will have more than a million visitors entering the city this weekend for all these events. That's a huge amount, considering that on a good day San Francisco has a native population of about 800,000 residents. Enter ParkPlease, a new marketplace for parking s...

Startup helping motorists find parking during eventful San Francicso weekend | Will Reisman | Transp

Pick up your @The San Francisco Examiner tomorrow morning. We're still here at the office working late for this freaking insanely awesome weekend. 1 million people... so many parking spaces... so little time!

sfexaminer.com Even on a normal day, a vacant driveway can look like an oasis for frustrated motorists. And during this coming weekend, when1 million people are expected to descend upon San Franciscofor a series of events, a place to park could seem downright mythical.

[10/03/12]   Did you catch us on KRON 4 News? We missed it! But it might replay at 11 if you can stay awake!

The sky is falling!! so many awesome ways to spend your weekend. What will YOU be doing?

Where to park in San Francisco for America's Cup, Fleet Week, Bluegrass Festival

America's Cup, Fleet Week, and Hardly Strictly any parking! Examiner.com says check us out :)

examiner.com The weather is great, Indian Summer has arrived in San Francisco in October. With a great weather forecast going forward, large crowds are expected this week wh

1M visitors expected to crash San Francisco for playoffs, parties, music galore | Will Reisman | Tra

SF is expected to reach an unprecedented amount of visitors on Oct. 6th and 7th. Over 1 million people will be attending Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Fleet Week, America's Cup, San Francisco Giants playoffs, and San Francisco 49ers home game. Yup... you know what were getting at... ;)

sfexaminer.com Any weekend boasting a Giants playoff matchup at AT&T Park and a 49ers home game could be considered epic by San Francisco standards. But for the first weekend of October, those contests might actually be considered the underdogs.

Park Please

We got a face lift! What do you guys think about the new site redesign?

parkplease.com But we ask everyone to verify their accounts with Facebook so that we know each person is credible and accountable. We will always let you control sharing.

Park Please

Do you have a parking spot or know someone who does near Hayes and Ashbury? If so, we have someone who would like to rent it for a week! Easy $$$. Just post your spot on ParkPlease and let the bookings come through. www.parkplease.com

parkplease.com But we ask everyone to verify their accounts with Facebook so that we know each person is credible and accountable. We will always let you control sharing.

New SF Startup Lets Residents Rent Unused Parking Spaces

In case you had an early bed time, here is the interview from last night!

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com With parking at a premium in San Francisco, a new startup called Parkplease.com lets residents rent out their unused spaces. Kiet Do reports.

[09/21/12]   Bay Area! Tune into CBS channel 5 news tonight for a special interview about ParkPlease :)

Lexington St

Ever find yourself cursing, flipping people off, and driving erratic all in the name of finding a freaking parking spot near Mission Dolores Park?! Well, curse no more! This friendly parking spot is available to you at a very reasonable rate, anytime. So you can park and get your hipster on.

parkplease.com ParkPlease makes parking stress free. At ParkPlease anyone can post or discover secret parking spots around you. Discover, book, park, and do something else! It's that easy.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 12 - Fri Oct 5, Sat Oct 6, & Sun Oct 7, 2012

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival announces 2012 lineup!

strictlybluegrass.com Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 12 - Fri Oct 5, Sat Oct 6, & Sun Oct 7, 2012. Weekly music medleys announce confirmed artists - come listen and share your guesses!

Did anybody else see the double rainbow in the mission tonight?

Adding another ticket to our pillar of shame! #fueltothefire

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@alexa leads the product mapping as we get ready to relaunch!

$1 million parking spot will be New York City’s most expensive

What's the most you've ever paid for parking? Someone in NY will be paying 1 million dollars for their own private spot!

news.yahoo.com Finding parking in New York City can be notoriously difficult. But would you pay $1 million just to have your own guaranteed spot? That's the forthcoming offer in one luxury condo building that will charge $1,000,000 for an otherwise standard parking spot in its building. The New York Post reports t...

Hardly Strictly Parking - People Behaving Badly

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is around the corner! There is also hardly strictly any parking :) Don't end up like these guys and park smart this year with ParkPlease.

Stanley Roberts looks at the parking shenanigans that take place for the Hardly Strictly Blue Grass Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park

Parking Rage

Well, I guess this is one way to get a parking spot!

youtube.com Rage between 2 drivers over a parking in the mall.

[08/16/12]   No more overcrowded cafes and stuffy living rooms! We are excited to be working at the Hatchery SF in South Park. Big desks, endless amounts of whiteboards and great people here. We are stoked!

Park Please

Last call! Last day at Outside Lands! We still have spots around the park, don't spend your last day at the festival looking for parking...reserve your VIP spot right now!

parkplease.com You did it! Your spot has been posted. Check your inbox for our email. We will let you know when someone has requested your spot.

[08/11/12]   Who are you most stoked to see today @ Outside Lands Music Festival?!

Another Day, Another New Marketplace: Park Please Tackles City Parking

"Parking totally sucks". And we totally agree:) Thanks for the write up PandoDaily!

pandodaily.com If beta parking marketplace Park Please looks familiar, it’s because the user experience was inspired by apartment hunting app PadMapper. “Parking totally sucks here. We wanted a map th...

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Need to Park for Outside Lands? Check Out ParkPlease | 7x7

Thanks for the write up 7x7 Magazine!

7x7.com As some 180,000 people – most of them from outside of the city limits – descend on Golden Gate Park this weekend for the annual Outside Lands Festival, the big question is: Where are they going to park? After all, the parking passes offered by Outside Lands (at $150 a pop) sold out almost as soon as...

Outside Lands 2012: On the Cheap

ParkPlease and FunCheapSF are now giving away 4 three day passes. Check it out to see how you can be going to the festival for free this weekend!

sf.funcheap.com There’s two ways to win a pair of 3-day passes to this amazing festival, a way to listen to live streaming of concerts for free from Golden Gate Park and also a way for you to make some extra cash during the festival by renting out your unused parking spaces.

The Outside Lands Transpo Crunch: Bringing 65K People Per Day to GG Park | Streetsblog San Francisco

Going to Outside Lands? SF Street Blog says you should check out ParkPlease :)

sf.streetsblog.org For the fifth year, San Francisco’s transportation system will absorb one of its largest floods of travelers when 65,000 daily attendees descend upon Golden Gate Park this weekend for the three-day Outside Lands music festival.

Former Novato resident launches website to relieve parking peeves - Marin Independent Journal

Thanks to the Marin Independent Journal for giving ParkPlease some love.

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Park Please

Last minute ticket giveaway! Just 2 more days until we announce who wins 2 three day passes to Outside Lands! Make it YOU. Jump in the running now! www.parkplease.com/oslpromo

parkplease.com The Outside Lands Music Festival is sold out but ParkPlease wants to get you there. Help us spread the news about our hundreds of affordable parking spots surrounding the venue and you could win 2 FREE 3 day passes to Outside Lands this Thursday!

Park Please

We have 2 three day passes to Outside Lands! Do you want them? We're giving them away. Click on the link to see how you can make this the best weekend ever! ....for free!

parkplease.com The Outside Lands Music Festival is sold out but ParkPlease wants to get you there. Help us spread the news about our hundreds of affordable parking spots surrounding the venue and you could win 2 FREE 3 day passes to Outside Lands this Thursday!

Former NASA exec says he has a bigger fish to fry: parking

Cool. We're in VentureBeat as the new kids on the block! Also note, we're the only one's mentioned that allows anyone to rent their spot. :)

venturebeat.com Barney Pell, a serial entrepreneur who once built robots for NASA and sold a machine-learning based search engine to Microsoft at a reported $100 million, has taken on a new challenge: parking. Qu...