{"id":426,"date":"2012-01-02T18:38:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T02:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2013-09-10T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T20:08:57","slug":"from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"From Concept to Reality:  Kibin&#8217;s 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">With thousands of users and a community proofreading over a thousand essays, resumes, short stories, and other written content each month, it\u2019s almost unfathomable that it has only been a year since we dedicated ourselves to Kibin full-time. And it has been an incredible twelve months; hands down the most exciting, emotionally volatile, potential filled, draining, and overall best ones of my life. I have previously outlined much of Kibin\u2019s journey in my personal blog <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drowningamerican.com\/\">here<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">. However, it has been a long time since I\u2019ve been able to take a step back and reflect on where we\u2019ve come and how we got here. Following is a&nbsp;summary of our past year. I hope you enjoy it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Beginning:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-428\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-428\" title=\"HyattRegencySFxmas2010\" alt src=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-428 lazyload\" title=\"HyattRegencySFxmas2010\" alt src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20224%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20224%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010.jpg 1025w\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010-224x300.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco&#8217;s Hyatt Regency decorated for Christmas 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">With little more than half finished &amp; extremely rough code, a vague idea for the site\u2019s&nbsp;design, and something to call it, we truly had no idea what the future would hold. Jim and I left our stable, corporate jobs to embark on a new journey: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kibin<\/a>. We had been meeting weekly for months before taking the plunge, knowing we wanted to build an online network centered around proofreading written content that could stand independent from Microsoft Word\u2019s Track Changes. &nbsp;We also knew it wasn\u2019t going to be easy. With no dedicated office space, we would meet frequently in the lobby of San Francisco\u2019s Hyatt Regency near the Embarcadero.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was nearly four months of coding, planning, testing, coding, planning, and testing some more before we finally went live with a (somewhat) functional product. Kibin officially made its debut in late March, 2011. It was nothing like the Kibin today. The homepage was rather bare. There was no community, professional editors or profiles, and nearly zero activity. The user dashboard was clunky and difficult to navigate while the editing application was so difficult to understand and utilize that Travis was probably the only one able to operate it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-432\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KibinHomeOld.png\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-432 \" title=\"KibinHomeOld\" alt src=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KibinHomeOld-300x194.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KibinHomeOld-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KibinHomeOld.png 822w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-432  lazyload\" title=\"KibinHomeOld\" alt src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20194%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20194%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KibinHomeOld-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KibinHomeOld.png 822w\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KibinHomeOld-300x194.png\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kibin&#8217;s original homepage circa April 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">We ran a Google AdWords campaign as our sole method of attracting users. We can distinctly recall becoming quite excited when we would sign up more than five users in one day. It felt incredibly rewarding. But there was an insane amount of work to be done. Little, if anything, worked the way it was planned. On top of that, we were still unsure of how the site and service would operate. As just one example, we didn\u2019t even have a quality check for completed reviews in these early days. Our hope was that people would put an honest amount of effort into other users\u2019 content. This wasn\u2019t the case. We had also hoped to build a large community before introducing any paid editing options, but ultimately ended up integrating this much sooner. We eventually started finding our way through the dark and soon had good reason to finally incorporate the business.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Progress:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was early April when we took our first outside investment from a close friend. Although just $20,000, the funds came at a vital time. We were monetarily strapped and extremely stressed out. While the money didn\u2019t allow us salaries, it was nice to let our personal finances breathe a bit.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"500Startups\" alt src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRZw7dlTwUsm4iwaeqcI1dfsMiow2BSH-jfy6OnCLIhlU5O4eq\" width=\"258\" height=\"196\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright lazyload\" title=\"500Startups\" alt src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20258%20196%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" width=\"258\" height=\"196\" data-src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRZw7dlTwUsm4iwaeqcI1dfsMiow2BSH-jfy6OnCLIhlU5O4eq\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, it turned out we really wouldn\u2019t need the money as bad as we had anticipated. We applied for a spot in a prestigious accelerator program. Accelerators are basically structured start-up bootcamps that strive to push you, your team, and product harder and further than thought possible. After&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drowningamerican.com\/2011\/07\/21\/how-to-successfully-apply-to-500-startups\/\">much anticipation<\/a>, we were extremely excited to be a part of the four month long Summer program at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.500startups.com\/\">500Startups<\/a>. Along with acceptance came $50k to add to the coffers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Things started happening&#8230; fast! We literally made more progress in the next 4 months than I could have ever imagined. Our first order of business was giving the entire site a much needed face-lift. This process wasn\u2019t just cosmetic, but focused on the usability and navigation so our users could easily find their way through the site. We improved user engagement dramatically and the feedback was great.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">We also added the ability for users to purchase points. It may sound funny, and certainly seems so now, but even though users could purchase their reviews, they weren\u2019t able to purchase points by themselves. The old Kibin operated on a per-review basis where users would purchase the review and not be able to apply points directly to it. This all changed in July. &nbsp;We allowed purchasing of points as needed and users could apply them as deemed fit, giving much greater flexibility with their preferred turn-around times. &nbsp;This was a big step forward as we moved to a much more versatile marketplace system.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-427\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/JimTravisConferenceCall.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-427\" title=\"JimTravisConferenceCall\" alt=\"Jim &amp; Travis on a Conference Call\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/JimTravisConferenceCall-201x300.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/JimTravisConferenceCall-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/JimTravisConferenceCall.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-427 lazyload\" title=\"JimTravisConferenceCall\" alt=\"Jim &amp; Travis on a Conference Call\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20201%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20201%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/JimTravisConferenceCall-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/JimTravisConferenceCall.jpg 429w\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/JimTravisConferenceCall-201x300.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim &amp; Travis take a call with a prospective investor out of the 500Startups space.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">August became extremely busy, but we still managed to push forward with our Professional Editors service. It had always been part of our vision to allow our best reviewers to prove themselves in our community and then offer their services directly to our users. It continues to be a large part of our focus and strategy today, and we expect ever increasing demand for this aspect of our site.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">But with August came something even more stressful: Demo Day, the day (or rather two days) where we would present our company to a room full of investors in hopes of raising some more funds. It was a crazy month filled with press inquiries and write-ups. Our site went down for half a day as we were forced to upgrade our servers to deal with the influx of interest. &nbsp;We received write-ups in <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5831758\/kibin-offers-free-editing-and-proofreading-for-your-papers-and-other-writing\">LifeHacker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/08\/18\/those-that-cannot-write-do\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> as well as an interview for <a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/edukwest\/edukwest-68-travis-biziorek-kibin-5487775\">EDUKWEST<\/a>. While all the attention and recognition was nice, we knew we had to get back to work. Companies aren\u2019t built on hype.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">We raised a little more money, but focused more on continuing to improve the product for both our editors and content creators. We introduced monthly Kibin plans so that frequent users could benefit from deeply discounted points and continued adding new professional editors. We also added a better rating system and monthly leader board to benefit our editors. We continue to grow our user-base while improving our technology and product offerings. It\u2019s an exciting time for us at Kibin and we\u2019re looking forward to the new year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>New in 2012:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">2012 will no doubt be another incredible year for Kibin. Looking back on how we\u2019ve gone from literally nothing to what we have today in just twelve months makes us realize that it is almost pointless to speculate where we will be twelve more from now. But we do know a few things for certain:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\u2019re currently working on a strategic partnership that would greatly increase the demand for our Professional Editors\u2019 offering. Our vision has always been to be able to keep our Pro Editors as busy as they\u2019d like to be with new paid requests. That hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our proofreading application and technology is also something we\u2019re constantly working to improve. We have always maintained that a true online proofreading network cannot exist without an easy to use proofreading application at its core. We still believe this, and we still believe we have a lot we can improve on here. While we feel we\u2019ve taken a pretty good first stab at it, 2012 will bring a much more user friendly, powerful, and robust proofreading application.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">We also plan to make some key hires that will allow us to push Kibin to the next level. There are a myriad number of small features and large projects we want to incorporate and tackle. We simply lack the resources at this time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Looking back on it all, we can honestly say we\u2019ve built an incredible initial product. We\u2019re reminded every day that we\u2019ve already built something special whether it\u2019s a user sending a \u2018Thank you\u2019 to their editor, or a random email from a pro-editor offering feedback on the product. It\u2019s the little things that get Team Kibin through each tough day and it has already been an incredible, humbling journey.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thank you to all our users for an amazing year. Here\u2019s to an even better 2012!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">All the best,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Travis &amp; Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With thousands of users and a community proofreading over a thousand essays, resumes, short stories, and other written content each month, it\u2019s almost unfathomable that it has only been a year since we dedicated ourselves to Kibin full-time. And it has been an incredible twelve months; hands down the most exciting, emotionally volatile, potential filled, &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/\" class=\"more-link btn btn-primary\"><b>Read more<\/b><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Concept to Reality:  Kibin&#8217;s 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From Concept to Reality: Kibin&#039;s 2011 - Kibin Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From Concept to Reality: Kibin&#039;s 2011 - Kibin Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With thousands of users and a community proofreading over a thousand essays, resumes, short stories, and other written content each month, it\u2019s almost unfathomable that it has only been a year since we dedicated ourselves to Kibin full-time. And it has been an incredible twelve months; hands down the most exciting, emotionally volatile, potential filled, &hellip; Read more &quot;From Concept to Reality: Kibin&#8217;s 2011&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kibin Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-03T02:38:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-09-10T20:08:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010-224x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Travis Biziorek\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Travis Biziorek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/\",\"name\":\"From Concept to Reality: Kibin's 2011 - Kibin Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-01-03T02:38:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-09-10T20:08:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a121f9cd21579d1354f3e00ff1def910\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/\",\"name\":\"Kibin Blog\",\"description\":\"Creating Better Writers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a121f9cd21579d1354f3e00ff1def910\",\"name\":\"Travis Biziorek\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e45fa9e99cbaf0f9a367c3be13827aab?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e45fa9e99cbaf0f9a367c3be13827aab?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Travis Biziorek\"},\"description\":\"is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kibin. In addition to entrepreneurship, Travis' diverse background includes playing professional poker, trading foreign currency, and management consulting. When he isn't planning Kibin's future, he enjoys spending time with his family and miniature goldendoodle, Pippa.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/author\/travis\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"From Concept to Reality: Kibin's 2011 - Kibin Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"From Concept to Reality: Kibin's 2011 - Kibin Blog","og_description":"With thousands of users and a community proofreading over a thousand essays, resumes, short stories, and other written content each month, it\u2019s almost unfathomable that it has only been a year since we dedicated ourselves to Kibin full-time. And it has been an incredible twelve months; hands down the most exciting, emotionally volatile, potential filled, &hellip; Read more \"From Concept to Reality: Kibin&#8217;s 2011\"","og_url":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/","og_site_name":"Kibin Blog","article_published_time":"2012-01-03T02:38:38+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-09-10T20:08:57+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HyattRegencySFxmas2010-224x300.jpg"}],"author":"Travis Biziorek","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Travis Biziorek","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/","url":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/","name":"From Concept to Reality: Kibin's 2011 - Kibin Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-01-03T02:38:38+00:00","dateModified":"2013-09-10T20:08:57+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a121f9cd21579d1354f3e00ff1def910"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/from-inception-to-reality-kibins-2011\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/","name":"Kibin Blog","description":"Creating Better Writers","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a121f9cd21579d1354f3e00ff1def910","name":"Travis Biziorek","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e45fa9e99cbaf0f9a367c3be13827aab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e45fa9e99cbaf0f9a367c3be13827aab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Travis Biziorek"},"description":"is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kibin. In addition to entrepreneurship, Travis' diverse background includes playing professional poker, trading foreign currency, and management consulting. When he isn't planning Kibin's future, he enjoys spending time with his family and miniature goldendoodle, Pippa.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.kibin.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/author\/travis\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}