Welcome to my blog! My name is Nate Whitehill and I am the co-founder of Unique Blog Designs (UBD), a company that provides blog design and marketing solutions to individuals and small businesses, and Highlighter.com – a startup in focused on a social learning platform for professors and students.
I have been self-employed/running Internet businesses for over four years, since January of 2007.
I spent most of my early life in a small town outside of Seattle, Washington called Gig Harbor. In August of 2006, I moved from Gig Harbor, Washington to Scottsdale, Arizona to attend school and start a business with my best friends from high school, Matt Blancarte and Josh Mullineaux.
Less than five months later, I was fed up with working for “the system”. I took action in January of 2007 by dropping out of school and qutting my job at Apple in order to pursue Internet business full-time. It was also at this time I started the blog which you are reading now – Nate Whitehill dot Com.
Six months after I started my blog, in August of 2007, my business partners and I started a web design and marketing company focused around blogs. We launched our company, Unique Blog Designs, with the redesigns for two of the top 100 bloggers in the world (at the time), John Chow and Jeremy Schoemaker.
Since August of 2007, Unique Blog Designs have has with over 500 individuals and business clients, including Yahoo!, Nike, and Blog World Expo.
Highlighter and Tech Stars
In May of 2010, we applied to TechStars in hopes that the positive networking environment would boost their chances of making Highlighter a success. As luck would have it, we were accepted to the inaugural Seattle TechStars class. In May of 2011, we raised a seed round of funding to build Highlighter into a massive company.
Highlighter is a web application that creates a dynamic relationship between publishers and readers. With Highlighter, readers can share, save, and comment on words, sentences, paragraphs and even images. All of this data is passed back to the publisher in the form of powerful analytics. Watch the video below to learn more…
Site Markup from Highlighter on Vimeo.
