Nate Ritter is the co-founder of Perfect Space, Inc., creator of PingBid*, an innovative and transparent platform for the financial lead generation sector aimed at reducing fraud while increasing revenue for lenders and marketers alike. Prior to Perfect Space, he worked at Eventful, Inc., where he refactored the entire front-end codebase for the worlds largest events and venues database. Nate’s web development clients have included Land Rover, Microsoft and Activision/Blizzard. He is an expert in creating scalable web applications using the LAMP stack. Nate was was the first to create keyword filtered RSS feeds, popularized the hashtags using Twitter during the 2007 San Diego fires, and has been written about in numerous books and publications including the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Wired Magazine, Mashable, and NPR. He holds a degree in Management Information Systems. He is a fan of the microfinance movement, all things related to business strategy, and the Firefly TV series (secretly wishing to become Malcom Reynolds when space cowboys exist). Nate is passionate about solving the problem of banking impoverished, unbankable entrepreneurs. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego. He is also a tvechnical Entrepreneur at Cloudbeds.

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