Phil Tadros
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| Phil Tadros | |
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 Philip "Philcoextra" Tadros |
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| Born | June 24, 1979 Illinois, United States |
| Website Doejo Interactive Media |
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Phil Tadros (b. June 24, 1979) is a Chicago entrepreneur and founder of MetroProper.Com, a website which combines local business listings with social networking.[1]
Tadros has created several businesses. He is founder and owner of Doejo - which aids start-ups and small businesses with web design, business consulting and social media. He is the owner of TextHog, a Web-based business expense tracking application reviewed by Mashable as "a smart finance-tracking system." [2]
Additional businesses Tadros has owned include Dollop Coffee Company, Noble Tree Coffee & Tea [3], Chase Cafe and Haystack, a vintage shopping store.[4]
[edit] Background
The son of Jordanian immigrants, Tadros says that his father "was a big example. He moved here from Jordan and worked his way up washing dishes at restaurants to buying grocery stores and properties in Chicago. He was more money-driven than I am, but I got the hustle and the guts from him."[5]
Tadros says he was "a horrible student in grade school and high school". But he says that he improved as a student after enrolling in Chicago's Columbia College in 1997. Tadros owned several cafés and wireless stores before opening Dollop coffee café in 2004 with partner Shaye Robeson. [6]Dollop was originally an abandoned pharmacy building that Tadros and Robeson turned into a coffeehouse.[7]
[edit] Career
MetroProper was conceived as a city-based social networking site. The site includes citizen media component as well as classifieds and individual pages for businesses. Tadros' model for the site was Craigslist. Similar to the way Craigslist is a collection of smaller state and city Craiglist sites, MetroProper serves as an umbrella site for the 400 local sub-sites in the Chicago metropolitan area.[8]
Crain Communications called Tadros a "serial entrepreneur".[9]
[edit] References
- ^ "Informational sites seek ways to turn a profit", Anne Meyer, Chicago Tribune, March 12 2007.
- ^ "Texthog Helps Track Expenses and Budgets in Real-Time", Ben Parr, Mashable, March 31, 2009.
- ^ "Community 2.0 and the Built Environment", "Where" blog, May 18 2007
- ^ "Phil Tadros", The Second Source, Columbia College newspaper (retrieved October 21, 2009).
- ^ "One thing after another", Crain Communications, March 12, 2007.
- ^ "Phil Tadros", The Second Source, Columbia College newspaper (retrieved October 21, 2009).
- ^ "Dollop Coffee Co.", Centerstage (editorial review retrieved October 22, 2009).
- ^ "MetroProper: Give Props To Local Scene", Frank Gruber, Somewhat Frank (blog post retrieved October 22, 2009).
- ^ "Of Myths and Money", Crain Communications, March 13, 2007.
