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In Oklahoma City, Entrepreneurs Aim to Create the Next Cool Startup Scene By Anna Hensel, Inc.com For U.S. cities looking to become the next big tech hub, it’s not enough to just recruit eager entrepreneurs. Cities also have to attract the employees (coders, designers, salespeople) who can keep the startup afloat. A fine example of oneRead more

Local startup Tailwind is growing and hiring tech talent, but not just in Oklahoma City. The Pinterest analytics company also has an office in New York City and recently hired its first person in Seattle.

Is it luck that Danny Maloney and Alex Topiler recognized the potential of Pinterest and built a business at the leading edge of the visual marketing wave?

Tailwind, a Pinterest analytics firm, has gained $1 million in financing. The funding round was led by i2E Inc., and included participation from SeedStep Angels.

The i2E Angel Sidecar Fund recently closed a $500,000 investment in Tailwind, leading a $1 million investment round in the Oklahoma City-based company.

Oklahoma City-based startup Tailwind, which offers analytics and marketing tools for the social networking site Pinterest, has acquired its one-time rival PinReach, a Pinterest reporting tool with more than 30,000 users.

Oklahoma City-based software company PinLeague on Tuesday announced the launch of a new Pinterest analytics feature called Top Repinners.

Danny Maloney, chief executive of Oklahoma City’s PinLeague, talks about how he built his thriving technology business by offering market analysis of users of Pinterest.com.

PinLeague’s Danny Maloney predicted that over the next decade more tech markets like Austin and Boulder would emerge, and that Oklahoma City should be one of them.

Investors invest in people as much as in business plans. They look for entrepreneurs such as PinLeague’s Danny Maloney who have started companies before.

Although Pinterest is relatively new, an OKC-based company, Pinleague, is on a mission to help businesses commercialize the popular website.

Advertising is a matter of perspective in the social media frontier, and PinLeague’s Daniel Maloney intends to help shape that data landscape.