{"id":87,"date":"2005-09-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-09-23T21:46:51","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T05:46:51","slug":"keplers-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/keplers-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Kepler&#8217;s Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kepler&#8217;s has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/pr091905.pdf\">press release<\/a> announcing the formation of a Patron&#8217;s Circle of local investors and a Board of Directors as part of the efforts to save the store. The story was picked up by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/12692612.htm\">San Jose Mercury<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=1788\">Palo Alto Weekly<\/a> among others. Details on membership and volunteer opportunities will be available soon. <\/p>\n<p>The release begins: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kepler\u2019s today announced the formation of a Patron\u2019s Circle of 17 community-minded individuals who will provide the financial basis for the bookstore\u2019s renaissance and a Board of Directors that will add substantial financial and business expertise to Kepler\u2019s while keeping its heart and soul alive. Members of the City Council have pledged strong support for keeping Kepler\u2019s as the hub of downtown Menlo Park. However, the well-known and loved bookstore still faces hurdles in its ongoing negotiations with its landlord, the Tan Group of Palo Alto.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Board include Clark Kepler, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board; Daniel M\u00e9ndez, a Menlo Park resident and co-founder and CTO of Visto Corporation, a wireless technology firm in Redwood City; Geoff Ralston, an Atherton resident and Chief Product Officer at Yahoo!; and Bruce Dunlevie, General Partner at Menlo Park-based Benchmark Capital and a seasoned veteran of venture capital with more than 15 years experience in high-tech investing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/pr091905.pdf\">here<\/a> to read the full release. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/keplersletters.pdf\">here<\/a> to read letters from Ira Ruskin and Joe Simitian to the Tan Group. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kepler&#8217;s has issued a press release announcing the formation of a Patron&#8217;s Circle of local investors and a Board of Directors as part of the efforts to save the store. The story was picked up by the San Jose Mercury and the Palo Alto Weekly among others. Details on membership and volunteer opportunities will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}