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STARTUP STARTUP OF THE MONTH CoSchedule “We saw a Google Alert come through where we saw the first job description where CoSchedule was listed as recommended software that (the applicant) understood,” says Garrett Moon, who, along with business partner Justin Walsh, founded the Bismarckbased company of the same name two years ago. “That was a big moment for us.” And while they may still be a ways away from “CoSchedule it” entering the lexicon, they’re on the right path. CoSchedule is a social media and content marketing tool that allows everyone from an individual blogger to a large company more efficiently plan, schedule and publish content online. It can be used as a standalone application or as a Wordpress plug-in, which is one of its more popular features. If you’re wondering how that didn’t exist before 2013, Moon says you’re not alone. “Sometimes those ideas that seem really obvious but aren’t there yet, those are the ones to go after,” he says. “And I think every product out there, in some way, is reinventing something that’s out there. And I think CoSchedule is a product that reinvents social media. People have been scheduling social media before, but we now do it in a way BOOKS T here are a number of milestones for a software start \