Global Startups journey, part-1
Pinterest.com
The Destination: – Pinterest is a vision board-styled social photo sharing websiteand apps, which lets you organise and share from people who have the common interest. Users can add the pins by the button “Pin it”.Pinterest is founded by Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp, and Ben Silbermann in sunny Palo Alto, California in the year 2010.The View: – Pinterest is one of the hottest and fastest growing social services startup, who has a world-class product team. Pinterest empowers their employees by providing ownership over an important part of services.
It is in open beta stage but increasing user database very rapidly.
The company secured $27 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, which valued the company at USD $200 million in October 2011.
It has entered into the top 10 social networks according to Hit wise data with 11 million total visits per week in December 2011. It had more traffic than the other social network giants like LinkedIn, YouTube and Google+ on January 2012.
The Destination: – Pinterest is a vision board-styled social photo sharing websiteand apps, which lets you organise and share from people who have the common interest. Users can add the pins by the button “Pin it”.Pinterest is founded by Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp, and Ben Silbermann in sunny Palo Alto, California in the year 2010.The View: – Pinterest is one of the hottest and fastest growing social services startup, who has a world-class product team. Pinterest empowers their employees by providing ownership over an important part of services.
It is in open beta stage but increasing user database very rapidly.
The company secured $27 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, which valued the company at USD $200 million in October 2011.
It has entered into the top 10 social networks according to Hit wise data with 11 million total visits per week in December 2011. It had more traffic than the other social network giants like LinkedIn, YouTube and Google+ on January 2012.
Rovio.com The Destination: – Angry Birds, the most popular game of the year 2011 and liked by more than 14,461,731 people on facebook , which is created by Rovio Entertainment Ltd.. Angry Birds is one of the most sold games in the Apple App Store.Niklas Hed is the COO and co-founder of Rovio, Founded in 2003 and Headquarters in Espoo, Finland.The View: – Rovio is well funded Entertainment Media Company, it has raised $42 million in Venture Capital Funding in Mrach 2011.
The valuation of Rovio has increased to $1.2 billion after smash hit of Angry Birds.
It has aggressive expansion plan in all the way.
Path.com
The Destination: – Introducing one more social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service for mobile devices, called Path.com. The services aim to be a place where users can share photo with their close friends and family. App Aims To Make Social Network More Personal. It allows sharing more personal moments of life to a small group of friends rather than a large network. The company competes with other social networks such as Instagram and PicPlz.The company was founded by Shawn Fanning and former Facebook executive Dave Morin in November 2010, Based in San Francisco, California.The View: – The Company started out with an iPhone application and website, but released an Android version later and Blackberry application is coming soon.
Path.com has raised initial $2.5 million series of funding.
It had grown members from 30,000 to over 300,000 in less than a month after re launching with more features in December 2011.
Fastest growing no. of members, over one million people sharing life with close friends and family all over the world.
The Destination: – Introducing one more social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service for mobile devices, called Path.com. The services aim to be a place where users can share photo with their close friends and family. App Aims To Make Social Network More Personal. It allows sharing more personal moments of life to a small group of friends rather than a large network. The company competes with other social networks such as Instagram and PicPlz.The company was founded by Shawn Fanning and former Facebook executive Dave Morin in November 2010, Based in San Francisco, California.The View: – The Company started out with an iPhone application and website, but released an Android version later and Blackberry application is coming soon.
Path.com has raised initial $2.5 million series of funding.
It had grown members from 30,000 to over 300,000 in less than a month after re launching with more features in December 2011.
Fastest growing no. of members, over one million people sharing life with close friends and family all over the world.
Quora.com
The Destination: – Another social networking site called Quora.com. Quora is a question-and-answer based website, which is created, edited and organized by its community of users. It has around 900 global Alexa ranking and got stiff completion with Yahoo Answers, LinkedIn Answers, Formspring, Answerbag and Answers.com. Quora had more than 257,000 registered users in January 2011.
Quora is launched in 2009, co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheeverby claiming to build something good in this space in Palo Alto, California.The View: – Quora can be a better place to socialize, share knowledge and some sort of civil exchange.
In March 2010 Quora received $11 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, valuing the startup at $86 million. Quora’s valuation was more than 1 billion dollars in 2011(wikipedia).
The founders of Quora, Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo have been named among the top 30 under 30 entrepreneurs by inc.com.
Quora has released an iPhone app on September 29, 2011.
Quora offers competitive salaries, and employees have equity in the company.
The Destination: – Another social networking site called Quora.com. Quora is a question-and-answer based website, which is created, edited and organized by its community of users. It has around 900 global Alexa ranking and got stiff completion with Yahoo Answers, LinkedIn Answers, Formspring, Answerbag and Answers.com. Quora had more than 257,000 registered users in January 2011.
Quora is launched in 2009, co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheeverby claiming to build something good in this space in Palo Alto, California.The View: – Quora can be a better place to socialize, share knowledge and some sort of civil exchange.
In March 2010 Quora received $11 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, valuing the startup at $86 million. Quora’s valuation was more than 1 billion dollars in 2011(wikipedia).
The founders of Quora, Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo have been named among the top 30 under 30 entrepreneurs by inc.com.
Quora has released an iPhone app on September 29, 2011.
Quora offers competitive salaries, and employees have equity in the company.
Dropbox.com
The Destination: – Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service that uses cloud storage to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. Dropbox is a superbly implemented, cloud-based, automatic, file-synchronization service that’s ideal for working with files you can store in a single folder.
Founded by two MIT graduates Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in the year 2007, Headquarters in San Francisco.
Dropbox has been criticized about the authentication architecture and file security.
The View: - Dropbox operates on the Freemium financial model, which has 50 million users and 96% of users has free account.
It has Raises $250 Million in Series B Funding from several investors.
Dropbox’s annual revenue was expected to reach $240 million in 2011.
The speculated valuation of Dropbox could be as high as $5 to $10 billion.
Dropbox Reveals Tremendous Growth With Over 200 Million Files Saved Daily by More Than 25 Million People from 175 Countries in Spanish, German, French and Japanese.
Dropbox is one of the fastest growing tech startups with challenging work to minimize the gap between computers and the internet.
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The Destination: – Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service that uses cloud storage to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. Dropbox is a superbly implemented, cloud-based, automatic, file-synchronization service that’s ideal for working with files you can store in a single folder.
Founded by two MIT graduates Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in the year 2007, Headquarters in San Francisco.
Dropbox has been criticized about the authentication architecture and file security.
The View: - Dropbox operates on the Freemium financial model, which has 50 million users and 96% of users has free account.
It has Raises $250 Million in Series B Funding from several investors.
Dropbox’s annual revenue was expected to reach $240 million in 2011.
The speculated valuation of Dropbox could be as high as $5 to $10 billion.
Dropbox Reveals Tremendous Growth With Over 200 Million Files Saved Daily by More Than 25 Million People from 175 Countries in Spanish, German, French and Japanese.
Dropbox is one of the fastest growing tech startups with challenging work to minimize the gap between computers and the internet.
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