I find it interesting that one of them is literally "like facebook, but for dogs".
Klooff, if the pet lovers on HN want to check it out: http://www.klooff.com/
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#12Loosecubes is now closed: https://www.loosecubes.com/ Anyone knows what happend to them?
Yup. Was a big head scratcher around here. They raised $7.8M and shutdown 6 mos later. Rumors are they ever actually closed it, which would make a lot more sense than they burned over $1M/mo. http://betabeat.com/2012/11/what-happened-to-loosecubes-new-...
That would make sense. They just disappeared all of the sudden.
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#13I find it interesting that one of them is literally "like facebook, but for dogs".
Klooff, if the pet lovers on HN want to check it out: http://www.klooff.com/
Interestingly, they are a Chilean company, incubated at Startup Chile ( http://startupchile.org/startups/klooff/ )
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#14Loosecubes is now closed: https://www.loosecubes.com/ Anyone knows what happend to them?
Yup. Was a big head scratcher around here. They raised $7.8M and shutdown 6 mos later. Rumors are they ever actually closed it, which would make a lot more sense than they burned over $1M/mo. http://betabeat.com/2012/11/what-happened-to-loosecubes-new-...
The CEO gave an interview this February
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/report/loosecubes-pioneer-ri...
> A large part of that reported $7.8 million never actually came through. McKellar says that the investor syndicate, led by New Enterprise Associates, stopped funding the company. Faced with the decision of whether to operate on a severely amputated budget or to close down, she opted for the latter
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Klooff, if the pet lovers on HN want to check it out: http://www.klooff.com/
Interestingly, they are a Chilean company, incubated at Startup Chile ( http://startupchile.org/startups/klooff/ )
Not a Chilean company, although they did participate in Startup Chile.
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#16These articles are really just signalling devices for which shops overspend on PR and/or have good looking founders.
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#17Looks like it is time for me to make a data driven index of NYC startups. This is such fluff.
Is this a coping mechanism for dealing with burnout for you?
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#18Looks like it is time for me to make a data driven index of NYC startups. This is such fluff.
Your indices of FB follows and twitter followers and Alexa rankings aren't "data driven." They take some numbers as inputs, sure, but that doesn't mean they're data-driven.