NYC Startups to Watch

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Post by pospischil » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 3:08 PM UTC

NYC Startups to Watch
timeinc.com

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Post by lallysingh » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 3:55 PM UTC

What would Time know about this?

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Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

I find it interesting that one of them is literally "like facebook, but for dogs".

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Post by ramayac » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

Loosecubes is now closed: https://www.loosecubes.com/ Anyone knows what happend to them?

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Post by mindotus » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 4:17 PM UTC

ramayac wrote: post #4

Loosecubes is now closed: https://www.loosecubes.com/ Anyone knows what happend to them?

Not sure, will look into it but loved the concept and the design as well.

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Post by welder » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 4:20 PM UTC

lallysingh wrote: post #2

What would Time know about this?

Use Time's previous "Most Promising Startups" for their success rate:

2012 - http://www.timeinc.com/pressroom/10nycstartups2012.php

2011 - http://www.timeinc.com/pressroom/events/10nycstartups/

But then, how do you rate a startup as successful? Number of users, revenue, is being acquired a good or bad thing?

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Post by MattRogish » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 4:36 PM UTC

ramayac wrote: post #4

Loosecubes 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-...

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Post by dmor » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

Looks like it is time for me to make a data driven index of NYC startups. This is such fluff.

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Post by Kiro » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:02 PM UTC

ramayac wrote: post #4

Loosecubes is now closed: https://www.loosecubes.com/ Anyone knows what happend to them?

What was it?

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Post by wheaties » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:07 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #3

I find it interesting that one of them is literally "like facebook, but for dogs".

Yeah, I lol'd at that. We actually made this joke at a meetup once: "Hi, we're a social network for people that like to share photos of their pets." Guess the joke's on us (or their investors whomever they may be.) Good luck to them if they can make it happen.