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| Oct 20, 2011 | Deals site BuyWithMe chokes on acquisitions, announces huge layoffs | Daily Deals site BuyWithMe, which gorged itself buying smaller rivals, has laid off more than half its workforce, the company’s chief executive officer Jim Crowley announced yesterday. BuyWithMe was the No. 3 daily deals site in the U.S. be... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Daily Deals Startup BuyWithMe Laying Off Half Its Workforce | BuyWithMe, a daily deals startup that had been acquiring companies right and left this year, appears to be going under. The startup has failed to find funding and is now laying off half its workforce. CEO Jim Crowley announced yesterday tha... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Deals site BuyWithMe chokes on acquisitions, announces huge layoffs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Daily Deals site BuyWithMe, which gorged itself b... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | BuyWithMe axes half its workforce | After six acquisitions in six months, has BuyWithMe run out of cash?
BuyWithMe has been on a roll this year, snapping up companies left and right in a bid to get back into the running as the number three player in the daily deals market. Bu... |
| Sep 29, 2011 | Tippr’s Federal Patent Lawsuit: 14 Daily Deals Players Targeted, Now All Quietly Settled | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s been a wild few months for companies peddling daily deals. As market leader Groupon faces criticism for its accounting and turmoil in its executive ranks, bigger competit... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Startup News: Tinyproj, Rolling.fm, Foursquare, New Work City and an Automattic Party | (http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/)
ROLLING ALONG. “We are excited to announce there has been over 1,000,000 friendships made on Rolling.FM since our launch a little over a month ago! Our platform has definitely become the music AND ... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | BuyWithMe Buys Daily-Deals Site TownHog, Its Sixth Purchase of 2011 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
BuyWithMe, the New York- and Boston-based local deals startup, said today it has acquired TownHog, a San Francisco-based daily deals site owned by Dotblu. Terms of the deal we... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | BuyWithMe buys TownHog for 6th acquisition of 2011 | The daily deals site has been on a buying spree, recently snapping up Scoop St. and LocalTwist
BuyWithMe continues its buying spree with today’s announcement that it has acquired TownHog.com, a San Francisco-based daily deals site that serv... |
| Aug 25, 2011 | Start-Up News: BuyWithMe Hires Xoogler as Xecutive; Plus Lot18, Skillshare and a Tumblr Killer | We found this picture of poutine pizza via Jux's Twitter account.
DAILY EXECUTIVE DEAL. “On the heels of its fifth acquisition in the past five months, BuyWithMe today announced that it has hired Charlie Gray as Chief People Officer. Gray w... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | BuyWithMe snaps up Patch EVP and ex-googler for CPO | Charlie Gray will now oversee BuyWithMe's staff, after working with AOL's Patch and Google
BuyWithMe has been on the move lately, snapping up companies left and right as new CEO Jim Crowley tries to get the once flat-lining daily deal compa... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | BuyWithMe CEO Jim Crowley Talks Strategy in Mobile, Payments, and Loyalty 2.0 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There may be no such thing as loyalty anymore. But there is something called Loyalty 2.0—this is a new wave of companies helping stores and restaurants offer things like digit... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Daily deal site Scoop St. gets scooped up by BuyWithMe | Daily deal site BuyWithMe is getting a big shot in the arm in the New York City area today with its acquisition of Scoop St., a social commerce site based in the city.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but it appears the acquisition will... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | BuyWithMe Buys New York City’s Scoop St. | Groupon rival BuyWithMe has acquired Scoop St., a social commerce company focused on the New York City market. Scoop St. was founded in 2009 and grew organically in the group buying space, using a model similar to Groupon.
On Scoop St., one... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Daily deal site Scoop St. gets scooped up by BuyWithMe | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Daily deal site BuyWithMe is getting a big shot i... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | BuyWithMe makes its 5th acquisition: Scoop St. | BuyWithMe is on a buying spree, and NYC-based Scoop St. is the latest to get snapped up
Once-troubled daily deals company BuyWithMe is not joking around in its efforts to get its business back on track as the company makes its fifth acquisi... |
| Jul 18, 2011 | BuyWithMe Buys Edhance for Loyalty Programs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Boston and New York-based BuyWithMe, a local deals startup, said today it has acquired Edhance, a Cambridge, MA, company that provides card-linked offers and customer loyalty ... |
| Jul 18, 2011 | BuyWithMe acquires Edhance for cash-back rewards | The daily deal site is now getting into more specific, targeted purchases
Has the daily deal industry been satisfactorily sapped dry of any novelty or fun yet? Quite possibly (unless you start getting into niche sites, like Exotic Deals, th... |
| Jul 17, 2011 | BuyWithMe acquires loyalty program service Edhance | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
BuyWithMe, a daily deals service, has just announ... |
| Jun 1, 2011 | Tippr Grabs Sales & Tech Talent in DealPop Acquisition, Continuing Daily Deals Dogfight for Third Place | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated at 11:40 am with Groupon/Expedia news] When was the last time a contest for third place was so action-packed? Riding the skyrocketing valuations of online coupon deal... |
| May 25, 2011 | BuyWithMe Buys San Francisco Daily Deal Site Groop Swoop | On the heels of its recent acquisition of DealADayOnline in Chicago, BuyWithMe today announced that it has acquired Groop Swoop, a social commerce company focused on San Francisco. BuyWithMe rivals Groupon and LivingSocial in the United Sta... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | Doxo, Kashless, Physiosonic led WA’s Equity Financing Deals in February | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Doxo’s bid to wipe out paper business correspondence attracted a $10 million round of venture financing last month, outpacing several others as the biggest single venture deal... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | BuyWithMe Acquires LocalTwist, Goes Head-to-Head Vs. Tippr While Lawsuits Simmer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is not just another consolidation of local-deal sites. This is a life-and-death struggle for third place behind Groupon and LivingSocial (for now anyway). This is BuyWith... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | BuyWithMe buys fellow deal site LocalTwist | The deal expands BuyWithMe's reach to two new key markets
BuyWithMe, one of the top five Groupon clones, has just acquired a Groupon clone of its own. California-based LocalTwist, formerly a division of LifeStreet Media, currently delivers ... |
| Jan 12, 2011 | BuyWithMe Hires New CEO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
BuyWithMe, an online group-buying startup founded in Boston and based in New York, said today it has named Jim Crowley its new chief executive. Crowley, the former CEO of Turb... |
| Dec 14, 2010 | 12 days of Groupon clones: BuyWithMe | BuyWithMe CEO Cheryl Rosner steps down
Updated 12/16/10: Cheryl Rosner will be replaced temporarily by BuyWithMe's CPO David Wolfe. Rosner will remain on the company's advisory board.
I’m always a little startled and disturbed when I see Gr... |
| Dec 10, 2010 | Ask a VC: "We Probably Would Have Been the Last Guys to Do a Round in Twitter" (TCTV) | My guest on Ask a VC this week was Dana Stalder of Matrix Partners, a newbie in the venture world, but a seasoned manager and entrepreneur in Valley Internet circles.
Stalder answered a range of reader questions including basic advice for p... |
| Sep 21, 2010 | When Group Buying Met Check-In: SCVNGR Hooks Up With BuyWithMe On Local Deals | In perhaps the most inevitable combination since peanut butter and chocolate, the addictiveness of both group buying and irrationally checking into places have finally come together as Groupon clone BuyWithMe partners with geolocational gam... |
| Jul 11, 2010 | Deals Galore, Competitors Abound: A Primer On Groupon-Like Startups | Lately, group-buying sites and other companies that use discount-deals as the core of their business have become a red-hot trend, with Groupon spreading through cities around the world at a frantic pace and countless competitors and clones ... |
| Jul 9, 2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 07/09/10 | AdSafe Media, BuyWithMe, Livefyre, My-Wardrobe, Soho OS, and ThredUp--the VC industry is still alive
Six companies made our funding roundup this week, considerably less than roundups from previous weeks. Maybe it was the 4th of July or mayb... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | BuyWithMe Completes $16M Series B Funding Round | BuyWithMe, a New York-based company operating a community buying website that connects shoppers with deals and offers from local merchants, completed a $16m Series B round of funding.
The investment was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with pa... |
| Jul 7, 2010 | BuyWithMe puts $16M in its cart to expand local discounts to new cities | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
BuyWithMe, one of the sites like Groupon that’s g... |
| Jul 7, 2010 | With A Fresh $16 Million Round, BuyWithMe Plans To Expand To 20 Cities | A lot of venture money is chasing social commerce startups right now because group buying sites are chasing a lot of money (in the form of consumer spending). Groupon kicked things off with its $135 million mega-round last April. LivingSoci... |
| Jul 7, 2010 | Techcrunch TV: Investor Jeff Clavier, CloudCrowd CEO Debate Apple's China Strategy, Twitter's Earlybird | On today’s episode of TechCrunch NOW, investor Jeff Clavier and CloudCrowd founder, Alex Edelstein, joined us to discuss Apple’s ambitious plans for China, BuyWithMe’s new round of funding, and Twitter’s latest product, Earlybird.
Aside fro... |
| Jul 7, 2010 | BuyWithMe puts $16M in its cart to expand local discounts to new cities | BuyWithMe, one of the sites like Groupon that’s going after the online bargain market with social media tools, has just raised $16 million in a second round of funding from Bain Capital and Matrix Partners.
The company, which specializes in... |
| Jun 2, 2010 | Deal of the day: Vancouver startup latest entrant in group buying craze | Article content
Vancouver startup Grooster is the latest entrant in a shopping phenomenon that is seeing consumers tap into their social networks to bolster their buying power without having to collect friends and relatives together to hagg... |
| May 2, 2010 | A TC Teardown: What Makes Groupon Tick | Editor’s note: Group buying sites are growing like mushrooms. In this teardown, guest author Steven Carpenter goes through a detailed teardown of the largest social commerce site, Groupon, and its competitors to see what exactly is going on... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | BuyWithMe.com Closes $5.5M Series A Funding | BuyWithMe, Inc., a Boston, MA-based company focused on providing marketing solutions using group buying mechanisms and leveraging social media, secured $5.5m in growth capital from Matrix Partners.
In conjunction with the financing, Nichola... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | BuyWithMe Raises $5.5M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
BuyWithMe, a Boston-based “group buying” site, said today it has closed a $5.5 million Series A venture financing round led by Matrix Partners, which has offices in Waltham, M... |