blog.crowdstorm.com

http://blog.crowdstorm.com/?p=95

Last activity: 14.04.2008

Probably Closed

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32K /mo.

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United Kingdom, England, London

Employees

1-10

Mentions in press and media 19

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Feb 26, 2008	London offices too expensive for startups?	It’s a truism to say property is expensive in London. And the latest victim of rising prices is – ironically enough – real estate search engine Nestoria, which is moving out of its current home “because the building is to be renovated and t...
Feb 20, 2008	Price comparison sites are going, going, gone…	A shake-out in price comparison sites in the UK – and possibly in the US – looks imminent after Experian said it was reviewing its online price comparison shopping service PriceGrabber and has “lots of interest from private-equity and liste...
Feb 1, 2008	Private shopping clubs miss a few Web 2.0 tricks	News International appears to be hopping onto a new trend in online shopping: members clubs. Today the parent company of newspapers such as The Times and News of the World, is investing in online fashion company Brand Alley UK, which offers...
Nov 26, 2007	News snippets	• On 3 December Second Chance Tuesday, the London networking event is holding its next shindig on gaming (such as massively multi-player online games, in-game advertising, virtual worlds etc). Gaming guru Alice Taylor will be leading the di...
Nov 1, 2007	Crowdstorm comes back, but can it cut it?	Crowdstorm, the social shopping site, relaunches today with a new vigour to try and wring expert purchasing knowledge out of its social network. The question is, will the changes make a difference, and will they do better when they had a fi...
Oct 8, 2007	News In Brief, or 'The Dredge' 8/10/07	The first of a regular ‘dredge’ of items of interest, in no particular order… • UK-based Dopplr has launched its blog badges, previously announced at the FOWA conference last week. The badge shows your future trips on your webpages in as mu...
Sep 10, 2007	OSoYou targets womens social shopping	“Social shopping” is the latest buzzphrase to be on the lips of Europe’s startup scene and the newest entrant to the UK market is OSoYou. Launching its public beta site aimed at women and supported by Britain’s top three retailers, OSoYou f...
Aug 23, 2007	CrowdStorm Revamps, Seeks Wisdom Of Your Crowd	Social shopping site CrowdStorm has launched a beta trial for their new site revision. It’s been seven months in the making. CrowdStorm always had a social bent, with users supplying the listings and reviews for products listed on the site....
Aug 10, 2007	Psychological salary… Social shopping sites… Bar-goers remember ads… Shoppers don’t just stick to online	Psychological salary Social shopping sites Bar-goers remember ads Shoppers don’t just stick to online Psychological salary Can’t afford to give your staff a pay rise? Boost their egos instead with a significant sounding title. A recent surv...
Dec 7, 2006	What is the collective term for a mashup of startups …	A few months ago I was speaking with Clive Gringas a partner from the city legal firm Olswang about the UK startup market. Having been a software developer in his past and now a commercial lawyer focusing on e-commerce, the Internet and IT,...
Dec 5, 2006	A new event is launching in February called Startup!	A couple of months ago Philip Wilkinson from CrowdStorm blogged about something he termed the equity gap. “Speaking to everyone after the [Internet Peeps] dinner, the general feeling was that the VC networks are struggling to find good deal...
Nov 28, 2006	WAYN heralds the new wave of location	With the news that Wayn.com has secured $11 million from British VC fund Esprit Capital Partners to fuel its expansion, it appears “location” is the new wave in social in networking. We’ve seen it invade the verticals of music (MySpace), ea...
Nov 28, 2006	Bebo creates a new "discovery" homepage.	Social Networks really came to the fore in 2006. Millions of people have created profiles and in many cases they have created multiple profiles on multiple social networks. I must admit I don’t use any of the consumer social networks, just ...
Oct 26, 2006	Angel Pitch an entrepreneur matching agency?	One of the hardest things to do in the UK is to raise seed capital to get your new startup idea going. If you want to raise £1m+ it’s probably easier to find VC’s who are prepared to invest in you. Philip Wilkinson of Crowdstorm (nee Kelkoo...
Oct 18, 2006	Bebo bags MSN's European head of sales.	Bebo has announced the appointment of Mark Charkin as Head of Sales UK & Ireland. The former Head of EMEA Regional Sales for MSN was responsible for growing and developing MSN’s pan-regional sales business. In his new role Charkin will ...
Oct 17, 2006	Gifttagging wraps up the wishlist	Have you an Amazon wishlist? I do, but I don’t use it that much anymore because I really wish it was a universal list, one that enabled me to add to it as I browsed around the web. I tried Froogle recently and their wishlist service but onc...
Sep 27, 2006	Internet Peeps Dinner	There’s a real buzz beginning in the London start-up space, I’m not sure if there is elsewhere around the UK? In the last few weeks there have been some really good events and meetings. I was at Mashup, Beers & Innovation but sadly miss...
Sep 13, 2006	CrowdStorm goes live.	UK-based social shopping startup Crowdstorm is creating a buzz of its own right now. It recently announced the public beta to the world at large on its blog. Crowdstorm was founded and funded by Philip Wilkinson (creator of the shopping com...

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Parsers VC has collected 19 articles mentioning blog.crowdstorm.com, among them “London offices too expensive for startups?” (Feb 26, 2008) and “Price comparison sites are going, going, gone…” (Feb 20, 2008).

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blog.crowdstorm.com is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 14, 2008.