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Epinions.com

https://www.epinions.com/
Last activity: 12.11.2012
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Mentions
18

Overview

Location
United States, California, Brisbane
Employees
11-50
Founded date
1999

Mentions in press and media 18

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Sep 10, 2012Why Eyeballs No Longer Matter For StartupsNeed funding for your startup? Don’t load up your PowerPoint with nifty charts showing all the users your online service has grabbed. Venture capitalists are no longer impressed. These days, investors want to hear about the revenue you’re g...
Aug 15, 2012Beautylish builds boutique stores on its social siteNow people can do more than just talk about makeup on Beautylish, they can buy amazing products too After building out a fashion and beauty-centric social community of more than one million monthly users, Beautylish is announcing that it wi...
Dec 6, 2009Video Professor To Leverage "Strong Brand Equity" To Raise $10 MillionVideo Professor is trying to raise $10 million in convertible debt, according to an investor pitch document that was forwarded to us. The company “incurred substantial losses which depleted its cash reserves” in 2008, says the document, and...
Nov 28, 2009Video Professor Tries To Bully Washington Post, FailsVideo Professor continues to be angry that I called them a scam in my original Scamville post. They’ve gotten nowhere reaching out to me directly (more on that below), so now they’ve tried complaining to the Washington Post, which has syndi...
Mar 5, 2009Get Satisfaction Leads Among Idea AggregatorsFinding new ways to reach, engage with, and learn from customers is a cornerstone of Enterprise 2.0. The idea and suggestion management space is one slice of that effort, and in this series we’ll review the major players in this space and l...
Jun 30, 2008Pluribo Is CliffsNotes For Amazon ReviewsAmazon’s customer reviews are an indispensable feature on the online mega-store, allowing shoppers to get a quick read on products without having to turn to magazine reviews or external sites like epinions. But many products, particularly e...
Jun 18, 2008RateItAll Gets $800k For "Yelp For Everything"RateItAll, a site that describes itself as a “distributed Yelp for everything” has closed an $800k round of funding led by Accelerator Ventures, JAIC America, Pacific I&T Ventures, and Eric Di Benedetto. The site allows users to rate to...
Sep 25, 2007The Roizen Report: Making Sense of Millions of VoicesWords cannot describe the degree to which I hate shopping. Over-stimulation is probably at the root of my shopping aversion. There are too many choices and too many questions that go unanswered, which invariably raises the possibility for f...
Jul 19, 2007Consumer product reviews: here, there, everywhereUntil a year ago or so, it was hard to find objective customer reviews of some products online. Amazon had a fair amount of material, but has always been focused on books, movies, CDs, and electronics. What if you wanted to know about a sof...
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FAQ about Epinions.com

When was Epinions.com founded?

Epinions.com was founded in 1999.

What has the press written about Epinions.com?

Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning Epinions.com, among them “Why Eyeballs No Longer Matter For Startups” (Sep 10, 2012) and “Beautylish builds boutique stores on its social site” (Aug 15, 2012).

Is Epinions.com still active?

Epinions.com is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 12, 2012.