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JamLegend.com brings music gaming online!
We give you a free way to jam like a legend from your web
We give you a free way to jam like a legend from your web
Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
1-10
Mentions in press and media 12
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| Apr 19, 2011 | Music Gaming Startup JamLegend Acqhired By Zynga | Earlier today we wrote about music games startup JamLegend joining the deadpool. JamLegend aimed to compete against biggies Rock Band and Guitar Hero and was shut down today after three years so the team could “move on to new ventures.” We’... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | JamLegend And Skribit Tumble Down Into The Deadpool | Companies, like visitors of Chinese take-away restaurants, come and go. Today, we have the unfortunate duty to report that two fine young Internet startups have not survived the never-ending battle for users, relevance and dollars that rage... |
| Apr 18, 2011 | Fiery Social Music Startup JamLegend Mysteriously Announces Closure | JamLegend, a site where people challenge each other to music-playing duels, announced this evening on its blog that it will close its service at the end of this month. No clear reason for the closure was provided. JamLegend launched in 2008... |
| Feb 1, 2010 | JamLegend Shreds Past 1 Million Members | JamLegend, the LaunchBox-backed ‘Guitar Hero For The Web’, has just reached a fairly major milestone: it’s now signed up over 1 million users. Co-founder Andrew Lee says that the site is up to around 60 million total song plays, of which 45... |
| Oct 30, 2009 | JamLegend - just like Guitar Hero, but online | Startup Sessions takes an inside look at JamLegend, the startup behind a popular online music game Have you ever looked at your computer keyboard as a musical instrument? JamLegend, a San Francisco-based startup can turn your entire compute... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | ExpenseBay Takes the Trophy at Twiistup 6 | Of twelve competing startups selected to present at Twiistup 6 in Los Angeles, only one would go home with the prestigious trophy, which was, to adhere to strictest journalistic standards of truth-telling and integrity, constructed entirely... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | JamLegend Rocks at Startup Event in Los Angeles | LaunchBox startup JamLegend began in 2008 as an idea to take Rock Band and Guitar Hero online and make them infinitely more fun for more people with more songs. While presenting at Twiistup in Los Angeles today, Andrew Lee took a few moment... |
| Jul 29, 2009 | JamLegend's 'Guitar Hero For The Web' Now Lets You Upload And Play Any Song You'd Like | The Guitar Hero/Rock Band phenomenon is showing no signs of waning, with countless sequels still on the way (including one focused solely on music by The Beatles) and money continuing to pour into the coffers of their respective game publis... |
| Feb 1, 2009 | LaunchBox Digital '09 Now Taking Applications | LaunchBox Digital a startup incubator similar to Y Combinator that offers founders small amounts of seed funding and a mentorship program in exchange for equity stakes of around 4-8%, is now accepting applications for its class of 2009. The... |
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FAQ about JamLegend
What has the press written about JamLegend?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning JamLegend, among them “Music Gaming Startup JamLegend Acqhired By Zynga” (Apr 19, 2011) and “JamLegend And Skribit Tumble Down Into The Deadpool” (Apr 19, 2011).
Is JamLegend still active?
Yes, JamLegend is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 20, 2011.