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Overview
Employees
51-200
Total raised
$10M
Funding Rounds 2
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| Oct 1, 2006 | Funding round | $3M |
Mentions in press and media 15
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| Jul 9, 2007 | Terrible Idea: Buy Blog Comments Sells Spam | File this one under the “bad ideas” folder. If you thought PayPerPost and ReviewMe, which some have likened to payola, were bad, get ready for Buy Blog Comments, a service that lets marketers pay for comment spam. Darren Rowse calls Buy Blo... |
| Jun 11, 2007 | PayPerPost Raises $7 million More | Controversial pay-per-post startup PayPerPost has raised $7 million in a second round of financing, bringing their total raised capital to just over $10 million. Like their previous round from last October the financing was led by Draper Fi... |
| Jun 11, 2007 | PayPerPost, which pays bloggers to write, gets $7M more | PayPerPost, the site that pays bloggers to write content about advertisers, and then gets paid by those advertisers, has raised $7 million more in financing. This is a controversial site (see our earlier coverage. Bloggers writing rave revi... |
| May 27, 2007 | How Much Is Your Soul Worth? PayPerPost Now Lets Bloggers Set The Price | PayPerPost, the controversial blogging service that lets advertisers purchase commentary on blogs, has released a new product called PayPerPost Direct. The new product is a widget that bloggers can add to their blogs that announces their wi... |
| Apr 25, 2007 | Roundup: Jobs misled, VoIP on Blackberry, Zude, Twitter grows, more | Apple’s Steve Jobs dealt setback — Former Apple finance chief Fred Anderson now says Apple chief executive Steve Jobs misled him about stock option accounting. Story here, and statement by Anderson here. Question: Will this bring down Jobs?... |
| Jan 11, 2007 | Roundup: Cisco sues, Avvenu, Weatherbill, Techdirt, Blue Origin & more | Here’s the latest wrap-up of Silicon Valley tech news: Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name — Who cares? If Apple loses, it will come up with a different name. Like, ApplePhone, or iPodPhone. Details of suit. Yahoo signs deal with Akimbo to de... |
| Jan 9, 2007 | Boxbe raises $1.5M to let spammers reach you via email | Boxbe, the San Francisco company that wants you to accept marketing pitches through an email account, has raised $1.5 million in venture capital. We wrote about this company last month, and said it sounds pretty useless. Basically, you crea... |
| Jan 4, 2007 | Amateur Hour At PayPerPost | It’s not often that a company announces the acquisition of another company and then subsequently walks away from the deal, but PayPerPost isn’t a typical kind of company. In a post on the PayPerPost blog today, the company said “We…dug into... |
| Dec 28, 2006 | PayPerPost acquires access to 28,000 bloggers of Performancing.com | PayPerPost, the controversial start-up that lets advertisers pay bloggers for writing positive pieces about them, has acquired assets of Performancing.com — giving it access to about 28,000 bloggers. The bloggers are mostly individuals with... |
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FAQ about PayPerPost
How much funding has PayPerPost raised?
PayPerPost has raised $10M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has PayPerPost raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of PayPerPost, among them a funding round of $3M on Oct 1, 2006.
What has the press written about PayPerPost?
Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning PayPerPost, among them “Terrible Idea: Buy Blog Comments Sells Spam” (Jul 9, 2007) and “PayPerPost Raises $7 million More” (Jun 11, 2007).
Is PayPerPost still active?
Yes, PayPerPost is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 29, 2007.