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| May 23, 2011 | Google Acquires 'Kayak For Consumer Electronics' Sparkbuy | Google has made an acquisition today—Sparkbuy, a ‘kayak for electronics.’ Sparkbuy, which has raised $1 million in funding, is a high-powered product search engine and comparison shopping site. You enter which criteria are important to you,... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | The only wrong answer is 50/50: Calculating the co-founder equity split | Dan Shapiro (Randy Stewart photo) Guest Commentary: The question of equity brings out the most fundamental differences, perceptions, and values in an aspiring startup. In fact the equity question, more than any other, may strangle a young c... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Sparkbuy Adds Product Selection from Best Buy in Quest to Make Electronics Shopping as Powerful as Online Travel | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Another day, another bit of news for Seattle-based online electronics shopping startups. This time, it’s Sparkbuy announcing that it will offer products from Richfield, MN-bas... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | Stealthy Decide.com Lands $6M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Seattle stealth startup Decide.com, which says it’s working on a consumer electronics shopping service, announced a $6 million Series B financing round today. The latest inves... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Dan Shapiro launches Sparkbuy, a search engine for laptops and TVs | Dan Shapiro Dan Shapiro got really frustrated trying to find a new laptop. So frustrated, in fact, that the Seattle entrepreneur decided to start a new company to attack the problem head-on. Sparkbuy, which is launching today at the Web. 2.... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Sparkbuy Introduces a “Kayak for Gadgets” | Like the popular flight-finding service Kayak, a new startup called Sparkbuy, launching at the Web 2.0 Expo today, wants to make the process of finding the perfect gadget easier using a similar simplified interface. Although consumers alrea... |
| Nov 29, 2010 | Sparkbuy Emerges from Stealth, Unveils Laptop Shopping Site | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints [Updated 11/30/10 with signup link. See below] Seattle-based Sparkbuy has come out of stealth mode today, rolling out a comparison shopping website for consumer electronics, s... |
| Nov 29, 2010 | Have It Your Way: Sparkbuy Helps You Hone In On Your Ideal Laptop | Head over to Amazon’s computer section right now and you’ll notice that you have quite a few choices. Thousands of them, in fact. And honing in on the one that best suits your needs can be quite a chore — especially when the data you need t... |