Comments on: $100 Million Valuation For Geni

By: MyHeritage: Avoiding the MetaCafe Curse « Programming and more

MyHeritage: Avoiding the MetaCafe Curse « Programming and more — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:31:39 +0000

[...] where he has struggled. One of the most pivotal events in his company’s history: The launch and monster $100 million valuation of competing site Geni.com. On one hand, it legitimized the space. But as his investor Simon Levene [...]

By: Startup Story: MyHeritage « Raja Jasti’s Blog - Renaissance Thinking

Startup Story: MyHeritage « Raja Jasti’s Blog - Renaissance Thinking — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:11:48 +0000

By: MyHeritage: Avoiding the MetaCafe Curse | Blog YODspica Ltd

MyHeritage: Avoiding the MetaCafe Curse | Blog YODspica Ltd — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:33:37 +0000

[...] launch and monster $100 million valuation of competing site Geni.com. On one hand, it legitimized the space. But as his investor Simon Levene [...]

By: MyHeritage: Avoiding the MetaCafe Curse | The Scripts Zone

MyHeritage: Avoiding the MetaCafe Curse | The Scripts Zone — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:03:42 +0000

By: MyHeritage: Avoiding the MetaCafe Curse

MyHeritage: Avoiding the MetaCafe Curse — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:06:59 +0000

By: mc

mc — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:07:41 +0000

Easily the most frustrating site I have every used. Not only is it frustratingly viral (it won’t leave you alone), in my case it makes it impossible to connect with my real family. The lay out the exciting opportunity and frustratingly prevent your from realizing it.

I hope there is something better out there.

By: Geni: Earning That $100 million Valuation

Geni: Earning That $100 million Valuation — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:30:03 +0000

[...] that it had raised a venture round from Charles River Ventures valuing the two month old startup at $100 million, more than a few eyebrows were raised. For the last couple of months, people have referred to [...]

By: Deal Radar 2008: Geni - Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Deal Radar 2008: Geni - Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:58:37 +0000

[...] March 2007, during a $10 million second round of financing from Charles River Ventures, geni was valued at $100 million. This 10x increase in valuation was when the company was just seven weeks old. Previously, the [...]

By: Isn’t Family Important? » position:relative - a Web and Now blog

Isn’t Family Important? » position:relative - a Web and Now blog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:29:44 +0000

[...] There is an article on TechCrunch about Geni getting a $100 Million Valuation! [...]

By: Private BuyOut Of Ancestry.com For $300+ Million

Private BuyOut Of Ancestry.com For $300+ Million — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:12:15 +0000

[...] last round of financing valued the company at $100 million. But none of those competing sites, or even all of those sites aggregated, have caused any [...]

By: How Much Is The Huffington Post Worth?

How Much Is The Huffington Post Worth? — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:01:56 +0000

[...] networking site Geni got a $100-million valuation when it raised its second round of $10 million earlier this year. It is arguable that a media company like the Huffington Post would command a lower valuation [...]

By: James Seng’s Blog : Blog Archive : Visit to Geni

James Seng’s Blog : Blog Archive : Visit to Geni — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:24:47 +0000

[...] first time I come across Geni was on Techcrunch when it amazed everyone with a US$100M for a 7-weeks old company. They are founded by a bunch of [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Verwandt.de: Des allemands clonent de Geni

TechCrunch en français » Verwandt.de: Des allemands clonent de Geni — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:56:57 +0000

[...] Verwandt semble avoir aussi la recette du succès de Geni. Ils ont déjà 1.5 millions de profiles en deux mois d’activité; contre 5 millions pour Geni. Ils ont également levé pas mal de fonds grâce certainement à la valeur estimée de Geni qui approche les $100 millions. [...]

By: Found History » Geni

Found History » Geni — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:02:43 +0000

[...] Update (3/6/07): Just two months after it first grabbed the headlines, TechCrunch is now reporting that Geni is worth $100 million and boasts more than 100,000 registered users. [...]

By: Geni.com - Genealogy done 2.0 at mykaroshi

Geni.com - Genealogy done 2.0 at mykaroshi — Fri, 18 May 2007 08:05:11 +0000

[...] to a TechCrunch article Geni.com raised $10M in a second round of funding with a post-money valuation of $100M. Currently [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Scribd au top, rumeurs d’investissements

TechCrunch en français » Scribd au top, rumeurs d’investissements — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:23:24 +0000

[...] valeur évoquée serait de plus 10 millions de dollars ce qui nous parait assez elevé, bien que la tendance pour les entrepreneurs soit de saisir l’opportunité de prendre beaucoup d’argent quand [...]

By: Scribd Rocking Along, Rumored Financing

Scribd Rocking Along, Rumored Financing — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:32:44 +0000

[...] it will close next week. The rumored valuation of more than $10 million is very high, although the current trend is for entrepreneurs to take big money when it’s [...]

By: Carrero

Carrero — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:53:14 +0000

Árboles Genealógicos en Internet…

A través de Calacanis y furilo he conocido de la existencia el proyecto web Geni.com, un sitio web donde puedes crearte un completo árbol genealógico, y convertirlo en una red social familiar, donde cada familiar con email puede ser editar y actuali…

By: Teléfonos Móviles

Teléfonos Móviles — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:27:36 +0000

This is so exiting. people can not imagine how important this will be for the online future. There will be times when a familily member will not even remember that you exist and today we will be sorprise how cool it would be to find our forgotten family members. It will be more amazing if they add google maps so that we can see exactly their physical location.

By: Evorgleb

Evorgleb — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:04:22 +0000

Geni.com is such a great idea! I just did a blog post about Geni.com over on Highbrid Nation if you want to check it out. I look forward to building my tree and maybe meeting some new family members along the way. I think the site has a great future.

By: Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:05:02 +0000

My advice join: http://www.zooof.com . 35 Languages, amazing viral flash tree, growing step by step, launched in a private beta one month before Geni, still in the romantic ‘garage stage’. Started as an art project to unite the world in 12 familylevels! Company based in Amsterdam, so we take it easy but watch us coming!

By: Boyd Donahoo

Boyd Donahoo — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:08:02 +0000

Ref: comment #19,
The commentor is right and all of these things should be included. It ties right into what I created some years back which is a document I call “The Donahoos and Then Some”. We have a large family (when we get together there are fifty of us) and of course siblings, cousins, aunts & uncles and them some. Not everyone has the techncal equipment to store this info on so I created a four fold-out document with all the information for everyone to get in touch with each other. More important was it also made it possible for my children to get to know the rest of the family that they were not familiar with. And, you know, they use it and now we have a closer family group.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:09:24 +0000

I want to clarify my last post:

Geni keeps sending emails to my family with messages suggesting that I sent them, but I neither sent them nor requested for them to be sent.

A normal email to someone is ok. However, I find it wrong for Geni to pose emails as though they are sent by me to my family. I am no longer recommending Geni.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:02:00 +0000

They keep SPAMMING my family! I joined Geni a few weeks ago and invited my family members to join and add to our family tree. In the past few days Geni has repeately emailed my family without my consent.

I find their emailing tactics very unprofesional and disrespectful.

My advice: do NOT join Geni.

By: FooSpeak

FooSpeak — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:43:35 +0000

Family Business…

I recently spotted this article on TechCrunch that explains how Geni, a social network built on the premise of building family trees, recently raised 10M$ in financing following a 100M$ valuation. This is impressive considering that Geni has only…